Simple pleasure.
Just when I thought that my eyeballs were about to fall off from their sockets, I decided to take a break from work and get a Coke Light from the nearby 7-11.
Ahhh! That’s all I can say really.
You just gotta love the simple things in life.
She's so fine.
“Our choices define us; they shape our lives.”
Lanterns from Divi; candle from Tita Uchie.
Candle holder, Greenhills.
Reddish-purple Buddha, Bangkal.
Purple journal from Eda.
Had fun doing this tag, thanks Joybz! I think the assign was to find purple objects in the home and I was able to come up with a few items, thanks to my natural love for the color—purple, after all, is said to be the color of women.
Purple reminds me of so many things that I like, like ube (purple yam), for instance, that my mom uses to make her lumpy halayang ube. This chore involves a lot of manual labor, so when my mom would make this when I was little, I, together with Ate Lorna, usually took turns (with Mom) in stirring the uber sticky concoction to just the right consistency (for us this means not too perfectly smooth as we like to bite into a few ube lumps here and there). Oh, how wonderful the taste of halayang ube made at home and by one’s own mother! Those for sale (rumored to have been mixed with flour, or kamote, or some other extender and with the ghastly fake food coloring) simply cannot compare, there really is no contest.
Purple also reminds me of puto bumbong and how in my family we have a standing joke about making simbang puto bumbong, instead of simbang gabi during Advent. I’ll take puto bumbong any day over bibingka. I don’t know, I never developed a liking for bibingka. The same way I like suman sa ibos more than I like suman sa latik; biko more than cassava cake. Mukhang ayoko nga ng mga pagkaing sobrang lambot, para kasing walang substance (I can almost hear my sister kidding me, “Pati ba naman sa kakanin, Ate, naghahanap ka ng substance?” Hee-hee).
I’m a bit weird that way. 
