Back Again

Hello. I'm back from my 5-day holiday slash irresponsible spendathon in the Philippines. Apart from bringing back a fat jar of coffee, a couple boxes of cereal from Healthy Options and my leftover white tops from my mothball-smelling closet, I also managed to carry a cold as a souvenir. No regrets though, I always have a good time in the Philippines. It's truly where I am reminded of my context of simple pleasures.

You can't imagine how big a grin I had plastered all over my face my when I saw a banana-q (bananacue?) stand just across my doctor's clinic in Davao. So I bought one. Though it might be necessary for story-telling purposes to share that I never got to eat it as I just came from my orthodontist with fresh and tight new wires hence biting on anything, especially caramelized sugar, would've been... ouch. But I held on to it, I even brought it with me to the airport half-believing I was actually going to snack on it pre-flight back to Manila. The banana went cold and rock hard, it was time to let it go.

In retrospect, I should've just manned up and taken a bite anyway while it was still hot so I guess that's my only regret. But returning to the topic of simple pleasures, just seeing a banana-q stand in front of me with seemingly unlimited sticks for purchase and at only 8PHP each, I was happy. Easy.

My Davao cheap eats haul: eclairs and cream puffs from Cecil's | banana-q | sapin-sapin from Jaltan

Now that I'm back home here in Japan, so are the stresses. I need to woosah this shit out and return to this image of sweet, cheap and cheerful banana-q.

P.S. According to Wikipedia, sapin-sapin means layers. It's basically layers of glutinous rice and coconut. Well, I don't know about Wikipedia but to me, sapin-sapin means a pillowy-soft, perfectly sweet isosceles triangle.