100 bucks sez OR the Day of April Fools is Upon Us
So we DID end up having a meal in one of the best (and pricey-est) buffet places in the Manila area, Spiral (inside SOFITEL formerly known as Philippine Plaza). And the food there is damn straight GOOOOD. (What's that stomache?....GOOOD.) Because good people deserve something good in their lives. And the cost is just worth it. It is.
Now Helen and I, for example, are good people. (At least I'm pretty much sure Helen is.) And we deserve it. And Helen says that because she was working that day she didn't really get a chance to celebrate my birthday with me, and so, that was another reason. And last but not the least, which was pretty much the deal that landed us the deal of eating there today...the fact that I, the writer of this blog, a legend in my own mind...was right. RIGHT. As in correct. THAT there IS such a word as bifurcate. (Which meaning is available through the power of Google...sorry, I'm not about to give out any freebies. Ken looked up the word. You should too.) Which means that I didn't make it up. Which makes me the winner of a little bet that Ken was too much of a wuss to make and Helen was too foolish to have. (Let us not judge them to be this all the time my friends. I'm sure we all have our own moments of weaknesses and flaws.)
So we're out celebrating the four of us, Helen and I, with Master Kenji and their Dad. The food. GOOD. As was the company. Now Ken, with the influence of Ed, a kickass TV show that's been cancelled for sometime now, has tried to start this whole "I'll give you money if you do something stupid." kinda game. (Lookup: JACKASS the show) So, for 100 bucks (pesos) I dared him, full to the brim with buffet food and all, to run up the spiral steps (which the restaurant was named after) instead of taking the escalator like we did. And he did. And he earned his cash. Fair and square.
So the moral I choose to take from this little story is that (mostly for Ken) a string of stupid things done in celebration of a great person's birthday may land you with a stomache full of good food, an extra 100 bucks and sitting breathless in front of a fancy hotel and almost, but not quite, about to hurl.
Next word: Concatinate. (opposite of Bifurcate. Google it. Go.)
So we DID end up having a meal in one of the best (and pricey-est) buffet places in the Manila area, Spiral (inside SOFITEL formerly known as Philippine Plaza). And the food there is damn straight GOOOOD. (What's that stomache?....GOOOD.) Because good people deserve something good in their lives. And the cost is just worth it. It is.
Now Helen and I, for example, are good people. (At least I'm pretty much sure Helen is.) And we deserve it. And Helen says that because she was working that day she didn't really get a chance to celebrate my birthday with me, and so, that was another reason. And last but not the least, which was pretty much the deal that landed us the deal of eating there today...the fact that I, the writer of this blog, a legend in my own mind...was right. RIGHT. As in correct. THAT there IS such a word as bifurcate. (Which meaning is available through the power of Google...sorry, I'm not about to give out any freebies. Ken looked up the word. You should too.) Which means that I didn't make it up. Which makes me the winner of a little bet that Ken was too much of a wuss to make and Helen was too foolish to have. (Let us not judge them to be this all the time my friends. I'm sure we all have our own moments of weaknesses and flaws.)
So we're out celebrating the four of us, Helen and I, with Master Kenji and their Dad. The food. GOOD. As was the company. Now Ken, with the influence of Ed, a kickass TV show that's been cancelled for sometime now, has tried to start this whole "I'll give you money if you do something stupid." kinda game. (Lookup: JACKASS the show) So, for 100 bucks (pesos) I dared him, full to the brim with buffet food and all, to run up the spiral steps (which the restaurant was named after) instead of taking the escalator like we did. And he did. And he earned his cash. Fair and square.
So the moral I choose to take from this little story is that (mostly for Ken) a string of stupid things done in celebration of a great person's birthday may land you with a stomache full of good food, an extra 100 bucks and sitting breathless in front of a fancy hotel and almost, but not quite, about to hurl.
Next word: Concatinate. (opposite of Bifurcate. Google it. Go.)
posted by Joseph Richard Saints at 1:00 PM
1 Comments:
I know this will sound incredibly geeky and might cause me a bit of discomfort in afterthought BUT, I actually know those words. Intimately perhaps. We kinda use them at work.
At least when I was working. Now I just sit in front of the PC wearing a 4x-used-in-a-row track pants and warm panget-jacket and think, weytameeneet, I used to use those words.
So, Jose Ricardo, I've read you're blog. Every single one of them entries. Melbourne is STILL 2 hours flight from Sydney. Dumass. :)
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