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Cafe Juanita Scandal

The scandalously high prices and the small food servings, its hard to choke really. :P

Cafe Juanita

Rating:	★★★
Category:	Restaurants
Cuisine:	Asian
Location:	Kapitolyo, Pasig City

Voted as The Best Restaurant of 2006 by the Philippine Tatler, we braved the traffic and the rain and we convoyed our way to this hole in the wall fine dining restaurant. Cafe Juanita has to be appreciated from the inside and I think are perfect for intimate and small dinners. The interiors are ranging from Asian/Filipino Colonial/Chinese Eclectic designs with antiques and colonial pieces in display (most are actually for sale) all throughout the restaurant. Since the restaurant is very small, you need to reserve a table way in advance as it is pretty crowded during dinners (and you should REALLY specify how many guests are you taking along with you). The food are distinctly Filipino but with a variety of Southeast Asian flavors. The servings are small and the prices on the menu are a little expensive but one should try out their Beef Rendang. I skipped the Laing, and headed for the Pandan Chicken and the Sate plate. The food doesnt taste that amazing at all, and actually a little boring in the palate. All in all, ambience is what Cafe Juanita sell, and being its out of the way of the usual restaurant belts adds more to the adventure. Carpark is limited and not very secure. Will post photos of Cafe Juanita tomorrow. :P

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An Anatomy of A Coño (II)

From Wikipedia:

Coño is a common Spanish idiomatic expression (vulgar). Its actual meaning differs according to region or country, but in Spain and several Latin American countries it is understood as slang for the female genitalia, the vulva.

In some places, "[Dominican expression]"particularly, coño has become a feature of speech to express emphasis or to stress a wide variety of emotions, actually drifting from any of its original sexual references, in a situation similar to that of "fuck" in English. The actual context, speaker's sex, pronunciation or tone defines the kind of emotion conveyed. An interlocutor may insert coño as an interjection in a sentence whenever this desire arises, even though it may be regarded as quite offensive if not carefully used. Several examples:

• fear: low tone, short vowels, high-pitched: ¡Coño, coño! ¡Esta abeja me va a picar! (This bee will sting me!)
  
• anger: high tone, short vowels: ¡Coño, ya te dije que no lo hicieras! (Hey, I already told you not to do that!)
  
• surprise: low tone, dragging the "o": Coooño... ¿Están saliendo juntos? (Oh, really? Are they going out?)
  
• joy: dragging vowels, low-pitched: ¡Cooñoo! ¡Nuestro equipo ganó! (Thanks godness! Our team has won!)

Many additional uses for coño also exist and Spaniards may also employ coño in a similar fashion. As noted before, this is not a formal feature and is limited to slang and intimate speech.

Other examples of its varied use are:

• ¿Qué coño quieres? (What the fuck you want?)
  
• Yo no sé un coño de eso (I don't fucking know about that)
  
• ¿Dónde coño estás? (Where the fuck are you?)

In the Philippines, coño (Tagalog: konyo) refers to wealthy Anglophone people raised and/or living in a gated community. The term originally referred to Spanish-Filipinos, regardless of socioeconomic status.

Well, of course, this has been used interchangeably meaning mostly to rich kids and fashionistas, and sometimes as a form of derision to certain clique (usually in campus). Ateneo has their coño benches, and almost all top schools have a certain group that can well fall within that group. In short, the term coño can refer to any "Sosy High" slash "MVP High" category like in that deodorant commercial.

One can be coño in speech, in the getup, maximum credit card limit power optional, or lifestyle choices.

(to be continued)

 

 

 

 

An Anatomy of A Coño

What is being coño? Is it the getup? The talk? The walk? Is the aura? The presence? First, I cringe everytime I hear the word being uttered mercilessly around. En Español, coño crudely refers to the female genitalia, much like "pekpek". Yes, THAT vulgar. It was said that the word being used as it is now started when Mestizo- creole rich kids throw that word like "fuck" being used now as a replacement to another word in a conversation. Like, "Coño pare, we were so wasted partying at the yacht club" as it replaced now, "Tangina/Fuck, pare, my friend was so plastered she made bangga her new car." Note the Taglish in the sentences and the liberal peppering of expletives.

But what is a coño really? Is it another label differentiating the rich, the poor, the middle class and the nouveau riche? Is it even about style or fashion? One can be mistaken as a coño with how somebody dresses up and how they sashay in the rarefied air of Rockwell and Greenbelt as opposed to the "jologs"- (the antithesis to coño) masa and middle class haunts of Glorietta and SM.

Usually a coño also worries about enough cash. Of course, the compulsory out of town trip is around the corner, clubbing on weekends (aside from house parties, they hang out at Nuvo, M Cafe, Embassy, Mezze, Fiamma to name a few), and the latest dress collection in Rustan's. 

They usually hang out in choice, tightly knit groups and tends to know who sleeps with whom (Like OMG, M. make patol to that creature, fuck! YUCCK!!, and guess who is this DOM bringing to the parties na naman.) Sex is a liberal topic in claustrophobic Makati. It's applied liberally indeed (make you worry about HIV infection spreading like wildfire).

Coño biatches looks the same, smells the same and talks the same. Ever wonder most girls look the same in Greenbelt? With the men? Gay men or not. All have the same generic hairstyles and clothes.

(to be continued...)

 

 

 

 

Subic Jacuzzis

Foolin round in the jacuzzi at SBYC

Subic Hotshots

Serge Devant en Manille 2005

Joao's Farewell Party

Absinth 1 Peso Party 2006

Temple 2006

Embassy 2006

Subic, AIESEC, Makati, Bora

Nuvo Cuisine Embassy

PvD,Oakwood,Absinth,Fraser, Pioneer,etc.

Subic 2006

Merci Zidane....

The Italians won. 5-3 on penalty shootouts.
Zizou was sent out of the game for butting his head at Materazzi
because the Italian apparently insulted Zizou. It broke my heart. Me
and some friends rented a room at Red Box in Greenbelt and stayed awake
watching the whole game. Zizou scored the first goal for France via a
penalty kick that went sailing past Buffon. Materazzi followed through
an answer from the Azzurris camp and the game dragged on to an
overtime. During the penalty shootouts, Trezeguet missed the net and
the ball bounced through the metal frame above the Italian goalkeeper,
and narrowly missed the goal by six inches (undoubtedly the longest six
inches of the cup). It was heartbreaking to watch Zizou, shoulders
crestfallen, walk past the Cup that he will never raise for the Les
Bleus. Until now, I feel so depressed, sad and angry..

Thank you Zizou for inspiring us with the skill,


the passion,the beauty of the game. Thank you for


the sparks of magic, the superb feints, the


incredible passes, the awesome goals.Thank you


Zizou for making us believe in ourselves again.


Thank you, not onlyfor being the best player of


your generation, but thank you for the wonderful


memories of fine football playing- the world's


greatest game.Thank you. Thank you. Thank you No.10.





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Filipinos catch World Cup fever








BIG DEAL


By DAN MARIANO







The pay-per-view World Cup coverage gives the impression that
football aficionados in this country belong only to the elite. In fact,
the game also has substantial following in the grassroots.







With much of the planet gripped by the World Cup fever, even Filipinos
have shed some of their obsession with basketball. Growing numbers of
them have been following the matches, which reach a climax Sunday
(early Monday in Manila) in Germany. Many have even learned to stop
calling it "soccer."




"Football" is the only proper name for the beautiful game, which,
for aficionados like this writer, is the apex of athleticism. At least
one of the networks—RPN 9 on special arrangement with Solar—has been
airing delayed telecasts of the matches on free TV, which football fans
appreciate. It was television, after all, that turned basketball into
the number-one pastime in the Philippines.




Live telecasts of the matches are available only on satellite and
cable TV for which subscribers have to fork out a steep fee. Dream TV,
however, disappointed World Cup subscribers when it failed to air the
France-Portugal match live early Thursday.




Customers who paid P3,000 for the privilege to watch the world’s
greatest sporting event as it unfolded in Germany certainly deserve a
refund. They can only hope Dream TV does not let them down again on the
final match between France and Italy.




Solar has exclusive rights to the World Cup broadcasts in the
Philippines. Its all-access service transmits live coverage of the
matches in Germany to Dream TV and SkyCable, which have reported
"decent" subscription figures.




Pubs and restaurants, such as National Sports Grill, have installed
big screens for the live World Cup broadcasts, too; in the process,
they have been making brisk business well into the wee hours of the
morning. Even the predawn crowds at the Ateneo Blue Eagle gym, another
live telecast venue, have reportedly been large.




The pay-per-view World Cup coverage gives the impression that
football aficionados in this country belong only to the elite. In fact,
the game also has substantial following in the grassroots.




For years, military services have maintained football teams
composed mainly of soldier-athletes recruited from rural areas. In
Western Visayas and parts of Mindanao football is just as popular as
basketball, if not more so.




In Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo, for instance, there is even no basketball
court. The town plaza is a football field. Barotac Nuevo has, in fact,
produced the first full-blooded Filipino—Tony Araneta—to be recruited
by a top-tier European football club (Stuttgart).




Araneta’s brother, Pabs, vice-president of the Philippine Football
Federation, says Filipinos could become world-class football players if
only they are given the chance to develop their natural talent for the
game.




Pabs is grateful for whatever attention the Philippine media give
football. Like other devotees of the sport, he hopes that the interest
generated by the quadrennial FIFA World Cup will help make football
more popular in this country.








See you in 2010 in South Africa!