Food and Thoughts: The Conclusion

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Read the first entry first (If you haven't). Here's the link.

What started as a mere search for new restaurants and food adventure to break a monotonous eating habit became more than it sounds. It became a search for new experiences and new encounters.

My blog isn't famous, neither am I; but my friends and family supported my passion to write about my experiences. In a number of entries, you will see almost the same faces but the experiences and lessons were different. It strengthened my ties with important people in my life and even those I rarely see.

The food trip became more than just the food. It became about what goes on while we eat the food, before we eat the food, after we eat the food or, sometimes, as we plan where to eat. It was about the support of friends, the time to be together, the ideas we exchanged, the disagreements and the catching up. Even if some stories were repeated many times.

Food is an essential part of our lives, especially in the Filipino culture. Food is part of our every event - celebrations, heartaches, catching up, discussions, first meetings, happy and sad stages. We show our hospitality by serving food. Food makes us happy. Eating together as a family at the dinner table is an important part of who we are. It plays a crucial role in how our parents bring us up.

Even Jesus used food to bring the disciples together to remember His sacrifice for our sins. Why?  Because food is important to everyone. Because no one can survive without food. Because it is a necessity no matter who you are and where you came from. It is something that you will remember all the time. Anything that's associated with it should not be forgotten.

Talking about the food and the restaurants that I have experienced barely scratches the surface of the purpose of this series. It addresses more than the physical need. I hope you found that purpose once or twice among the 50 entries I prepared for you.

Thank you for joining me in this series. Thank you for reading all the entries and the lessons that go with each. You may go back to all the entries from here.

Now Playing: Wishingbone

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Wishingbone

Artist: Winter People

Do not look for me
In the summer heat
Do not look for me
In the autumn leaves

“It’s the moment in a travelling journey where you’re in a desolate, empty plain and you come across a wishingbone picked clean by the wind, buried in the sand. It’s the point in the journey where you question the worth of setting out in the first place.” 

- Dylan Baskind, Vocals, Winter People in his description of the song Wishingbone.

SOURCE: Winter People's Wishingbone, Unplugged from PORTABLE

Watch the acoustic version of the band from here.


Let me mention one Youtube comment that describes exactly how I find the song:

"you just expect it to keep on going, unfortunately it has to stop"

TheSilentProgressor 1 month ago

Playing with the Waves

It was a tiring half day at work. Jem, Sugar and I were seated staring at a blank wall realizing that we only consumed half of our one hour of lunch. When you work in a fast pace environment, it gets to you all the time. Jem decided to load Youtube on his phone and came across a video of one surfing adventure in the Philippines. We watched it together.

For two straight minutes that we were watching it, we were all silent - blown away by the playful waves, man's courage and the heartwarming music. Then... my eyes were wet. Yes, wet with tears. Sugar finally gave in and admitted she was moved too. Jem couldn't help but catch his breath in admiration.This isn't the first time we saw a video like this, the others we have seen may even be more dangerous and captivating than this but this hit us like no other.

What moved me is the amazing idea that God, the creator of heaven and earth and everything in it, could allow us to play with it. The sea can be a very dangerous place but with respect and great understanding, it can play with us and generously give us what it cannot give to all who ask for it.

I don't surf. I wish I could. I don't swim either but I don't have to be good at it or even to learn it to understand the magnificent beauty of the seas and nature. If you love to travel and you love saltwater as much as I (and my friends) do, you will understand why the video made me cry. I don't even have to explain.

The cure for anything is saltwater - sweat, tears, or the sea.

Here's the video for your viewing pleasure.

This is to honor all the surfers in the world, famous or not, rookie or masters; the seas and all bodies of water, and most of all, the Creator of all.