Appetizer: What is your favorite kind of pie?
I actually am not a pie person so no answer here.

Soup: Name something that made you smile this week.
My son doing his crazy antics again. Anything he does just makes me smile.

Salad: What do you do to cool off when the weather is hot and humid?
I go to the beach which is just around a 5- to 10-minute drive from here. Oh yeah, some ice cold coke helps a whole lot.

Main Course: You receive $1,000 in the mail with a letter that says you can only use the money to redecorate one room in your home.  Which room do you pick, and what do you buy to spruce it up?
I'll pick my room. I'd like to make it bigger then paint it with really bright colors. I'll also fill in a really cool bed and maybe even try to put in some more shelves for my stuff. (I think I'd rather have those guys on TV who do your room for free work on my room though.)

Dessert: Fill in the blank:  My _________ says __________, but I __________. 
My heart says something, but I think I'd rather not follow it this time.

And so I had this urge to learn more about food and cooking when I got accepted as a blogger for Baking Press. I honestly can say that I am not a cook and the only thing I can do with food is eat it. I did have dreams of becoming a cook when I was a little kid but they somehow got lost upon growing up.

I do know how to cook some things though like sinangag (fried rice), fried dishes (mostly eggs and hotdogs), and just about that. I learned how to make polvoron and pastillas when I was in high school but because I had no practice, I now do not know how to make them. I have forgotten actually.

But lately, I picked up the need to learn more and I want to learn how to cook more complicated dishes. Like last Sunday, I was able to cook up a batch of carbonara with really creamy sauce. And yesterday, some colleagues and I went to a friend's house so I could learn how to cook tenderloin tips.

Hmmm... I'm now raring to cook tenderloin tips at home. (I want to cook at home so that if the dish turns out badly, I'll be able to face other people for the don't know just how  bad I did.)

Anything else you'd like to say?

I didn't know I could make it as a B-list blogger. Wahaha. After all, I'm not an "Wanna ex-links?" kind of person. Oh well.

*shudder*

First time I heard about it, I felt like I maybe should start walking out of the dentist's clinic. Sounds too evil. You know, Damon and demon. Uh... Oh well.

So I decided to learn more about it last night after I went home. And now it sounds quite promising. The previous dentists that I've gone to said that I should have to go through four extractions. That would be four pre-molars so they can get my teeth straightened out and so I would not have to suffer from a receding gumline and more cavities. But the dentist I went to yesterday told me that they're going to use a new kind of brace and there's a huge chance that I won't have to go through any kind of extraction. It's new and it's as if it's not there.

It's called the Damon System. And I found it really interesting.

I may have a go at this one. But it would also mean that I would have to shell out quite a huge amount of money. Well, around 5k to 10k more than the usual. But without extractions, that's quite fine I guess. I may try this one out. I surely have not heard anybody (yet) who has gotten these here in Legazpi. And the dentist has a good reputation after being a friend to two friends of mine and having been one of the heads of the association of dentists here. Not too bad I guess.

What do you think?