Brow Lounge at SM San Lazaro

Brow Lounge is a body hair grooming salon that is expert in shaping up your eye brows. They also prep your other body hairs like on the legs, underarms, whole body and even in your private part. You can choose in what manner you’d want to remove your hair; threading, hot waxing or cold waxing but if the hair is not long enough, it would have to be through threading.

My friend introduced me to Brow Lounge, she goes there ever since she tried underarm waxing since then we have been waxing buddy, haha! We go back there monthly to get our underarms waxed. Our branch is at SM San Lazaro and our favorite person to wax our underarms is ma’am Jen. I really like her because she is really tidying up the left out hair. Some hairs are too small for the wax to pull so she’d have to pluck it or thread it. She’s really good at her job compared to the other employees I’ve had experience with.

The process of waxing is really painful. Before I had my underarms waxed for the first time, I really did an online research on how painful waxing is and everyone says that it is really painful but the pain is of course tolerable depending on the body part that will be waxed.

 

When I had my first waxing, I was scared. There are many things going on inside my head. It was like I was undergoing a surgery. I was panicking deep inside like; what if I screamed? What if I cried? It would be embarrassing if I cry here. Will there be blood? What if I bleed? But I can’t back out now, I’m already lying down and I have taken my shirt off. And then, the girl that will do my underarm entered the room with a jar of warm wax. She asked me to raise both of my arms and put powder to it. I was kind of conscious at first because you know there’s hair and all but I just thought that this is her job and she must have been used to it. So then she started spreading the actually-not-so-warm-hot wax on my underarm using a wooden flat stick, and then she stick a white paper-like cloth on top of it and rubbed her fingers on it. In one swift second, she pulled the white strip without hesitations. My reaction was first ‘uhhhh, okay.” And then “shhhhhhh*t!!! ugggghhhhhhhhh ffffckkk” but that was all in my mind of course, outside, my face was just straight but actually I’m screaming inside. After that, she plucked the rest of the hair and did my other underarm too and finally, applied a gel to cool off my underarm. When everything was finished, my eyes were already watery. But at least I didn’t cry whew!

 

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Menu offerings for both men and women differ

Since then, I have always been waxing my underarm. I don’t want to go back at shaving because it is not good for the skin specially the skin in your underarm. Also 150 pesos is worth it, if you wanted to take care of your body. For the aftercare, just don’t wet the skin with water after 6 hours from waxing.

I recommend all the ladies out there to try waxing first. It is really painful, I’m not going to hide it but like they say no pain no gain. The benefits of waxing are great if you really wanted a flawless and long lasting bald underarm haha!

 

Ang Favorite Book ni Jude

Ang Favorite ni Jude was a play by Teatro Tomasino adapted from Bob Ong’s famous book “Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas”

It was a story of a guy who grew up as a very religious man but when a catastrophic incident happened to his family, he went the total opposite. He doesn’t believe in God anymore. He became drug addict and jobless. His wife always gets mad at him and is always thinking of what has happened to him and where to get their daily needs. But one thing that Jude, the father and the hero of the story, never stop doing was being a loving father to his only son

Pizza Hut 

Do you know my hobby when I’m bored?

Eating. and not just eating, eating whatever I want.

My plan this week was to save money and get back the savings that I impulsively spend on things (food) last week but instead this happened…

So when we were walking inside SM San Lazaro with my friend, we immediately stop and think of where should we eat and we decided to eat at Pizza Hut.

They have a combo meal for 2 for only 299. It includes, 2 different flavors of pizza, 2 different pasta, 2 mushroom soups with 2 glasses of Coke.

While we were waiting outside to be accommodated, I saw this one lady working as a promotion girl wearing a cute waitress uniform with this instrument in her hand jingling it while doing a little dance. It was absolutely an attention-getter.

I, personally, was embarrassed for her. It was okay if she isn’t the only one doing it but she was alone there dancing. So I refused to look at her anymore and just waited patiently in line for a table.

While waiting, I was already looking inside for a table where I want to sit. I always wanted to sit in the couch. Anywhere I eat, I always look for the couch if there is any available. Fortunately, there was one family who was done eating and already preparing to leave. So I asked kuya server to put us there but he said that it was reserved (which I highly doubt). Given the circumstances that there were so many people who wants to eat meanwhile we were just two, I understand and just seated to a table for two.

So we ordered and waited.

The place was so busy. There were so many customers asking for things to be brought to them; asking for water; asking for more tissue; asking the table to be cleaned; asking for the bill and so on and so forth.

During all the commotion, there was this one waiter who accidentally shattered a glass while cleaning a table. And then everyone fell silent and looked at him and to what he has done.

I felt bad for him because even though it was his negligence, it was still an accident and his pay slip is gonna pay for it. So he swept the glass shards and walked away like nothing happened.

Just by looking at all the waiter and waitresses working hard at a busy hour, I couldn’t help but think that service is a 2-way process. If the customer wouldn’t cooperate then whatever the management will be doing is bad to their eyes. They won’t be satisfied.


I know, I love hot sauce

 

Street Food Fair

After a very long and tiring day from the fatiguing hike to the summit of Pico de Loro, we were all exhausted to the ride home (not to mention, starving). So while we were being dropped off by our service van to Cubao, our eyes couldn’t fail to catch the Street Food Fair happening at Gateway. From inside the moving van, we could see so many stalls and booths of different kinds, offering various types of food. so we decided to check it out.

When we got out, we immediately walked our way to Gateway. When we got there, the ambiance looks so much fun and alive. It was like that old feeling you get from an evening with your friends in the perya. The sound of electro-pop loud music, the smell of different kinds of food, the sight of many delicious food and people who are happy bonding with their loved ones and friends while eating, all those took my grievances away.

We didn’t know what to eat. There were so many choices. There was pizza with many toppings, pasta with different sauces, stick foods with different parts of chicken through it, Filipino viand combos, and desserts like yema cakes and many others. Of course there were many types of beverages too. We were overwhelmed from the variety of choices.

After careful deliberation of what to eat, we finally came to a final decision that we would buy 100 pesos worth of 1 pizza slice and any pasta of our choice. The taste? aweful!

The carbonara that I bought was super bland, like it was super saucy but you couldn’t find the taste of it. The pizza was also bland and the top has a very weird and awkward taste and texture. It was all in all a yuckie food.

So being not satisfied at all with our first choice, we were out again for a pursuit of food that will satisfy our tummies. and we landed on a hotdog on stick (wow, just wow)

Maybe our appetite was ruined having to taste that ew pasta and pizza, so a hotdog on stick will do. At least it was tasty.

So after eating it and resting for awhile, I saw a dessert booth that offers 3 types of mini-cakes of your choice for 150 or 2 semi-large cake. what I took home was 1 chocolate mini-cake and 1 mini yema cake, while my friend got 1 mini yema cake too and we shared the price.

Going home I still feel the tiredness of my legs but at least I have something to loook forward to when I got home, my delicious sweets to munch in.

mini-cakes for 150

 


 

disgusting pizza and pasta combo