Happy new year, indeed

Tuesdate with Barbs and Daniella at Crazy Katsu and Larcy’s!

Spent the afternoon with these two lovely ladies to kick our year off. It was a date filled with laughter and stories of love, talking about how we’re all in a better place now. Catching up with these two are always a delight since we technically saw each other grow up since high school. It’s nice to know that we’re entering adulthood together, too, and that nothing’s really changed.

We had lunch in the BF Branch of Crazy Katsu and it being my first time dining in that place, it did not disappoint. While you get your money’s worth, quality is still kept intact. When I return to Katipunan in a few days, I’ll be sure to frequent their Maginhawa branch more often.

Chicken Katsu salad – I enjoyed this very much since the chicken was crispy, but not dry, eggs were cooked perfectly, dressing was just right, and vegetables were crisp and fresh. Definitely a must try!

Barbs’ Katsudon

Dani’s Pork Tonkatsu

After lunch, we headed over to Larcy’s Cupcakery Cafe for dessert. Since it opened just a month ago, we decided to see what the hype was all about.

Their cupcakes were overpriced, though, and not worth it taste-wise. It was okay, but I wouldn’t get their signature “Pink Velvet” anymore. I suggest getting the Bananuttela variant, instead.

They had cute to-go boxes, though!

Dani’s frozen hot chocolate velvet drink

A happy Barbs is a lovely Barbs!

Barbs

My post-holiday face says hello!

“Old-fashioned.” There was nothing special about this, too.

The place was really nice, and they pay attention to the little details such as color and theme.

Props to their ingenious way of serving water.

Overall, though, Larcy’s more of a date place because of the ambiance than a cafe you’d actually go to for coffee or cupcakes. It was nothing out of the ordinary. Cute concept, though!

It was the perfect way to start the year, nonetheless! Happy to have been with these equally happy girls. Cheers to 2013!

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Crazy Katsu is located in #231 Aguirre Street, BF Homes, Parañaque City. For more information, visit: http://facebook.com/crazykatsu.

Larcy’s Cupcakery Cafe is located in #178 Aguirre Street, BF Homes, Parañaque City.

Telephone:  +632 799-4174
Operating Hours: 
Sunday to Thursdays – 11.00am to 12am
Friday to Saturday – 11.00am to 2.00am

 

2012: The year I’d like to remember forever

Francesca, Kara, and Gracie

On most days, I feel like I look pretty much like this… Hope to keep it up!

“In a couple of hours, three to be exact, I will welcome 2012 with open arms and a will to let go. I will work extra hard into making this a possibility: no more hurts, no more stress — just a brand new me that I seek to find here, in the other side of the world. Since academics, work, and a few personal things were a difficult juggling act to balance this year, I will do my best to devote time to recharging and moving forward.

Resolutions are not for me, as I struggle to keep up with them in the first place. What I’m promising myself for 2012, though, is that I’m 100% committed to establishing a better foundation for my future—one that is not to be shaken and one that is driven by faith and by hope. Hopefully, love comes along, too—but until then, I’m quite happy with how things have and will turn out. All for the best, as they say. Hello, 2012!”

The excerpt above was from my last entry exactly this day last year. I wrote it in San Francisco (where I spent half of 2012) with a sense of helpless pleading–pleading for the year to be nothing but the best. After a taxing and emotionally challenging 2011, I did not think I would make it if I were to be thrown into another battle much like was it was. In a sense, one might say that I have given up, lost my fighting spirit. But to me, however, it was more of a submission to fate. I was done fighting. I did not want to fight anything in the coming year.

So I decided that this would be my outlook for 2012: accept, accept, accept, and everything will follow. It did.