florilegium

In my (desperate) attempt to come up with an (original) title which could sum up all the things I want to talk about in this entry (reminiscent of my previous one with an association to a frantic rifle), I scoured my mind for words other than “hodgepodge”, “miscellaneous”, “halo-halo” and “chopsuey”. Unsatisfied, I typed in the Google Search Toolbar “define: miscellany”. That’s where I found an interesting word which became the title of this entry. Geez, such a long story. Haha. Interesting as I’ve said, “florilegium” means:

an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.

Weee, I learned something today. Albeit it doesn’t exactly mean “miscellaneous” or “various” things. Hehe.

BULILIT, BULILIT

* Yesterday I had another sweet and naughty encounter with a kid. It happened in one of the waiting areas of the hospital Mu, Pu and I went to. To kill time I played Sudoku and I didn’t expect anything “childish” to happen. Haha, Then on our right we saw this little girl holding a piece of biscuit and looking at us. She was smiling. So we smiled back. No I grinned back. She seemed to cheered extra up and began playing around like hiding from behind the seat and went “Bulaga!” on us everytime. We’d laugh and she did too. I don’t know how many kinds of faces I made just by playing with her.  Haha. On several ocassions she would reach her biscuit out to us, as if offering. Then we’d stretch our hands out as if begging for her saliva-filled crackers. Then she retreated and put the entire piece of biscuit on her mouth. The people near us seemed to notice and perhaps made an entertainment out of our scene. Haha. The little girl’s guardians didn’t seem to mind much, they were fine with it and let her play along.

When she went down her seat and walked around, she on many times almost went to where we were but would always retreat back. Maybe she’s shy? Pupi said, “Nagsisiste eh”. He suggested we give her some candies. So Mume took out our candy bag (Friends you know how this looks like *winkadoodle*). I got the last piece of my Sugus strawberry candy, and two Lipps candies - Mango and Tamarind and handed it to Pupi. He stretched his right arm out to her. “Wag niyo siyang tingnan para hindi mahiya.”  She just almost always gave in but always ran back to her guardians. When it was our time to go, Pupi simply gave it to her. Then I said, “Babay” with the biggest grin I could muster.

WAZSOUP?

* Also from yesterday, for lunch we tried this small restaurant near the hospital, called “Country Chicken”. I was craving for Chinese food and it was the nearest answer to my palette and tummy. It was our first time there, so I decided to try their “Chicken Special” with Yang Chow Fried Rice. Pupi ordered that too, except that his is just plain rice. And as for Mu, she simply wanted the regular chicken coz she thought she won’t be able to finish the whole thing. Haha. We also ordered some “Nido Soup” to make our meal more complete and engaging. Yeahbah!

While sipping my soup I realized something. Soup is my comfort food. And I think that Soup is a nurturing food. A Ratatouille moment hit me and I recalled when I was little when I got sick Pupi will make me some soup or some gruel and it never fails to make me feel better.  Sunny days, rainy days, windy days, a soup would make me a happy Wengky.

WAY BACK INTO LOVE… FOR PET SOCIETY

* After my friend Adie convinced me how fun the all-new fishing activity in Pet Society, I decided to visit my pet Wenggoy Jr. after eons of leaving him with 0% happiness, 0% hygiene and 0% health. And then all my love for taking care of a virtual pet in the tradition of Neopets are all coming back to me now. New items woke up the “inner decorator” in me so I get to have a virtual kind of mental exercise through decorating my pet’s house. I still have a long way of earning gold coins to go. Haha. Then last night Wenggoy Jr. entered the Cash Shop only to find the items I kind of “envisioned” to be on the house’s facade:

   The Plate Armour Decor, Magic Stone Decor and Stone Shield Decor are wanteddddddddddd! Reminds me of King Arthur. The orange royal bed would also be love, but there’s a danger that Wenggoy would blend with the color coz he’s yellow/orange! LOL!

This Viking ship would also be an excellent display. Oh man. Can it not be purchased with real moneyyyyyy?

But too bad, I would need real money via credit card to purchase those items. I wonder how and why Playfish came up with that idea. It’s just weird to purchase, in dollars take note, virtual items when you could just buy something else, something tangible and useful in real life! There was a suggestion I read on a Pet Society fan blog site about having instead a conversion system. Like for instance, 1000 gold coins equals 1 Playfish coin! Sounds more applicable to me.