The post Chatter & Chunter #4- Cheap Eats at Bellinis & Wai Ying proved to be so popular that I’ve decided to write a series of posts dedicated to eating places that offer pretty good food at reasonable or even cheap prices, starting off with the café Cheap Eats — Coffee & Vanity. This coming week, I’ll feature S.R. Thai Cuisine, which was listed in the aforementioned Chatter & Chunter post. I searched for its whereabouts in the Katipunan area and was able to find its new location.

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While attending a Shakespearean workshop sponsored by the British Council, the participants were all privy to witness several scenes done by different groups of actors. One of the scene studies involved was a famous scene from Hamlet, that of Hamlet being visited by his dead father’s ghost.

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A sudden invitation from a friend led to the discovery of this hidden cafe with the unique blend of massages, hair and make-up styling and vegetarian food.

Cheese, Fruits and Nuts- The combination of Camembert or Brie cheese, grapes, walnuts and bread at P100 is my personal fave.

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This post details the fun reasons why Fitness First Philippines Passport members should consider going to the other branches for a visit. I’ve already talked about the first 4 Metro Manila branches in the previous post-Take the Fitness First Branches Tour (Part 1), and, the remaining 6 branches are as follows:

Fitness First Greenhills If you’ve ever wondered where your instructors usually video themselves for the tapes that they send to New Zealand for their Les Mills certification, then the answer is the Greenhills studio. Oh, and just in case you didn’t know it, all the Fitness First instructors who teach the Les Mills programs, namely Body Balance, Body Combat, Body Jam, Body Pump and RPM, are required to have themselves certified within the first year that they teach.

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I’ve met a handful of Fitness First Philippines members who have passport memberships, i.e. they are entitled to go to all the Fitness First branches, but have just gone to one or a couple of branches. Of course, it would help if you had your own car, because it would make it easier to go around, but whether you do or not, I think making the effort to do so would be really fun because you get to see the different set-ups and cultures of each branch.

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While surfing, I came upon an intriguing article that revealed a new dating service for men—Rent a Wingwoman. The term was derived from the Tom Cruise movie Top Gun, wherein a Wingman accompanied his buddy to pick up women, but, in this case, it’s a female. So I’ve modified the technique a little bit to fit the local scene: For Him— Pick Up Girls with a Wingwoman.

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The following shows on TV are quite interesting as they enthrall both the intellect and the imagination.

The Buried Secret Of M. Night Shyamalan A photograph with a blurred outline and an inexplicable glare, the drawing of a boy in outdated trousers and shirt sporting a lopsided stare, a quiet and shy schoolboy… All these details can be mistaken as being lifted from the movie Sixth Sense, but reporter Nathaniel Kahn proposes that these are actually proof that M. Night Shyamalan is not a mere human being, but a chosen one who has been endowed with powers beyond the mere mortal.

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A love for eating and a dislike for cooking have led me to scour the metropolis for eating places that offer pretty good food at reasonable or even cheap prices. When I read the FHM article “Raiders of the Hidden Chow,” I was inordinately pleased that I’ve gone to 5 out of the 11 restos mentioned, namely Bellini’s, Wai Ying, President, S.R. Thai and Balaw-Balaw.

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