A critic writer's review on New Bombay --- An Authentic Indian cuisine DINNER

Ambience was very Indian though just like a piece of slot like fast food, but given that its inside The Podium, its a classy place...med class more so. the ladies and servers smells like frankincense. ordered 1/2 complete meal.... one soup , one bread and one lentil cheese and a dessert drink.X-P the wait started 8:20+-, now still waiting at 8:59.. in 9PM it was served! well not many people are Indian when i dine in. but when i got out they are in evy table. dish 1 mutton soup med to low spicy. very cilantro, spices like challots, cilantro mutton chop chunks, egg and soupy mixture , all mixed well but because i was full from eating mexican, i havent got the appetite to devour all of the dishes to its last drop. well worth the wait mutton was chunky sweet kinda like beef, sort of tasty. dish 2 mix with bread chewy green curry taste with blood i think plus the chewy pita. ooh heaven the blood was actually a kind of cheese , i think! better ask drink a mango lassi you cant seem to get of the starchiness of the indian food even in drinks! yoghurt plus mango taste some getting use to.---ACQUIRED TASTE! seems this yoghurt has sea salt as another ingredient taste like a cupcake mixed with mango and sea salt then blended to a tall glass then Presto! terribly rich in creamy salty flavor. not my type ! horrendous 540 total. on indian.. 230 total on a piece of hamburger mexican. and this was my dinner , Obviously i like the pita/matsa bread traditional way, therefore gave it perfect 15 pts. love the ambience thats and price and the waiting game, it a 25 pts. mango lassi is a toxic drink its a 2 pts. for me! Chunks of CHEESE OR BLOOD , the paneer naka, the green starchy dish, i like to have but not a lot. give it 40 pts. as a main course on a light extra dinner after i had mexican burger.. overall I didn't finish the rest of the meal. 'twas full. 72% final score out of a 100% given passing rate was 75% Still to confirm on 2 to 3 visits for this stall to confirm my score. afterall i only tackled the blindfolded item which i am still new to the taste. needs some getting a mouthfeel. Adapting the taste buds to like such food is quite a long process, in the few weeks time, more so i would be fully aware of what this resto has to offer, then again until i get back this is my score. written 2.25.2013 @11:46AM

120 Cabernet Sauvignon Central Valley Chile Wine Review 1

day 1 grade of 80%
nose :has a small metal scent, mixed fruits, definite style of every cab.
taste :well no flaw , drinkable but no other exciting complexity
sight: good blackish browish dark red, aged, it a little past its month, but still enjoyable.just ordinary.low med legs.
day 2 grade of 81%
nose: pencil shaving was smelled,low spice now, paired with cheddar and it was good but not great, just ok.
very easy to drink only 2 days and nothing is left...the very early wine to be consumed in my journey.no questions asked, this is just for everyday drinking table wine... i should have expected a bit more spicy on chilean wine, of the hot climate
taste: a definite demi-sec, not to dry not to smooth. sugar is low, not powerful enough tannins in my opinion.
consistency and mouthfeel passed.
a lacking intensity, and an ok wine...

ANOTHER HUGE DIFFERENCE since 2004

Good day once more to the reader who opened this blog of mine, as all of you might remember i have posted some of my early bonsai pictures on my flicker account, feel free to browse in them, some of the plants were already dead, others, in good health, and among others the few stand out a diverse specimen of bonsai. Please note the exciting changes that changed my bonsai to its first classy appearance over the years.

I'm Also into Singing Opera---Tenor & Baritone

I started singing since the death of one of the greatest opera singers of the 20th Century. mainly Pavarotti in 2007. It is until i come upon his death ceremony being held in Medona, which I saw on Youtube, that i came into familiarity with the true opera. Though the real roots of my singing began when i first heard 3 people singing operatically on a tv show on Channel 7 early one morning, it was a group of male somewhat trio, Filipinos, they were called as the tenors magnifying the name Il divo of the Philippines. It is then what pushed me to researched on the name which was " Il Divo" and what has become of them, and their highest recorded work, which was named Regresa a Mi or the Spanish version of Unbreak My Heart.

Further browsing on my favourite site; Youtube, i came across the title { Por Ti Sere ", Not long before I started singing opera , memorizing still, and singing still chinese music pieces from year old childhood classics, It is then i realized while at my favorite singing spot,which was the bathroom, that i can lower down my voice upto its lowest form of male vocal range C5, i knew it that reaching for the tenoric voice is not impossible once you practice a little more often. I had doubt some time in my childhood that this would not happen, that i have a worse voice all throughout my life, because of the maturity thing of becoming an adult, i now have a much deep and complex voice, on earlier times i can sing like birds and cars wanging noisily, but something happened inside that lost the high pitched voice i had from childhood.

From then on i had encountered the 3 tenors music, then towards the beginning of the sprout of talent on American, British, Australia's, Korea's Got talent and even Philippines Got talents most talented vocalists, it is what pushed me farthest away to practice more often than usual on te vocals and high pitches of the voice, still today. I have come across the blind tenor, Bocelli, others like the ever classic Carusso, The new ones some Korean some Canadian, the 10 tenors and all sorts of male operatic vocals in my time. Probably as i am writing this note, the most well known was from Italy, they are only young teens as to their age, much a bit younger than me if you will, they are called " Il Volo" or Flight, Singers of 3, their early names were, il Trio, Dal Trio, and finally Il Volo. Head vocal is Gianluca Ginoble--- the vocalist whose charming and angst will let any gal or gay befall with it...magnetic cheeks and flick of facial expressions along with sharpness of wordings, Ignazio Buchetto -having angelic hold voice, and Piero Barone--being the maturistic italian pizza man voice when singing "O surdato nnamurato".
These boys are heaven's grace, what a magnificent grace they were, with their famous song " O sole Mio". Truly Extraordinary sexy, sharp, anf class.
The tenorish idol of the Philippines was Manolito Saldivar, although he did not won, and his career did not last long, he has helped me in surpassing my other vocal problems, he may not be taught by a coach, but he did gave me a clue on how to pronounce better a word in an operatic manner more easily than usual. Plus i learned the 3rd opera song from him, The one called " Time to say Goodbye" or Con Te Partiro.
On all these excitement i am now setting in standards for my ownself. lol the love of my life being one part Italian and another part Chinese. For over the course of my life i have begun to realize what rich in tradition Italy and China has and which if combined the 2 nations together, so full of history though deeply separated through geography, its still is possible to make ends meet, and thus i leave my notes of my hobby at this point. No place for story endings so i'll just stop until here...

An Introduction to my Wine tasting Journey

I started drinking alcohol (only wine and never ever ye olde beer) about when i had reached the age of maturity in its medium. I felt the confidence for the very first time to purchase this stuff when i had researched about its aging capabilities, and how it would benefit the drinker more than killing him, I started to have a feeling for wine and all its content during some same months ago at a Christmas party held in our house, a funny thing is that when i was 16 to 17 years old i hate the taste of grapes and all its gushy fillings inside, even hated the sun dried types they call " pasas" for that matter, but then what let me started liking all about grapes and what eventually turn me into liking everything about grape is the darkish violet sweet but thick skinned grape that came from the US...it was a gift for Christmas by my aunt who donated almost a kilo of the stuff to my folks. At those earlier times I knew one way of eating grape is by peeling off the skin and throwing out the seeds less of course thats what my Mom thinks...but something forced me to eat the whole of the grape, including its seeds which by the way tasted like ampalaya's bitterness in the inside. The acquired taste of bitterness from the tea I got fond of all these years must of adapted the grapey taste in my mouth, not long before i had the whole 4 to 5 bags of sweet treats disspeared in my mouth. O what heaven those perfectly shape babies were. The urges didn't stop from there, It was also Crhistmas time, mmy other folks from the maternal folks' friend brough with her a bottle of Jacob's brut cuvee, although my taste belong to the red and gamey kinds, this liquid made me realize that there is a lot more to explore in the world of wine, I knew it then and there that soon i will be all mature enough and what better start maturity than to learn how to drink, i have forseen my future to have lived my life until i'm about a century old, likewise I begun to research on the facts that may provide me with healthy living but with a sense of style in the process and along with that is a colorful and exciting life as an artist, an explorer, and a professional taster. In the process i also vowed that i will not ever smoke of any kind as this was a killer in most rates, beer is a very common past time, but in my opinion, beer is much of a common gig than an unexplored bottle of wine, which ofcourse is much much more complex and secretive, it fits my character, and I wish to pursue it even more, all beer is, is just tradition and get togetherness, but wine is like quality living, social interaction, judgements, criticizing and much more, a perfect combination of all drinks combined. Well as of the moment that is what i had envisioned my life to be, as a collector of modern future green products and innovations and a self-envisionary of the future, Ofcourse I would never forget TEA and coffee, specially tea drinking , it has been a part of my life since i came to have a thought of self-appreciation experience, it has become a part of me and to death I will not depart on this wonderful gifts of nature that is tea, coffee and wine

My WikWik Team .~ Guinea Pigs 2010

As a guinea pig breeder for almost 4 to 5yrs and to have been successfully breed my famous shorts, But alas in all the good things, there is just something bad that is bound to happen. Last Sept 26, 2009 Local Typhoon Ondoy hit the Philippines like a little boat in a bathtub with a baby playing as the the storm...plus the massive amounts of rain it had produced during its course towards the responsibility area along the Pacific. My very current two wikwik at the time the storm had been raised has been out back in the area because if it would'nt for the fault of my mother , the life of my pet could have been saved. Thus, morning came, all furnitures wrecked, mud gunk everywhere and my wikwiks bloated lying out back in its cage still...
I had stopped having pets for almost a year. I got back on the hobby just last april 16 2010 when we bought out 2 abbysinian piggies namely Jambanna(M) and FuiFui(F), i got carried away by the list of other breeds now available in the Philippines and decided to buy and breed them like my shorts, with all the experiences in reminicent, i brought out one female out of desperation because, before the desperate attempt of buying I did researched out that female piggies with certain breeds are hard to find, mainly because of the many breeders out on their normal search for potential profit of the babies it produces. I knew I had to buy one even if the price is twice the high, little did I know of i was wrong and the supplies of female was that enough, that I just shooked my head of the loss of my money...the wikwik, Mrs. Hump Hump is not even as tamed as i thought, also when bathing she always kept on wiggling...oh...my girl abbysinian who died in those years was named Wiggly...just remembering...sorry for that...I got the feeling of being ripped off...As I buy my male peruv self red Pokey...he is indeed one stunning little thing, well he's still new to the team, kinda thin, unlike the rest, but am still confident that he will eventually pick-up the flabs once he kept on feeding the grass i pain-stakingly cut for him and the rest of the piggies everyday.Well here are all their pictures...Enjoy!

JuzTiny Cavy Garden: My Cavies (Guinea Pigs) Collection#comment-form

JuzTiny Cavy Garden: My Cavies (Guinea Pigs) Collection#comment-form

Phandakhaki Mame Bonsai Repotting

This video is not posted in my youtube account because of the oversized length it took for it to be made in real time...my youtube account is "louiesiy" please just search for it rate and comment thanks!

A sudden thought on sharing my green passion

Since i am a bonsai hobbyist I thought on sharing this to you, if you kindly take a moment of your time to look at some of my other my photostream located at a flickr link. You would see this bonsai in its before state, one sort of a raggedy looking vegetable(?)... the last 5 pictures, is what the tree looks now. It had transformed into a naturally old looking tree that seems to be of great age already. This tree is about 7 to 9 years old already, and still young. Carefully wiring out all the branches is a painstaking job, but as a hobbyist, i am prepared for any patience, just as long as its about my hobby, I wired it for 3 hours including its styling and rearrangement of the branches. Remember to take your time in wiring and in finishing your trees...There are more pictures to come, i'll be comparing each one of them at a later time...do drop by flickr for new pictures regarding bonsai and youtube videos that i created...Please search for "Marcotting basics" or " Marcotting" or " Newly marcotted plants A through E" if you are interested...

Start the blog off with my works...shufa(书法)

This was done with but a plain paper(I do not know where to buy chinese paper...) a cheap 毛笔 or chinese brush, and my chinese seal as proof that I did write the idiom myself...Hope you understand Chinese...

I started learning chinese calligraphy when I was in the 5th grade, am now currently only in my 20s, and boy did it evolve, from my scrappy handwriting then to a naturally born artist now... I will show some but not all for now some of my works, I do need learning a bit more about chinese painting though...be back for more of my works...haven't got time to write, do send me phrases, because I do know only some phrases and the rest is only copied through chinese books encountered upon reading...

My first blogging experience...What it is all about...

I am having a deep thought whether to publicize my daily experiences or not, but for the sake of now creating one, I am in deep gratitude to present to you all of it bit by bit about my hobbies and gaining collections, my collections are sort of asian, western, or overall throughout, hobbies or collections to be discussed are embedded on my title, notice the weird long blog name...WU stands for wushu or Chinese martial arts... CHA stands for tea, this means that broader differentiations and complex discussions are to be witnessed concerning this great and ancient beverage. BON stands for the art of Bonsai, for which I am an enthusiast of its arts for 8-9 years now, pictures are not that many but try to post it ocassionally. SHU stands for calligraphy, I am as everyone say have the golden hand, I am inclined to share some though not formally written in a chinese paper, but as they say it doesn't matter whether where you write it, as long as your writing is worth a thousand...DO stands for "tao" also means the way of everything or the nature of things, this stands for religions concerning Taoism and Buddhism only, from time to time I will post videos of chants when i am listening to them, and maybe share some of my knowledge to you. Lastly, SIY which stands for my surname, A proud standing surname throughout the blogs...Notice also that all the abbreviations are of Everything Chinese, that's because in the early years of my childhood I am pretty much exposed to it every now and then. Alas, there is this Western part of me, that has originated from just a simple experience in a party, which lead me to collect wines for that matter, though yet not part of the long blog name I am hoping to add it with the abbreviations of CHIU, of course my surname would be the very last upon all names which are added, giving it a new name of "WUCHABONSHUDOCHIUSIY" but of course I can change that whenever but not yet now...

I forgotten my past hobby was breeding guinea pigs . but still its not yet included in my alias..i'm still configuring on how to establish a decent one word name for that