Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alcohol. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Bars or Coffee Shops?

My father usually reminds me of why this generation is really into stuffs that are strong… strong liquor or coffee. I guess he’s more into doing any sport he could way back in college (evidence: family picture album)Justify Full
He has a point though; bars and coffee shops are usually the spot (mostly youth) that are pack of people. So the question is where do you mostly prefer? It’s the battle of caffeine and alcohol! Go!


Vudu (Crossroads,Cebu) Formo (Banilad Town Center, Cebu) Loft (IT Park, Cebu)

some night clubs here in cebu

Round 1: The Venue
Totally opposite; the other one is serene, cozy and smells of coffee everywhere, lighting is adequate enough with a touch of drama to it, its like a library (with wifi of course) only there are no silent signs being posted. The other is packed with loads of people since space isn’t that big, dance tracks like rnb, hip hop, house, techno booming through loud speaker (showing your hidden dance moves), lights are kinda dim since disco lights are usually present and it smells like beer, cigars or sweaty people.

Downside of coffee shops is that sometimes it’s hard to concentrate in there since mostly people talk there loudly.
Bars are hard also to communicate due to booming sounds and the smell of sweaty people is just scary.

Round 2: The Food
Different food preparations but prices of both are high. Coffee shops serve people with caffeine or milk drinks and sweets oh love those sweets so much! Bars serve with also so different kinds of alcohol (taste testing!) and restaurant food (not all!). Either ways, taste depends on specific name but both have their own specialty in the area. Like I said, both offer prices that sometimes are high for me but hen again sometimes the price was worth of it due to the entertainment you got.

Round 3: The Show
Different! If you need to be alone, coffee shops can offer you that. Although sometimes people will bug you, but hey its not that weird unlike in a bar were just a random person can totally dance with you! Hmmm bars have great entertainment, aside from the dancing part, mini concerts are held. It can be a band, singer, group dance, or dj. Coffee shops well it’s a place where you yourself will be the entertainment, rather more like interviewing each other’s opinions and gossips. As for the downside of things, bars are usually spots where fight scenes are common… I guess guys with too much in their system have lost the decency of controlling the beasts within.



Starbucks, Bo's Coffee Club, Seattle's Best (all branches could be found in Ayala Center, Cebu)

some coffee shops i tried

Round 4: The People
I stick people in coffee shops coz usually its like “mind your own business” kind of thing. And I prefer myself and with my friends only, not some random guy who tries in hitting you just to get to your pants.

Round 5: The Service
Equally, both places offer good service. Yeah it still depends on the specific name of the place, but mostly orders came overflowing. Although you have to wait in a line in a coffees hops, still calling you name correctly to get your order is nice. Downside? Hmm bars sometimes give your orders so much that the bills are painful to pay!

Winner:
I have to settle in the middle. Sometimes my wild side creeps in so hitting bars isn’t bad just remember to stick with your friends all through the night. Coffee shops for me aren’t good places for studying but for drinking your favorite fraps or just having a decent conversation, it’s a perfect place to be at.

Just make sure that the services, food and people aren’t that nasty so that you could spend in that place til 5am!

Monday, October 19, 2009

the october issue

well my writing side kicks back again since i'm posting once more! hahahhaha maybe i just needed some more inspirations... hahahahi i wish i could steal someone's shine that way i'll glow so bright like a light bulb or something hahahha

the idea of brightness hit me when i was reading fanfics from the anime a perfect girl revolution... i just realized that maybe the leading lady has mutiple perosonlaity disorders hahhaha... if i'm talking french to you, just watch the anime or read the manga hehehe

a lot had happen lately but not that grand.... mainly consists if eating my heart out. There was lara's fiesta, my cousins graduation bash, college get togethers and pigging out with lara and carmi hahhaha ok i'll stop talking about food again!

balamban church with the crowds

the ever famous caterpillar in balamban ps. this thing can sweep you off your chair!

at a japanese restau and lara with her kiddie meal above

ohhh i love there sweets, a japanese cakeshop near parklane hotel

carmi and the blueberrycheesecake

other side of life, i started review and spent 2 weeks listening and contemplating my soul on medical-surgical nursing. Ironic, i find the review materials so easy but then i wasn't that contended so i end up hearing more lectures on the said subject. Next on the list, Psychiatric Nursing! When i hear this, my mind pictures itself on me ending up in a straightjacket that was color yellow and stuck in a yellow room hahhaha... bananas!

my sibling's bday was on october hehehe... i have nothing to give to him except my so called siblingly annoyance on forever being his greatful older sister... hahahha and that he should teach me on his saving skills! tsk tsk tsk. funny, i'm stuck in cebu and there he went home with my parents plus dinner in a restaurant. Not jealous since i did that when my bday was up last august...

it was the gray man's anniversary too... hahhaha felt weird typing this but i felt releived somehow, now that everyone was happy inlcuding me of course. Wierdness and goosebumps shoot up everytime i remember the time when i was running through the bathrooms to prevent gravity from falling those tears... hahhahhaha see goosbumps again!

i do miss someone hmmm since almost everyones is talking again about going to in houses for the NLE review this Nov. .. i know i had my time but i can't blame my memories for it hahahaha ^^


october will be the month for me of both laughter and pain (before!) but now it will only remain of one thing, beer! just grab one there if you have a chance since its october fest baby! ^^


Monday, September 28, 2009

Dissolving alcohol

One thing I’m sure about facing problems is that alcohol is not a solution! I repeat not a solution… rather it gives you an ugly headache, ulcer like pain on you gastro system and no matter how you put it, the feeling you wish you never had still remains. Even if your in the blackout stage, you will still face reality as an everyday life…. Which is the reason I prefer a glass of saltwater, that way my body would took charge and my mind becomes a nostalgia aka gone mad!

People tend to shift on alcohol during depressant episodes but alcohol is a depressant, makes sense right? No matter how you put it, it just drives you down way down on your bottomless pit…

I’m talking straight from my experience. I do admit there are also some good times shared with people, but using it alone? It’s becoming addicted to it; which is pretty scary to me. I do respect the social bonds or norms that society create over gatherings but please don’t go overboard… unless you’re making a scene which you’ll eventually regret for the rest of your life… amen! Well sometimes society is like the devil, making lame conclusions which sometimes i strongly disagree upon… that’s life a web of unfairness


What’s alcohol for? Mainly for socializing only, not a solution! Believe me, for the past years of witnessing hangovers, my brain almost hits to an explosion! For long-term use, certain health issues rises. Which may have pint-pointed me on regretting some events before, all I could say positively to it? The memories… quite true that those memories were like a freak show but I had fun ^^

As for ways on stopping it, try small steps… gradually secluding you from it… takes a lot of patience and courage. Going instantly cold chicken? Hmmmm it doesn’t work for me automatically!


If you ever spot me again on a drinking frenzy, just remind me of this post! Seriously that way I wouldn’t be eating these words in front of you…
And beer gives my belly a lot of fat! Waaaah

ps: hmmmm i feel very bad about what happened to manila, and the great flood.... its like seeing myself again on what happened to ormoc in 1992... man i still had some flashbacks about water, snakes and swimming on it! waaaaah it was like mad! anaywayz i could only offer prayers since basically i don't have any stuff or the money to give them.... i hope the weather would be very very fine soon...