West River Side

LOCATION: Eastwood Mall, Libis Time: 9:30PM What attracted me first to Mr.Kurosawa were these huge zebra stripped menus that seemed to call out my name (I have a thing for zebra stripes). I was also craving for Japanese/Korean food again. Since we were in a celebratory mood for my mom's upcoming birthday plus the fact that they suffered two hours in traffic - take note of Switchfoot concert and Megamall Labor Day sale = heavy traffic along EDSA-they were quite famished by the time we stepped inside Mr.Kurosawa. We wanted to order a lot (takaw tingin) so we finally settled with their big orders good for 4. A sampler platter really but I couldn't recall the name since it was my brother who ordered for us. The platter had a huge bowl of greens, fried rice, shrimp, california maki, tuna sashimi, tempura squid, chicken yakitori and fried oysters. We had to wait for 30 minutes before the food was served. A guy on the next table kept glancing at us because he ordered, ate and paid for...

I was too lazy to get out of the house. The weather was around 32 degrees and getting a cab from our house would mean a ten to thirty minutes wait, depending on my luck. Check in time for the hotel was 2pm. I was still at home at 1:45PM. So even if Little Giants was showing on HBO, I hauled myself, duffel bag and all, out of the house at 2PM and patiently waited for a cab under the sun. Fifteen minutes and dozens of unavailable cabs later, I managed to hail a cab. Unfortunately, the cab was in a hurry. He was driving like a maniac and cursing like there was no tomorrow. To make things worse, he requested that I get off at Camp Crame because he couldn't make his next appointment in time and will be reprimanded by his boss. I half pitied the cab driver, he asked me to pay Php 50, while my bill was at Php 105 already, I had no choice but to agree under the condition that he absolutely had to get me another cab. I was not going to go down unless I had a replacement, I had a huge duffel...