A few days ago I did a photo shoot with the Cover Groups called A’s (apparently pronounced as ACE). It was Saturday morning and after reconvening and doing the make up at my place we all headed to Kiaroskuro House of Art and Photography. It’s new but not that new – it’s a very affordable photo studio along Maginhawa street – the food haven in Teachers’ Village. It was six of us; me, Jheng, Gail, Jem, Athena and her boyfriend Zhell. It was such a fun shoot – we have been planning it for months and months and we’re just happy to finally have it. I’m guessing more shoots will come in the future especially whenever they have a new performance or a new costume to showcase. Unfortunately my girls Nico and Alyss weren’t able to join that day due to packed schedules but that alright~
Our theme was originally Classic Black plus another set of costume from their previous performance. It was all zebra-ish and really complicated couture. It was great I just wished we had more time to really enjoy the company plus the shutter. We planned it to be three sets of costumes but we ran out of time – I guess since most of us were not able to wake up earlier in the morning lol
After the shoot we went around Teachers’ Village to look for a place for lunch. We hovered over the Starbucks and man, Starbucks Matalino is like on the top of the best coffee shoppe interiors list. I know it was fairly new since I’m often around; it was such a cool place. Zhell and Athena, the sweet couple that they are brought sandwiches for everyone – ham and cheese and Nutella yum! It was the first time in many many months (I think over a year) that we got together again. There was a lot of catching up and I think we lasted up about a couple of hours just talking nonstop. It was really fun getting back together with Jheng and Athena.
After coffee we went and walked arounfd to find a Korean Restaurant to have lunch. Well isn’t that nice, coffee first and then lunch? Who needs order in their life? Lol But seriously we should have had lunch first before coffee, but what the heck it’s okay since it was such a good day. I suggested we go to “Bulgogi Burger” which was the huge Korean resto next to Nice Mart with a big cute comic cow outside. Zhell then arugued it wasn’t called Bulgogi Burger but Bulgogi Brothers. I was a newb with the Korean resto thingy since I normally just go and eat at Japanese restaurants or anything except Korean. I dared them to suggest me the best they know and maybe I’ll be convinced with loving spicy food. Surprisingly it was neither Bulgogi Burger or Brothers but “Bulgogi Garden” lol but it was really good.
And they had these big aluminum elephant trunks over the smoke-less stoves which was really cool! I ordered the Hot Stone Bibimbap (is this how you spell it?) since they said it was the “safest” to order. I made Bibimbap myself but it was Nothing near this one. It was so good! I’ve been seeing this resto for years and I haven’t tried it and I’m glad I finally did. It was a bit spicy but I loved it! They have lots of complimentary stuff too. Kimchi, Chinese cabbage, sweet potato, soup, seaweed with sesame seed and oranges – very very good and sweet oranges; it was definitely a good choice for lunch. I’m sure you’ll be seeing more posts of me eating there lol maybe with different sets of people XD
