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When Mom Violy spotted Crisostomo’s handwritten menu, something in her chest lit up: home-style lumpia, sinigang steaming in clay pots—could this be the comfort food she’d been missing?

Carmina informed Mom Violy that she would visit her home on Saturday, November 8, 2025. She asked if Mom Violy wanted to go out for lunch and mentioned needing to do some grocery shopping due to an upcoming big storm. Mom Violy suggested trying Crisostomo, a Filipino restaurant inside Robinsons Magnolia. Carmina forwarded the menu for her to choose what she wanted to eat, while Carmina already knew her order. I chose pork barbeque served in a set of three pieces with a vinegar dipping sauce. I skipped rice and opted for lumpiang hubad, fresh lumpia without a wrapper, topped with peanut sauce.  Mom Violy initially craved the classic Pinoy paella, but when it wasn’t available, she decided on sinigang na baboy with an extra serving of rice. A family member chose sisig with garlic rice. Carmina enjoyed her meal with Mom Violy and particularly liked the  lumpiang hubad , though she kept wondering why it had no wrapper. I explained that it’s called "naked" because it’s served witho...

Do you feel you’re alone?


Saving food for others is what I do when I don't eat a particular dish that is cooked by Manang V. I save my food to my mom when she craves for food that she doesn't feel like cooking for herself. 

There are times in your life you feel lazy to cook your own food and prefer to eat other person's cooking. You will come a point in your life when you live alone and come home from work being tired you don't feel like cooking a meal for yourself.

That is when you realize why you live this way and what changes you want to do in order not to live the way you do.

During the holidays approaching you start to realize the life you have compared to others who you know and what you feel their life is better they are surrounded by people.

You start to feel less of yourself how lonely the life you live as you tell your friends what life you live.

You meet a friend who says your life is not lonely you just make it sound really bad sometimes people feel this way when a part of their life they always lived this way.

I have always tell my friends they can change the way they live or change the way they think but being in that situation is not only you who feel that way. For the people who I've come across from they all felt the same way each person who has opened to me I tell the same thing. You're not alone in this world you may live alone but to feel lonely is normal when the holiday season.

Those who have more than others they have other sort of feelings they might feel something is missing even if they have more than you.

Just everyone's life is all different but if you want to change the way you live it can only come from you to accept the way you live and how you want to change it for the better.

If you love the freedom than be happy but no matter what you can change your own pattern in life it is you who need to figure what you want from it.


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