Ice Cream King is Milkshake King too!!!

Yes, Ice Cream King is selling milkshakes beginning today. Though the response wasn’t that good even if we are selling it at Buy1 Take1 promo. Maybe, the price is too steep at P48.00 per 16oz Grande sized cup but we cannot make it cheaper because we are using low-fat vanilla mix imported from Australia and all-natural syrups from France.

One of the hurdles, I think, is our poor orientation of milkshakes. I personally love McDonald’s milkshakes but only a handful of branches are selling them. Though ours are totally different from McDo, you need to blend the syrup manually using the provided drinking straws. It seems like mixing the chocolate-drizzled whipped cream into your favorite ice-blended coffee.

Wait there’s more! We got exciting flavors. Aside from the classic ones like vanilla, strawberry and chocolate, we also have the delightful flavors of Caramel, Irish Cream and Melon. Soon, we would have Mint, Blue Curacao for those with adventurous taste buds.

Hopefully, better days are ahead for the King’s Milkshake! We will be giving out free taste samples and we will have smaller cups, perhaps, 8oz and 12oz cups.

Ice Cream King… Long Lick the King!

Finally, after almost two months of laboring pains, the kingdom has come! Our first ever shop is now in soft operations since last Wednesday. So far, sales is good but not when it’s raining. Students from UA&P buy in droves and enjoy the different flavors of Ice Cream King. The best selling flavor is Vanilla followed by Mocha and Chocolate. Strawberry got positive response when we gave free samples last Tuesday. We failed to have good sales with Mango or maybe because it was raining yesterday.

Please bear with the King. We are on soft opening. We are still trying to perfect our operations and achieve the “footlong” Ice Cream King very soon. Right now, we are selling Ice Cream BIG and King’s Belgian Cone at P20.00 only and Ice Cream KID at P12.00 only. I

Ice Cream King is located at Pearl Plaza, Pearl Drive , Ortigas Center, Pasig right in front of Pancake House and very few steps away from Starbucks Pearl Drive. We hope to achieve ten stores by end of June.

Hail to the KING! hehehe

Taking defense, Being grateful, Airing apologies

Of Moth and Squid, Of Envy and Angst II

When someone close to me gets mad, I am really affected. It is not that I am guilty but a part of me wants to explain my side to the story. It may sound too defensive but certain issues require clarity. The issue now is, do I deserve to be heard? If I dare speak up, would they listen?

Certain issues were blown out of proportions the past days. Words written were given a different context and looked at another perspective.

In my blog entry, Of Moth and Squid, Of Envy and Angst, I mentioned a former colleague who forwarded personal emails of my friend to her own account. She then forwarded ’some’ of those personal emails to my former employers. The pre-selected (only those she think would not hurt her image to the bosses) mails contain supposedly employees’ grievances and rants and comic displays of affections among those in the loop but were taken rather seriously. I was now being accused of inciting my former officemates (who happen to be my very close friends now) to resign from their jobs.

I trust my friends’ judgment regarding their careers. And I never imagine I could influence their decisions in whatever way. Could not my former employers simply trust my friends’ judgment? That the reason of their employment dissatisfactions are way beyond my opinions.

I know for a fact that my former company is totally peculiar and I tried my best to embrace its uniqueness. Unfortunately, somewhere along my stay there, I lost my drive. Thus, I resigned. Still, to this very day, I am grateful to my bosses. I would have not been a better, more brand-oriented, more entrepreneurial, more aggressive individual I am today without my former company. I am proud of this company that I always pray for its success. Afterall, if that day comes, (I hope very soon), it would make my resume look far better.

I am sorry if my emails have hurt my former employers. I completely understand where they are coming from. (And in the first place, they have not read all threads.) I felt no guilt because it was far from my intentions to hurt them in anyway. But I am really affected and I hope my apologies get across.

Lastly, if I were the subject of those mails, should I be alarmed or should I feel vengeful? I would choose the latter part. If you were ostracized, mocked, ridiculed to the maximum levels, what would you feel then? Sometimes, when you think you are in control, think again. You might have just been controlled.

Miss. Missing. Mismo!

I have long been wanting to write these things I miss lately…

1. Writing poetry with a newly sharpened Mongol #2 pencils. Maybe I will use my blog to write some soon.

2. Spaghetti with Hungarian sausage Miriam and Fatima cook.

3. Melon Shakes and lazy days at Joni’s in Boracay.

4. Shopping and haggling at Chatuchak, Bangkok

5. Sizzling Bangus and Matutina’s in Dagupan

6. Blowing fog during nighttime in Baguio and picking strawberries in La Trinidad farms.

7. Kopiroti snacks with Tina, Apple and Gian

8. Prawns with Butter and Garlic at Dampa sa Libis

9. Kare-kare at Jay-J’s

10. Videoke sessions with my ex-subordinates in Steve’s Palace

11. Dinner sessions with Pao

12. Public Market Launches with Raymond and Matt.

13. Starbucks’ Black Tea Latte

14. Strategic Planing at Starbucks’ Rockwell or Bayview with Donna

15. Teaching High School Math to my tutees

16. My birthday celebration at Moomba (This year, I am planning to celebrate something really good.)

Of Moth and Squid, Of Envy and Angst

I was totally disappointed with a former colleague. My friend, Christina, turned-over her laptop computer to her superior but this ill-fated, squid-looking creature with a moth-sized brain managed to open her e-mails and forwarded her personal mails to this creature’s account. These mails include our threads of grievances to my former company, our personal exchanges of our love lives, Christina’s mails to her family and friends and lover. How low could you get? I may not expect so much from this creature but her act is something I could not take. What would this creature do to Christina’s mails? Use it for blackmailing her ?

We may have called this creature by any other name, accused her of every wrong doing, back-stabbed her, laughed at her antics and stupidity, but it is our opinion. And we never made it public. It is that human nature in us to heckle such inferior creature. Admittedly, we have our share of mistakes. We made fun at the expense of this lowly individual who all her life may been miserable and insecure. I was once told that if there is no basis to be angry, it is envy. Her inferiority complex gets into her nerves to eternally find fault everyone else but herself.

Last night, I prayed for this person sincerely. I ask God that she will be enlightened and would find peace in her heart. I do not want to judge her. Though, I cannot help but describe her in this entry that is explicitly degrading. I may be angry with her act, but I owe to God to forgive her and move on. May the good God able me to have the heart to do so.

I am excited to write again.

After almost a year of hiatus in blog writing, I am back now. Hopefully, with a more persevering attitude, I can able to write sincere and easy-to-read entries. The writer in me never dies, I guess, it just takes sometime to recharge my self-assessed creative energies.

To begin with, I have a better blogsite unlike my previous one in my Friendster account. Good thing, my friend Apple invited me over here. Now, I am left with no choice but to start writing again. Hehehe. Writing is something I wanted to do but I have no chance and effort doing. I just hope that this time around would be different. I pray that I would always be inspired to organize and share my thoughts through this medium. In the process, I may inspire others. Hahaha

I want my entries to be entertaining, easy-to-read and, most of all, sincere. I want it is as personal as possible without washing my dirty linens in public. I aspire to make it a window of my world without totally baring my soul. Afterall, words would never be enough to contain my thoughts, my emotions and my views.

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