6 Maginhawa St. Restaurants Worth to Try in 2016

Maginhawa St. near UP Diliman is famous as the food street in the metro. Why? Well there are more than 20 restaurants that can be seen here with many more also along the nearby streets. As you attempt to eat one by one from these restaurants, let me give you the first 6 restaurants that you should try to satisfy your hungry cravings:

1. RoJo Oven Baked Boneless Chicken

108 Maginhawa St., Estimated Cost: P150

Their roasted chickens are really tasty, fully prepared with the right spices and flavors. You can choose the flavor of your chicken from Asian, Caribbean, to Mediterranean BBQ. They also have lasagna, pita bread, cheese sticks and french fries to choose from.

2. Snow Creme

189 Maginhawa St.,  Estimate Cost: P150

Yes, it’s as good as it looks. The taste of the shaved ice cream will not get you enough until the last drop. They have golden mango, peanut banana foster etc. You can also customize your shaved ice cream. They also have milk teas and french fries.

3. Snacks & Ladders

188A Maginhawa St., Estimated Cost: P200

If you want to mix craving with fun, then go here. This restaurant is the home of wide varieties of board games. You could try the Ultimate Werewolf, Coup and Avalon. Their food choices include buffalo wings, nachos, burger steak and pasta.

4. Grill Queen

Maginhawa St., Estimated Cost: P90

If you’re the fan of eating everything that’s grilled, then you should come to the queen of the grill. They have everything that will satisfy that craving from pork BBQ, bangus, isaw, chicken feet and siomai. Just choose from the list.

5. Fat Cousins’

114 Maginhawa St., Estmated Cost: P200

Their meal includes unlimited drinks and rice. You can choose your meal from roast beef, T-bone steak, sausage and burger. My favorite one is the roast beef. It’s soft and yummy, and goes well with the sauce.

6. Roberta Flavors of Asia

45B Maginhawa St., P240

If you’re a person who’s fan of varieties then you have come to the right place. My favorite is the 3-for-P220 appetizers that they offer. You can choose from chicken isaw and skin, crispy tenga, tokwa etc. They also offer tinola sa pakwan, black pasta, spring roll, fish fillet and chicken.

5 Life Lessons From the Journey of Pia Wurtzbach to Miss Universe 2015

After 42 years, Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach finally brought back the Miss Universe crown to the Philippines. She is the 3rd Filipina who won the title following the likes of Gloria Diaz and Margie Moran. Miss Universe judges are impressed by her fierce and fabulous looks, her amazing answers in Miss Universe questions, and her inner beauty. Pia’s “showing to the universe that she’s confidently beautiful with a heart” answer wowed every single judge in the pageant, and voted for her to be the next Miss Universe. It might seem easy but her journey to Miss Universe was not. It was the result of her hard work, perseverance, persistence and confidence. Here are the life lessons we can learn from Pia Wurtzbach:

1. A winner is just a loser who tried one more time. – George Moore Jr.

Pia lost two times in Miss Philippines pageant before winning. Like her, people can learn many things from losing. They became better at what they do, making them succeed at their next attempt.

 2. Don’t let the opinion of others become your reality. – Les Brown

Many people doubted that Pia will ever make it in the last pageant. If she let the negative criticisms control her goals, she wouldn’t be able to achieve her dreams.

3. A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself. – Paulo Coelho

Pia pursued every opportunity that comes her way. She’s also open to learning new things. Her brain matches her looks. She has been an actress, chef, stylist and now, the beauty queen. 

4. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. – Steve Jobs

She knows what she wants. She’s eager to follow her dream,  no matter how hard it is because she believes that it was her calling. She’s one of the most determined person one will ever meet.

5. Work hard until you no longer need to introduce yourself.

Pia is a hardworking person. She works her ass to fulfill her dreams. Her friends knew the struggles she had before she won, and on how serious she is in succeeding. Now everybody in the Philippines knows Pia Wurtzbach. She is an inspiration to Filipinos that hard work pays off and dreams do come true.

My Top 10 Favorite Role Cards in Ultimate Werewolf: Deluxe Edition

Ultimate Werewolf is a bluffing card game which is great for team building, party and reunion activities. Here’s how the game is played: all the players will be given a role card. The game is composed of night time and day time. If you are team Villager, your goal is to vote for who you think is the werewolf during day time. The suspected villain will get to be executed in front of all the villagers by revealing his card. At each night, werewolves will choose which villager to devour. All the role cards that died in the evening will be revealed in the morning. If you are team Werewolf, your goal is to appear as a harmless villager, so that you will not be voted to be killed in the morning.

Adding to the group of harmless villagers, there is the all-knowing Seer that has an ability to pick a player  each night and know if he or she is a werewolf or not. There is also the powerful Witch who will know who died in the night. She can choose to heal the werewolf victim or choose to use her killing ability to kill the suspected werewolf at night time. There’s also a twist in the game with the lovers or sweethearts. When one is eliminated, the other one also dies because of broken heart.

 

Ultimate Werewolf: Deluxe Edition is the Best Werewolf game edition so far with over 75 cards to choose from (40 unique cards). Aside from the werewolf and villager team, there are other teams added. There is the Cult Leader who wins if all the team members have been converted to his cult. There is the Tanner who wins if he is killed in the game. The identification of the team is based on the color of the cards. Color blue is for the villagers, color red is for the werewolves, and so on. Since there are over 40 unique characters, I’d like to give you my Top 10 Favorite Werewolf Deluxe Edition characters.

 

Popularly always included in the game, the witch is the heroine of the villagers with the usage of her two powerful potions. The hunter on the other side is good to be included if there are other races in the game such as vampire, lovers, or cult leader.

The bodyguard is best added if there are many werewolves in the game. I like the village idiot since one single vote is an instant kill to an accused player. Add the idiot or the cult leader if you have a vampire in the list to provide balance in game.

The vampire is most likely the strongest card in the game since the he is immune to werewolf’s attack at night. On the shape-shifting side, the doppelganger adds fun in the game since her role can shift to other team later in the game.

Adding twists to the game are the minion and the cupid. The minion tries to save the werewolves every elimination in daytime. The cupid chooses the two sweethearts in the game. If the sweethearts are on the different team, their goal now is to save each other by forming a new race now over their initial group.

The Aura Seer can see special characters only. This is very advantageous to villagers when you have special characters. The Paranormal Investigator is also advantageous if he stays later in the game since he knows if there are werewolves in the group of three once per game.

Aside from bonus cards, the game’s box also contains instruction manual, suggested scenarios, and alternate role playing, which is very good to read in the bundle. They also provided papers for the moderator to list the cards he choose in a game. The game will be enjoyed and will be discussed after the game ends. That’s how interesting it is! I definitely recommend this.