More Tomassi Please?

In Italian, Tomassi must have meant tomato (most obvious translation at least). In Tomas Morato, Quezon City, Tomassi is this recently opened little hole-in-the-wall Italian restaurant that offers an alternative to the Italian restaurants that have surprisingly mushroomed around the metro.

So, one spontaneous afternoon, upon the recommendation of our foodie friend, girlfriends and I went. The place still smells of fresh paints ha. That's how new this place is! First thing I noticed are the walls. Very much like the other Italian restaurants in town, Tomassi has the obligatory mural wall, but theirs is faux painting (mottling?). Even the bathroom looked pretty with all the faux flowers.

It took a while before my dates arrived so I ordered minestrone soup and some appetizer because I was famished (the name of which I totally forgot). Soup was good. It was pretty but properly sour which I really loved. I thought, well, it looks promising this restaurant.

I was almost alone that afternoon, save for another lady in another table so the service was pretty fast! The waitress was also very friendly and she even helped me connect to a wifi.

Tomassi's Minestrone soup is love!

Italian eating  is best done with girl friends with seriously good appetite =)

Anyway, when my dates arrived, we ordered two Clementina Chops and Pesto pasta. Since I am not very fond of rice, I had mine replaced with anything but. So the waitress offered more buttered vegetables instead, which is really very nice of them. They even gave us loads of free breads and dips while waiting for the main course! Oh, carbs galore.

Tomassi Clementina Chops

The chops were huge, for Php 180++ but it could use a little more pressure cooking  and probably, marinating time. The buttered vegetables were likewise cold and the butter  have almost solidified to a point.  The pesto pasta was likewise huge but they probably used a little too much oil.  

We would have wanted to try the dessert but we had to run off to the coffee shop and we've to be somewhere else. Maybe next time =) 

Passing Time

So, Friday, we meet again.

I've dreaded Fridays for a while now, well, ever since I started feeling empty, longing to do something else or be somewhere else. Remember that night I almost slept in the office because I was sooo...oh emotionally unstable, as my intern calls it, then offers me vodka afterwards.

Anyway, tonight feels different. I am starting to feel that overwhelming sense of independence again. That feeling that I do not have to be with someone else, with you even (apart from kiddo, who is spending Fridays and Saturdays with the in-laws till we move--but that's another story which deserves another post altogether).

Remember I told you Friday is the saddest day of the week? Well, its beginning not be be like that anymore. Tonight, I feel like I can survive it, alone. I planned to shop away, but a looming big ticket move prevented me from doing that. So I opted for a quiet place in the middle of the busiest place in the whole of Metro Manila. Lucky me, I found two spots where I can stay in peace.

Remember when I used to be so emotionally dependent on you. But I am starting to change. I still have moments when I feel like I need to be with you--and I feel that almost everyday still, but I can handle them all now. Trying is more the operative word. But despite the independence, I feel sad still. Sad because you don't seem to care. Sad because nothing matters anymore. And sad because I feel empty. But what can I do? I need to pass time. And I suppose, in the same manner, you do too.