Thursday, March 22

fun with names!


summer's just around the corner and am sure a lot of us will spend time traveling.i came across this info on the net with funny names on streets, restaurants and stuff.check it out:


10/Q (a convenience store on Shaw Boulevard);
Ali Baka (a shawarma chain);
Aristoback (really a restaurant behind Aristocrat)
Star-Backs (a Quezon City coffeeshop near ABS-CBN and GMA Networks)
Tapsi Turbi (a tapsilog stand);
Beery Good (a real bar);
Goodah, Goto Heaven (in Baguio where they have a dish called Goto Hell)
25 Hours (watch store),
Anita Bakery, Bali Gulp (drinking place behind Valley Golf in Antipolo),
Beads and Pieces (naturally, a bead shop),
Beefer 150 (a meat shop),
Caintacky Fried Chicken (chicken specialty restaurant in Cainta that has yet to get into Doreen Fernandez's list),
Common Cents (sari-sari store),
Crispy per minute (a crispy pata store),
Curl Up and Dye (beauty salon),
Doctor Sebago (shoe repair shop),
Doris Day and Night (24-hour eatery),
Elizabeth Tailoring, which reminded me about an unconfirmed shop called Pierre Carding
Farmacia with Love (drugstore),
Felix the Cut (barber shop)
Funeraria Mabuhay
Income Taxi, Goldilooks (a Fairview barber shop)
Goldirocks (gravel and sand)
Juice Co. (fresh fruit juice stand),
Labo Optical
L.B.M. Restaurant
Mane Attraction (beauty parlor)
Nacho Fast (nacho restaurant)
a beer garden called O' Beer Time
Passers Buy convenience store
Saudia Hairlines (established perhaps with hard-earned dollars from Saudi?)
Scissors Palace and Sylvestre's Salon
Washup Doc (laundry in Alabang),
Wash and Carry (laundromat),
To Home It May Concern (furniture shop),
The Way We Wear (boutique),
The Last Resort (a resort that went bankrupt in Minalin, Pampanga)
Babalik Carinderia (in Sto. Tomas, Batangas)
Blue Marilyn (sing-along bar on Sucat), City Cleaners which is a San Juan janitorial service whose slogan is "Talk dirty to me!",
Launderland (a laundromat in Legaspi Village, Makati, reportedly run by a woman named Alice)
Cooking ng Ina Mo (a carinderia on Boni Avenue) and its competitor Cooking ng Ina Mo Rin.
In London, the Kadiri Indian Restaurant
Hospital Patay in Paris,
and of course in Hong Kong the Fu Kee Seafood Restaurant.

Tuesday, March 20

yeah, right.