Comments on: My Favorite Bumper Sticker… :)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:55:05 +0000

Hi Netoy, thanks for that heads up… a few readers have sent emails about that episode, so I gather Kris is a very highly rated show… I didn’t see it, but of course Zubuchon is grateful for all the positive media sound bites it can get… :)

By: netoy

netoy — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:49:36 +0000

MM – on another topic but still related to pigs (but of the edible variety) LOL. I was watching KrisTV yesterday where Gawad Kalinga’s Enchanted Farm is being featured. They were talking about one of their products: ‘organic’ pigs for lechon. Kris mentioned (and I am paraphrasing) ‘just like Zubuchon in Cebu”. The quality of your product is really now being bandied around. Three cheers for you and your staff!!!!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:16:39 +0000

Nadia, it was sent over by a friend, not sure how they are being passed around…

By: Nadia

Nadia — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:53:23 +0000

Hi. Where can we get that awesome sticker? :-)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 06:17:59 +0000

MP, I agree, the country gets those they voted for… Some of the most unlikely “public servants” got there on the minimum of qualifications… So some of the blame does revert to the population in general…

By: MP

MP — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 02:53:02 +0000

Wouldn’t we be doing great service to our country if we soaked “her”, “sexy”, “pogi” and “tanda” in a bathtub filed with boiling water… Or oil? There’s no tub big enough to include those that voted for them… Darn!

By: Gigi

Gigi — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 02:28:56 +0000

Japanese hot baths (still water) in residential houses ARE designed for multiple uses. Each family member takes their turn in soaking, which is why it is so important that one be clean before entering the tub.
Premixed milk bath powder can be bought for less than USD 50. You can even buy them from Body Shop.
But of course, I digress from the more important pork barrel issue! What is sad is that this is truly just the tip of the iceberg. Who knows what else is happening at the LGU and executive department levels?!

By: ami

ami — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 02:00:51 +0000

MM, I think you’re more likely to see hot running water at onsens that are sitting on top of or near the source. I don’t remember seeing running water for the tub at my foster family’s house.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:43:51 +0000

ricky, I completely agree a warm/hot soak can be soothing and relaxing, and like the Japanese way you describe, though often Japanese hot baths have running water, do they not, so the water is “changing” constantly in a sense. And really hot water might kill off germs, or if not hot enough encourage them to multiply rather quickly. Bathing before entering a ryokan’s bath certainly helps with the images of “cooties”, and isn’t unlike say swimming in a public pool, though the latter uses intense amounts of chlorine, to help kill off precisely many of those “cooties”… Jacuzzis in hotels and other public uses also put chlorine. :) However, most home baths are rather small-ish in size and have “still” water, so aren’t typically designed for multi-person use I would imagine, with the exception of those scenes in movies with couples frolicking under all those bath bubbles. I am more of a shower person, really. :) As for the milk crystals, you are correct, and though I have never used them, they have certainly been on shelves beside hotel bathtubs I have seen. But real milk is the truly OTT way to go…

By: ricky gonzalez

ricky gonzalez — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:54:41 +0000

mr. marketman, re milk bath, you can buy milk crystals that you add to the bath water. No need for fresh milk. As for bath taking, we do it the Japanese way, you bathe with soap and rinse with clean water, before plunging yourself in the bath. This way the bath water is always clean and can be reused the whole day. Soaking in warm water after a hard days work is pure bliss, once you get the hang of it.