POSITIVE VIBES

Jagame Thandhiram.

And indeed, the universe is a ruse like the The Last Letter From Your Lover that was posted from Madurai to London where recipes for St. Lucia's lion fish ceviche, Marsaxlokk's salt-crusted fish and Tai O's XO sauce shrimp were enciphered and delivered by Bulan for Suruli and Ellie's parotta restaurant.

But it was during a breakfast of smoked white fish from Tobermory  when J first met Boot whom she invited for a lunch of Tamarindo's mahi-mahi that culminated in a tryst at the coat room of Restaurants on the Edge right after the old bridge in Matingkis after a dinner of schnitzel three ways from the kitchens of Pettneu.

In Tokyo, Ljubljana mussels powered Primoz Roglic to the ITT Olympic gold as the Phantom Biker soothed a chaotic innoculation day with grilled salmon from Okanagan Valley and Muskoka trout, Atilla struggling between a sandwich board from Turku and Kona's Big Island tuna, Rory stuck in Fountain Hills with Borderland tacos, and Bulan riding through a canopy of bamboo and soft rain.

There were only three days of biking but it was enough for Hidilyn the Great to finally secure the Philippines' first ever Olympic gold medal plus a sure silver and bronze from Nesthy and Marcial before Thursday's escabeche and Firday's adobong salagubang ushered the age of positivity in Pugad Baboy...