I’ve finally found out what kind of spider that lives in my apartment. It’s called a Brown Huntsman Spider (Heteropoda venatoria). I really didn’t research on it. I just read it in a book about keeping tarantulas as a pet while waiting for Resie at the National Bookstore. There is this part in the book about tarantula look alikes and I saw one look-alike on the book that matches the one in my apartment. So I did a little bit or research to verify this, and when I say little, I just visited Wikipedia about it.

I know that seeing a spider this big (with a legspan of 5-6 inches) will really give you a scare. but is it dangerous? The answer is: NO! Here’s what Wikipedia says:

“In general, Huntsman spiders are not regarded as dangerous, and can be considered beneficial because they feed on insects (Many Australians will relocate Huntsmen to the garden rather than kill them).”

“Brown huntsmen are welcomed in many homes as they feed on pests such as cockroaches and silverfish.”

So I just let those spiders go around the apartment and surprisingly, there aren’t any roaches and other crawling insects. Hopefully this information would be helpful in case you see one and let it live an eat roaches instead of kill it for it’s horrendous look.

By the way, one brown huntsman spider lurks in my girlfriends house. It actually tried to bit me when I poked it. Hahaha! There are no roaches in my apartment. Don’t kill it, it’s a natural anti-roach.

Pizza Volante does not only serve Pizza, they also serve Pasta, Fish, Lamb and Beef. Below the page are the food they serve. I only tried their Grilled Lamb and Porterhouse Steak and I must say they are delicious! The lamb is soft but the beef is softer. For their pasta, their meatball is really huge! The light is good for 1 person and the regular is good for 2 - 3 persons.

I haven’t tried any fish on their menu because, well… why eat seafood in Baguio City when Dagupan City is just 2 hours away?

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Ok, here’s Pizza Volante’s selection for the veggie-lovers!

Here’s their main pizza selection.

Pizza Volante
Open 24 hours
Tel: 445-0777 or 619-0466
This is an incomplete list of their food and price.

I love pizza as much as Garfield loves lasagna. But my choices when I started loving pizza, during the times of mutant turtles, was too small. The only choices I had was Greenwich, Shakey’s and Giorgio’s. Giorgio’s is a restaurant in Dagupan City that offered a variety of pizzas before. I remember the pizza with corn kernels. I rarely go there since the family tradition of going out for lunch on Sunday faded away ever since my cousins went to college.

When I too had to be away from Dagupan to learn the effects of beer and exam, I bumped into a pizza place named Pizza Volante. I was amazed by the selection of their pizza! It’s also the place where I met my love, Resie Casem. So, for this post, it’s about Pizza Volante’s menu. So that people may know! and of course, so that call center agents and other pizza lovers here in Baguio won’t have to ride the taxi and reduce Carbon emissions and the best of all, they are open 24 hours! (more…)