fab weekend

Had a pretty active weekend! =) One of the few fun-filled yet busy weekends I've had..haha

I met up with my High School friends at Greenbelt3. Was an hour late due to the heavy traffic in the streets.

I got 3 gifts. A pouch with this cute kitty sewn on front.

and then Aileen gave me a pouch also, then Charissa gave me soap. =)

I bought "The Valkyries" by Paulo Coelho at Powerbooks Greenbelt. It's been a long time since I've bought a book...as in it's been ages. Now that I think about it, it's also been a while since I've browsed through a row of books at a bookstore here in Manila. I kinda miss the feeling of not being in rush while perusing through the synopsis of the books on the rack.

After Powerbooks, Aileen, Erika and I had lunch at Bollywood. The food was good. The spicy eggplant was not spicy though, even with the red peppers sprinkled on top. The fried vegetable croquette-like thing(I can't remember what it's called) was really good. It didn't look hot, coz it was mostly green, but when you taste the ingredients inside, there's a sort of zesty taste to it.Aileen and I shared the Roghan Josh(not sure if this is the right spelling) This is like the Indian version of adobo.

After lunch, we walked over to Glorietta and watched "Blue Moon", the movie that won a couple of awards at this years' MMFF(as I heard from my aunt). The movie was cute. There are a few lapses, like how did Corazon get to the US and which Corazon was Manuel Pineda looking for in the beginning? But then again, overall, it was OK.

Had a good time catching up and just talking with my High School friends. It's been a while since we've seen each other, yet we still find something to talk about. We somehow know each other more than we know ourselves. This is my opinion. I don't know. This is just the feeling I have. I doubt if I'll ever get this kind of feeling with the people I've met in college.

Anyways, after we separated, I went to EGI Tower to wait for Mom, coz she's meeting her High School friends for dinner. It's a sort of trade actually, I got in the car as soon as Mom got out. hehe I passed through DLSU on the way to EGI. There is no way on earth that you'd get me to walk the street in front of DLSU on a Saturday night...unless the campus is closed of course.

After that, Dad, Candee and I went to Harbour Square and had dinner at Dencio's. The food there was not too good. And it took forever for our order to come. No kidding! The table beside us was already done paying the bill by the time our order came. Their order came just as we were about to order. Do the math...

We walked at the harbour after dinner digesting the food we ate before we headed to Starbucks. I ordered the Toffee Nut Frap, Candee got Caramel Cream Frap and Dad ordered a Mocha Frap. I started reading "The Valkyries" as we sat there sipping our Fraps and waiting for Mom to call. Which reminds me...I am about 18 stickers short of getting the Starbucks planner, anyone want to help? hehe

Sunday:

I attended this wedding reception for lunch. The food served were all vegan. Loved the soup and the fried "Tao-pe". Didn't get to try all the food coz I had to attend the Cash Flow Game at FGS.

Jeanne was my partner for the game. We didn't win. We still owe the bank $15000 at the end of the session.

So that was my weekend. =)

yippeee! and ouch!

Have a job interview at Adformatix on Tuesday! Funny thing: Although, I didn't want to leave the office a few months back...I'm now having a weird feeling about going back to work. haha All the bumming the past few weeks has gotten to my head!(oh and yeah...the vancouver thingie is partly causing my hesitation too. sigh!)

Guess what happened today? My right knee has been sprained for like forever, so I'm pretty much used to it, but today, it hurt more than usual so my mom took me to a "manghihilot". Weird thing is, it isn't my knee that's causing the problem but my hips. Kinda odd huh?

chef for a day

Never realized cooking was so exhausting!!! Cooked spaghetti for dinner the other night, the result was good, although i was still kind of rusty as to when to put the next ingredient in and all. the hotdogs got kinda dark, one side only haha

I was cooking and preparing for what seemed like an eternity and the worst thing was we all finished eating in about 30 minutes.

bumming around

Finished watching "嫂子19歲" yesterday. I watched the first 3 disks before then I skipped 4 disks and jumped straight to the last DVD last night. I found the first 3 disks too dragging. Would you believe 1 disk would equal to around 3 hours of showing time? I got pretty bored after the 3rd disk and it gets annoying when you notice that the director is obviously just trying to prolong the series.

So, anyways, the series ended pretty abruptly. The director could have just put whatever extending or delaying in the middle to the end. The ending is alomst the same as the one in "Lovers in Paris"...the part where the guy and the girl meet in Paris, except in "嫂子19歲" they meet up again in Boston. So, they meet up again and then the end...

I'm officially a bum these days. My dad is telling me to get a job, but I have a feeling that once I get a job, I can forget about going to Vancouver. I don't know what to do.

Happy New Year!

It's only another 358 days till Christmas and 364 days till the New Year! Yey! hahaha

Anyways, guess what was the first thing I was doing this year. No, I wasn't drinking. No, I wasn't sleeping either. and definitely, I wasn't reading or partying or anything normal/abnormal(i.e. mundane stuff).So, give up guessing? I was packing, not for a trip though. There was this fire that broke out behind Chiang Kai Shek. I believe that it was a squatters area. The fire was really big and my mom was starting to panic and telling me and my sister to start packing essential and important stuff. We packed and the house was a total mess afterwards. The firetrucks came a bit later on and when they came, we breathed a bit, but the fire kept getting bigger and bigger so we were still in "pack up and flee" mode.Everything was such a blur, we woke up my grandma to tell her to get ready. And then we called up our uncle to tell him to come help grandma just in case something really happens. He was on his way here, but his daughter called my cellphone and kept on asking "Where is the fire exactly?" That was so annoying...we were already going crazy keeping an eye on the fire, packing and getting dressed, and she's still asking "Exactly, where is the fire?" My goodness!

After the fire was out, I looked at what I was wearing. Trust me. I look ridiculous! Imagine, pink striped blouse, khaki pants and blue sneakers. How mismatched! hahaha

So that was my little adventure early this 2006... =)