Happy Birthday, Nanay!!!!

October 24, while the whole world commemorates the United Nation's Day, a small family somewhere in the northern part of the metro is celebrating the 58th year of existence of their mother queen. :D As part of the celebration, she cooked kare-kare for dinner and her son bought palabok to be shared with their neighbors. And to complete the party, the king bought half-gallon of ice cream... sawap! :) A pair or ipanema slippers was presented as a bday gift.

Happy birthday, 'nay!!!! We love you po! :)

Pre-Birthday Celebration

My Nanay's birthday is on the 24th pa but since it falls on a weekday, the family decided to celebrate it 2 days earlier. Nanay and I started the day by attending the 9am mass in St. Joseph Church. Afterwards, we met kuya and tatay at the bus station and then proceeded to MRT North Ave. It only took us 20 mins from North Ave to Taft and a 10-minute taxi ride from Taft Ave. to Dampa. We had our lunch at Aling Tonya's after buying crab, squid, tuna and shrimp. After about 20 minutes..... the food was served: Buttered alimango, sinigang na hipon, calamares and inihaw na panga ng tuna.

Actually, this is the same set of food that we ordered during my first visit here when Don, Boy and Mike celebrated their bdays (minus the calamares) few weeks back.

Anyways, after a very heavy meal, we went straight to Mall of Asia to stroll around. We went to seaside and had some pictures taken.

Afterwards, we felt like we need to eat something sweet that's why we looked for an Iceberg's outlet and had ice cream and halo-halo. :) Before going home, another photo shoot took place in front of MoA.

Mall Tour

In preparation for our Boracay trip, my friend accompanied me to buy some stuffs. While waiting for him to finish his workout, I stroll around Glorietta to check some new items. Actually, I looked for a pair of slippers to give to my nanay this coming Tuesday, her 58th bday. But, I had no plan of buying since I didn't want to take it home yet. What I wanted to do is to select a pair and buy it on Monday in time for her bday the following day. Oh well, I had a hard time choosing a pair since I already have the most likeable pair :). Dyahe naman kung pareho kami ni mader... hehehehe... Be back on Monday to decide..:P

After Glorietta, we went straight to SM Megamall to have our late lunch. We took an MRT ride and I promised to myself that I will never ride an MRT again with my friend :P. Why? Naawa ako sa kanya...he looks so wasted because of the crowd and the weather. But, he wasn't like this when we had our first MRT ride.. oh..maybe because it was raining that time, that's why! :D We had our late lunch at Teriyaki Boy, my first time there. The food was good but the conversation we had was even better :D.

Next stop was in Greenhills. I was looking for this tiangge that sells good brands of swimwear... unfortunately, wasn't able to find it. Anywys, it's been 6 mos since I last visited the place (Candy, naman.. hindi na kasi summer noh.. asa ka pa..:P... hehehehe...). Fortunately though, we found this store at the adjacent mall, found an attractive set of swimwear and finally bought it. But before that, I was surprised to find this knitted blouse on sale at Seventeen store (today is my lucky day!). I had my first glance of this blouse at the SM North Edsa branch of Seventeen. It costs 700 pesos that's why I was hesitant to buy it. Luckily, we found this on sale in Greenhills... hehehehehe...

After Greenhills, we went back to megamall to pay for my friend's phone bills, buy a set of pingpong balls and have dinner at Shakey's. Shakeys.... hmmmm.. such a memorable resto... :D. Anywys, we had Octoberfeast platter which is composed of calamares, french fries and buffalo wings... not bad! :) In addition to this, I had spaghetti and he had chix and pasta. Solb ang dinner!!! :P

We parted ways at around 9pm. Need to be home before 10pm to prepare for our lunch tomorrow in celebration of my mother's bday.

Boracay

November 5-8, 2006 - BORACAY : Sana 'wag bumagyo, sana 'wag umulan, sana walang aberya...... sana November 5 na...:) In preparation for this big event.. hehehe... I'll buy some swimwear this saturday and plan to buy kikay stuffs next week. Na-plan ko na rin ang budget... sana 'wag kapusin.. hehehehe.... :P

Super excited ako kasi:
1. first time kong pupunta ng bora;
2. first time kong sasakay ng airplane;
3. ito na ang pinakamalayong lugar na mapupuntahan ko;
4. i'll be spending 4 days and 3 nights with my friends and soon-to-be-friends;

Haayy.. kung pede lang hilahin ang araw.... :(

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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.” - Neil Gaiman