January is my month!: April 2010

Friday, April 30, 2010

Midnight Special!

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to-do-list and my sweet cravings

It's Friday once again and tomorrow is the start of another long weekend away from work…yehey! Though the announcement was kind of late to plan anything, at least I would have plenty of time lazing around.

I wanted to drive home to Cavite but for sure, Oliver would say no, so, never mind I will not insist anyway. I created a short to-do-list this weekend to guide my tickly foot…

Shop a little: Maybe I will give Greenhills Shopping Center a visit over the weekend or a possible trip to Pasig at the Gingersnaps Sale :)

Dine somewhere: I would love to try Ristras for their heavily filled Mexican Burrito or Frazzled Cook for their Seafood Paella

Give Bea a walk: Planning it on Sunday night at Boni High, I will not tell our little girl yet oh, I mean big. because she may got too excited. For now, let's keep it a secret :)

That would be for now unless something more interesting and feasible comes along over the weekend.

I will leave you with my sweet cravings too this time (photos from our last Starbucks visit)

Chocolate Old Fashioned Doughnut

A slice of Chocolate Cake

Have a sweet weekend everyone!

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Grace Bldg. on Fire!

Last Monday during lunch break, I was one of the many who went running our way out of our office building to avoid suffocation. There was fire just besides our office building, which prompt everyone to vacate the workplace. Imagine, during the holy hour of our lunch break when everyone is taking lunch at the pantry and the rest was taking a short nap, some really panicked and some remained calm until the fire was put under control.

By the way, the commercial building that was on fire was Grace Building, which is a driveway away from Limketkai. Thank God, there was no casualty.

I went on shooting some of last Monday's fire, here is it...

our office building is after that Eastwest Bank signage

closer shot

fire fighters arrival

view across Grace Building in Ortigas Avenue

and the traffic it created during that hour

Our company announced an early work call off that day, so, I went home early to get some needed rest.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

picture perfect

Finally, the trip to Sir George happened yesterday. And though the trip took us about an hour or so it was all worth it.

I was attended right away with that extra VIP treatment

The whole process was tedious, I salute how these hair stylists came so accommodating in spite of the long hours they spent doing my hair.

Shampoo

Blow Dry

Application of Perming Lotion

Rinse Off

Blow Dry

Use of Hair Rod-Straight

Application of Neutralizer

Rinse Off

Blow Dry

Another use of Hair Rod-Straight

Hair Trim and Styling

The result,

No, I did not have that hair coloring treatment.

I gave rebonding a try, undeniably silky and super straight hair!

Now tell me, can I pass the way girls in hair commercial look? hehehe…dream on!

I love my hair now though I need to do a little sacrifice, as I need to keep my hair away from shower for the next three days. My sister says that is the price of beauty and I totally agree.

Oh, by the way. You may want to ask the package…, it costs P6, 000.00 without the styling and I got everything FREE.

Thanks to Sig, who was Oliver’s big boss before, and currently owned the salon!

balikbayan box

Who wouldn’t get excited when a box full of goodies was delivered to your doorsteps? C’mon, do not tell me you wouldn’t mind at all.

Well, Oliver and I would always be excited receiving balikbayan box from his brother, who is Canada based.

This time aside from us, who else got that total excitement, our Bea went on sniffing all the goodies. What she got?

A tennis ball, which Oliver handed her right away.

Take a peek of what we had,

coffee, coffee and more coffee, didn’t I tell you my husband’s family is such a coffee lover too.

And this is the coffee for me, my choice my blend!

I love the eeezeee grip bottle, something that is reusable. My mother in law would definitely reuse these containers with her homemade fish sauce.

canned goodies: corned beef and luncheon meats.

plenty of instant noodles in different tangy variants!

and a few packs of chocolates to share. Manong is not a big chocolate fan; I hope he soon realizes how chocoholic we are :)

Oliver and I got a bottled of Oliver’s favorite lotion scent too, yes it’s vanilla.

The rest of the box contained a used speaker, which will be sent to Ilocos and some few used clothing and bags. By the way, we normally include those used stuffs on our garage sale, so, we make little earnings out of it.

We are bound to receive another box full of goodies by end of May and then I need to do a list of bilin before Manong’s scheduled visit to Manila this July.

For now, thank you Manong for these bounties!

Izakaya dining experience

After Tokyo Tokyo introduces bento meals and Sumo meals now come the newest fast-casual Japanese dining place in town. Located at the Ground Floor of Glorietta 5 is Tokyo Tokyo Metro.

Tokyo Tokyo Metro's dintict difference from the old Tokyo Tokyo is the izakaya culture.

An izakaya (居酒屋?) is a type of Japanese drinking establishment which also serves food to accompany the drinks. The food is usually more substantial than that offered in other types of drinking establishments in Japan such as bars or snack bars.

They are popular, casual and relatively cheap places for after-work drinking.

TTM’s best offering are the yakitori, ramen, donburi, seafood bento and japanese rice wine.

Our set during that casual dinner with ex-Piltel friends,

California Maki is a must order for me and serves as always my appetizer when dining Japanese.

Donburi (tonkatsu), this savory pork stew on rice was tummy filling and tender. The meal can be shared.

The meal was served with this veggie with a mild dressing.

Surf n Turf is a bento box with prawns, beef, california maki, veggies and a jelly dessert, which was also served with miso soup and rice. I find this one a bit expensive.

We ordered two Surf n Turf bento so we would not fight over this shrimp serving, yum!

My old time favorite red iced tea was bottomless this time, which kept me lively while the boys enjoyed beer at a very affordable price.

Overall the dining experience is okay. Good food combined with good friends is something I always look forward.

Big thanks to MJP for the wonderful dinner!

a casual birthday dinner

These days meeting with old friends happens instantaneous. Like last, last Friday I had the chance to go out with ex-Piltel friends again. This time the invitation came from a distant colleague, MPJ who recently had her birthday. Another long time friend J showed up with his wife, G was there too however the older G failed to make it for some good reasons :)

evidence of G’s absence is sensored!

It was a very casual night for all of us enjoying the subtle music at this Makati establishment. I had to say I miss occasions with them; I missed Gem and J’s tandem of kulitan every time they will get together. Needless to say, it was like the old times. It was like those Tagaytay days of digesting labor laws and drowning Tequila night’s of course.

How about line like this, “Accounting din ako” says J; “Ay di halata” says accountant G.

as they compare phone models this time

Funny but until this day they would poke fun at each other to death, creating that get-up-and-go atmosphere anywhere and anytime.

I was carried away again, folks and that is very understandable every time I had the chance to talk about what was there back then.

Anyway, the celebration was simple. We all enjoyed the casual-Japanese food experience + a little debate of whom or who should get our votes...

The boys enjoyed most the cheap beer at NO service charge. We ended the night early because MJP still observe Cinderella clock, hehehe.

Happy Belated Birthday Lola!

And we all wish you more candles to blow and a loving better half soon! I'm not kiddin...hehehe

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

back to business...

Shortly after 2 days, I am back to work without worrying about much of datelines this time. I will be back to my normal blogging activity (this includes blog hopping too) and every day journal anytime soon. I am back to joining online forums and online shopping as well.

After 48 days, finally I am ready to plan about that weekend get-away or that beach bumming bonding. Summer is not over yet and there is so much more to see!