wedding bliss

How do you jump from one emotion to another? My heart is confused at the moment and torn between mourning and celebrating. But then this isn't about me at all and no matter what, I attended this wedding to celebrate with my friend's happily-ever-after.

Delwyn and Tiffany has been together since forever. uh? just kidding. I'm not really privy when it comes to their relationship but I'm happy that Tiff-y is happy with her groom and their love. I wish them a lasting love and happiness.

Delwyn & Tiffany

with my Chinese friends

** My thoughts on weddings... I love them! and I know I'm in love with the idea of it. That's it for now.. In truth, I was lost at the Chinese's traditions on weddings. Thank goodness for my other Chinese friends to guide me with do's and don'ts. It was an experience and no matter what culture it is they follow, love is still love and weddings are meant to be celebrated for the union of two souls under the vows of love.

New baby in the Family

My cousin's son christening. Welcome to the family TJ!! ^_^

not even half of the whole family

with Aya and Ate Didith

Mum and Dad

with Aya and Daddy

Okay.. I really really really really want a babyyyyy.... >.<

family duties and movie date (Ironman 3)

Spending time with Dad's family side today, another sleepless day for me. One of my Tita is home from working overseas for a short holidays back here at home and they've come up with an ultimate "Laksa Party". Oh well, it's their thing, the adults' thing (by adult I meant the older ones), and I don't really eat laksa so I don't know, we were there to join the party and see our lovely Tita from the middle east.

 A week after the trip from Palawan and I'm still hung over the beach. Aya is reeling in the fact that I am tanned and she's fairer than me this time. She loves it when I am shades darker than her cause it only comes a few times. We toyed with our clothes today, dressing up with the same dress design. See? We have a couple of pieces we have the same, we're not borrowing each others' stuff always. Fine, yes we do borrow a lot from each other.  =D

We spent the whole day with family. All food again and lots of kids. (I want a baby... *whining* haha) It was crazy with all the kids all over the place. We have a big family and it's fun that way. :) And while they were busy chitchatting and doing food preparations after lunch I stole a few blinks so I can stay up for the last full show movie date with my other cousins.


And from there, straight to the mall. Ironman 3 movie date with the lovely girlies below. ^_^ I can't miss this no matter how sleepy and tired I am.

What can I say about the movie? It is pretty cool. I'm a chick flicks movie girl eh. Nonetheless, I liked it and really Ironman franchise is yet to fail me. I wish another sequel would come out, hope this won't really be the last.

Now time for an all night sleep and full day rest~ ciao!

day off!

Family day! I rested a bit then off we go to Wensha in Antipolo to spend the day in the spa. wii! Massage! I can feel my tensed muscles from stress. lol

happy birthday Mmy-mmy!

Arriving late in the afternoon, there were less of a crowd. Guess it's still early for a weekend massage. But it's good, we can enjoy the jacuzzi and sauna to ourselves for a while without too many people to share it with plus less awkward 'nude' moments! 

meat! the last time I was in Wensha was with Ralei, and our pot looks pathetic then

After taking our time in the showers and an hour of soothing massage... Hello foood! We're starving without noticing it much. We went in in the dining area and saw dad helping himself with the food! Guess we've must have taken our time a bit too much! =P As usual, we had the shabu-shabu plus cooked food. Happy tummy. But really, there came the crowds! soo many people. ugh! Anyway, after a few photos and food, we decided to leave and visit Mama in the hospital before heading home. :)

grilled Chicken! buuuurp! I'm full already. @.@

We came at a wrong time... Mama's wounds were being dressed so while waiting....

And then coming home.. Gahhh! look at that chocolate shavings! Mom's birthday cake waiting for us! ♥

Today was.. hmm... really more than indulging... @.@ *buuuurp*

and we're back again...

Good or Bad?? Mom liked the food and it's her birthday.. the reason we're here again! Hello Happy 6days Korean Restaurant! Thrice in a month, I think it's too much! I like Korean food once in a while, but please, not every dayyy.. okay I'm exaggerating! Anyhow, we're back. We didn't stay up to have dinner after my cousin's recital because it's Mommy's birthday and we had some plans to have dinner of our own before I get to work. =) And it's Friday, meaning 'traffic'. And UST is quite far, Manila to Ortigas?? oh. I may not be good with directions and all, but on a Friday, I know the roads are busy!

We came in past 8pm and almost 9pm, while my shift starts at 10pm?? Hmm.. guess I need to be late for this one.

That's the couple! Happy birthday Mommy!

We ordered a selection of food. Almost the same as before but Aya and Ate tried something else. I'll just stick to safer planes you know. From what I see some things come in surprises, this time I won't risk it! I want to have a wonderful dinner tonight.

Ate tried this seafood hotpot thingy? Super spicy and warm to the tummy. It's soothing at some point. :) But it gets spicier after a while.

Then Aya had this fermented bean curd stew. Hmm.. I don't know. not my cup of tea I guess.

And of course, what mom really wants. The chicken! :)

And then just the same as before, bulgogi, japchae, and other stuff. :) The safer stuff.

Happy birthday Mother!!! More of this and that in the coming years! Cheers for long life! ♥


***can't wait for tomorrow's spa day.. yay!! massage after work! ***

Proud cousin

Speechless! :) Congrats on your recital dear cousin Judith!!

 Junior recital part1

Props for my cousin. ^_^ The video is shaky, I know, my bad! I don't have steady hands! lol

Cake for my sweet! Glad you did it after all the hardships and hard work! cheers! ♥ 

Family pig out day

Gosh! Talk about hefty meals!

Ate Hercy and Ate Lexcy have set the day to treat us over a meal together as a holiday present. We then settled on a Sunday to pursue our love for food! Seriously, we really enjoy good food! Isn't it obvious yet?

Hi Rice Grill, well, what can I say about it? The place is not a glamorous one, it is a typical place for a fast meal. They offered bowls of rice or noodles depending on your choice. It is a Mongolian restaurant by the way. We did the buffet-eat-all-you-can thing. It was exciting and fun to go over it and do your own mix. From vegetables to meats, from sweet to spicy, from noodles to rice. We loved the treat and we enjoyed taking photos while waiting for our food to be cooked.

I enjoyed watching them before I took off and get my own bowl. ;-) Their backs were quite a sight! Too busy to notice the audience in me! =D

This is what happened when we're together. Some of my cousins were missing this momentous event but then we can't just sulk! So we enjoy every second of it! Family it is! We may have conflicts at one time but we know we have each other's back when the need come by.

After filling our stomachs with bowls and bowls of goodness... we ran to SM mall and stroll then another round of food-tripping! Time for desserts~ we tried TCB's unlimited cup of coffee and cakes! another bottomless eat for the day.

Old Love is still LOVE

* Winkaye, Stella, Do-anne, Kim, 'Me', Heidi, Kristine *

I was sleeping the day off and just woke up when I saw Heidi-unni's messages and missed calls. Last minute notice on a night's date at Eastwood it is. Ate Ueno, a friend for years, was on her way back to Japan at least for a lengthy time. So it is only now that we have the chance to meet her before leaving off again. There was supposed to be a date last Thursday, but then I am caught up with work that I can't commit my time to meeting them. It was a second chance sprung to have the last minute date!

Er. only an hour left before the meeting time! I need to do fast shower! No indulging bath today. T.T Good thing I move fast, except for the time-slowing of warming my bath water. I grab anything I can wear. Dress, powder, heels is all I need and Voila! I'm ready to go! And most people of my acquaintance wouldn't even believe for a second that I can do that! (Is it that hard to believe I am not vain?? and Vanity is not my middle name? hahaha) Anyway, I took a cab to Eastwood. It's a weekend I thought so. And thought I'll be the latest one to arrive because of the non-cooperating traffic! Alas! I was the third one. I came to meet Heidi-unni and Stella sitting in the corner of Gaffitti having their way on a bucket of sorts of beers and bottled alcohol mixes. We started the night with ourselves and let the others know where to meet us including Ate Ueno. ^__^ and by the way, we thought it was an all girls night out we forgot she has a boyfriend always leashed by her side. (no offense to him but we three, Heidi-unni, Stella and I, thought at least a night with just the girls would be nice).

with Ate Winks, Kim, Ate Ueno and Ate Heidi

It was a fun night too. Non-stop reminiscing (though I don't know some of the names being mentioned since I had departed our common school when we were in sixth grade), Non-stop laughing and sharing. I was friends with them when we were in our elementary years in Stella Maris College. We were tight friends by then, drifted a bit after we parted in the sixth grade. It is when I transferred school, the graduating year it is. Quite a leap for me to suddenly adjust to a COED school. Anyway, we found our way back and get even closer in Highschool, with Ate Winkaye and Ate Ueno, through endless phone calls at day to the next day! Imagine us three not getting off the phone for hours and still we had something to talk about the next day! It was incredulous at it's best but it did happen. We drifted a bit when we went off to college yet we still find time to catch up or meet once in eons. Same goes until now.

On the other hand, I get to be closer with Ate Heidi when we found each other again back in College. It was really amazing seeing her in a distant that time, it was years ago since I last saw her then and I am not sure if she even remembers me. Remembering the first time I saw her again in line in UST while we wait for our turn in registration I don't know if I should say hello, yet I decided better not to. Months after it was a huge shock to see her on the first day of school in the same classroom as I was. We were block mates! Awesome fate! And when we first talked we then realized we did saw each other in that line and the truth is, we unknowingly both decided not to say hello fearing the small talks and awkward silence after the initial 'Hello'. and just like that we started anew. =D and until now we still have our time together, travel together and dreams.

It was a long history of friendship! And I am glad we still remember each other every now and then. And yes it is! OLD LOVE IS STILL LOVE!

 We ended the night after grabbing something warm at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Sobered, we left and end the night with more laughs and another memories to be kept together. Cheers! ♥

first day of 2013

I don't do diet so why bother checking out what I eat! I eat and indulge. I enjoy and love!

First day of the year, and food is overflowing! Really, all day eating nonstop?
I was ecstatic to see our relatives. Recently it has been reduced to less than a few times a year after Lola died (Dad's mom). We missed this cousin of ours alot! And finally, we'll be able to date! Same drill as last year's at Eastwood.

We had lunch and doze off a bit before going off on our secretly planned date. Our excuse was to bring food over to Ate's office. We took the cab going there and waited ages! kidding aside, Ate is always like that. *sigh* Anyway, we went our way to the mall first and just meet her there instead of waiting in the building's lobby where we can do nothing but stare at the elevator to see if she's on it by then.

We stroll and dropped by a toy shop. It really made me feel like a kid walking around the rows and rows of toys! It was really tempting to buy much everything you set your eyes on it. Thank goodness I am not in love with card games, board games and animal stuffed toys. I just fancy them. But the Ate Didith can't help herself and bought a few stuff. and being just me, I am the devil in her shoulder whispering 'go ahead and buy!' And then met Ate in the entrance of the mall. (The photo was taken without them noticing it! Candid! I just love doing that. It's just... so real what you caught unguarded!) We then headed next to Caffe Bene to grab some coffee and pastries! We are expecting so much with this coffee shop and we hope not to be disappointed. It's the first branch of this Korean coffee shop here in Manila. I long to try Holly's coffee but it's too out of my way. Maybe next time then.

We walked our way to Caffe Bene and I instantly loved the place! It's spacious and not cramped at all. People fit in as they stay and just go for a cup. It is the place I would have loved to do people watching, some place you can read a book and be on your own for a while. Maybe it's just new in the place and not yet that popular that people isn't seeing it like Starbuck's.

The staffs were really accommodating and friendly. We placed our orders and waited a bit. While waiting we had our way with the camera!

Coffee was nice as always. Caffeine always gives me the kick! I can't even differentiate the difference. I only knew, Good coffee and Bad coffee. One, I love to drink. Two, I might want to drink. And Three, I won't dare to try again! But one of my dreams is to learn more about coffee.

Anyway, food servings were gigantic! And lovely presentation, you'll be enticed to dig in and not just stare at it! It is better to share than to be selfish! It'll be truly a gluttony if you'll not share.

And it's as if we are walking backwards, we decided to have a meal together! Undecided, we stroll and thought of where to eat again. Then Ate suggested Uncle Cheffy's. Salad, Pizza and Ribs! Crap! I thought we can't hold anymore food in our tummy yet we still ate our way to happiness! The salad I like given that all I can see is lettuce and it's all I can eat in a vegetable salad! XD Pizza... well I expected more I guess and while the ribs was prettily made I looking for something more.

The house is full just in time for dinner and we had to look for a better spot. What's really nice was eating together and catching up and talking endlessly, it's only a bonus that the food is fabulous! :-)

New Year's eve

I spent my New Year working at home. Quite a sight it is, laptop at the dinner table while we took off with our mini family gathering. Same went on last Christmas eve but this is more because we were gathered with relatives. I tap my computer keys and do some multitasking while they simply enjoy the food and have a chat, watch fireworks and toast with some hot chocolate and wine. Oh the sight! I wondered then, why again do I need my work done? Well, because I am a responsible adult? lol. Yes, I guess that's it. I am pretty much responsible and very much committed if engaged with some task. ^_^

No matter what, they spent the whole night with me while I work my arse off! But why does it have to be this night that I have this work all piled up to myself. How unfortunate is that? *sigh* Good thing there were no queries to worry me. My sisters and cousins kept me company while I did my work the whole time. They stayed til dawn to accompany me, no actually it's Aira who stayed until morning with me until I finished my to-dos.

We ate some and drink some. Lots of food, wine and  gummy bears!  

No sleep in line for me today. Will be spending new year's day with Dad's side of the family. A tradition kept since we were kids. Let's get it on and over with!