sickness is in the air

everyone is sick. people in the office are also getting sck. i hope they get better. for me, ill have to rest for 2 days daw (friday and monday) as my CDO or complusary day off, since ive been salve-driving myself na for this project. and good news, it will all end soon. ill defintely have more time to refocus my time on other projects, not that there are few projects but at elast mawawala ang isa sa pinakamabigat. i wonder if ill be excited with other projects since naranasan ko na ang hirap na ito.

about that CDO, i think ill avail only 1 day, kasi medyo madami pa nga work na i need to do.. ayaw ko lang magpatong-patong, or if i get sick pa, ill avail both of it na din.
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off to another topic, lately ive been praying so hard, for malu and her mom in law... i hope she gets well. not just that, they need to produce 1 million in a weeks time for the surgery. she texted me last night, that God is always with us. i am just amazed at malu's spirit and faith. i dont how i will react if i was the one in that position. oh my.
i am just praying that malu and her family will be strong in this tough time, and i hope financially they will be okay. guys, please pray for her too... :) thanks!

an early christmas deed

i always wanted to join an organization where i would take time off and help people (kids or elders).. but parating nauudlot.. before i was thinking of joining "tzu chi", this chinese organization where they help people, they also do medical missions, my friend works there actually and she is the one encouraging me to join, pero parang ayaw ko dun, i just dont know why..

well, i heard that sheryl, goes to carriedo to teach kids every friday, after which she provides food for them. so, i was thinking of joining her, maybe on the 2nd since my sched is just booked already. i also thought of throwing a christmas treat for them. maybe ask them what gifts do they want to recieve for christmas.. and them maybe i could buy it for them - be like santa to them. my problem is that there are around 400 kids, and i dont know how many i could sponsor...

i always think of something like this every christmas time.. i just wish i'd think of it more often.. i did one also last christmas where i gathered gifts and gave to those kids who had wishes.. ranging from slippers, bag, watches and gave it to them.

now is the time i feel that i should give more since i have been so blessed this year.. i just graduated with honors, had a best thesis award, had a job.. i feel 2005 was my year and this is a way of showing my gratitude for everything.

this christmas defintely is a busy one, i have a lot of things to do pa for the christmas party and preparing for my deed.. but its fine, i like what il be doing, its reason enough.

feast and festivities

its been such a long time since i went out on a friday night.. and usually, my friday night would consist of conprobes here and there. and if i am not working, i'll be home enjoying my home cooked meal. last night was exceptionally different..

we(chery, tracy and i) planned to meet up after a long time of not seeing each other, about a month or so.. we initially planned to have dinner at hyatt in manila meaning that i would be wearing slacks and polo but i was not in the mood for any of it.. thus i went back to wear my old t-shirt, jeans and rubber shoes..
(take note: the dinner in hyatt would be free since cheryl had them as gifts, so we'll have free buffet dinner daw)
i cancelled that one and planned it for next week na lang since it will last til november naman. dinner was at mylk in greenbelt. i was hesitant at first cause i heard bad comments from julette. but nevertheless, i was my "lets-try-it" self, so we did. we ordered: grilled tuna salad P100+, chicken fingers P220, fried tilapia P220, prawn garlic linguine P250.

well, the salad was great. i love the white or goat's cheese maybe that is in there. the prawn garlic linguine was also good. i love oil based pasta, they are so tasty.. and the prawns were really fresh although there were only 2 at the top. the fried tilapia was good too, you know how fried fish absorbs all the oil, therefore it is more fattening.. the tilapia was fine, the sauce and veggies under it was complentary. but the chicken crispers, i recommend you get it na lang from chili's,, hindi masarap yung chicken nila. blech. (sori, i had no pictures, my cel/cam's lenses were madumi pa, so not good pictures)

after a satisfying dinner, that left us full stomachs.. we were all trying to find sweets. and after going through the whole greenbelt (cbtl, starbucks, seattle's, bizu, global cafe).. we finally decided to get dessert it in m cafe. i remember we tried to have dinner there the last time but it was full and we settled for bizu. but now, it really has to push through..

mocha blended coffee P110, guava sherbet P98, pastillas cheesecake P185. i love their cheesecake, it has one huge slice. most of all, i loved their plates.. cool!





anyway, we were talking about christmas.. and decided to have a christmas dinner for our barkada ("12").. we were thinking if we are gonna be complete, but im guessing not. people nowadays are just so hard to find. thus we had a bet, that if 8 or more shows up, i win.. and if its less than 8, they win! im still currently thinking of what to get as my prize.. but both cheryl and tracy already knew what they wanted from me. tracey wanted me to bring her to a nice,good dessert place which is not hard at all.. easy. but with cheryl's consequence.. i need to go with them to a gimik (the partying til dawn type).. she really drives me crazy, she knew that i hated that kind of gimik. nevermind, i know i will win this bet.

anyways, i suggested we go to enye(rockwell) for our xmas dinner. havent tried this though, but i heard they have good roasted chicken.

well xmas is just around the corner, so advance merry christmas to everyone! :)

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im so happy with the new painting i have. buying it myself would be okay, cause i regretted not getting it nga eh. but with "people" who gave it to me.. it makes it even more special. its the first painting i will put up in my place in the future. looking forward to it!

let's go... getaway...

im praying that november will soon be over... its just that i have so many things to do and i want to get past it na.. december will be much more maluwag for me siguro(?), not that i dont have work, meron pa din. mas maluwag lang. im so much looking forward to december that i want next week to be done na (most hectic week) exception na lang ang nov 23 cause its julet and pau's bday!

but im much more excited for january to come. my family is planning a boracay getaway for the first week of january.. maybe the 6th to 8th.. i have no compains cause any vacation will do me good. i just hope it pushes through.. also, im excited na about my trip to singapore - this one naman is sure na! i'm booked for the 18th to the 25th.. so i might be out for a total of 7 days leave. hehehe! im gone for 8 days and im staying in a foreign lang. well one of our itinerary is to go to KL over the weekend... that sounds like fun. cant wait na tuloy. im eager to try their food na...

while looking at my cousins yahoo photos, thy recently posted their trip to hk and disneyland.. mukhang okay. almost everyone i knew visited disney na. buti na lang im not a big fan of disney! whooo...
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anyways, my plans next year should push through but im doubting it na. sana lang i get convinced again or something will happen that will surely change my mind. but before i do that, i want to list down my itinerary for next year!

jan - boracay/singapore
may/june - bohol/bangkok
* i dont know when but i want to go to pagudpod din, inspired by joan's kwento...

uncertainty

weird incident from yesterday:
while on the way to a conprobe (yes,on a sunday!!!) my mom told me:
"ton, maghanap ka na kaya ng ibang trabaho.."
so i was surprised to hear this from her, and i was on my way out already so i told her...
"sabi mo yan ah.."

after my conprobe, we small-talked:
"sabi ng daddy mo, bakit ganyan yung trabaho mo, pati saturday and sunday..."

i was worried cause my dad never commented about my work, my school, they have always been so supportive to what i want to do, but for him to comment something like this. it might be wrong. im just guessing though, i have not talked with them about this pa. the funny thing is that i have been thinking about this all along na din... a weird coincident maybe. its also funny when my parents say stuff, like they told me to accept na GASSO's offer, i did because i know they will support me. ayaw ko lang marinig ang "i told you so" or something like that. i dont want to be blamed for things that i am uncertain for. well, it may sound na all along i am dictated pala, i just need them to say things i cannot say myself, pero these things are yung mga totoong gusto o naisip ko. in times of uncertainty, i always ask for people's advice. but now, i really dont know. whoah, thats uncertain.

i dont want to discuss this pa naman, becuase it might be an impulse lang naman, or baka seasonal lang. i dont know. this is my first job, so i am just experiencing new things pa lang naman.

more "cake" trip from last week

cakes are such good things and having ice creams makes it more heavenly, but ice cream cakes are defintely the thing that i miss most. well, when i was young, i remember myself getting excited for my birthday becuase i can get a whole ice cream cake from magnolia house in horseshoe.

now, i do get my own whenever i want. well, i've been meaning to try this cake place i have heard which is cake2go, i just thought they are the same as the bakeshops around. but i was surprised when i got to eat it, that these are ice cream cakes. and it was good. my sister who is not a fan of cakes nor ice cream loved it, and asked me if we could go back to get more. i ordered 2 of their best sellers which are: tiramisu and toblerone



well, for my mom's birthday my aunt sent her a cake, a caramel cake with a distict description that says.. not too sweet just right for a caramel cake. it was good. it actually tasted like dulce leche but not that sweet. so if you like that kinda stuff, its best for you to try them. i actually got a number of that place, its called estrel's and it is somewhere in the scout areas of morato.




edna's cakeland



whenever i go home in the province, i'd always pass by edna's cakeland to get delicious baked goods. they have wide-array of products, from baked spaghetti and lasagna to cakes and pastries. but their best sellers are bars, butterschotch bars, brownies, marshamllow brownies, cheese ensaymada, etc. i just love the taste of their baked products. although the down side is that i'd only get these whenever i go back in nueva ecija, which is about twice a year and also when my uncles or aunts arrive from there, i have them as pasalubong. so whenever you go up north, its somewhere in kapitan pepe subdivision in cabanatuan, nueva ecija.

cheap and cheerful chinese restos

this post is dedicated to ever growing number of chinese restaurants around the metro. in this post, i am not talking about chowking, north park nor gloria maris.. this reto's are offers the best food, meaning delicious, yet inexpensive cuisines.. and i have explored them all with the help of my family.

polland's - ku chay ah
this may look and sound weird but i swear its good. its like chicken pie, but there's no chicken so more liek a pie. its all vegtable inside, carrots, to potatoes... basta all veg... im sure kaye wouldnt dare eat this.



ma mon luk
ma mon luk is an old old family tradition, it has only one branch in banawe in quezon city, and it offers the best noodle soup in town. at first, it may taste really bland, but you gotta put their sauce. that is the magical thing about it, it makes everything good. believe me. ifyou were given a chance to do somwethnig with your car, you better go there na din. its worth it, although there is no aircon.






jona's
jona's started out as a small pares/mami house, and now - they have their own building already. starting from scratch huh? well, these are the few thnigs they offered. (siopao, beef and chicken noodle supreme, and of course the famous pares) their noodle supreme i think cost for about P80 which is cheap cause it fed 2 people. the pares was P68, its cheap na din, and its good. their broth was so good that i asked for extra.