the wealthy barber

it has been about a week now since ive been obsessed with starting the ball rolling on our financial prosperity.....investment....investment.....investment......you know what? things seem to be falling into place ...... a cooperative partner, supportive superiors, prospective position ....... the future is looking bright!

rubbery waffles for breakfast and eating good food

as a wife you are tasked to do a lot of new things, for me, its actually hoards of things that i am unaccustomed to......cooking is first and foremost
to celebrate our first month as husband and wife i tought it would be special to do something i dont really do, cook of course and what happier meal could there be but breakfast! ive obviously been planning this the whole week and bought my batter a few days ago. i got up extra early (not really....hehehe) and we opened the fresh box of a waffle maker that i hand picked from the registry (thank you DrRS). it looked easy enough.....i read the instructions at the back of the package of the batter and surprised to see that i needed 2 eggs (i thought it just needed water) so i had to send the help to buy them. it seemed so easy......and the product smelled so good! but my hopes were dampened when we sat down with coffee and the morning paper to match......the waffles were tough and rubbery!!!! boohooohooo! but it did look and smell good! so there......eat the pictures! hahahaha!

fruits of my morning labor

i resolve that maybe it really is better to eat out and be served! last night we started our celebration by having dinner at the ever nice silk thai restaurant in serendra.....the food were all so good! the service was great (i just had to give extra tips)

silk in serendra

who wouldnt love Tagaytay

i dont think ive ever known anyone who didnt love tagaytay, even after just staying a few minutes. i cant really remember the first time i went there but, i think it must be with my family ..... i do remeber that i have been there many times and each time i thought "this is the most beautiful place near manila!"
in a few hours, it will be one month ago that this beautiful area near manila became one of the most special place in my life.
Love and Tagaytay......it just seems to go hand in hand....

Firsts....more than meets the eye

what better way to celebrate the first friday but to be able to hear mass, get an offer of help to train abroad and end the day with our first local date as husband and wife! it was so funny, this morning i fixed up just like i would as if i was going out on a date with a boyfriend and i was really excited the whole day.
to celebrate our 1st date, during our 2nd week as a couple, we went to watch the ever talk of the town TRANSFORMERS (more than meets the eye)! now this was not exactly planned to celebrate our 2nd weekersery but because i was sick last sunday. i was in bed the whole day snoozing waking up just to eat a piece of meat for dinner. the next day i still felt sick and stayed home. it gave me some time to tidy up our room which was still cluttered with wedding and honeymoom stuff.
which brings me to my first couple "skirmish".....
actually, this issue is really all about me. i got kind of ticked off because after our HK trip, i was back on duty the next day then the next. and all the things that were left from the wedding and trip were just as they were! even papers on the table were there! i cant imagine that my better half didnt even lift a finger to throw extra plastics, keep our papers, or any of the sort! the OC person that i am just got the better of me! even our gifts! the towels and sheets are still in the boxes not even placed in the laundry to be cleaned and used. so now were still using crummy towels and old boring sheets!
then i thought.....my gosh, did my better half think it was my role to clean up?! REALLY?! when i told my married friends about it they said that most probably it was the case *frown, frown* how can i be a housewife and be a resident at the same time?! the bigger question is, how can some of my coresidents be a housewife, a resident and a mom at the same time?! boohoohoo the undomesticated me......
i think i need more time for this new responsibility to sink in.
durng these slight dips in my cloud nine state i just keep thinking about our wedding day when my better half came thru as my night and shining armor.....then im back in love again =)

search for the missing siopao

our hong kong getaway is finally over and later i will finally be getting the siopao ive been craving for!

a new chapter in our life

i am officially a mrs! so from now on i am also closing "a day in my life" blog and officially renaming it......"a day in our life". let me see, is that gramatically correct? we're two people so it should be 'lives' rather than 'life', but since this life we are living is just one, i think "a day in our life" suits me just fine!
you ask if there is anything different, being a wife? nothing much except that the ring im wearing is for real!
i always thought i would cry in my wedding, well, i almost did. thank goodness for caleruega's short aisle coz even in its shortness when i got to the middle my smile was starting to give in to a quivering almost tearful state! thank goodness for the short aisle!
the past few days i have seen my better half behaving like his better self. i was sitting in the car on my way home and it hit me......i am such a lucky girl to have such a patient and caring husband! you may say im looking thru rose colored glasses but no, even when things got ruffled he acted so maturely like i never expected him to act! its like the moment i reached the end of the aisle he became a different person, a better one at that!
im raving on like the true drama queen that i am.......tomorrow, the drama queen goes to HK!

1week to go.....7days.....
168hours.....10080minutes.....
604800seconds......
i cannot wait.....

the future

37 days to go!!!!
days seem to be going so fast! not that i dont want the day to come but that i think i have so many things to finalize......fret, fret.....its just like me!


in the weekend i will be getting my most awaited teeth treatment! i CANNOT wait!

things seem to be looking up! for the first time last tuesday, i reached my goal for our exams. i hope that it is the beginning of a good streak!

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. -- Frank Tyger

a relaxing day

yesterday, we met up with our priest in the ateneo campus. it was a very relaxing day. while waiting for our appointment, we just sat there watching guys play ball. it was a hot day and an occasional cool breeze was great. i haven't had such a no fuss day in such a long.....long.....long time!

down memory lane & forward to the future

two weeks ago we went to an autocross.












when it got too hot for comfort, my sis and i stepped into my favorite coffee shop and hurt our hands trying to finish my souvenirs. harharhar! what are maid of honors for!

we had a great time!

last night we went to JT's birthday. i haven't gone out at night for the longest time. it was fun...and i realized im getting over an old grudge. funny, funny, funny! it's good to know im moving on.....





today we celebrated Labor day by watching the advanced screening of spidey 3! good thing we bought tickets last night so it was a hassle free getting in. it was a fairly good movie. the iced capuccino and kettle korn were great! and after the movie.....something even better....my good friends were outside waiting for the next showing. it was good to see them. then halo-halo at icebergs! actually it was just a good excuse to take pictures of my bag (newly used.....bought by mom).








in the middle of halo-halo i popped the question to my future hubby.....what does the future hold? lets face it....the whole none-cheery me is because i'm feeling what i've always been scared of feeling....confused about the future.....haaaay.....i never thought id feel this way! ive always felt in control but then when you have a better half then you have other things to consider. not of course that im complaining.....but it really is harder than you think.....


Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. -- Marcus Aurelius

life changing events

recently all my friends say that i havent been my cheery self. too many things happening at the same time i guess.
the happy news is......of course im walking down the aisle in 55 days!!! whohooo! hehehe! yes of course im still very much excited eventhough there are some things that really dampen my mood (grrrr to exams!)


neutral news.....maan has to leave for the states tomorrow. immigration wont have her extend her stay so she has to go and come back in june. boohoohoo.....pero good thing we did our maid of honor-bride preps early!


neutralized news.....ateng cosang got hospitalized, they think it was a stroke but shes awake now and hopefully out of danger. i had her discharged today. haaay....its really expensive to be sick!


so many things to think about.....just one me.....

gloomy mood

i came in for work last monday in a very gloomy mood.....i sat in our office thinking why (?!) and to think i just came from a weekend off (which does not happen weekly). to my dismay my co-workers were in their gloomy mood also....no one could comfort the other because we were all feeling pretty glum. we ate at our happy place and i still felt glum......the next day we went to mass then ate at our happy place again but i still didnt feel better. no amount of mango shake (or smoothy which ever your prefer), no amount of chocolate cake or two egg breakfast could bend my mood....i came from mass again today and i was still feeling low.....maybe its the hormones, maybe the holy week, maybe its the discontent......
call it early midlife crisis if you will but for a while i dont know what to do with my life!!!
i dont feel like im happy with where i am now and i dont know where im going......


The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. -- Chinese Proverb

bunny tooth with separation anxiety

today i finally got my braces off! hahaha! my dentist and i were good friends from way back before i decided i wanted braces. as she was taking my appliances off she told me how we would be seeing less of each other....aaawwww.....talk about separation anxiety!

a bright future

today my little sister graduated from college......i got so teary eyed a few times during the ceremony....i can be so melodramatic sometimes!
here's to a bright future to the new graduate!

the coffee enthusiast and the tech-y photographer's sunday

last week, i read that there was a coffee shop that sold filipino coffee which opened in serendra so, the true coffee loving filipino that i am, we headed for KAPE ISLA.

the interior was cozy with dark wood furniture. i tried the chocnut cold coffee drink which turned out really greaaat! even their capuccinos were good. pastries consisted of bibingka and suman (of course RR doesnt eat suman so we tried the former) which had quezo de bola on top. yuuuummmyyy!

the service could have been a little better though especially since we were the only customers there (it was the soft opening). it would have been nice if the baristas were like those at starbucks, a little more chattier and knowledgable about filipino coffee beans, enthusiastic about their products. but they were confined behind the bar minding us only if we called them. i think a little service architecture would do the place some good.

of course our day ended with us selling RR's N70 to buy his much coveted Asus PDA phone. i could tell that he was suffering from a bit of separation anxiety (i know him too well) with his seemingly almost brand new Nokia (he's so maalaga with his things -so unlike me sometimes). when we got to the shop where the Asus was being sold their stocks ran out and we had to run all the way to north edsa to get it!


hehehe funny, the same thing happened to me when i got my first and most loved O2 atom. we had to go all the way to sta lucia to get it! but i did go home a happy owner!

i love my phone!

kung hei fat choi

what better way to usher in the new year than with a new pair of shoes that will forever be dear to me -my wedding shoes

when Valentines Day came early

each year vday seems to get better and better.

William Shakespeare Sonnet 116

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.
Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool,
though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

Drama Queen

im such a drama queen. sometimes i catch myself and cant help but laugh at how....well how i sometimes act like such a big B as one of my friends would say.
i remember when i spur of the moment decided i wanted an O2 atom. we were window shopping and i thought to myself "hey i want that" so after much deliberation in my favorite coffee shop (where else) we went back to the store and i got in line with other people buying various phones. infront of me a girl was being given a box of O2 atom. finally my turn was up and i proudly say...."i would like an O2 atom" like ordering at an ice cream store (only the ice cream in this store was way more expensive) . can you believe they told me the girl before me got the last box?! so i left the store lips quivering, not even swayed by bribes of shopping. so we sped to this far away mall where I, finally got my O2 atom. and i had a smile on my face on my way home.
and that's why i love my piggy. he treats me like a baby like that i am. just enough pampering and (even if i hate to admit it) some discipline.
the drama queen is happy today!
till next time

talk about mood swings

talk about mood swing, 2 blogs with 2 emotions in 1 day......

The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion. -- William Makepeace Thackeray