Day 8, a Friday, was a slow one for me... I woke up at lunchtime and hurried as I had a meeting scheduled at 2 pm. Had a veryyy hard time getting a cab. When I was already near the meeting place, some sort of miscommunication happened and I THOUGHT that the meeting was either canceled or postponed so I went to Trinoma instead. Trinoma is ginourmous! I decided to watch a movie ALONE! Whattaloser! So I bought some Oliver's Sandwich and Dalandan Juice and settled in to watch Forbidden Kingdom! HURRAH! Ang galing... yun lang... SOBRANG GALING! Then I met up with Kuya Andrew to eat dinner at Cibo in Glorietta. We shared the Spinach and Gorgonzola Cheese dip. I had the Braised Lamb with White Wine, Turnips and Carrots. It was heavenly. The meat was so tender and flavorful. Hay basta... try it! It was served with a very delicious cup of rice flavored with garlic and parsley (I think). Then, I went to the Mineski Grounds in Arena to meet up with another journalist. He was going to cover the Asian DotA Championship Philippine Qualifiers Finals between CORPOration (my team) and NINJA (my ex-boyfriend's team but my…
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Manila Day 7: An Interview and A Movie
May 1, 2008, Labor Day: Woke up early to meet up with a journalist/blogger. Went to Gateway, drank Cafe Mocha at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf because I was early. Then, we met up at Pancake House where we had a very interesting and lively conversation about blogging and the gaming scene. Went back to Kuya Andrew's house to rest but ended by twitting around and chatting with people. Left for Greenbelt at around 4 pm, went to Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf (again!) to have some Mango Smoothie and the Asian Chicken Salad. Met up with Ade to buy the tickets I reserved. We were 2 minutes late and the reservation was forfeited. We got tickets for an earlier showing. We waited for Poyt at Figaro. And we decided to go inside the cinema without Fritz since he has watched the movie the day before anyway. :P Iron Man was in a word... greatawesometasticbulous!!!! We ate Nut Pesto with Chicken, Italian Sausage Parmigiana, and Puttanesca Pizza at A Venetto in Glorietta where Allan also showed up. I dissuaded Kuya from busy yet another laptop. HEH! He treated me to another round of eating at Friday's. The Loaded Potato Skins…
Manila Day 6
Kinda short day... Woke up late. Ate lunch. Surfed the internet. Disturbed by the noise of my cute nieces arriving. They're so adorable talaga!!! Went to Greenhills... again! Ate Unagi Sushi at Teriyaki Boy again! YUM! YUM! For only PhP100 and they don't charge an additional 10% service tax. Ate Crunchy Tiramisu and Fudgy Chocolate Cake at Cibo. SINFUL! Drank Mocha eXtreme at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf and it definitely woke me up! My niece tricked us into buying stuff for her at Hobbes and Landes. I also bought pasalubong for my spoiled brat nephew/inaanak. Had birthday dinner at Sugi. I ate Tenderloin Steak... medium rare. GRAWRRR! Plan to watch Iron Man was cancelled. Met up with a friend at Starbucks in Podium. Had some Early Grey Tea and pretending to care about my weight and health, But before that spent around 30 minutes waiting for a cab. I also found another book I want to buy. Good thing I was sane and didn't buy it coz it's waaay over my budget. Had a very interesting conversation with my friend. ;) Stood along the road again to wait for a taxi for a long time AGAIN! Arrived home earlier…
Manila Day 4
TIRED! SLEEPY! LAZY! 2 yummy donuts and a drink from Krispy Kreme for breakfast Kuya Andrew was apprehended for being in the yellow lane Manila Ocean Park Camwhoring Tour with Blogie, Winston, Migs, Ate Aileen, Sweetie, and Miguel Received flowers from them... awww... FUN! FUN! FUN! Tiiired... Lunch at Teriyaki Boy, had Shake Sashimi and Teriyaki Chicken-Don Rush to Bonifacio High Street Fun bossing around my group for the Spot.ph Bonifacio High Street and Serendra Food Tour We didn't have an official guide so I coordinated everything with military precision, we were more than an hour late but we finished everything. :) And my groupmates sang me the birthday song at least three times. LOL! Met up with Juned, AJ, Fritz, Shari, et al at Kape Isla Videoke fun with Juned, Fritz, AJ, uhmmm... ehhhh... BRAIN IS BLANK! Got home safely thanks to Juned Shocked by 20+ new comments on this blog Greetings throughout the day!!! :D Videoke pals: Jeff, Aaron, LA, Mica, Benj, Cai, BillyCoy Greetings throughout the day! :D THANKS! HAPPY! HAPPY! JOY! JOY! {Better entries... soon! I HOPE!}
Bloggers + Beer + Summer!!!
I'm not much of a beer-drinker but I'm uber-super-excited to attend my first-ever Bloggers events beyond the boondocks of Mindanao. HOOHA! Here's where I'm going to unwind after my iBlog 4 gig: What: 88DB.com Bloggers’ Night When: April 26, 2008 @ 7pm Who: Bloggers of any Pagerank, Alexa Rank, Ratified Rank or whatever How: Just leave a comment below with your Full Name and URL. Why: Booze, Music, Prizes and 88DB.com Where: Katips Bar in Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City (I miss Katipunan!!!) If you want to challenge me in winning that PSP, "come as your blog." I'm planning to bringing 11 outfits, each one representing my 11 active blogs. KIDDING! Wanna have a photo with me and get my autograph there (JOKE LANG!)? Leave a comment at Kuya Andrew's blog stating your full name and URL. Much thanks to my favorite Ate Aileen. Here's the list of bloggers who are attending. See you there! Here's my DB88 ad. :D
Life's Timing
I am currently facing a sort of crisis right now. Not that big as the other problems and crises I've faced before. Imagine my happiness when I heard my bestfriend (ok, one of my bestfriends, baka may magtampo) is here. YEY! But when we started catching... I realized that life is funny. His problems and that of another friend by far outweigh mine. It made me realize that I am quite lucky. We realized that life has gotten harder. Most of us are not where we expected ourselves to be. We have not lived up to what people expect of us, to what we expect from ourselves. Life is hard. We all have challenges to face, struggles to go through. My burden might be not as heavy as theirs, or as many others' in fact but it is a burden. I write this because I realize that life has a funny way of timing things, of working things out. Just when my life is starting to get crazy, fate or coincidence or whatever you call it bring my bestfriend to Davao to make me see that my life isn't that bad after all. It's not easy to see the brighter…