Sunday at Greenbelt

My trip to the US is now pretty certain. So we went to Greenbelt 5 to buys clothes so I'll look presentable to the clients. Bought 3 long sleeves and slacks at Banana Republic. Total is around 15k, not bad.

We were supposed to buy shoes for me but ended up at Crocs. Mom, May and I each bought a pair of Crocs. Funny, how my fake Crocs costs 200 but my real Crocs costs 2k. The real Crocs seem a bit harder because the sole is denser, where with the fake Crocs I can feel the contours of the ground.

We ate at John and Yoko a japanese restaurant. May thought it was funny when a passerby commented: "John and Yoko? yoko jan!" (translation: I don't like that place.) Food was so so.

1st is a picture of Mom pretending  not to monitor me though she is watching my every move. 2nd pic is Mom and May after seeing an outfit that looked really cute for Caitlynn asked about it if they have the correct size. I think they didn't have the correct size so nothing bought. 3rd pic are my new Crocs!

Skype on the iPad

Finally saw the iPad being used for Skype. Gage is still addicted to angry birds. He has learned to use a mouse because of angry birds. Fortunately he has daycare and kinder school so he is not playing all the time. Angry birds isn't bad, but if there could be more variety in his interests I think that would be great.

May asked if he was behaving, Che says Gage doesn't usually like to eat his vegetables. She shaves carrots into his spaghetti to get veggies inside him. Gage will always do what Grant instructs.

Is there a competition between Caitlynn and him in eating or envy? Gage when he saw Che feeding Caitlynn also wants to be fed, he tasked Grant to feed Caitlynn and Che to feed him.

We also saw Caitlynn, she stared at us a bit. Gage also showed us his jump.

Mom does Friday Afternoon Mahjong

Another nice afternoon to play Mahjong for Mom. I'm careful to take this watch from afar so they would not notice, last time they were shocked and one of them covered their face.

For a change, Mom has a Mahjong session but Dad doesn't. There was a time when Mom hated it when Dad played Mahjong and tried to discourage it.

A Cocoon of Trash

The Laws of Trash Accumulation:

Every object you find must be used especially if somebody threw it away or it is free. It was destiny that you found it and you must find some use for it.

The more objects the better. The poor have nothing, therefore to succeed you must acquire as many objects as possible. Happiness comes from knowing you have so much stuff, you have every kind of thing imaginable!

Free objects are the most valuable objects. There is no joy in owning an object of good quality if they cost anything. Therefore usually the ugliest unusable objects are what you should value since people throw them away or give them out for free.

Ignorance is bliss. And for people in this room, blindness is bliss. Keep a state of mind that piles of ugly mismatched things have beauty in their own way. That way being happy with your surroundings is effortless.

By the way, as I predicted a cabinet is used to block the old air con hole and also blocks the window in the last picture. I already know the above laws by heart so I knew that that is how they would fix the problem.

New Air Conditioner

See the new air conditioner? It is on the upper right corner of the window. Maybe now the rooms will not be so hot. The hole for the old air con got covered up though with some ugly random piec of wood. But it will probably be covered anyway by the cabinets which would also cover the windows. This room is becoming more and more ugly. They need help!

Rockwell, Classic Cuisine, Aperture Laboratories

This Sunday Dad wanted to find the price for jasmine rice having acquired some in his bidding. We went to Rockwell and Dad asked around pretending to be interested in buying.

May went off to buy some chippy and carbonated ice tea. I bought a rolitoland toy for Pie and Portal 2. Mom bought a type of sugar for diabetes and flax seed powder. Dad went to look at the car display.

Max seeing Dad and Mom eating ice cream demanded some.

Later we are at C2 (classic cuisine). Food was pretty good: mongo and tilapia, bulalo, pansit, crispy pork with kare-kare sauce and crispy fish in coconut sauce. We didn't finish it all of course. We were seated near the rest room and kids kept on runnig out and into the rest room causing Max to bark everytime he saw anyone run like a hall monitor, I tried running too and he also barked at me.

When we got home May and I watched the Glee rendition of the song Friday. Afterwards it's time to revisit the Aperture Laboratories in the game Portal 2 in PS3. I tried to convince May to try the cooperative play version of the game, she rather watch Community because there was a cross over to Cougar Town.

Gamblers caught Gambling

At 10 pm the mahjong sessions are still on. Mom though lacking sleep from preparing for the party for lunch still pushed through. Whenever we have mahjong players we also have lots of food to feed the guests.

There was a time when I was small I did not want Dad to go out gambling. I told him don't go you'll just lose, he gave me an angry look then. (or should
I say angrier look?)

Earlier when they just started, Mom burst into the room saying Max has disappeared. We were in panic because of Mom was worried. Turned out he was just among them in the room. Sigh of relief.

Raw Cotton Fabric

A fabric factory closed down and had a sale of it's inventory and Dad both some. The cloth is yellowish because it is raw, it still needs to be sent away to be bleached for it to become white Mom said

Lunch News: Boiled Peanuts, Salad and Cabinets Destroyed

 Found these dark peanuts on Mom's desk. She eating the left over peanuts from last week when Dad bought a kilo of it raw for only 50 pesos and had Luc boil them.

At some point after eating the expensive salads of the brand "goolai" so many times I grew tired of the taste and smell of their salads, but I had craving for some crunchy veggies so I bought again. Their salads aren't bad, but with the ingredients packed together their smells combine so something that is not so fresh smelling.

Goodbye to the 20 year old infested with termites. The wash room has so much space now but Dad plans to put a cabinet from the bidding in that is much too big. Dad and Mom, they love to get the items from the biddings and place them in the house though furniture always seem out of place and the wrong size.

New Books from Dad

Dad acquired a lot of books probably through bidding. They are mostly for business but May found a few young adult books, perfect for Gage or Caitlynn when they grow up.

I said the books are probably form the 1800s, Dad heard and was outraged

Happy Mother's Day

We ate at Seryna at little tokyo, very authentic Japanese cuisine. The salmon roll had a crisp skin in the middle. we the vinegar, spicy oil, and soy sauce you had to mix on your own for the gyoza. The sukiyaki, used the raw egg to dip your hot meat and noodles in. Again we ordered too much.

How do I know Mom watches my every move? I was thinking I wanted more rice and just then she asks me to take her rice. Every need is anticipated.

Party at Dannyboy's place

All of Mom's side of the family were invited. Food was korean: dumpling, grilled pork, kimchi, beef stew... cake and fondue at the end. 3 events in one: (1) Kristine's going away party, Mother's day and Pacquiao's fight.

After lunch we played bingo and watched the slide presentation of the Boracay trip and a tribute to Kristine. Dannyboy gave a rose to each mother. And there were picture's from Boracay framed and given to the guests. Mom's picture's were pretty good, Dannyboy has recently taken of photography and photographed the pictures that were framed and in the slide show.

Pie, a big fan of Pacquiao, was watching the fight from a movie house. Before coming to the party, he texted that we should let Ado go home to watch the fight. Pie was not able to make it to the party though but was pretty close to attending. When he tried to get into the compound the guard would not let him in, this was because the non-owners were only allowed to go in thru the main entrance. Pie, irritated, went back home, which is just a couple of minutes away.

Night News: Heat, Rain, Shows, Nek Nek not hungry, Mahjong

We're almost done watching all the shows and it is night time already. It's been a hot day and it has started to rain. Nek Nek again does not want to eat, May suspects he might have gotten wet and gotten sick. Of course Dad has his Mahjong session again.

Lunch News: Multi Steamed Egg, More on Dad's IPad, Tata Back Soon, Nek Nek won't eat.

For lunch we had steamed egg with salted egg and century egg.

IPad news: Dad says he mostly uses his IPAD to check insurance, or I think he means the prices of the goods hi bids for. He does check flipboard which he calls the newspaper. He says he has problems using youtube. I'll check on his youtube usage next time.

Bing bing says Tata will be back soon. She just noticed Nek Nek's lettuce was untouched today.

Lunch News: Mom Lunch Out, Dad IPad

Lunch at home is chicken adobo and pechay? Mom did not have lunch at home, she went out with cousin Kristine to visit the dentist. Mom says dad asked why his youtube does not contain much videos so Dad must still be using his IPad.

We ate at Cerchio

Tonight we ate at Cerchio in a small street off of Tomas Morato. The dish in the picture is a grilled sea food and meat dish good for 3 to 4 people. It wasn't bad. As usual: Pie did not join us, Dad does his micro back seat driving, Mom watches every bite I eat and eats very little herself in fear I run out of food. But not so usual is May not with earphones listening to her podcasts.

We were supposed to celebrate Mom's birthday here in this restaurant but she was elsewhere on her birthday. He haven't celebrated her birthday yet.

Mahjong

Another Saturday, another mahjong game between dad and his "friends".

Max and Dad Lunch Out

Lunch for today (and probably for tonight also): egg and eggplant and beef stew. Dad's plate is untouched, also Max is missing. According to Luc, Dad took Max with Ado and hasn't come back for lunch.

A place for trash

"New" furniture can be found everywhere in the Lee household with the recent landfall of "stuff"/trash acquired from Dad's recent bids which he "won". This has solved the previous dilemma of where to put the accumulated objects/trash from previous bids. This cabinet in the picture houses the many second hand objects such as stuffed toys, desk organizers, picture frames and whatnots (wantnots?).

I asked Mom why? She said it was actually May-May the maid who organized the stuff without being asked to. She even put the speakers on the top of the cabinet. (These speakers are not functional so the purpose is decorative.) I find it helps if you laugh at the situation.

IPad is out!

Inspecting Dad's desk, the IPad we bought for him is nowhere to be found. Apparently he brought it with him when he went out with Ado. Dad did say before that he was planning to brag about it among his fellow bidders. "Mag papasikat ako!" (I am going to shine!). May worries he might leave it somewhere though or it might get stolen.

So far Dad likes to use his IPad mostly to check on items he bids or check his email for new bidding opportunities. He definitely finds it easier to use than a laptop and mouse.