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.

Atchi's Birthday

 For May's birthday we ate a Uncle Cheffy at the Fort. Big platters of meat and pizza were what we ate.

Attendees were Mamay's family, Jane's family without Walter because he is in China. Rose wasn't available but we will eat with her some other time.

Sometime in the middle of the meal we were all started by a sudden shout by the waiters. They started singing May her birthday song although she explicitly told them not to sing. But they gave her a free cake.

After that we May blew another cake from Jane, a mango cream pie, it was delicious.

Lunch News: Bing-Bing's husband, Mom scented, Birthday dinner idea

I overheard Mom and Bing-Bing, Mom asking if her husband was successful in his job application. Unfortunately no, they needed a college graduate and they had a maximum age limit. He has been continually applying with no success. That's all I heard over lunch, a slow news day.

I gave Mom the scented sanitizer, she said she'll keep it in her bag for emergency, I was going to give the other to May but she took both.

May's birthday is coming up on Thursday. I suggested the Omakase at the Ayala triangle. May said the traffic might be bad but it was an interesting proposal since she'd like to eat there.

I asked Pie to buy a shared gift: iPod earphones. She's been looking for cheap versions since her ear phones break easily. Fortunately she does not read this blog so it will still be a surprise.

Scented Sanitizers

Bought some orange and watermelon scented sanitizers being sold by my co-worker seat mate. I though May and Mom might like them. Of course, I will them it got them as free samples otherwise they might save them and never use them.

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.

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.

Saturday again

Another Saturday of watching shows until we vomit. Tomorrow Dannyboy invites us to attend Kristine's despedida.

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.

May, struggles to leave

May is finding it hard to leave the comfortable routine of watching shows on a Saturday afternoon. In the end she does leave for the party. Ryan, with whom she watches certain shows with decides to go have his hair cut.

Before May left, they have watched The Voice. A new singing competition where 4 judges/coaches (One of them is Christina Aguilera) listens to the contestants blind, chair facing away. If they like what they hear they press a button and the chair will turn around.

Torrent Status

Another weekend coming up. As usual it will be spent watching TV shows. That is all we do, we are either sitting in front of a screen at work or doing the same at home. Looking forward to watching Game of Thrones, ABDC, American Idol, America's Next Great Restaurant, Top Chef Masters, Celebrity Apprentice.  

A new chair for May

Dad has recently given May a new chair, most likely acquired from the random assortment of stuff he bids for. May likes the new chair, the old chair has chunks of foam carved out. She does not plan on replacing the old worn out back rest though, her reason: "no reason".