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.

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.

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.

How is Nek Nek doing?

Nek Nek is as shy as ever. But he does try to escape from his patio once in awhile. It's been years since he has had a bath and his claws have become very long.

Mom buys Nek Nek 1 Kilo of lettuce every week. He gets fed everyday by Luc or Bing-bing and Mom says he is quite greedy. We think he is more than 10 years old (Che please provide the year), he was a gift by Pie to Che on her birthday.

Pie uses wire to fix sandal

Why not just buy another pair? Pie says it's not being sold here and it's a very comfortable pair of sandals that he rather fix it than replace it.

A former maid saw that it was a good idea and took Che's broken sandal which she threw away. Pie inspires! In the many items and parts of the house, you can see everywhere that Mom and Dad would always rather fix than throw away objects, an instinct their son has inherited.

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.

Pie's Job Site

Pie's new site is progressing well. The kitchen has a big real rock not made from cement (first picture). The master's bedroom has a sky light that he says creates the perfect work environment at home. The center of the house has a tree and a koi pond with a waist level cement block where water runs over the top and pours down to the pond. (see 3rd picture) Pie says you can position pebbles on the running water on top, it's like a zen thing.

He says that this was the project he has the most control over and he really likes the house so far. There is not a "sad" area in the whole house he says. For me, it's amazing that the house looks exactly like the 3D rendering before it was made (4th picture).

What we ate.

I am often asked what I've been eating or what I just ate. People are interested in other people's diet it seems, but I wonder what pleasure they find in that. I checked the tray in Pie's room, so I know he ate siomai with calamansi and iced tea. I realize then there is joy in the invasion of someone else's privacy. I can't wait to let him know later that I KNOW, hoping to annoy him.

For the reader's pleasure I give what I ate for lunch: Garlic broccoli and fried meat balls with rice of course. Enjoy in knowing!