dinner

last night was a wonderful time over dinner with nice people... pastor bayu and lerie invited us for dinner last saturday, the few filipino member of chuan hoe sda church...

pastor bayu cooked malaysian chicken dish, so yummy :)) and fish soup. i ate a lot, i wanted to stop as im full but pastor bayu's chili was just so tempting, hehehe...

we agreed to visit them at least once a month.

guys, i had a great time...!

happy faces :)) over a yummy dinner...
(photos taken from kuya erwin's fb page)

rooster embroidered pillow

before mrs. kacir's birthday last 16th of this month, i was thinking of sending her a gift. should it be flowers or anything rooster… brad told me that her mom just love anything rooster, maybe because she was born on the year of the rooster :) 

searching online for anything rooster gift items, i came across hobby hill farm's. and i found this pillow that looks so nice, i ordered two... it was delivered the day after her birthday. 

brad told me how her mom was so surprised, so excited and so happy when she received it... that her mom really love it and that it's so nice and beautiful :) 

i'm so grateful that she love it! i'm hoping and praying to meet you one day, mrs. kacir and the whole family :))

rooster embroidered pillow
(photo taken from hobby hill farm)

bohol & cebu city 2012 with nanay

nanay turned 60 last march 27… we celebrated it my way ;) she usually prepares a lot of yummy food for her birthday and invites her friend to come over. she just love to cook specially on her birthday. she would be busy the day before and on the day itself, and you would hear her say, "i'm tired of being beautiful..." when everyone's gone :)) 

early morning walk along alona beach at panglao island

but this year was different, i took her with me to bohol for a trip. just the two of us... we stayed at bohol for two nights and three days. 

sandugo (blood compact) statue

left: baclayon church,built in the 18th century
right: the shiphaus

butterfly garden

we had fun exploring the island. we had fun sitting by the shore at night having our barbeque, looking at some other tourists, the fire dance, the breeze coming from the sea and the early morning walk... things we missed on our trip, island hop and swimming :( but it's fine we still had fun... 

nanay having so much fun on loboc river cruise stop-over

tarsier conservation area

man-made forest of mahogany along the way

we also stayed for a night at cebu city. we met up with kuya lokie, my former colleague at rafi (ramon aboitiz foundation, inc.), his wife ate tata and chubby/talkative daughter nikki... they helped us get a place to spend the night. after having dinner with them, nanay & me shopped a little and watched the last screening of the hunger games at ayala mall. 

the famous chocolate hills

i'm so glad and happy that nanay had so much fun on our first ever trip together... 

tardiness

i've been late for work but not because i woke up late or missed the bus...

lately, i've been riding the car of my colleague  the boss' brother-in-law, in the morning and this is the second time i'm late for work...

i should have learned from the first time that when his car is not park in front of the house it's stolen again by his son and would be coming home very late...

now, it's past 8am and i'm supposed to be sitting in the office instead of waiting for that car to come back...

this is the last time i'll be fooled...

isla jardin resort, glan, sarangani 2012 - anrio+anne wedding

i left singapore together with LM friday night. we arrived at general santos on saturday morning at around 11am and a van pick us up. we reached isla jardin resort at glan, sarangani few hours before the wedding ceremony will start. so it was a bit of a rush to fix ourselves but we were able to manage :)) 

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paAn & maAnne

it was one of the june weddings of the year, on the 9th day of the month. my first time to attend a beach wedding and i'm so happy and honored to be one of the bride's maids… it was a solemn and wonderful ceremony. guests were so happy to witnessed the union of the couple, some also shed tears, tears of joy... 

top left: with raquel / top right: with te nene, bride's mom
bottom: with the rest of the entourage

it was followed by a dinner party, and some activities like fireworks, lighting and flying of the lantern, fire dance and dance party :) 

nanay and the beautiful bride 

i was also very happy to be with my mom even just for awhile as i have to fly back to singapore that sunday morning... it was the quickest and tiring trip i had but was so happy to be there to witness the wedding of maAnne and paAn :)) missin' you guys...

with my nanay :))

kuala lumpur, malaysia - may 2012

last may, laurence brought his parents on a trip here in singapore and kuala lumpur, malaysia. i joined them on their trip to kl... 

we left singapore saturday morning by bus, it's a 4-5 hours travel... but it's fine as the couch's seats were comfortable.

the petronas tower

we went around the city, shop a little, stroll along bintang walk and of course, not to miss the petronas towers...

fun at bintang walk

we went to batu caves and kl bird park...

giant statues at batu caves

kl bird park

we also took a few hours bus trip to genting highlands and took a ride on the cable car. it was a cool experience, seeing the nature from above and feel the cold...

nice and cold genting highlands

i had fun joining them, and lau's parents were so nice to let me join them...

with lau and his nanay & tatay...
happy faces :))

bishan-ang mo kio park

i woke up past 5 in the morning last sunday to have my long run for the week... and i decided to run towards bishan-ang mo kio park.

i ran along ang mo kio ave 10, it's not that far from my place... it's only around 2kms...

and i was so happy i decided to run towards the park. it's nice and beautiful out there. 

and one thing that catched my eyes is the presence of mcDonald's at the park, hehehe... i wish i had some bills with me and had my fave caramel frappe... but someone told me, it's not good for my running, huhuhu...

my new running track... i'll be back ;)

beautiful sunrise :))