feliz cumpleaños a mí

october 3-5, 2008

rye has started to be very much visible for the past few weeks. not only to my daughter, but he has been w/ me most of my free time.
to fire off my birthday, despite being sick, rye left work early & took me out. we went to starbucks for coffee & sandwiches then watched 'eagle eye' at the trinoma mall. still feverish by the afternoon & a bit ailing, we opted to just rest throughout the day. we checked in the rembrandt hotel at timog. we slept for hours but made sure we woke up before the clock hits midnight for my birthday eve celebration. we had dinner at tgif, beside the hotel. he had steak & i had fish. he ordered one of tgif's heavenly ice cream chocolate cake for our dessert. tgif closed before 1am which was strange, on a friday, if you know what i mean...so we just had drinks at the pier 1, located across tgif & the hotel, which was equally convenient to go to coming from rembrandt. i had my usual rhum coke whilst rye had his bucket of beer. we talked for hours until we had to leave since he needed to be at work before 4am. so i phoned my girl friend alex to get to the hotel fast, so as not to waste the room (& free breakfast for 2 ahehe) & ofcourse, waste the first few hours of my birth day! after a change of clothes & several minutes of irritatingly trying to search for free wireless internet inside the hotel room (she brought her new laptop), which by the way was not available in the hotel (sucks big time), exasperated, we just decided to walk across the hotel & get drunk (hahaha) at the pier 1. we ordered alcopops, grilled fish & mango salad. we went back to the hotel room after 5am & slept before the sun rose. wonderful. *:)

posing at the pier 1

free breakfast buffet! yummy!

we went home at noon & i slept some more. went out again by 9pm for another celebration w/ my siblings, cousin & friends. we were supposed to go to route 196 at katipunan but there were no more tables available. we checked out the meat shop across route 196 & unfortunately, the situation was the same. we decided to go to eastwood instead to watch jpd at the club dredd. the bar was packed as well so we had to move again until we finally settled at dencios to celebrate the last remaining hours of my birth day.

sweet!

the next day, sunday, i had a small family celebration at home too! alex created once again her wonderful cocktail concoctions, mom cooked bbq & i ordered pizza from yellow cab. my 3-day birthday celebration w/ my loved ones, amazing. *:)