October 19, 2008

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. *:)

October 11, 2008

father & daughter

september 20, 2008
manila ocean park
his long overdue commitment to bring our baby to the ocean park.
it's rayna's 2nd time. her first was march. the place has exceptionally improved over the 6 months. less hazardous for we no longer spotted any construction in the works. there is already a variety of restaurants & coffee shops at the entrance. to name a few, there's starbucks (nice touch!), north park (where we had lunch. our little darling loved the beef broccoli!), mrs. fields, pancake house, etc. the main attraction had no significant amendments nor added facilities though. the whole experience will still take you 30 min tops to get to see every sea species displayed in their gargantuan aquariums. there's this new arcade across the gift shop, glass-bottom boat rides (P150 ticket) which are practically the 'what's new?' in the park. the park pass had increased P50 by the way.
it got obvious that it was a father & daughter thing for they were inseparable the whole time. i had no qualms taking pictures of just the two of 'em, i actually enjoyed being the photographer that time. *:)

my rayna was posing non-stop at the stage near the ticket counter haha




before heading home, our rayna stopped by the children's books & playground section near the exit. father & daughter read children's books while i took photos. *:)

horses & dogs

september 19, 2008
brought my family out for a short stroll-dinner-shopping at tiendesitas. we rode the kalesa first which the kids, especially my lovely daughter, exceedingly enjoyed.

after the extreme kalesa ride (ahihi), we stopped by the dog section, incessantly adoring those cute little pups those stores were selling. we had discovered one store who sold a variety of spiders & all those other icky insects & reptiles. the tarantulas particularly scared the hell of out me hehe.

hungry afterwards, we had barbeque, bagoong rice & chicken isaw at the food court.

i had to bring my family home early for a night out w/ my friend sheila.

sheila got to our house earlier than i thought so she had to wait for us to get home. i just changed my blouse & off we went for some drinks at katips & brief clubbing at the formula in timog.