dinner at the park

march 22, 2009
q.c circle

was supposed to spend time w/ the family at the echo park but the gates were closed when we got there at 5pm so we spent the day at the q.c. memorial circle instead. my father, after his hospitalization for near-stroke ailments, was very eager to exercise so he planned to bring the whole family to a nearby park for a few hours of walking. yeah, that was his exercise.

my daughter & her yaya; rayna & jared

trish & rayne; dad & nik

mom

we went to max's for dinner after watching a brief performance of a professional ballet group, which was excellent & surprisingly inspired my daughter! so cute when she started imitating the dancers!. i'll definitely enroll her in ballet class next summer. i'm also excited for my daughter for she'll start schooling this june. she's been bugging me about going school daily! *:)

baby jared's 1st month

march 20, 2009

i had work when my sister celebrated her new son's 1st month out of her womb. i didn't have enough pictures to post except the one below which my sister sent to my phone. it has been a family tradition, of which i religiously observed w/ my daughter rayne, the celebration of our children's existence every month, serving noodles of any type & a cake, surrounded by the whole family.

mr. bean cake w/ sleeping baby jared

a few weeks after, my sister brought my nephew to the hospital as baby jared was having diarrhea & could positively be dehydrated. he was confined the same day. he's still at the hospital as of today, showing small signs of progress.

jared w/ his sis nik

hopefully he gets better in a couple of days & comes home. we miss him so much!

i want to be a supermodel

rye took this picture of our daughter when she went up a mock catwalk at the human clothing store in trinoma.

still wore diapers here but ain't she a cutie!

several days later. this time posing spontaneously at a levi's store

that nasty ear wax

& i thought my parenting skills (can i call it a skill? *:P), were already impeccable. not until i cleaned my daughters ears under a light & saw impacted ear wax on both her ear tunnels. it must've stacked up as the cotton buds i used to clean her ears twice a week pushed the ear wax deeper her ear canals, instead of supposedly removing them. *:(
i took her to an ear doctor the next day.

while waiting for the doctor

the doctor prescribed her for aural irrigation after a week. he advised me to put 2 drops of baby oil in both ears every night until the impacted wax softens making it easier for the doctor to remove & completely painless for my baby daughter.

after a week, we came back.

my baby w/ the ear doctor after the aural irrigation procedure like nothing happened

i'm so proud of my daughter as she never hesitated to sit on the patient's chair since her first visit. she just quietly & casually sat & was very obedient to the doctor's orders. she's no cry baby except when she sees her pediatrician prepare the needle for her quarterly vaccines. in the meantime, the impacted ear wax has been removed & i now switched adult cotton buds to the one specifically made for toddlers' tiny ears.

i got more obsessive w/ her safety after her 'black-eye' incident. up to now, the skin surrounding her left eye is still darker compared to her right eye. i hope it clears soon.

5 year awardee

march 6, 2009
bagaberde bar, roxas

our company held a service award program for 5-year service celebrants like myself at the bagaberde bar, the same venue where we held the company-wide christmas party 2007.

it would sadly be the last recognition awarding for our company as cost-cutting of expenses has been reinforced in many foreign or outsourced companies including ours, gravely impacted by the economic meltdown in the states.

we in our department are very lucky to have maintained & retained job security in the company compared to the thousands of ill-fated callcenter agents that were laid-off.

the thropy came w/ a P2000 electronic appliance GC, a simple yet grand token that we may not be able to taste for a couple of years or more until the recession in the states comes to an end.

my co-awardees obet & april

all 5 years spent w/ blood, sweat & tears. the 5 year technical department awardees

the best in service was awarded afterwards.

the best of the best in technology service
drinking & dining w/ the bosses

after the recognition dinner, awarding & a toast to all who have serviced w/ loyalty for our company, the program came to a close. a few of us gathered at pier one, located beside bagaberde, to reminisce the past 5 years as colleagues, gossip & bond. the people in the below picture are a few of the infonxx/kgb pioneers.

lito, april, mysel & edward. gigi (the best service desk awardee) joined us briefly & left before we had this picture taken

my tube

my old phone issued at work got totally wrecked so i bought a new one (rye does the payment monthly). i favor flip-top phones but when rye & myself caught the nokia 5800 express music in display at a nokia center in trinoma, i totally gunned for it & didn't waste time looking at other brands.

who wouldn't love these features:
- w/ resistive touchscreen
- cheap for an i-touch phone
- wifi connection
- 8G external memory
- plays videos/movies in mp4 format
- has an auto-rotate feature when sensor is on
- has stereo speakers for my mp3/radio playtime
- 3.2 megapixel camera
- etc etc etc

ebony & ivory

i should've named our persian cat whisky ivory. who would've guessed our dog cassey would give birth to ebony...sayang *:)

dad's 57th birthday on a hospital bed

i was at work when my father sent me a couple of sms'. one following up with the supply of stresstab pills i buy for him monthly & the other, casually mentioning that his nose bled. unusual but we all suspected the very humid weather that noon. late afternoon, still at work, my mom, in her usual panic mode, sent me a message that dad's nose bleeds weren't coming to a stop & they had to rush him to the hospital. i clocked out 7pm, restless & anxious to see my dad. while driving to the hospital, i called my parents up& told me to go home instead as there were no private rooms available yet & had to put up w/ the cramped space at the emergency room, plus, the hospital would not allow more than one visitors there so i just went home. the next day, i was still able to go to work in the morning but made a promise to my parents that they can text me anytime if they needed me there. come 10am, my mom was again in panic-mode. my dad's nose bleeds were getting worse, she was terrified, she wanted one of her kids to go there quickly. my sis just gave birth & couldn't leave her newborn son & my brother was at work. that leaves myself so i called my boss right away & told her that i needed to leave work immediately.

i went home & picked up my daughter. my brother was able to leave work early too & called his wife sam. we all went together to the hospital.

my dad's BP was a whopping 180/110 when we got there. the blood vessels inside his nose erupted due to his very high blood pressure causing my dad to bleed through his nose, as very well-explained by my dad's doctor. his doctor added how lucky he was that he got away from having a major stroke.

my daughter immediately climbed up my dad's bedside when we arrived

february 26,2009
dad's birthday

it turned out he was not too lucky as he wasn't sent home on his birthday. his bp did not stabilize until his 5th day at the hospital.

we bought him a mango cake from cake-2-go (less sugar, less sweet) & bought take-outs from luk-foo. sam's parents filled dad's ref w/ fresh fruits.

february 27,2009

the next day.

trisha & my kid at the figaro coffee shop infront of the hospital; my baby took my dad's temperature (over his shirt hehe) every minute

my dad's well now. we all have been monitoring what he eats. we've successfully encouraged him to eat lesser fatty foods. i've been buying him cereals, non-fat dairy milk & garlic medicines.

2 things he couldn't resist taking off his lifestyle is the smoking & drinking...but now he only drinks red wine...

a cut & art at trinoma

february 20, 2009

we were supposed to visit my sister who just gave birth at the children's hospital but we were not allowed to see either my sister & my nephew yet so we all went to the trinoma mall while we waited for the new mother & baby to get settled in their private room.

i sent my daughter to the cuts-for-tots parlor for a bang trim

we stopped by landmark since the kids wanted to make art...

...while i watched

we had dinner at the food court & bought a few groceries.

by 9pm we were done & drove back to the hospital, very eager to catch a glimpse of our newborn.

baby jared sulpico

february 20, 2009

i mentioned on previous posts that my sister was pregnant. she gave birth to her 3rd child & first son on feb 20th. oh i am envious! i want a son as well & our daughter has been noticeably longing for a sibling? calling ryan... hehehe