vetlongwalks home & pf

two weekends passed. on both weekends i was away from my pet house. august 21-24 long holiday was spent in the island of camiguin down south of the country. meanwhile, august 29-september 1 long holiday was spent out of the country - singapore, woohoo!!! there's so much to write about my trips, unfortunately - it's only now that i got my internet back. it's only this morning that globe finally visited my place to replace my defective modem...

this was where i spent my childhood years. the house wasn't ours. we rented it until we were forced out when the landlord decided to sell the land where this house stood. if my memory serves me, we were the second to the last family to vacate the place [or where we the last??]as the house owned by my other's aunt was still occupied by another renter. see, it took a while for 'nay lilia's [+] tenant to find another place to move to and my mother [i think, at my 'nay lilia's insistence]didn't want to be separated from good 'ole punta princesa [she's lived here since she was 15!] and aunt, who provided food and shelter for her when she left her hometown of balamban. thus, we had to wait for the tenant before we could transfer to my mother's aunt's house. the above picture was taken right after typhoon ruping ravished cebu. incidentally, this was a few days after my younger brother celebrated his 7th birthday [see the balloon?]. although the str...

i've no special reason, except that i've this nagging urge to post whatever it is that I had for breakfast during the day. these breakfast posts, however, will not be on a daily basis as i'm always running late and thus have to take my breakfast elsewhere [sa kilid.kilid na karenderia sa office, sa burp, or skip breakfast altogether]. the ones i'll post here are just the ones i myself prepare and eat at my pethouse. omelette, and leftover fried chicken with rice and coffee

by august 16, i would have lived at my pethouse for a year. despite that length of time, i still don't know how to cook, [LOL!!!] saved for frying egg and whipping up macaroni in spaghetti sauce. so it's no surprise that my breakfast meal isn't as grand as i would love it to be. i can't help but be reminded of the best breakfast i've had in the long time. this was last july 11 at flapjacks, glorietta in makati. the pix above was actually taken at flapjacks, greenhills last june 7 when my college friends and i went to manila to attend lily's blessing/christening. i ordered garden omelette with hash brown and toast i had this again because i so loved it when i first had a taste of it back in greenhills. interestingly, i had this in the middle of noon, a little past lunch time. see? OR perhaps because it's the one breakfast where i didn't have to eat alone. armando ordered chicken tocino with well done sunny side up and java rice OK, enough with my midnig...

hmmm.... a serving of potato salad with tuna and toasted bread [not made from a toaster, hehe]

i'm usually excited to greet my birthday, but not this year. no special reason except that i just don't feel like celebrating. it's probably because this year is the year i turn the big THREE - ZERO. anyhow, i still ended up celebrating - not just in the way of parties or the like. woke up sometime eight in the morning and read up message greetings from a few friends. then i hit my pink room to do twenty minutes of cardio and forty-five minutes of yoga. famished from the workout, i heated the macaroni in spaghetti sauce i made the night before and toasted some bread to go with the pasta. watched a couple of episodes of Avatar. after the late breakfast, i hit the shower to go to my parents house in labangon. apparently, my father cooked my favorite "pochero" dish, while my mother made me pancit canton..hehe, i can easily be lured by these two dishes anytime. so off i went to labangon. on my way there, i dropped by SM to buy some small cake over at Leonas, then to ...

i had an early appointment with my o.b. last saturday. thus, i had to leave mactan and set aside the chore of doing my laundry. i could very well do my laundry in the afternoon, but weird me has this thing against returning to mactan when the sun is still up. thus, instead of heading back to my pet house, i headed to our office to get some work done [yeah, very interesting and fun alternative [roll eyes!!]. sunday wasn't any ideal day either for doing my laundry and ironing of clothes. see, at sometime noon, the power went off and along with it, the water. guilty. i woke up really late as i had to make up for lost sleep due to that long friday night. it wasn't until sometime 6 o'clock in the evening that the water came back and the power to be back up. since, my plan had been botched up already - i decided to spend the rest of the night watching episodes of the Legend of the Seeker, Book 1 of Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon. since both tasks were at the back of my mind t...