Not so Non Stick Anymore

January 2011. Our supposedly non-stick teflon of 2 years.

I don't have a lot of things in the Kitchen. In fact, i can even remember from which kinsenas month and from which grocery I bought that kitchen thing. This non-stick teflon was bought March 2009 - in Abenson - in Waltermart north Edsa - with Faith.

And this is the only cooking thing I have. I don't have pots or pans. (Except the very big pan from Cathy's mom). And it's not non-stick anymore. Oh well.

31 January 2011

5:30 PM

Monday

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October 2011 

Nakalimutan kong sabihin sa iyo na napalitan ko na sya.

December 5 2011

Monday

8:00 AM

Big Red Bus

Disyembre 2010. Isa sa mga gabing nakasakay ako sa Red Bus byaheng Novaliches sa EDSA.

Hindi ko pahihirapan ang sarili ko -- yan ang sabi ko bandang Disyembre -- patapos na ang taong 2010. Napagod talaga ako sa taong ito. May mga bagay akong ginawa na hindi ko inakalang kaya ko palang gawin. May mga mabubuti, may mga nakasama rin naman, may mga natutunan rin naman ako, at meron rin namang ayoko nang balikan. Basta napagod ako sa taong ito.

Isa na rin yung pagcocommute ko on a regular basis na never kong ginawa buong buhay ko. 2010 yung taon na nalaman ko ang pagkakaiba ng Cubao Ilalim sa Ibabaw (Fastlane), ng Ordinary na Bus sa de-Aircon, ng Bus na SM Fairview sa Malanday/UE Letre.

Nakaranas rin ako sa unang pagkakataon ng Inspector sa bus na ang ginagawa pala e tignan yung ticket na binigay ng kunduktor. Nakaranas na rin ako nung nagppreach ng Words of God, ng mga nagtitinda ng Dried Mangoes tapos may maliit na mala-calling card na nagsasabing para sa pampaaral raw nila yun.

Na-hold-up, nadukutan rin ako nang ilang beses sa isang taong pagcocommute. Nasiraan na rin ako ng shoes.

Hay. Bukas, hindi na ako magcocommute. Salamat, mahal ko.

31 January 2011

5:00PM

Monday

Antipolo Church

December 26 2010. We were supposed to hear mass in Antipolo church, but instead, there was a mass for the dead. That's Cecilia with her Doraemon Balloon. We bought sungka for her as well.

I wonder how will I die. I was never afraid of dying, but now that my life has purpose, I now am.

31 January 2011

4:30 PM

Monday

Happiness

It wasn't a posh birthday party, but it was pure happiness when she was with Jollibee. 11 December 2010. Jollibee Katipunan, Quezon City

Gusto naming ibigay ang gusto nya hanggang kaya namin. Iba pala talaga kapag magulang ka na.

31 January 2011

4:00 PM

Monday

3 of 100 Friends: Armando James Simbulan

16 January 2011. Hindi ko maalala kung saan kami nagkakilala ni Armando James Simbulan. Pwedeng sa ECE dahil blockmate sya ni Ali o sa Matanglawin. Pero naaalala ko talaga yung isang beses na nagkasabay lang kami sa pocket garden sa may faura (o CTC?) tapos dahil may isang oras pa kami bago ang susunod na klase e nag Chickenboy kami ng tatlong 500ml na Red Horse sa loob ng isang oras. Nakapasok pa kami in time for the next class. Kabataan ang tawag dun. Huling pagkikita na namin itong picture na ito dahil nasa ibang bansa na sya.

Parating may kalat-space ako sa bahay. Makalat kasi talaga ako, at makakalimutin pa.

31 January 2011

1:00PM

Monday

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish

16 January 2011. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, Road 8 Cor. Road 2, Project 6, Quezon City. 

High Heels, Short Skirts and Terrible Twos. Manageable if you have:

1. Husband who takes care of Cecilia on weekends while the househelp is on every-weekend-overnight-days-off.

2. Househelp who takes care of Cecilia while husband is at work on weekdays.

31 January 2011

11:00 AM

Monday 

2 of 100 Friends: Jose Leonardo Sabilano

Jose Leonardo Ancheta Sabilano (I'm sorry I just love your name) and fiance Jana Lopez. 17 January 2011. FEU Hospital because of Jonar's Apendicitis. Nakilala ko si Jonar bago ko pa sya nakita. Pwede ba namang hindi makikilala ng isang babae ang legend ng tripod na ito.. Nang nakita ko sya for the first time sa isang rally sa kahabaan ng Commonwealth, nagpasama ako sa kanya sa CR ng malapit na McDo.

I love when my schedule permits me to go to Mike's work then we go home together. I feel the need to doll myself up - brush my teeth, comb my hair, put on lipstick and perfume. I am still madly in love with him.

I'm also looking forward to a new workplace - much nearer to Ateneo and to home. I'm looking forward to not commuting at all. Maybe i can better take care of our car.

31 January 2011

10:00 AM

Monday

Big Better Burgers -- Katipunan, Quezon City

September 2010. Big Better Burgers Katipunan Quezon City

Adik si Cecilia sa Jollibee, kaya pag Sabado at ako ang masusunod, sinusubukan naming kumain sa mga kainang hindi pa namin nakakainan. E sa Katipunan pa lang, hindi ko na natupad yung "Kainan lahat ng kainan sa katipunan at abada bago ako mag-graduate."

At puyat na puyat ang hitsura naming mag-ina. Tulad nga ng nasabi ko na, napagod ako nung 2010 kaya magpapahinga ako ngayong 2011. Hindi na muna ako aalis sa comfort zone ko. Mamamalagi ako sa bahay -- ows..? 

Sa tapat ng Ateneo itong Big Better Burgers. At syempre pagkatapos e nag-take out rin kami ng Jollibee. 

Hindi ako food blogger kaya kung binabasa mo ito, wag kang aasa ng reviews. 

31 January 2011

9:30 AM

Monday 

Parish of the Holy Sacrifice

November 2010. Parish of the Holy Sacrifice, UP Diliman, Quezon City

Nung naghahanap si Mike ng simbahan para sa kasal namin, ok na choice ito. Kaso matagal ang reservation time, e isang buwan lang ang preparation namin 'nun.

Kauna-unahang Round Chapel ito sa Pilipinas, na nasa gitna ang altar. Sa tapat ng Shopping Center ito sa UP. Kaya masarap magmerienda pagkatapos.

Mga National Artists ang nagdesign ng mga bagay-bagay dito -- Leandro Locsin (Architecture), at Napoleon Abueva. Kung interesado ka pa: Holy Sacrifice

Nakakatuwa si Cecilia kapag nakakakita ng Crucifix na hindi mala-Christ the King na naka-robe ang Jesus. Tinatawag nyang "Jesus diaper" =)

31 January 2011
9:00 AM
Monday

Radial 6

It's the end of January 2011. And I promised myself one entry per day for this blog. I write and i take pictures not for anything else, but to make me remember. I am a very forgetful person.

9 January 2011. Along Aurora Blvd. Tish, asawang Rom, at Mando sa kabilang sasakyan.

Isa sa mga Radial Roads ng Metro Manila ang Aurora Blvd. (Hindi na ako nagtataka na intersado ako sa mga ganitong bagay dahil nagpakasal ako sa isang mahilig sa mga Mapa at Kasaysayan.) 

Radial 6 ang tawag dito. Simula ito sa may C-1 (Legarda) sa Sampaloc. Madadaanan yung University of Manila, Sampaloc Public Market, Arellano University at Sta. Catalina College. Magiging President Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard (na dating Santa Mesa Boulevard), at dadaan ng San Juan at Quezon City bilang Aurora Boulevard. Dito rin dumadaan ang LRT 2. Pagdating ng Marikina, Marcos Highway na, dadaanan ang SM City Marikina (ewan ko kung bakit kasama itong detalyeng ito dito). Aabot hanggang Antipolo, Rizal at Infanta, Quezon ang Radial 6 na daan.

31 January 2011

Monday

8:00 AM

Project B: Grow a Plant Part 2

This has reference to my Project B which is to Grow a Plant

<insert picture here>Mike and I went to Mt. Banahaw January 22 2011. Been there before once in a high school field trip. But so much better to be with the person you love.

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And yes we bought a 25 peso fortune plant which is now sitting in front of me. Let's see how long Clara the plant will live.

23 January 2011
10:30 AM
Sunday

10 Simple Things That Make Me Happy

January 2010 Farmville Picture.

Girltalk, my favorite forum, said to list 10 Things that make me happy:

1. Facebook games

2. Spanish Bread

3. Orange Juice sa umaga.

4. the smell of new magazines every month and the smell of newspapers every morning

5. unlimited call and texts

6. making lists

7. lotion

8.notebooks and pens

9.shoes

10.my kalat space

I did follow 2010 Belle de Jour's 21 Days of Making or Breaking a Habit, and i did break the habit of playing my facebook games because its taking so much of my time. 3 months of NOT logging into any of my games.

But what the heck. It makes me happy.

I now have a love-hate relationship again, this time with my facebook games -- currently loving Cityville, Farmville, Baking Life, Restaurant City... OMG back to addict time again. 

10 January 2011

2:30 PM

Monday

Project B: Grow a Plant

Feb 2010. This is a Bataw plant. From the Bahay Kubo song "..sitaw..bataw..patani..".Hindi endemic sa Pilipinas yung mga gulay at prutas sa kantang ito. Nadala lang ng Galleon Trade.



Naaaddict ako sa pagbili at pagbabasa ng Good Housekeeping, Real Living, at iba pang mga home improvement magazines. At may mga weekend projects na habang binabasa ko e may pakiramdam ako na sana ako rin makagawa ng ganun.

Sige nga, tignan natin kung makabubuhay uli ako ng halaman, given my self-imposed busy schedule.

10 January 2011

10:30 AM

Monday

Recipe 1: Tomato Salsa

Tomato Salsa:

wansoy

white onions

calamansi

tomatoes

salt

pepper

no cooking needed. slice and mix everything. perfect for lechong kawali. and nachos.

Hindi ako magaling kumuha ng litrato. Ni hindi ko nga alam gamitin yung mga features ng camera namin na kasisira lang ni Cecilia nung nakaraang linggo (nasira naman dahil na rin sa kalumaan). Pero mahilig akong kumuha ng litrato kasi makakalimutin ako.

10 January 2011
8:30 AM
Monday

1 of 100 Friends - Joyce Santos

8 January 2011. Sling in Home Depot.  I knew Jats (in the middle) because we had a "friend" in common.

I have 750 friends in facebook. I haven't really taken time to check who's there and who's not, but I'm sure I have at least 100 real friends on that list.

I should feel guilty that I go out on Saturday nights leaving Mike alone with Cecilia at home, without the yaya. But I don't. Making time for myself refreshes me and makes me come home a better mom - because I'm still Desiree. (But you can't do this if you don't have a husband who loves you as much as Mike loves me.)

10 January 2011

5:30 AM

Monday

San Guillermo Parish Church, Bacolor, Pampanga

This is San Guillermo Parish Church in Bacolor, Pampanga. The place was flooded with lahar back in June 1991, and the bell tower and the facade that we see on the picture is only half of its original height. They rebuilt the church, making the ceiling inside seem low. Its also the setting of Santino's May Bukas Pa. Feb 2009

Mula nung nagsama kami ni Mike, parating inaabangan ko yung kwentuhan namin tungkol sa kung anong gagawin namin sa weekend. Dati kasi, pangarap ko lang na makasama sya bawat weekend ng buhay ko. Natupad naman, may plus plus pa.

8 January 2011
2:30pm
Saturday

San Guillermo Parish Church, Bacolor, Pampanga

Girl Friends Only

This is the reception of Cecilia's Baptism in North Susana Clubhouse on March 2009. On the table are our neighbors in Metrogreen Village, Pasig. (L-R, Ninang Lyn, her daughter Aileen, her son Nico (is this Nico?), and Ninong Nick; Daddy; Kathrina Tiu Dy and her mom)

It was a shock when we all heard the news that Kat passed away. She was a childhood neighborhood kalaro (imagine: mga batang kalsada sa mga kalye ng Metrogreen nung puro talahib pa ang Pasig-Cainta, mga batang naglalaro ng patintero, nagbabahay-bahayan at "eagle-eagle" sa mga construction ng mga bagong bahay). Then we had menstruation, started seeing boys, went to college, got our own paychecks. And then I had Cecilia.

She gave Cecilia's gift -- Baby Couture bag. We said we really needed to get together. She got my number, I got hers. We were about to meet a week after Cecilia's baptism for Coffee. -- This is what we always say to an old close "best" friend we happen to bump into after 4 years of highschool, or after Ballet school, or after those weekly saturday night outs.

Then you both forget that you even have each other's number.

7 January 2011

6:00pm

Friday

Project A: Level 5 Shoe Rack

15 lonely pairs of shoes I gave to Manong Garbage Collector one January 2011 Tuesday morning.

I threw 15 pairs of shoes. I don't have the luxury of space to keep them for sentimental reasons - and I have to let go and to move on, and just be happy that once in my life they made me happy. And I'm building a new batch of shoemates to put in a soon to be a Level 5 Shoe rack (that should fit our budget).

Change is continuous in spite of our efforts to resist it. We begin to realize that we do not have any way to stop it or to slow it down.  It becomes more difficult to hide from what in our hearts we know to be true—the fact of impermanence. 

Letting go happens naturally, just as shoes wear away. I do not need to make a dramatic statement in tossing them out -- but I am doing exactly that right now by posting this-- I just need to continue on.

7 January 2011

2:30pm

Friday

Sanctuario de Sto. Cristo, San Juan

A visit to Sanctuario de Sto. Cristo, San Juan last 19 December 2010. It was built by the Dominicans in the 17th Century, Unfortunately heavily altered in the 1960's. Dr. Zialcita explained that the original facade was given a twin!

Okay,  it's the new year and this is the first year I am making resolutions. One of which is to go to church. Cecilia is 2 years old and she now gets to understand things, and I being the mommy of this household, must put Christ in the center of our family.

Well, I just enjoy going to Churches. I haven't really found a church which I enjoy the sermons, but I should start somewhere. And making myself (and my family) comfortable in a place of prayer is a good start.  Sabi nga ni Alvin Barcelona sa Didache 2011, "The busier my life gets, the more I realize I need prayer -- solo, quiet intimate time with the Lord."

5 January 2011
12:30 pm
Wednesday

Release Your Anger -- Isdaan Restaurant, Gerona, Tarlac

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Sa Tacsiyapo ito, Gerona, Tarlac. Isdaan ang pangalan ng kainan, at bukod sa magandang lugar na maganda talaga, kilala sila sa Wall na ito kung saan pwede kang bumili ng plato, 20-50php, baso, 10-30php at kahit na isang TV sa halagang 500php para ibato sa mga nakasulat sa pader, pag galit na galit ka na at kailangan mo ng release. O may gusto kang umbagin na hindi mo naman mapanindigan.  Agosto 2008

Mahigit limang taon na kaming magkakilala ng asawa ko, halos tatlong taong kasal, nakabukod kasama ng isang yaya, isang kotse at si Cecilia na dalawang taong gulang na,  pero ewan ko ba, hindi kami nag-aaway. Ewan ko kung nagagalit sya sa akin, pero ako hindi. Wala kaming Marriage encounter o kahit anong Christian churchy group na gumagabay sa amin, pero mukhang totoo yatang kapag mahal nyo ang isa't isa, parating may bigayan, parating napag-uusapan, at parating ang kapakanan ng isa't isa ang  mamamayani.

Oo, may frustrations ako, may mga expectations na akala ko nung single pa ako at dreaming-dreaming pa ako ng bahay-bahayan-live-happily-ever-after-kemer na hindi naman pala nangyayari pag kasal na, pero lahat ng ito e ok lang dahil parating mas ok ang binibigay at nangyayari sa loob ng marriage na ito -- at yun e dahil rin sa extra effort ni Mike at sa akin rin.

Parating naaalala kong Love is a Decision, it's not a feeling, sabi ni Scott Peck sa Theo131.

You have to decide to love someone loveable. If you are single, I suggest you never force yourself into someone who cares less about you. By "care", I mean yung pang totoohanan. Hindi yung text lang o tawag o pang-college ligawan na "I care about you."

Mahigit limang taon na kaming magkakilala ng asawa ko, halos tatlong taong kasal, nakabukod kasama ng isang yaya, isang kotse at si Cecilia na dalawang taong gulang na, pero hindi pa rin ako nakararamdam ng pagsisisi na nagpakasal ako sa kanya.

5 January 2011

8:30 AM

Wednesday

A Josefina - Jose Rizal

This picture was taken in Dapitan, Zamboanga Del Norte, last August 2009. These are the steps going to a very romantic place in Rizal's home in Dapitan. "A Josefina," which reads in translation:

Josephine

Who to these shores came,

Searching for a home, a nest,

Like the wandering swallows,

If your fate guides you

To Shanghai, China, or Japan,

Forget not that on these shores

A heart beats for you.

 I'm taking small steps in forgetting you. I did quit you cold turkey, but no matter how forgetful I am, I can't seem to forget places, dates, people, food - I can't even forget the feel of my skin with your smell. I miss you so much.

4 January 2011
12:17 pm
Tuesday

Antipolo, Rizal

Lumix Panasonic Kemer

This is my nephew Jersey Daniel. He's such an angel. I wish I had Cecilia have her professional photoshoots too, because I only took her pictures myself.   

Gusto ko sana gawing photoblog ito. Kaso nasira na talaga yung camerang ginagamit ko -- since 2006. Kung maaari nga lang hindi magpalit ng mga gadgets e hindi ko gagawin -- hanggang ngayon nga, nasira na yung camera sa kalumaan at kalalaro ni Cecilia e hindi ko pa rin alam kung ilang megapixel ba yun. Minsan nga akong nasabihan na "Technology and Des just won't match - such an irony since you're in Technical Support." Pero kailangang magbago. When what you are doing leads to your own undoing, then better undo that thing you do. At least naman alam ko na ngayon anong ibig sabihin ng pixel.

January 1, 2011

7:30 AM

Saturday