long ago vday update – part 2

so, after the lunch and cupcake (which i ate along the way to the medical clinic). I walked to salcedo, timed in 2:55 went in got my stub, got my urine cup, got out 3:05 and started to walk to greenbelt.

i felt like a tourist, armed with a camera and my funkier clothing. (leather choker with spikes, a black ace card tank top over a white collared shirt, a red and black checkered tie, bellbottom jeans and my converse chucks).

v.a. rufino to greenbelt ho! via the walkway (i think)
v.a. rufino street

paseo de roxas to greenbelt ho! walkway

so, after the walk, I got down here and walked to familiar flower shop to buy a gift for a special little boy.

i walked in and i was greeted with red roses everywher ein boquets, in tubs filled with water, mums all around and exotic flowers and what nots.

so after picking a long stem pink rose that is still tightly budded, i took a few pictures…these two coming out the best.

i have a rose,
more beautiful than any other rose

pink mums

i got to greenbelt, walked around looking for a present, warked to park square 2 and back to greenbelt’s fish and co. to reserve seats, and back to music 1, where i bought this album by the stereophonics. and it’s currently on repeat on my car. they’re awesome.
the little boy and i met and i gave him my presents (the rose and the SE earphones). We went to fish & co. to start our dinner.

shrimp and vermicelli rolls
juicy shrimp wrapped in vermicelli deep fried
served with sweet and spicy dipping sauce

as always, i ordered the best fish and chips in town. (now with rice), he ordered the one with chips.

the best fish and chips in town

the best fish and rice in town (hehe)

the best strawberry lemonade *slurp*
have an endearmint? :)

here’s a couple of pictures of us. just so you know that it’s not an imaginary friend i’m with. hehe

me and the little boy.

well, that’s the sort of the end of the vday update. i also got flowers during the morning. which i posted here.

it was a different valentines for me, but it was great one…

long ago vday update – part 1

a friend invited me over for lunch since he was leaving. i also have a date for a urine sample at the associated medical services, and dinner with the little boy. with all those planned i took a half day off work. and here are the camwhore moments

jr picked me up in his red altis around 12:20, and we had lunch at this japanese place called たたみ (tatami) inside the Serendra piazza (plaza, whatever). He picked angus beef yakiniku, crazy maki, hamachi sashimi and kani salad for sharing, and i ordered a scallops donburi for me. miso soup for the both of us.

/** tatami’s japanese inspired interior */

/** my plate, chopsticks and soysauce holder */

/** my scallops donburi */

/** grains of rice from my donburi */

/** me and jr, one of my friends from college. who is
going to the US (again) the lucky bastard */

next stop from tatami is Cupcakes by sonja. Expensive little cupcakes in the expensive little store.

/** entrance at sonja’s….a world that looks like
an invasion of the stepford wives. */

/** sonja’s pink and white, almost creepy,
stepford wives interior */

since it was vday, the line was long…it circled around the store already and out the door, this was jr’s vday treat for me (besides lunch), he was also giving his office girlmates cupcakes.

i was lucky enough to be there to pick the cupcake i liked…i settled for this…

/** last lemon drop that i saw disappear in front of my eyes
i’m glad i got a new one from a new batch :) */

anyway, after the long line, we got out of the store 2:30ish, i hitched a ride with him till dela rosa, and we went separate ways, patting each other at the back goodbye…
Part 2 soon…i’m going to bed…

valentines [pictures]

i got myself a box of flowers…

here’s a rose from the bunch

roses bound in plastic…

roses by the table

update tomorrow.

i’ll pick you up at 12

i sort of decided that i didn’t want plans for vday. in fact, i wish i could do it like last year and existentialize it. you know, go on leave, fight evil spirits, loll around the house, wear tons of black, sport the emo goth chick look, and all other things to support my rebel cause against this crass commercialism they call holiday :)

don’t get me wrong, i don’t mind people going baduy over valentines. pro-choice baby. its okay if they want to look like a chocolate box trimmed with lace, clad in pink, red, and white and ribboned like there’s no tomorrow. their call.

but since i will be missing crucial nihongo lessons, lost time for fd creations, coding and all the what-nots of work. I guess I have to wear those eye-guards like the horses have in the kalesas here.

there’s just something about the flowers that make me puke. no offense, i ♥ flowers, i don’t mind getting them, i just don’t like getting them out of pity. or if i see someone gave somebody else flowers than gives them to me also after a short timeframe. no, thanks. i’d rather get a video card and eat it.

a friend called up last friday night just to say he was leaving for the US again this weekend. and another 6 months in SLC,Utah.

me and jr at teriyaki boy

this was a picture taken with his new phone, a motorola v3(something). i’m not so particular with the models anymore. my 6020 will last me another 2 years hopefully.

so i told him, let’s just meet up for coffee (or something), since i was buried with the project,a nd he said yes, definitely. and so, yesterday i was just asking if he had plans for valentines. (regarding … ), i thought he was going to send flowers across continents and all the mushy stuff. i told him, valentines is a bit overrated don’t you think? and he just simply told me that it was a chance to share the love around the world or something as cheesy as that T-T. yuck. >_< ^^;; (isn’t it obvious im not a big fan?)…

so last night he asked me if i had any plans for vday. i told him, i don’t. since ‘we’ will be going out some other time, so he wanted to meet up on wednesday (dinner, movie and coffee supposedly), or a lunch.

i opted for lunch. since the former is just … too much :P and it looks so … wrong. and it might spark up some weird tension on certain people. he already had a place in mind, at serendra’s tatami.

so that’s the last message he gave me after i fell asleep. hehe. ^^;;