Meet our new Homemates....

more than 30 days before nadeliver yung binili naming shoe rack. finally! naayos ko din yung ibang gamit namin. madami pa kaming kulang na storage..pero hinay-hinay lang muna.our budget doesn't permit us yet to buy everything.


one of the shoe cabinets..placed it sa small space namin pagpanik ng stairs.

two weeks past since it was delivered, but ngayon ko lang sya mapo-post. so busy eh. anyway, bumili din kami ng TV for our living/dining room (sa liit ng house namin, almost isa na lang sya). kakatamad kasi maglinis sa baba if walang TV(is it a valid reason? hehehe).


our new TV on top of the other shoe cabinet (pero di shoe nkalagay jan.hehehe). bytheway..hopefully sooner, i can change the color of our stairs..we want it black or dark oak (same with the shoe rack)..

ito pa ang isang bago namin. just bought it yesterday from robinson. fell in love with the color and design. but forgot to buy a tassle so just bought it this afternoon from SM Molino. Complete na sya ngayon. i love it.


finally..may kapalit na yung black curtain namin.new look naman.

meron pa pala...bought this picture frame yesterday from japan plus-88 store...we used our pre-nup pix. ganda noh?


our new frame with our pre-nup pix. on top of the DVD rack is the box of our unity coin. iniisip ko pa kung pano namin sya idi-display.any suggestion?we're thinking of framing it pero diko alam kung san pwede. may alam ba kayo?

by the way, add ko lang pix ni hubby..while bonding with Chin-chin. Sweet nila noh? Hahaha.


ang masipag kong hubby

Our New Baby..."Chinchin"

After seeing and drive testing the car that saturday, we were able to bring it home on Thursday. The last owner had it registered 1st. We are still lucky to have it at a lower cost. Sulit talaga, i like the color, the style, the leather seat, the rain gutter, the pioneer stereo and others. After some days, we gave her a name...Chinchin. Bakit? Wala lang.. Kasi Chinito amo nya eh. Hehehe. Next plan namin is her blessing. Hopefully we can do it next week.


picture from adpost


view from our house


chinchin in front of her new home

Searching Week

Hay hirap maghanap ng car na fitted sa requirements and budget namin... By wednesday, may nakita kami, Corolla '96 for 140K but when we called the next day...nabenta na sya. Sayang. Kasi wikend lang kami puede pumunta dun. Anyway, sabi naman ni Ariel, it's not meant for us. So ulit ako sa paghahanap sa... friendster classified, buyandsell.com.ph, and adpost.

Finally, Thursday, may nakita ako...(ako naghahanap...busy kasi si ariel and ako lang matiyaga mag-surf. downloads ang talent ni ariel eh). I saw an ad in adpost that met our criteria- Lancer EL '95 worth 140K. Ariel talked to the owner, we can view it this wikend, minor lang din daw papaayos namin like window and something that i don't remember now. Sa may Ever ortigas lang naman sila and we're going to Pasig on Saturday. We haggle over the phone and the owner said that he can go 'til 130K. Yepeey...excited na me to see it. Saw the pix in the web and it was ok naman.

2nd Day of the Year...We need to decide...

While having our Bfast, Ariel and I discussed that it would be inconvenient for us if we will not have our own CAR. We computed the expense and realizes that we can save more if we will be buying a CAR since we already have a GAS allowance of 150li/mo. So we start discussing on where can we get the funds and how far can we go. The initial plan is a CAR worth 100K or less and at most 15 y.o. It might be impossible but some of our friends/coworkers were able to find one. So I assure Ariel, that I can find one. We contacted our friends because maybe they knew somebody who's selling theirs but they don't know anybody that time.

New Year's Day...

We had our lunch in my parents' house. Dad cooked steak and I also brought some of the carbonara that I cooked the night before. It was a good lunch.Got a text invitation from my cousin, so we went to their place and had meals ulit...hehehe. See some of our pictures...


That was me with my bro, sis and my nieces


my cute pamangkin-Angel

In the evening, we went to Ariel's Place. Ariel and his Ate discussed the "VAN". She said that she'll be needing it for 3 months because they will have visitors coming from Canada and she will be processing their Real Property Tax. They brought us to our house para di na daw kami mag-commute but we 1st had our dinner in Congo Grill near ATC. In our house, Ariel toured them around. It was just good that I didn't received any bad comment. Hehehe. Anyway, they left before 12mn. We are so tired that we just fixed some things then we headed to our bed.

1st New Year's Eve

We decided to spend our new year in our new house with just the 2 of us. This is because, it was our 1st and I believe that new year must be spend in one's own house (Ewan ko, tradition namin yun eh.)1st thing in the morning, we cooked our bfast and started cleaning the house. We did a genral cleaning. Ariel and I cleaned all our glass windows kasi di pa sya talaga nalilinis since I come from the US. We finished at around 4pm. We rested for some time then, we started cooking for our Media Noche.



After cooking and preparing the table, we did some picture taking...









We also planned to give some of the dishes we have to our Manager living a couple of blocks from us but when we're above to lock our door, we saw them coming. They gave us some fruit salad and some Pancit Malabon.



We also gave them my Carbonara and Chang-Yu Red Wine.At around 11pm, we stayed outside to watched the fire crackers of our neighbors. We didn't buy anything since we believe, it is safer.At 12mn, we greeted each other and have our Late or Early Meal.... Hehehe.Well... that is how simple we celebrated our new year's eve but that is also how special we celebrated it....

Meeting the Bugoys...and The night before New Year's Eve.

Come Friday, we need to visit my dad to canvass for the metals we need for the house fencing. Unfortunately, the shop was close,but they still allowed us to enter their storage and check what they have. WE were able to choose what we want. Dad will just check the prices and buy as well if our budget permits. Hehe.

After that, we went to Megamall. We park on the 4th floor. Pero nung andun pa lang kami sa entrance ng parking sa ground floor, i got irritated of the motorcycle in front of us. Ang lakas kasi ng sounds. He also has 2 passengers w/o helmet and would like to park sa taas. I was just thinking, coz i know that sa labas or baba, ang parking slot ng motorcycles. Going to 3rd floor, parang nahirapan sya tas muntik nang bumaliktad yung motor nya. Nahulog yung daughter(8 y.o ata) and wife nya. The little girl shouted " Aray, ang sakit ng pwet ko". Buti na lang di nakatutok si Ariel dun sa motor,kung 'di bka nasagasaan pa namin sila. Ayun, basag ang backlight nya at di ko pa alam kung ano pa mga nasira. Di na kami nakatulong kasi shock din ako at mabibitin kami paakyat at yung traffic sa likod namin. Hay...kawawa naman yung bata! Sana lang kasi...yung iba alalahin yung mga ginagawa nila pati mga pasahero nila.

So enough for that, we're meeting with Ariel's barkada in Starbucks. Nag-Balikbayan kasi yung bestfriend nya na working in Fujitsu Japan. Ngaps, pareho sila ng name. Tawag nila kay hubby is Go tas kay Ariel M. is Manok kasi Manosca surname nya. He is our Bestman in our wedding but he was not able to attend due to an urgent customer issue that he needs to attend. Anyway, ok lang naman. Una naming nakita si Peter. We waited to the others in Wendy's. Ariel bought...frosty...fries then ice tea. Hahaha...takaw talaga ng hubby ko. When they arrived, we decided to eat in Dencio's. Hay...daming food. Sagot lahat ni Manok. By the way, Manok is with LJ, Wilson is with Hana, Peter is with No one kaya asar talo sya. Hehehe. Pero masaya naman sila. Kasi at last na-complete silang apat. College buddies talaga silang tatlo. 1st time ko silang na-meet sa house nila Ariel nung bday nya. Di pa kami ni Ariel. All of them were present. Dito pa kasi based dati si Manok. Grabe, ang kukulit nila. Ngaps..iba pa GF ni Wilson nun. Shhhh.

KAMING LAHAT


Wilson and Hana


Ariel alias Manok and LJ


Peter


Nyway, after lunch, we all went to timezone.Kung ano-anong nilaro nila..dakilang tagapanuod lang ako. Tas maya-maya..naisipang kong pumunta sa home section ng SM para maka-pagsolo naman yung magkakaibigan. So ayun, I bought a Vase na pwede din kitchen vase for sandoks tsaka bathroom brush na katerno nung tiles namin.

Mga 6:30pm na ata kami naghi-hiwalay. May inabot pa si Manok kay Ariel...late wedding gift daw. Didn't expect na makaka-receive pa kami ng wedding gifts. Thanks Manok.

We also bought RED Ribbong Black Forest Cake for our Ninong(Tito ni Ariel). Then, hinatid namin si Peter sa San Juan.

Dumiretso na kami sa Mayon, Manila. Wala dun si Tito Augusto but andun si Len-Len ( Bunsong anak nila). We gave the cake and the gift for Ariel's pamangkin. We also checked on Inang ( Ariel's Lola). Sobrang payat na nya. Bed ridden na din. Hay..naalala ko na naman lola ko.

We hoped to watched Pyro Olypics but the traffic was so heavy kahit sa Espana pa lang kaya di na kami tumuloy. We took mag-SLEX instead of Coastal. Good thing that the traffic was light.

We passed through SM Molino so we decided to buy the things we need for the Media Noche so we won't need to go out the next day. Hay..daming tao pero sandali lang naman kami nag-grocery kasi konti na lang naman kulang namin.

Pag-uwi, ayos lang kami konti tas slip na.... Kakapagod.