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The Record Breaker Experience

As I have posted before, we bought 4 Patron tickets to Sarah Geronimo’s Record Breaker concert. I’m so glad I did, all the stress (I will explain later) and the waiting was all worth it.

Why stress? Saturday was a pretty busy day in our household. My mom was already there when I arrived Friday night. Saturday morning, we brought Ayex to the pedia for her following up check-up (she had been coughing for two weeks now – allergy). In the afternoon, just after we had lunch, we went to the grocery. Pretty busy, huh?

Our original plan was to leave our place in QC at 5PM because we’ll take care of some business related errand in Cubao. My mom also said that it’s our chance to have our rare bonding time – girls night-out. Unfortunately, I had to put Ayex to sleep because she’s been awake the whole day and it was 4:30PM. We were able to left the house at 6PM. The stress should have stopped there because we’ll take the MRT. From our place, the whole travel should be just an hour. But lo and behold, it took us an hour or so in the MRT ride for just 4 stations! It was crazy and super stressing! My sister who will come from the other end station was also super stressed because their train has no air conditioning! Booooo, MRT!

Anyway, we were buzzer beaters. We were inside Araneta a few minutes before 8PM, the printed start of the concert. We were able to grab some food and drinks before we went inside and find our seat. I was pretty impressed with myself because the seats I got really belong to the nice spot. Talk about a clear view of everything. When we were already seated, we all began to relax and wait for the show to start, which happened around 9PM, I think.

Sarah is great and so is everyone else who made the concert possible. She sang a medley which lasted for about eleven minutes and that was not yet her last song. The surprised guests include Christian Bautista, Charlie Green and The Kanto Boys minus JLC. Toni was so kilig seeing Vhong Navarro on stage. It was definitely worth the money and the time.

Now, let me share with you one of the many videos I took. Pardon the text at the top as I used a trial software to merge two videos of the same song. I’m sharing this one because this is my current favorite song.

Friday Photo Flashback #4: Remembering Lolo

I missed the last two editions and I promised myself that I’ll be back this week.

It’s been a while since I last visited my grandparents’ home in Pangasinan where we used to spend all our summer vacation. I can’t even remember why we stopped spending our summers there. Was it because my grandparents left for Guam? Did both of them go? I can’t really remember and I find it a little embarrassing to ask mom.

Anyway, as you may know, we remember are departed ones here in the Philippines at the start of November. It reminded me again that I haven’t been visiting my maternal grandfather and maternal great grandmother. This year I had a chance to visit the latter and it was quite an adventure. As for my Tatay Cesar, I hope I can visit him soon.

Tatay Cesar used to bring me to school in his owner type jeepney when I was in pre-school. And when Tatay Cesar was still alive, we had this rare chance of visiting Baguio as a whole family. I don’t think we were fortunate enough to do it again. And so, as I was digging my archive for a picture for today, and chanced upon the photo below, I thought it is perfect.

A family picnic at Baguio

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PhotoHunt #7: Bags

This week’s PhotoHunt theme is Bags. It should not be too hard for me because I have a few but none of them suits my taste today.

So here, I’m sharing you something that Mother Earth will be proud of.

The bag my little girl is carrying here is a recycled one. It is made from empty juice tetra packs. It is hand-woven by Ate Dilen, Mon’s cousin. When we go to Lusiana, Laguna, they never fail to send us some of their woven bags, which we really appreciate. It make us use less plastic. And oh, did you know that in Lusiana, everyone is encouraged to use these woven stuff? They have a law that penalizes anyone who is caught using a plastic bag. Isn’t that thoughtful for Mother Earth?

How about you, how are contributing to saving our one and only Earth? Share your tips in the comments box. After that, be sure to check the other entries.