night-outs

Catching Up

Hello Everyone! How are you all? I hope all of you had a wonderful and memorable Christmas celebration. I’ve been offline since Christmas Eve and while I really meant to catch up on my blogging, my schedule just won’t permit me to go online.

My family is now here in Las Pinas, in my mom’s place, where we will stay until after the New Year. I have plans of meeting with various groups to catch up and it started last night.

Last night, I met with my college girlfriends and we had dinner at Kanin Club in West Gate, Alabang. I will post a review of the place in another entry. I like their Crispy Dinuguan and Bagoong Rice. Thanks to all my girlfriends who totally exerted effort to make this post-Christmas celebration come true.

My next schedule would include meet ups with my online mommy friends and Elementary friends. I really hope I can meet them all before we go back to Quezon City. And I also hope I can blog all the posts waiting for me. Wish me luck!

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Birthday Treats

I didn’t expect to receive treats for my birthday. I’m really thankful for these. I’m no materialistic person but getting something I don’t expect is always welcome.

Before I went to my treatments, I found hubby alone in our room tinkering something. When I asked him what he was doing, he flashed me a huge mischievous smile. Then he handed me a square thing wrapped in calendar paper with the following note in front.

I was super excited to open my gift that after decoding the numbers, I ripped the wrapper without taking a picture of it. I only remember to take its picture when hubby reminded me.

My jogging buddy
This gift is very timely because I mean to start jogging to trim down my weight. I like it that it is orange. I’d like to commend Apple for being able to pack such thing in a very compact manner. This package already include the shuffle unit, headset and USB cable. Amazing, eh?

On with my treats. I had my much needed waxing treatment at Lay Bare Waxing Salon Congressional. They gave me a 15% off in my UA treatment plus a FREE eye brow threading. This is also timely because my brows have grown thick and messy.

The last treat I got was from The Spa. It was my first time to have a massage in The Spa and I can say that I will definitely come back again. More of that experience in another post. I used the gift card our previous boss gave us last Christmas worth PhP1000. I was booked for a Swedish massage in a Deluxe room. Since it was my birthday, they gave me a free upgrade to an executive room plus a PhP200 voucher.

Pampering is always a great way to celebrate one’s birthday, noh? The best part is, I only spent little on these beautification.

Mommy’s Night Out

Yesterday, I was able to leave the house ALONE to meet my girlfriends. Alone because for the first time, since I was on ML, I always have Ayex in tow whenever I go out. Anyway, back to the night out.

Megamall is at the middle of Ortigas and Shaw Boulevard MRT stations. That means, if I take the train, I would have to walk about 500 meters. I am lazy so when I reached the North Edsa station, I decided to take an ordinary bus, lucky me, Roval Transport was there. It has been months since I last rode the bus. However, when we reached GMA area, the cars were bumper to bumper. While I kept telling myself that I took the wrong choice, I still did not take the MRT. The traffic ended in Ortigas and I don’t know what was the cause. I’m just happy that I was not late, a few minutes before 5PM, I’m already with Grace.

I met Grace at The Faceshop and we walked to Amici. A few minutes later, Aika arrived. It’s been more than a year since I last saw her. Since her hubby left the country, she barely had a chance to meet us so we let her choose the food we’ll eat. That was my first time to dine there and I must say, their service is efficient. Their food is also delicious but not pricey. We ordered Fried Mozzarella Cheese; Meat Lover’s Delight and Seafood pizzas; Carbonara, Lasagna and Pasta in Garlic and Oil; Caesar’s Salad; and a 1.5L bottle of Sarsi. We were super full with food and stories. To top our dining experience, we got free 3 cups of Caramia gelato because our bill reached PhP1500. Actually, we made it reach that amount. Hahaha!

After ordering, Yana arrived. Nahuli pa siya ng MMDA! She was already in Megamall when she was apprehended. Apparently, when you took the tunnel, you cannot right-turn to Megamall, which she didn’t know. Gretel was the last one to arrive because she had a class in Makati, she’s taking Fashion School.

Our night was filled with food, stories and laughter that we didn’t realize the mall’s closing. Aimee couldn’t meet us at Amici because she’s currently on shift. Good thing she’s just a few blocks away from Megamall. After dinner, we went to her building where we had more stories and laughter. Yun nga lang nakatayo kaming magkwentuhan! Me and my girlfriends are the same crazy people we were back in college. That’s one thing I love about them. You can be like that without hesitations.

We hijacked Aimee from her class (she’s a trainor) for almost an hour. Nobody noticed the time until I declared I have to go because my boobs are already filled with milk and are starting to hurt. I better get home or else, I might end up with leaky clothes. That’s when we called it a night. We agreed that we’ll have an overnight at Yana’s place soon to have more catching up. Below are some of our pictures.