Backtrack barrage

Hi there! ^_^ Wow, my last post was...MARCH?! Goodness, the months suddenly flew by so fast! Hubby and I are on our seventh month together now. =)

So here I am, drafting posts for upload like crazy. Boy, do I have so many stories to tell. I've tried cooking a number of dishes over the past few months (came up with or tricked up some, too). Last May, hubby and I finally pushed through with our Palawan trip (Baker's Hill hopia!), and just the other week, I attended my first ever cooking class. So just before I encounter more stuff to blog about, I must get all this up.

Watch out for new posts very soon. ^_^

*BB*

Hulog ng langit...

[VLP - Very Late Post] It was a Wednesday morning way back in April last year. Mom called me up in the office and said something that did not at all make sense to me at first. I had a hundred different things running in my mind--of course, I was at work, then I was organizing a surprise birthday party for my dad (who was in a few days turning 60)...


To make the long story short, someone came knocking at our house asking if we were interested to buy a 12-piece stainless cookware set. Now what were the chances of such a thing happening? The person who came to our house--mom said he was a young boy--had a rather sad story to tell. His father lost his job and just came home from Dubai and they needed to sell some of their things to raise money for his tuition fee.


Mom and dad saw the cookware set and said it was very good. And at the price it was being sold, it was a steal. They told the young boy to come back as they had to call me up first. I always trusted mom and dad's opnion and said I'll buy it.


Now, it was just a few months before the wedding and the preparations were underway. I was definitely in no position to go throwing around money.  And there's (then) hubby-to-be...how will he react when I tell him about it? I was sure he's going to scold me. =|


I think I just told hubby-to-be about it via text. To my surprise, he was interested. He said he hoped the boy would come back so we can buy the set.


For a while, I was like, "huh?" LOL


There was no sign of the boy that night. I guess I was a bit sad. But well...more pressing matters were at that moment before me. It was finally dad's surprise birthday party tomorrow!


Thursday came and the surprise kiddie birthday party for dad was successfully pulled off. Boy, was he surprised! =) But the day wasn't yet at an end. It turned out that the boy came back that morning when I was out of the house. Mom and dad completed the purchase on my behalf and the cookware set was waiting for me at home.


So while dad was opening his gifts gleefully like a 6-year-old, I opened my own gift. Well, one that I purchased. LOL. Mom helped me put the set together and laid them out on the dining table. Even hubby-to-be, who accompanied us home, admired it.

It took my breath away. Wow.

Later I tried to research more about the item, and was surprised to see that this set is priced at more or less P18,000 on buy-and-sell sites. With handles made of 24K gold, we got the set at P4,500. It was a real steal. =)

P.S. I haven't used the set until now. I haven't even seen it since dad's birthday last year. It's currently boxed up among our wedding gifts, ready for transport to our future home. ^_^

*BB*

First post of the year

29 JANUARY 2011. Happy New Year! OK, so that's really late. =)

Although I do admit I haven't really kept my blog up-to-date, I feel bad that my last post was more than a month ago. A lot has happened over the past few weeks since I last said anything here. For one, I'm happily married! I officially became my former hubby-to-be's "Mrs." just last Christmas Eve. ^_^

Beginner's Bible was at first intended to follow my kitchen journey as a novice home-cook prior to the wedding. But now, even after I transitioned into my new life, I find myself still feeling like a beginner in the kitchen. Sure, I know what to pick up now and I don't feel lost among our kitchen cupboards, the supermarket shelves or at the palengke. I can come up with Weekday Cheap Shots on a daily basis (if I'm not too sleepy for it). But the kitchen is such an exciting place to take a journey in, where so many lovely moments are shared and much love comes out on a plate of food.

So I'm keeping Beginner's Bible on. Ngayon pa, may official tagabalat, tagahiwa at tagahugas na ako. Hahaha!

My now official taga-everything in action!

And, hey, what's our new Acer Timeline X (running on Intel Core i5) here for, right? ^_^

*BB*

Great...

There are times when you just don't know how to react.


Well, yes, I guess I was upset when I found out that the microwave in the office pantry is out of order. Great. Was looking forward to a nice, warm, homemade sandwich with my cup of hot choco from the vendo. Just great.


But then I see this:

And my morning isn't so bad after all. Hahaha. ^_^ *BB*

Nang dahil kay Iron Man...

...I convinced my husband-to-be to have dinner at Jollibee. Yeah, just to get the Iron Man 2 retractable ear phones! LOL

It's not up to my little brother's strict audio standards, but it works fine for me. Very useful in the office when my brain starts to go dead. Plug the phones and turn up the volume.


The only thing, after a couple of times using it, it doesn't retract anymore. LOL *BB*

Coffee break!

I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but here's my office mug with a cupful of my "own" special blend: half a sachet of 3-in-1 plus a cup of hot choco from the vendo.

1/2 sachet 3-in-1 coffee + 1 cup vendoi hot choco = perfect morning

My morning is perfect for just 13 pesos. =) *BB*