My kinda week. . . The Holy Week

So I decided to write again. I always found excuses not to write before, seemed like I had limitless number of things to do in my list. Now that I become a mother you would think that my list becomes endless, on the contrary, I could now find time to write. That may be because I am freed up of all those activities that occupied my time. Now that I have Jos, I could no longer do those things, and while I did become busier with the baby around, I am just staying home, unlike before - need not to elaborate. I am writing this post while Jos is sleeping and I hope I can finish this before he wakes up and looks for mommy.

Anyways, so how was my week?

Yes, a belated birthday bannoffee pie :) This comes from the office. Starting this year the group decided to give a gift to the birthday celebrant instead of buying a cake. We were asked to write our wishlist for an amount of around Php700. Boy was I having a hard time putting something on that list! Lately though I found myself shopping not for me but for the little one. So what I did was put their my favorite cake (or pie?) because afterall what is a birthday without having one, right?  I intended to share it with my colleagues, but forgot so I ended bring home the whole pie. The husband is not that into sweet, so it's just between me and my neighboor friend. And oh by the way, I still have left in my ref... hahaha

My brother who came back from Saudi gave me this as a gift. I had wanted to buy a GoPro because I wanted to use that for taking Jos' videos. I asked him to scout for sale, and mind you electronics there are cheaper even sans sale than here. I then decided to just buy an ordinary digital camera since I would only use it for videos anyways. Husband and I are both using iPhone but due to so much picture-taking and video-recording we always run out of memory space. I thought a digital cam for videos might be helpful. I think this was too cheap because my brother volunteered to buy it for me as a gift. (Now I am wondering, had I decided to have that GoPro, would he buy it for a gift too? hehe). The last time I had a digital cam was a decade ago before I switched to DSLR. I just got too excited to get my hands on this one! :)

It's a no-no to let Jos get out of your sight even for seconds. He moves so fast and look what happened when we had our attention away from him. So love watching how this little man grows so fast. 

When the crib now becomes so small for him. Haha. He got mad when he could no longer roll but upon seeing his dad taking him a photo he posed and smiled. Hahaha, this made my day... The elGuapito Jos con laGuapita pose. Hahaha

Belgian chocolate cookies plus sweet birthday greeting card from my lovely, neighbor friend. Feeling loved. :)

Did manage to cook tuna-pesto pasta for a Good Friday. Yum, the husband loved it, success!!!

Good Friday

Remembering the days when you could not do much on a Good Friday. As children, we were not allowed to leave the house, forcing everyone to stay inside. One good thing I could remember though was the palatable food that my mother together with her help prepared. The ginataan is I think my favorite. I really would not mind staying at home, it was more fun for me seeing the complete household sticking together.

Things changed when I started living away from my parents. There was one time I remember spending Good Friday in a different country dancing in a party.

Now, when I already have a baby in tow I suddenly remember all those traditions, and some superstitions. So, just to be on the safe side, we didn't leave the house today. I cooked my favorite pesto pasta for dinner and didn't eat meat the whole day. And I'll tell you a secret, did not even take a shower today, so gross of me... But I promised the husband that tomorrow we'll go to BGC and eat good food there.

Well, that's enough for now.

Innocence Day

Happy Innocence Day!

Greetings from the city touted as City of Surprises!

Yes, I have spent Christmas in Pasto, amidst some family members' protest. I decided t stay a little bit longer with a plan in mind to visit close good friends in the neighboring countries (namely: Peru and Bolivia).

Christmas was great! I have spent it with my friend's family and surprisingly even though I'm the only outsider I never felt out-of-place. They even made me sing in the tune of 'O come all ye Faithful' and one Filipino song. But one surprising thing is that I even received two gifts during the close in family Christmas Party! Hooboy...

Anyways, I'm supposed to write about Innocence Day. They came up with their own version of it :Dia del Agua...in which I still have to research how and why...

At first, nobody wanted to go outside for the fear of getting wet. And when I decided to bravely go out, all I heard was the BUENA SUERTES from them. Few minutes later I came back unharmed, safe and sound, and dry. At 9, the whole household decided to bring me to the streets to see how is it like outside. We were like thieves sneaking inside the car, vigilantly looking for possible water-thrower that were hiding behind bushes. We did get in safe, thanks God!

After successfully making the vuelta, we dicided to go home for a quick lunch. At the gate entrance we saw young people havig fun with water. The big barrel of water did escape my sight. As we were drawing near the parking lot, about 10 guys were also fast approaching. Julieta, Diana, Armando and I decided to stay inside the car for a while until the guys slowly disappeared out of sight. As I was in a hurry to get back home (tenia chichi) I opened the cardoor and slowly went out. And then the unexpected thing happened. All those guys suddenly appeared and snatched us (me and Diana) and forcibly dipped us in the barrel of water. Just imagine how wet I did get. Yet, surprisingly, I never felt a bit annoyed. Hell, that was fun!

And the fun didn't end there! In the afternoon we decided to join in PIAYO, which is like a dumptruck. It was loaded with ballons filled with water. In the streets were many people throwing each other water. I've never seen such chaotic yet very fun activity in my life!