Happy New Year!

Been so busy ever since we got here. I'm already in the Philippines by the way and I will be going back to Malaysia in 2 days! Time flies, really! I will just post some updates and pics when I get back to Malaysia. For now, I need to make the most out of the remaining days of my stay here. Tata! :)

Over and Done With

This is what I don't want in every Pinas vacation I've had - the depression afterwards. Normal lang naman siguro to. Coz after all the anticipation, all the fun we had in the Philippines, all the pinoy food we ate, after 2 weeks of no work and all play, after the summer fun, after all those, balik na ulit kami dito sa Malaysia. Balik work na ulit. Balik sa dull boring life na naman. And yes, i think it is very normal to be depressed.

I know we are so blessed. Hindi lahat ng OFW na katulad ko ay kasama ang pamilya na babalik sa trabaho nila. And I am very thankful for that. Swerte pa nga ako diba. Kasi every few months, pwede din kami umuwi. Hindi katulad ng iba na isang taon pa ang hihintayin ulit. So kung tutuusin, wala akong karapatan mag reklamo.

Kaso tao lang ako at human nature ang pag rereklamo. Depressed ako ngayun. Nalulungkot. Mga isang linggo lang siguro, mawawala na ulit to ang everything will be back to normal na ulit. Mas masarap lang yung feeling na papalapit ng papalapit ang bakasyon kesa tapos na and nothing to look forward to na naman. Haaaayssss...

At dahil malungkot ako, makabili nga ng ice cream mamaya. Hehe.

I'm grateful for a wonderful vacation. I'm grateful for a fun and successful 1st birthday party of my Kylie. I'm grateful that we were back safely here in Malaysia. And I'm grateful that Jay-ar and I are back to work (kasi hindi lahat ng tao may work). For all those, Thank you, my awesome God! :)

Yun lang. :) To follow na lang ang pictures from Kylie's 1st birthday. Bukas ko upload :)

Tata! <3

Hay Salamat!

After all the roller coaster ride we had for this trip, mukang matutuloy na din sya sa wakas. I think I will savor this vacation more dahil sa mga pinagdaanan namin bago pa ito matuloy. From my leave approval, to Jay-ar's leave approval to Jay-ar's work load to my visa approval to my baby and cousin's visa approval to Jay-ar's leave approval again. Hay! Lahat yan naging pasaway! Sa ngayun, hinihintay ko na lang ang agent ko to give us our passport. Kukunin pa niya sa immigration office. And to think that our flight will be tomorrow morning na! Haaay tlaga. Sana wala ng hassle.

Sobrang i-eenjoy ko tlga tong vacation na to dahil pinahirapan nila kami for having this. Sana lang walang magkasakit samin sa Pinas. Dami daw nag kakasakit dun ngayun kasi sa climate :( Need to take lots of vitamin C. Weather, please makisama ka. Wag ka nang dumagdag pa sa mga pasaway okay?!

And thank you Lord, if it's not for you, none of this will be possible. Thank you for making this happen for us. Thank you for anwering all my prayers. You are really awesome! :) Thank you and I love you :)

See you tomorrow friends and families and Pilipinas kong mahal. :)

Excited to the Nth Level

I know in the Philippines, sobrang wala na nag wo-work during these times. I know cuz i have been there, I have done that. Holiday mode na lahat ng mga tao. And I know also I have no right to feel like that kasi wala naman ako sa Pinas PERO wala akong magagawa na even if I still have like 8 working days to go bagi umuwi ng Pinas at wala na ko sa mood mag trabaho. Pwede ba paki-fast forward na lang to December 24? If I am asking for too much, kahit up to December 23 na lang. Hehehe!

Haaaay! Wala na tlaga ako sa mood mag work. Nakaka inggit yung mga nag wo-work sa Pinas kasi I know again na puro Christmas parties na lang inaatupag nila. I know!

Nwei, malapit na. Konting tiis na lang. I have waited for this for a year! Yes, for a year ako nde nakalanghap ng polusyon sa Pinas at kahit saan ka pa at anu ka pa, hahanap hanapin mo tlaga ang amoy ng Pinas.

Hindi naman sa humihingi ako ng maraming trabaho ha. Pero nakaka dagdag din kasi yung mejo petiks mode ko ngayun sa work sa pananabik ko sa pag uwi. Wala masyado gawa kaya mas maraming time mag isip kung ganu ko na eexcite. Alam mo na. Hehehe!

Ay naku... Paulit ulit na lang ako kaya titigilan ko na kasi Im sure gets nyo na kung gano ko ka excited umuwi ng Pinas. Not to mention, 1st time uuwi ni Kylie sa Pinas. Uber excited lalo ako. Ayan, naulit ko naman... Stop na muna. Byers! :)

Work and Others

I had a hell week last week and another half hell week this week. Our crappy system is giving out weird errors (database transaction rollback) that the developers who wrote it can't figure out why.
So this week has been busy doing reprocessing of transactions that were not reprocessed during the first submission. Hope it will stabilize soon and no work for tomorrow.

Speaking of which, I plan to do my Christmas shopping tomorrow. A week and 3 more office days to go and Manila, here we come. I have never been so excited in my life. It has been a year since I have visited my home country. *excited to the nth level*. Actually so excited that I don't want to work anymore. *holiday mode activated*

Plan to go home early today and by early I mean like 6.30 pm. I hope there's no issues so I can escape early as planned.

Ciao for now.

Balik Trabaho

Sobrang bilis ng bakasyon namin. Natapos ng hindi ko namamalayan. Hindi bale, mabilis lang naman ang 2 months. Sana hindi ko din mamalayan na October na pala at uwi na ulit sa pinas. Hehehe!

Kaya ngayun eto, back to work na ulit. As expected, na enjoy ko naman ang bakayson namin ni Jay-ar. Sobrang bitin nga lang. Palagi naman ganyan pag OFW at uuwi ng pinas. Sobrang nabibitin sa bakasyon.

So anu na nga ba ang aming pinag kaabalahan sa pinas.

Unang una, umuwi tlaga kami para mag pa executive check-up. At sobrang nawindang ako sa mahal ng check-up at gamot. Ang tagal tagal ko na kasing nde umiinom ng gamot. Since mataas ang cholesterol level ni Jay-ar at may UTI naman ako, kailangan na uminom ng gamot. Hehehe!

Sobrang na enjoy ko din ang birthday celebration ng aking cute na cute na pamangkin. Sa susunod ko na upload ang pics pag nagka time ako. Nag silbing reunion ng mga Recaldes ang birthday na yun kaya walang pumapansin sa host kundi mga kids lang. Ang mga adults busy sa chikahan and catching up with each other's lives. Hehehe!

Nakapag meet ako ang isang group ng college friends ko at nag check-in kami sa hotel para magkulitan, mag wentuhan ang mag kantahan gamit ang bago kong biniling magic mic. Hehehe! Nag punta din kami sa isang comedy bar at swerte naman kami kasi andun si Inday Garutay, Booba at si Chocolate kaya sobrang nakakatawa at enjoy tlaga.

Nag stay ako ng mga 3 days sa Calamba para makipag bonding sa mga relatives ni Jay-ar. Hehehe! Walang araw na nag stay lang ako sa bahay kaya sa sobrang dami ng gs2ng gawin at sa sobrang konti ng time, nde ko na nagawang makapag pa facial at makapag manicure and pedicure. Pero nakapag pa spa naman kami ni Jay-ar sa Calamba.

Tapos malling. Pero ang napuntahan ko lang na mall ay MOA at glorietta. Napadaan nga lang ako ng glorietta kasi dun ang meeting place namin ng mga college friends ko. Hehehe!

Haaay, super bitin tlaga. Kasi siguro dahil sa executive check-up kaya ganun. 3 beses din kami nag pabalik balik sa St. Luke's para dun. Nde ko na nga na meet ang VILLMA at JoBarCo kasi sobrang kinapos na tlaga sa oras. Pero sa October, I will make it a point na ma meet ko sila. Haaay, ang sarap sa Pinas. To follow na lang ang pictures. Sa uulitin! Babush!

Back to Reality That Bites!

...yan ang aking YM status ngayun.

Hello world! I'm back here in Malaysia. I arrived yesterday afternoon at mejo nde pa ko makapaniwala na andito na ulit ako. I had so much fun sa Pinas. Indeed, time flies when you're having fun! Super bitin tlaga!!! Looking forward na lang ako sa next bakasyon grande namin.

And guess what kung anu sumalubong sakin dito sa office? ERROR! hehehe!

I will post the chikas and kwentos and photos soon... Kailangan ko muna maayus ang error na yun... Laterz!

Ps. Gs2 ko na bumalik ulit sa Pinas. As in NOW na!

Overdue Post

But as they say, "better late than never right?"
So as I've said in my previous post, I am back in Malaysia and I just survived another week in the office. Our company has lots of chaos nowadays. And it gets worse everyday. Anyway, will just have to create another post for that because this post is dedicated for photos and my Philippines mini adventure. So here goes:

August 24: I flew back in Manila at 7:20 am. So imagine what time I was in the airport. It was so early, I had to wake up at 3 am. Anyway, I arrived at Clark Airport [airline was AirAsia] at 11:30 and I reached Manila around 3 pm [the bus from Clark Airport leaves at 12:30 pm] and I was at home about 4 pm. Basically, I spent my whole day traveling! For me, this is the bad thing about flying with AirAsia. The airport is so far from the Metro. But in spite of this, I still patronize AirAsia because of its cheap airfare. It’s also true that Cebu Pacific ‘sometimes’ has promotions. But most of the time AirAsia is cheaper than Ceb so most of the time, I fly with AirAsia. But if Ceb has promotions, I make sure that I will not let the opportunity pass. Hehehe!

When I reached home, I just ate coz I was freakin’ hungry already then after eating I go straight to All About Face at Torre Lorenzo [near De La Salle Manila] to have a relaxing facial. It had been three months since my last facial and face was already experiencing a pimple-attack.

August 25: I went to Calamba Laguna to visit my in-laws & to get some stuff/documents from Jay-ar’s house that we need for our wedding. Then mommy [mom-in-law] and I [with kuya Jeff as our driver] had a joy ride to Canlubang parishes to get some document requirements for our wedding. I was able to get jay-ar’s Birth, Baptismal and Confirmation certificates. As for my own document, I only have Birth and baptismal coz I am not yet confirmed as a Catholic. I am planning to have my confirmation here in Malaysia. I also get to see Jay-ar’s cute nephew’s, which are all litol cute rascals. Hehehe!

We bought them shoes as a present and I am glad they liked it although the shoes for his two nephews were still a bit big but that’s okay coz the shoes can wait for them. Better big than small.

August 26: This was Sunday so everybody was available to go to Laguna [our home town] to visit my first ever nephew – Baby G. We call him Baby G because his real name is Giann [and two more names]. He is such an angel and a very very cute baby. I cannot imagine that he belongs to Pau & Yeng. Hahaha! [Joke only, peace tyu!] Anyway, all I can say is that their genes are perfect for each other. [ayan ha, bawi ako!] By the way yeng, all photos are already uploaded in my Multiply site.

On this same day, after visiting baby Giann, we went to Festival Mall in Alabang. It was only mama, shobe, kuya EJ & myself went to the mall because Baby G can’t leave the house coz he’s too litol to do malling. And as you can see in the pic below, the young and the young at heart [ang bata at ang isip bata.. hahaha!] rode some stuff animal for fun.

August 27: This day was a Monday but it was a public holiday in the Philippines for the reason that I don’t remember anymore. All I know is that it was a good thing that this day was a holiday because the VLLMA met up to share their beauty to the world. (VLLM) were suppose to meet at the Beauty Bar [san pa?] in Glorietta but Louie overslept that day. Our initial plan was to eat lunch at Circles in Shangri La Makati courtesy of our big-time friend Louie. She just arrived to PH the night before so it was understandable why she was late. So the three of us [Van, Les & me] decided to wait for Louie in RedBox. Although we are in RedBox, it seemed that none of us wanted to sing because we were so busy telling stories. So we just used our private room to laugh out loud, shout, laugh again and roll over [just kidding, no one rolled over]

Louie joined us in RedBox after an hour or two. Then it was her turn to tell us her Zimbabwe escapades. We were only allowed to stay at RedBox for 3 hours so we headed to a spa for a relaxing manicure/pedicure and foot spa. It was so pampering.

Then around 6 pm, we went to Circles for a sumptuous dinner. I was so stuffed! We ate lots of seafoods, sweets, Japanese, Chinese, Indian delicacies, etc. Name it they got it. I can say that all of us were guilty of gluttony. But it was really a yummy experience. Thanks to Louie!

August 28: I went to Makati to settle some finances in BPI and PSI Bank. So again, the VLMA [this time, with A – Apple but lacking of one L - Leslie] met up for lunch. This is one of the major commonality [second to being pretty] between VILLMA – we all love to eat!

And as of this writing, Leslie is the only one who stays slim & we are actually planning on how we can make her ‘one of the rest of us’ as well... Hahaha! We ate at North Park along Ayala Avenue and we stuffed ourselves again & commit gluttony.

We still can't get enough so at night... Cafe Briton ...

August 29: I spent my whole day in the grocery to buy food that I can bring here in Malaysia. Local food here is usually spicy so whenever we go back in the Philippines, we make it a point that we bring a lot of food with us. Whether it’s a canned good, marinated meat, hotdog, tapa, etc. Even the Knorr cubes and Tamarind powder, we also bring from the Philippines because they have different spices here. Of course, we prefer the ‘lasang pinoy’ right?

This same day, I also met up with my gown tailor. & I was able to choose my motif color. Hurray! [meron na din sa wakas]. It’s pomelo & apple green. [see pic below]. The color combination reminds me of a cotton candy. The wedding will be on morning so cool colors are more advisable than darker colors, which are usually used during night. Well, that’s according to the tailor. VILLMA, I need your opinion regarding my chosen motif color.

And here is my chosen gown design:

August 30: This was my departure date. My flight was 8:50 pm so at morning, My mom & I went to Quezon avenue for some food tasting. [wala nang tigil sa pagkain!] We chose Henry’s as our wedding caterer because we have already tasted their food in the wedding of one of our friends. I hope our guests will find their food delicious as well as we did.

So that’s the ‘summary’ of my litol adventure in the Philippines with friends and families. Till next post. Ciao!