Home Bound on Holy Week

I didn't realize that I've been very busy in the past year's holy week. When I wasn't working yet, holy week was spent in a relative's resort in Limay, Bataan where the pool's waters are super cold as it stream from the mountains or in grandpa's house in Sibuyan, Romblon where we often go to town feasts, swim in the beach or in Cantingas River and sometimes burn our skin by boating in the middle of the afternoon. There used to be a lot of things to do.

When I started working, holy weeks would be spent in the office even when a lot of business would be closed, I enjoyed the holiday's double pay. This year however, I am home bound. Well since Wednesday, that is. Malls are closed and there's nothing much to do except for checking out the tv news and going online. I am about to go to work again in a few hours and I expect a traffic jam-free Metro Manila. A lot of people are out of town and I can just be thankful that I could skip the SLEX/NLEX traffic.

Somehow the idea of going out of town with Prince and baby could mean a little less relaxing trip. I never imagined myself traveling with a baby before but maybe we should do it soon. For now, I'll drag myself back to work.

A Present and A Dilemma

Prince upgraded my iPod touch as a birthday present.

I love that the 4th generation's got two cameras [front and back] that both can take HD quality videos and pretty decent photos [depending on the light]. The 32Gb storage is enough for me although it's also available in 64Gb.

There's a catch though. We found out that the new iPod Touch is not compatible with the Tiger OS of my macbook as it uses iTunes 10 [Tiger OS can get up to iTunes 9 only]. I don't want to give up the Comic Life application which is not available in Leopard and Snow Leopard [I must purchase it seperately]. There's also a news going around geekland that Apple's releasing the new OS, Lion, in a few months.

So I guess patience, patience, patience for now. :)

I Officially Hate WordPress!

After moving in to blogger, WordPress just showed their ugliest side and today, I officially hate them. Number one, for there's no option to completely delete your account. They can only delete your blog and not your username, hence, you technically still have a WordPress account. Number two, for being unable to restore my photos posted in ALL of my blog entries. After a few weeks of moving out, the blog posts together with the photos can be viewed perfectly fine. Today, everything just went nuts and all photos shows a little blue question mark in all my previous posts. This is just ridiculous! I would just try my best to come up with all those photos that I can still retrieve, re-upload and edit my posts again. I have more than a hundred so good luck with that. Arghhh!!!

Vince's Baptism

Last Saturday, Vince's baptism was held at Our Lady of Hope Parish. They don't have special baptism during Saturdays so we had to share with seven more babies. It's no biggie but definitely made the event less intimate.

The reception at Gerry's Grill in Tomas Morato is good except for the change that we're not advised of - from serving the food per table, it was served buffet style instead.

The function room was simply designed with blue and white baloons as well as a banner courtesy of Gerry's Grill.

We got the cake and cupcakes from Mitchelle's Sweet Kiss. I love the moist chocolate and the butter icing that's not too sweet.

The candles and invites are D.I.Y., thanks to iWork's Pages ;)

And we just bought his shoes and clothes from Landmark, TriNoMa.

Thanks again to everyone who celebrated with us on our baby's special day. :)

5 Days of Silence

I was having a not-so-serious cough last Friday night when I was preparing to go to work. Before my shift ended, I lost my voice. I went to The Medical City that is closest to our house and when I opened my mouth, the doctor already knew I am working in a call center. Then I was told that I am having an acute laryngitis.

I've been working in a call center for more than 5 years and it's the first time that I lost my voice. I must say that it's quite irritating that I am forbidden to do, eat and drink a couple of things:

•  I can only drink water. No softdrink, tea, coffee, fruit juice, etc. JUST WATER.
• No sour fruits. No pulpy fruits. Basically, the only fruit that the doctor said I am allowed to eat is banana.
• No talking unless if it's really needed. [The doctor's example is when I need to scream, "There's a fire!"]

Following the first two rules is easy. The third one however is something I need to work on. I never imagined myself being in a complete voice rest for at least 5 days. The doctor said that if things isn't getting any better, I need to go back to him so we can do a more intense check on my throat. Scary. So I need to take the medicines that he prescribed [and I can't believe that treatment for this could be so expensive], avoid the food and drinks that I'm not allowed to intake and keep my mouth shut. Wish me luck. :(

Yakimix TriNoMa

Last year, Earl brought us to Tomas Morato so we could try out Yakimix - the eat-all-you-can restaurant that's got Japanese, Korean and Cantonese cuisine. I must say, it was great although the queue seems never ending, they got me with the smokeless grill. Prince and I were even considering them to be the venue of reception after baby's baptism so our guests can eat as much as they want. I thought it would be the same on all branches but I was SO WRONG.

My mom wanted to try it as well so since we're just close to TriNoMa, we decided to take the queue even when baby's with us at that time. I got number 24 when they were serving number 3. We stayed in front of the receptionist who calls out numbers and after 1 hour of waiting, she got to call number 6. Prince went home [our house is less than 15minutes away from TriNoMa] to get more milk for baby. Mom and I took baby to the ladies' room for a quick diaper change and when we went back to the receptionist.. VOILA! IT'S NUMBER 25's TURN!

I asked the receptionist if she can consider calling us next as we've been waiting for more than an hour already but all she told me was, "No, you have to queue and get a new number." which at that time is already at around number 40 something. She's very cold, not bothering to display empathy as if she's underpaid and don't really want such job. We walked out right away because I felt like she's going to humiliate me if I insist on my request and I don't want to burst out my anger. Great customer service you got there. Consumers, BEWARE!