Louisville Kentucky....

snowy day in february...

christmas stockings :) with our name on it!!
view of the river in Louisville, KY
MV Belle of Louisville!!
Downtown?!@!?
a lovely home...
sea urchin above sea level.. hahahaha..
ice cycles!!!!!!!!! yummy :>

courtesy from the Thompsons!

have a happy snowy cold fun day!!!

Citadel Inn, Makati Philippines

Citadel Inn Makati Philippines

P. Burgos Street, Makati City

Length of stay - 3 weeks (June - July 2007)

Room 3002 - Privately Owned Service Apartment

Rent for one month - P20,000 - P28, 000.00

Rating - 3 stars

Room includes AC, Fridge, Fone, Kitchenette

pro's:

you can see the busy streets of makati from our view... tons of resto's and bars sorrounding the area...mini stop just outside the hotel... just a few minutes ride going to greenbelt, glorietta mall and MRT station... just right for what you pay for... it's a tight budget stay! friendly staff...

con's:

the building is old, only have two elevators which is a pain when you are in a hurry knowing the hotel have 32 floors... the building is in the Red light district area so dont be surprise if you see people around offering entertainments... if u know what i mean... traffic is bad in rush hours (always is)... hot water doesnt work much in our room, but the hotel part does (based on our 2006 stay...)

dinner with ron...

July 09, 2007

Kitchen Greenbelt, Makati Philippines

Dinner with my good ol' friend Ron...

the margarita's are ok... the ambiance was good for talking...

great place for family and friends...

a funny story....

the hammock

the dawn right after our wedding day, my husband and I decided
to go home to Pangasinan to meet my family...

there, he was able to meet my grandmom
my mom, my brother and his family, my aunts and uncles and
my most loved cousins...

anyways... to make the long story short...

we had a small post wedding

celebration in the
province ...

the food is more than enough for everyone that
made everyone stuffed after lunch...

there was this one tempting hammock
under the "duhat" tree wherein almost everyone tries to lay down and have some
relaxing siesta...

we've seen kids, grown-ups and even couples who had their
own share laying in that relaxing hammock and have seen them
fight & trying to get their way on it before anyone else can...

the only relaxing place you can think of on a Hot Sweaty Summer Day
to have a siesta is laying down under the shades of a cool nipa hut,
in a well ventilated AC room (not in my province),
or the most convenient way is getting cover under the shades of bushy trees...

yup!
that's right!

a cool swinging relaxing hammock under the trees

with the cool wind breeze blowing right thru the hammock threads!!! wow...

that famous place is hardly vacant..
so if you cant get on it by force, hahahha, yo have to wait til someone gets out of it...
well....luckily, someone get off of it to get some water or something...

i told my baby... look, its free!!!!!come let's try it and have a rest...

so we hurriedly get in the hammock...

we confidently get in since there a lot more heavy people who got in before us...

so we were excited and hurriedly ride on it...

so funny, the moment we got in and raised our legs up high to stretch,

(hahahahhaha!!!!!!!) the rope broke down,

sooooooooo HARRRD we landed on the ground!

BLAG!! the sound of our butts on the dusty ground!!!

we were in denial at first, Did the rope just BROKE down?????hahahhaha!!!!

(we know that half of my family was looking at us)

we just pretended no one's looking and looked at each other and started laughing our hearts out!! so emabarassing,,, everyone was laughing at us! but it was fun...

hahaha all worth it stealing the hammock for a few seconds!

one of our funny bonding moments together....
only in the PHILIPPINES!
it never fails to make us laugh just by thinking and looking back

about that one hot sweaty summer day!
under that DUHAT tree! oh my, oh my...

check our body paints!

July 08, 2007

tattoo parlor : 3rd level Robinsons Galleria

Tattoo Artist: Gene Testa's assistant
Time Started: around 11am

Time Finished: around 1pm

Design: Font American Script

Healing Time: 3wks to 1 month

Price: 2000.00 pesos

comments: it tickles at first... but majority - OUCH! pain is only during the

process....when done, pain depends of movement!

Tattoo Artist: Gene Testa
Time Started: around 1pm

Time Finished: around 630pm

Design: tribal cross by TattooJohnny.com

Healing Time: 3wks to 1 month

Price: 8000.00pesos

comments: first time i saw my baby never ever smiled! He regret doing it

while on the process, but he said its worth it in the end! so brave,

so proud of you stinky!!!

healing process: HOW TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR TAT!

right after the tat... we're expecting them to bandage it... but... they just put tons of petroleum jelly on it and said its better that it's left uncovered since the wound is still fresh and the bandage will only stick to the wound, which will make it painful to remove later on...but since we got a dinner date later on that night with my gay friends.... what we did was....

1. we bought sterile gauze and bandaged it ourselves...

2. we avoided too much movement (sucks!!!!) stiffy adam and grace!

too much movement will stretch the tat and may change the looks of the tat when it's healed

3. we lubed it!!! no matter what, just lube it!!! petroleum jelly works wonders!

before and after shower! just lube it!!!

4. avoid getting it wet for the first few weeks... as much as possible!

greasy tattoo area it was! so careful when taking shower.. very funny :))

5. avoid laying on the tat area when sleeping...

me and my baby miss sleeping on our back so much, the funny thing about that is no matter how hard we try to avoid laying on our backs, sometimes we just catch ourselves awake in the middle of the night laying on our backs! (we're both guilty of charge !!) hehe

6. bandage it when going out so as not to scratch the ink from the tat!

our next tat plans... him my name and me a cute little sexy fairy...

we're looking forward to that!!!!!

a short warning!!!

it can get sooooooo addictive!!!

choose the best place you want your tat coz removal is a pain in the butt and in the wallet!!!

no pain no gain!!! its an art!! and i love both of our tattoos!!

meeting the family...

if there's an odd way of meeting the family, i guess thats what we did!! the typical Filipino style is doing the "pamamanhikan" (asking for the hand in marriage)... but that is a very long complicated process for us... so let's do the speedy route! yupyup... he never met my family until the day after we got married... well, a few cousins was introduced during the wedding day, but most of the family met him the next day..

what are their reactions???? hmmmm...any guess??? the fact that i didnt introduced him before getting married and all...(but they know beforehand that im engaged to be married!) whats the normal reactions of parents??? you can never really please anyone.... some may support you for your decision and be happy for you and wish you the best of luck! some just put their worst grin and say the things that we dont wanna hear (well at least not infront of us, geeez)... and i say back, hmmmmm im in the right age, remember?? and who is going to get married? and oh yeah, i wont decide to get married if its not what i wanted ayyyt???? geeeeeez, c'mon folks! just smile and say.... "COngratulations!" anyways, when im happy, you are happy right? hahaha... so??

but im still lucky to have supportive family members.... and majority of them supported me... well cant blame the haters, but they say what they gotta say and i aint care... LOL!!!

meeting the family isnt as fun... but at least we survived! they prepared a lil something for us, which is very thoughtful even if we know that theyre in a tight budget too...but still... we insisted that they dont.... but you know how Filipino families are... yes we will kill the year raised pig no matter what!!!!! hahahaha... how i wish ive taken more pics...

some of the inuman (drinking session) with the cooks and the guys are in 35mm camera... too bad wasnt able to scan them, just picture my baby seated among the guys joining the drinking spree. :)) was worried he'd get drunk, good my baby was practiced by the army! hahaha,,

Our Wedding Guests!! and stories behind them...

Im back!!!

My very pogi hubby said after taking a look at this site, (he liked it!! it's supposed to be a surprise bday gift for him, but he was able to read it after a few days from his birthdate!!!),

suggested to write down some funny guests thatwe had in our wedding day...

We thought of having the wedding at quezon cityhall 'coz it's where all civil weddings are done (i thought so...) but they said that the minister can marry in the resto near the qc hall...

so max's was our first choice...

going to our guest list!!!!!

we only invited a few important people to witness our wedding,,, we never really planned of having all the family and friends(im really sorry) there coz we think that it will be a big chaos if we do... so to make it not complicated and not spending so much of our wedding "special" day time entertaining people, we only invited 10 persons!! and yeah, its cheaper that way...we have to stick to the budget! (the ripper minister ruined our budget! geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez)

Lisa - the cousin who knows everything about me and whitie

Bryan - another cousin who happened to be the unexpected ninong!!
Mrs. Liban - my ever rich and chikadora niang-Landlady

Mr. Liban - the attorney who hooked us up with the minister (hubby of mrs. liban!)

the chaufer of mr and mrs liban- cant remember the name

Ronald- my ever loyal friend who never showed up saying he got stucked at work!

the minster - mr. ripper himself

the spy! - one of our ninang's and adam call her the spy!

and the husband and wife (us...) made it 10 people!

the unexpected guests:

the photographer - who showed up but sadly we have our own cameras so we declined... so he left.. he was in connected with the minister (he was the earliest to come)

the toothess guy - he tagged along with the minister, shook my baby's hand, smiled, ate and left!

this is lisa and bryan! we're harassing them to fill out affidavits saying they attended our wedding.. hahahaha...
they were the early birds!! came ontime..kudos!

(they were even hesitant to attend saying that they dont have a gift for us,

hehehe... we said we never asked for a gift.. all we need is their presence)

this is Mr. and Mrs. Liban! our principal sponsors who helped us schedule our wedding day, and helped us with the papers in the city hall.. (the parents of the known quezon city councilor Bong Liban! - is that necessary?? hahahha...) anyways...

this is tita hearty! we call her the spy... she's not supposed to be on our list but because of insistent auntie demand!!!! we had her as one of the sponsors!! that makes 3 (which is odd number.. they said its not good to have odd numbered sponsor! so that's where bryan fits in and sign for the rescue!! my cousin ninong!!) she's the best friend of my aunt... which happened to be in taiwan and can't attend the wedding so she insisted her sparring partner be there!!! so there she was... the spy who asked a lot of personal info from my hubby when i went to the restroom (conveniently)... when i got back.. my hubby was on a Hot seat! hahahahha.. at first she was sitting on the corner chair which is oppositely far from where my hubby's seated... when i got back, olah!!! she is in front of him doing the Boy Abunda show! was funny... my aunt admitted that she sent her to ask things and aunt also said after the wedding that her spy called her and told her what happened to the wedding!!! so... that's our ninang spy!!! way to go ever loyal bestfriend of my aunt!!

in front of my hubby is the minister... we never really had a good picture of him in the digi cam but we had in the 135mm camera... and can you see the oddest guest of honor there???? at the very corner is a thin, gray haired toothless guy who came with the minister! (the minister's secretary whatever!) who shook my hubby's hand, never introduced himself, seated beside him...ate, and left without saying a word... my hubby was so surprised, asking me in private (baby who is that toothless guy???) hahahahhaha...really have no clue... im sorry babe.... dont know him either... and the guy wearing white t-shirt infront is the chaufer....

the unexpected ninong!!!! i was pointing a sharp object on his back so he can sign the marriage papers... hahahhaha.... (kidding)