Eating All Out Before My Wedding Diet Starts

I’ve been craving a lot of food found in the Philippines for the past months. I have a mental list of all the food that I will try when I get the chance to go back to the Philippines. Since we are doing our wedding preps, I know we will frequent more for the year  2010. Aside from the occasional Chicken Joy cravings, I also have a lot of other food that I want to eat.

Here are my top 10 “must-eat” food in the Philippines:

1. Shawarma = Sharwarma bought in the “Try Mo Shawarma Ko” store in Lagro is the best for me. I remember the times Doms and I used to go there just to eat Shawarma with cheese. I will ask my brother to buy me one!

2. Krispy Kreme Donuts = Even if Singapore is claiming to be more westernized, I still don’t believe them because there is no single store of Krispy Kreme here. One reason that I can think of because Krispy Kreme is too sweet for the normal donut eater and knowing how health conscious Singaporeans are, they wouldn’t want anything too sweet for their taste. As for me, I am already dreaming of the different flavors I will buy!

3. Pandesal = I have moments in the morning that I kept telling Doms to look for pandesal. I miss it’s fluffiness and the smell of freshly caked pandesal in morning.

4. Espasol = I already asked my dad to buy the espasol brand that I’ve been wanting to eat.

5. Dencio’s Sisig = Ummm, I’ve been craving for that sizzling smell all my life!!!

6. Amber’s Pancit = I dunno how to do it, but I definitely want to get a tast of Ambers!

7. Yellow Cab Pizza = OK, Singapore has a wide variety of pizza stores here. We even have Pizza Hut, but one thing that’s lacking in their food here is TASTE!

8. Taho = Oh yes, nothing beats hot taho with a lot of “arnibal” in the morning!

9. Red Ribbon Chicken Empanada = I’ll buy 20 pcs!

10. Adelina’s Ham = This ham makes my mouth water! I love Adelina’s partnered with bread or rice or just plain!

I Need Sleep, Rest and More of Doms

For the past days, since this Monday to be exact, Doms has been very busy with his work. They have a new glossy magazine to be published this coming 10 December 2009 and all of them are cramming to meet the deadline. With this, Doms arrive home around 11:00 pm and yester day around 1:00 am. Of course, I have a hard time sleeping because I’m waiting for Doms call whether he is on his way home already.

Anyway, I just had to say this:

I don’t know why people are so dramatic about certain things in their life. I don’t want to elaborate more but I feel that lately, people around me are so melo-dramatic about their lives.

Life is so good! There are a lot of things that should be clebrated about life and I don’t know why people are wasting that God given time with hiding themselves into thinking “what if?”

Magulo ata.. Basta, di ko ma-gets kung baket ang simpleng bagay ay dapat gawin, big deal.

Anyway, at least this day is almost halfway done already. When I get home later, I’ll just eat nuggets and I will go straight to bed.

Happy Birthday To The Love of My Life

To Alvin Dominic Bermundo Valentin,

Happy, happy birthday!!!

May you have more blessings!!! You deserve everything that you have now!!!

I Love You Soo Much!!!

I remember your birthday 3 years ago… We were just starting as a couple and we decided to go to Puerto Galera. That was an amazing adventure!!! I enjoyed every minute of it!!!

Craving for a Starbucks Cheesecake

Please, can someone send me one????

I’ve been craving for a starbucks cheese cake or a secret recipe cheesecake for weeks and still haven’t satisfied my craving.

Excited for “The Launch”

Doms and I have been cooking up a wedding website.We are really excited about this!!! I’ve been updating and updating the site already but we haven’t shared it to the public yet.

Our plan is to launch our wedsite on the weekend of Doms’ birthday. The reason is he will buy a camera that week and he wants our pictures to be shot by that new camera.

Please wait for it and please visit it and put comments. Here’s a sneak peak

“Do your part and let God work out the rest of the miracle.”

I registered for Kerygma Family. It’s an online subscription initiated by Bo Sanchez for people who are working overseas. The goal fo this subscription is to email the day’s gospel and insert reflection stories and other wonderful insights.

I love this subscription!

It’s like every monring, when I check my email, I see the word of God and other stories taht I can live by.

Like for instance, I’ve been very pressured with life lately. I have my work and I love my work but there are moments that I want to give up already. There’s Doms, who’s always there for me but sometimes I want more. I don’t know why, but I want more. There’s the wedding planning and preparation. We have more than one year to prepare but why am I feeling pressured? And just when you thought the rest was OK already, here comes financial problems.

All of these stuff are making me feel that I am incompetent. I try my best to finish all of these but I can’t! That’s the time when my good friend Aki told me this:

“Don’t do everything by yourself. Do your best and offer the rest to God!” The reason why you feel exhausted and tired is because you try to do it all by yourself. Offer your work and your problems to God. He will finish your work.”

This is exactly what I recieved for todays Kerygma email. “Do your part and let God work out the rest of the miracle.”

I really believe that most of the people alive believes there’s a God but doesn’t believe that He can help them. They think their human bodies can withstand everything and their minds can solve all, but no. Our bodies and our mind can only wihtstand up to a certain level. After that, it gets tired and exhausted.

To those who are reading this, remeber that God is a powerful God. We don’t need to show him that we are strong and we can anything. Let’s be fragile and let god know that there are times that we cannot do it. Let’s leave everything to Him. Bute remember to do our part also.

Healthy Lifestyle

Yesterday afternoon, Doms and I went out in the cool breeze and decided to jog in the park. We kept on planning ang planning to do this ever since but this was the first time we actually did it.

I was very tired and my knees and thighs hurts! But it was really fun! I was jogging with Doms and we talked about a lot of things.

But, towards the end, he said he needs to run faster because his momentum will loose so I allowed him to go ahead.

After that, he wanted to play basketball. He saw a group playing basketball and he joined them. I believe this was the first time I watched Doms play basketball. I didn’t know that he was good.

He knows how to drive and I really enjoyed watching him play. I was even clapping my hands eveerytime he shoots the ball!

 

Ipon Mode to the NTh Degree

Now that Doms and I decided to get married already, the next step that we need to do is to save. Yep, saving has been part of our lives already and it really sucks knowing that it seems like all our lives we kept on saving and saving. Well, I think this is part of life alredy.

Anyway, now seriously saving, here are some stuff that we need to do:

• Go to the grocery once a week and buy food for the whole week only. Tendency is for us to excess food if we buy for the whole month.
• List all the stuff needed before going to the grocery.
• Make a Menu Guide for our food for every week.
• Avoid going to malls. Hehehe..
• Avoid buying instant cravings like ice cream or cake in the middle of the night.
• We are only allowed to spend 50sgd per month for anything that we want. This refers to food and leisure only. For example, we decide to watch a movie in the 2nd weekend of the month. Movies tickets cost 20sgd for the 2 of us and food for 10sgd. So we only have 20sgd to spend for the rest of the month. That can be our meal if we want to eat in a fastfood or resto.
• If we can avoid things to buy the better.

That’s it!

Free Movies, Yeay!

Yesterday was our quarterly team Cheers celebration. This event is done by every team here in my office. For our team, we were treated with a buffet of wonderful tasting cuisines.

The food was great!

There was also a raffle held for everyone. So, during speech time the winners were announced and I luickily won a pair of Golden Village tickets and a cash voucher for cinema treats.

I was really not expecting it because I know I am not the lucky in raffles. So when my name was called as part of the grand winners, I was smiling so hard.

Now, Doms and I have tickets to any movie that we want to watch.

We are only choosing among these movies to watch:

Oh Yes, I am Engaged

For our 3rd year anniversary. Doms and I planned for different things to do. I suggested we go to Hong Kong and Macau and he wanted to go to KL.

I searched endlessly for tour packages that suits our budget but unfortunately, we didn’t find any.

So, we went down to the plan of having two days of celebration.

Saturday, 24th October 2009
We planned to shop for our gifts. I bought Doms a pair of Lacoste shoes and he bought me a dress and a pair of shoes. We wore our new outfits in our special day.

Sunday, 25th October 2009
Doms and I went to Iluma Mall to watch Julie & Julia. The movie as so hilarious. I was surprised to see Doms liking the movie and actually laughing out loud in certain areas. After that, we went to the nearest church and heard our Sunday mass. I was thanking the Lord for how wonderful the person beside me is. Doms was the greatest gift that God gave me. Dinner came and we tried Thai Express in Iluma. The food was nice but we didn’t like the drinks that we ordered.

We decided to ride the bus going home so we can talk. The one-hour ride was heavenly! We talked about our future. We talked about our plans of getting our own place after getting married. I love it when Doms and I talk about our old age and how we will spend our life together.

We arrived home and did our usual ritual of playing Guitar tour in Doms’ iTouch. After that we do our next ritual of updating and training our creatures in the iPod application called Creatures.

While playing, Doms asked me, “Mahal mo ba ako?” I said, “mahal na mahal”. Then he asked, “Papakasalan mo ba ako?”, I said “maski paulit-ulit”. Then I hugged him. When I went back to watching him play Creatures, I saw it! The ring!

I was surprised and the only thing I said was “shit” and tears flowed out my eyes. I was so happy and excited that tears went out instantly.

Doms hugged me and kissed me and said “Ayan ha, papakasalan na kita”.

I immediately went to take my phone and took pictures of the ring and of me and Doms.

Here is a picture of my ring in the jewelry store’s website: