Rumors are circulating that my best friends (charing!) Brad and Angie have plans on adopting a Filipino child after their efforts to adopt a child from Burma failed. There are reports saying they even flew out to Manila over the first week of April. Ugh!

I will fall in line and apply as the yaya. Sana pwede.

Updated with video of the proposal!


My wonderful friends have just gotten engaged! Paul proposed to Bea in front of both their families over dinner. They're both moving to California in two weeks and I can't wait to give them both a big hug. Congratulations you two! You give the rest of us hope.

Kate and I had a day-out without Jose and the baby. We went shopping at Burlington Coat Factory (not just coats, really) since they were having a huge sale. I walked away with a Nine West handbag, make-up bag, a shirt, socks and a couple of denim shorts. We then went to pick up groceries. I have to admit I had so much fun buying groceries! I haven't done any household shopping in so long and I've forgotten how much fun it was. Yes, yes, call me a dork but it's the little things that make me happy. I can't wait to start cooking stuff from the items I bought for the house. It's the least I can do for Kate and Jose for letting me stay here and I get a kick out of doing it too! Somehow, my looking like a latina helped with the groceries since the staff are much nicer and are even willing to go out back to get me fresher produce. When one noticed I didn't speak spanish, he asked if I was Italian, HAHAHA! Grace, pwede na rin pala ako jan sa inyo! Hee!

I'm too tired and lazy to take photos of the stuff I bought so this post will remain photo-less for now. When we got back home, Kate cooked her home-made tapa and I ate a lot more than I usually do, scarfing my food down in minutes.

Song of the moment:

"Down to the wire. I wanted water but I'll walk through the fire. If this is what it takes to take me even higher. Then I'll come through, Like I do. When the world keeps testing me, testing me, testing me..."

Now excuse me as I browse through my new god children's photo album. :)

A couple of days ago, Jammi texted me saying that my favorite drink in Bona, the highly popular Kona Mocha is finally back. They have been out of stock of the said drink since NOVEMBER. I went to their BF branch all hyped up and ready to be reunited with my drink again only to have them tell me that they still don't have it (or rather, they have it but have not received the go signal to start serving it yet...huwat?!). So I left with a sad smile, not even bothering to order anything else since my taste buds have been preparing to have a sip of my beloved drink and nothing else can serve as a worthy substitute.

Today, after watching Wanted with the usual people, we went to Bona in Westgate and I ask if they had my drink already. To my delight, they said yes! I tell Niki and Paul and they order the same thing. When my drink arrived I couldn't help but feel a twinge of excitement as I take my first sip in over six months.

PURE HEAVEN! It was as good as I remember it. Bea takes a sip, loves it and requests to have the same, only this time, the barista gives us the worst news. They have, once again, run out of the drink. They only had it on sale for a couple of days and they are out of it, AGAIN! I shrug it off and give up. I have been disappointed way too many times to bother getting upset. At least I had one last drink before I say goodbye to it forever.

I am exhausted from the day's activities. Was unable to sleep at all last night (again!) and went straight to Nasugbu with the girls and Paul without a wink. I slept a little on the way to Batangas and I had a short nap while sun bathing early this afternoon. I was hoping to edit the videos to upload with this post but I just don't have the energy to sort through my footages at the moment. Will do that tomorrow. You can view photos that Grace took by clicking here.

Met up with Dex, Alain and Jad after the beach trip to watch Wanted in ATC. Most people who know me know that I absolutely LOVE Angelina Jolie, so naturally, I would love this movie. Every time she was on scene, my eyes would be glued to the screen. I read an article about how the creator of the comic hoped that the movie would not suck and was genuinely surprised that he loved the film adaptation and even noticed that a lot of the scenes were shot in the exact same way that the comic was drawn.

**slight spoiler alert**

Angie aside, I thought the movie was generally good although the first half was a bit slow moving. The part where James McAvoy's character was being trained to become an assassin was dragged on longer than it should have, time which could have been used to show him applying his newly learned skills. Sure, he gets his action scenes in the end, some people may think it to be over the top but the trailers should have told you that already prior to seeing the movie. I loved it and it's safe to say that it's the kind of movie you wouldn't mind seeing again and again.

[Wanted photo source]