I had a whole afternoon planned of Manhattan sightseeing only to spend most of it in Century 21. I traveled to Queens to pick up my parents then we headed to my restaurant for lunch since I wanted them to try what we can do with fake meats. My mom absolutely loved it. I'm serious, she totally loved the food and would have scarfed them all down if only Lily didn't give us extra freebies. My dad was like, "Imposibleng hindi totoong baboy yan," referring to the Vegan Roast Pork. They finished the plate of soy pork still shaking their heads that they couldn't believe there wasn't a single ounce of pig in there. Paul and Richard were nice and chatted my parents a bit. My parents were laughing at how Paul looked, walked and spoke just like the other Paul. Richard couldn't resist slipping a comment about my sisters being welcome to come anytime. I don't know if I mentioned it here before but everyone in the restaurant has a crush on my sisters since I showed them their photo.

This is a photo I took of mugger about to harrass my mom in the subway.

I brought my camera with me but I barely even used it. Papa's camera is filled of photos of them in the subway since it was their first time to ride it. Mama looked like she was going to have a heart attack every time someone would get close to her.

We headed downtown since Papa wanted to see ground zero (it was my first time too) then we headed off to Century 21 for cheap designer brand shopping. Mama, who was most excited for this part of the day, left with a single Nautica blouse. Papa bought 4 pairs of shoes and I scored a black DKNY trench and a Nine West faux snake skin pump. We spent more time in there than I originally alloted and by the time we got to Soho for phase 2 of shopping, my parents surrendered and sat down on the side benches at UNIQLO while I roamed around to shop some more. We left with my hands heavier and my wallet lighter. My parents have given up for the day so we headed back up to Queens where nana cooked sinigang for dinner. A bit of chatting after meals, planning of tomorrow's activities then I headed out to go home.

I've finished reading Coraline and have yet to purchase another book and I'm trying to resist picking up my copy of New Moon which I got on sale two weeks ago. It looks like resistance is futile until I buy myself some new material.

Met up with BabyG for lunch today. She treated me out on my birthday and I felt it was only fair that I returned the favor on her birthday. I took her for brunch at Cornelia Street Cafe. I pass this place on my way to work and I've always been curious if the food is good. I had eggs benedict (as usual) with smoked salmon and she had the smoked salmon platter. I think the egg benedict I had from La Palette is still the best I've had so far. I got coffee from The Grey Dog and we sat by the benches on the square nearby and chatted until my shift started. There are so many good places to eat in the west village and so little time (and so little company) to try them all. I miss having a regular food trip buddy. Niki! Come here quick! Mica is going back to Manila for 5 weeks by the first week of June and I can't imagine being alone here with no buddy to drag around with me. Crap!

My mom will be here by next weekend and I'm so excited! I don't know where to take her since she has this thing where she prefers to stay home rather than spend out but this will be a rare chance that she will be in NY and I don't want to waste it staying in. She can only be here for a week and so little time for me to go to Queens to see her. I can't take the entire week off since there isn't anyone else to take my shifts for me but Lily has been nice enough to grant me half day shifts on my full days.

Angel will be in Baltimore by the end of the month and I am so glad to have another friend within close proximity (and another name to add to my regular call list). She will hopefully be staying here fr the next few months as she tries to go back to school in Maryland. She promises to come visit during the summer the same time grace (from Rome) promised to come visit too. Sino pang bibisita? Punta na dito dali! I can only offer the couch but your lodging is already set! Come!

I was cleaning out my harddrive and was looking through the old flip videos in my mac and saw this. It's a video I took of my mom in San Francisco when I saw her for the very last time before she headed back to Manila last September. I don't think I ever uploaded this but it was so hilarious just watching her talk I just have to upload it for posterity.

This is humor only her daughter would understand. I had to edit out a few bits of it because there was mention of he-who-must-not-be-named in there. The mindless joke may have been funny then and is still is now but it wouldn't be appropriate for my current state of buddhahood. CHARING!

I also found this video that I uploaded in this post last year. I can't believe it's already been a year since. Wow...So much has happened already!

Congratulations to Mama and Papa on their graduation!
They've just completed their training and are officially Flight Pursers on Philippine Airlines.

ATC with Mama and Kim. Shoe shopping for Kim as she needed new work shoes since she'll be undergoing her OJT.

Watching Superbad right now and I'm laughing my ass off so hard. I can't believe I didn't watching this sooner.