Hahaha...

Ganda ng title ko. Pero totoo yun.

Anyway, I was early for work since Paul needed to go on early break. I was sitting quietly browsing through a magazine when Lily suddenly says, "Kari! Marc Jacobs is having a sale on rainboots! Only $28!" I jump up right away. Even with Paul gone and she'll be on her own, she sends me off to go boot shopping. I hurriedly walk a few blocks to Marc by Marc Jacobs and scored myself a pair plus a solid metal cuff for $5 and a monocle necklace for $11. Chea! On my way back I passed by the Magnolia Bakery which is FAMOUS for cupcakes. I buy me and Lily 2 each (red velvet + chocolate) and scarf one down as I walked back. I wasn't impressed. I can HONESTLY make better red velvet. Seriously! I can prove it! Come! Come! The chocolate was a little dry and the icing was too sweet. I had to scrape them off just so I can finish it.

I'm off for the next two days and I will need to tackle first and foremost, my laundry. Then maybe work on a couple of studies for a flier/invite I've been assigned to do. There's a Cambodia-Laos-Philippines Culture Exchange Event at the New York Culture Center on May 31st and I just found out yesterday that I've been assigned to design an invite and banner. I will be dancing the Tinikling alongside Mica for this event. On top of that, I am also the event's official photographer. It will be exhausting but it will be so much fun!

I'm kinda sad...

Louiie took off earlier and is on her way to Manila. She was the only one I can call and who relentlessly calls me during wee hours of the morning and night just to chitchat about the most mundane things. Who will call me now?! Louiie, you better bring me pasalubong or I will kick you. And you! YES YOU! If you are in Manila and and you're reading this, send me something! Give it to Grace (or Jammi) and she will hand it over to Louiie. Yes Ging, I just assigned you. It can be as small as a photo or a card, I don't care. It would be great to get something from home. Louiie will be in Manila for three weeks from the 8th of April so prepare you care packets soon! Yehey!

I was feeling bleehh at work today. This is my first working Sunday and my body felt like it was supposed to be on it's day off. I was hoping it wouldn't be busy but it kind of was. Although,we did get a surprise visit today. I served Joel Madden and Christian Siriano earlier! How cool is that?!? I did my best to act aloof. I didn't want to be a fawning startstruck waitress. I had another table of 3 filipinos and I told them about it and they managed to get a photo with Joel outside on their way out.

The rest of the people in the restaurant had no idea who these people were. Richard has a good working knowledge of Hong Kong movie stars but not of the people in this side of the planet. Go figure.

Update!

Halatang wala akong alam. Troy pala is Zac Efron in High School Musical. Louiie just corrected me. The Jonas brother dude is someone else entirely. Jeezuz, I am such a doofus. Anyway, Zac Efron still looks like a girl. The kid wears too much make-up anyway.

A little background:

A couple of months back, I was home alone with Omee and he was on the Disney Channel. (as always) I sat through CAMP ROCK while he sang along with every song. I kept making smart ass comments the entire time.

"Why are you making me watch this?"
"This is a horrible movie!"
"You've seen this so many times! Why see it again?"
"This is really a horrible movie."

When it got to this scene, I said,

"OMG, that Jonas dude (who's character is named Troy) looks like a girl. Why is he wearing super tight white pants?!?!?"

Fast forward to today. Tita Chon just wrote on my Facebook wall.

"Omee made a girl classmate mad because he said Troy looks like a girl. Well, he defended himself and said that his cousin Kari said so."

UH-OH.

This was the highlight of my day.

I love my new kicks so much I can't stop looking at them at work. I wore them straight out of the store. I woke up a little early and had time to go shoe shopping before my shift. I went to Shoemania at Union Square and was delighted to see they had a buy 1 get 1 at half off everything. It took me a good hour to look around and had to try on a few shoes before I settled on this pair of Nike Air Max. I ran to Foot Locker a block away just to make sure I was getting the a good deal. I didn't find anything there that I liked so I ran back to Shoemania and got these. The Puma flats are similar to the one in the photo above except that I have black suede as opposed to the patent leather shown above. They're great, light and casual walking shoes.

I was hungry and ended up having lunch at Saigon Grill. I was really in the mood for sushi but didn't really know where to go so I stuck to what I knew was good. If my family manages to come, I will definitely take them there. Kim absolutely adores the vietnamese cha gio (fried spring rolls) and she will love the ones they have there.

It was slow and boring at the restaurant today since the rain was pouring. Not a lot of people were out so we kind of expected it. My work schedule has changed yet again. I no longer have regular Sundays off. Paul said I've been hogging Sunday ever since I started work and he said he wanted a share of it this time. We compromised and said we can each take every other Sunday off. On other times, I will have Tuesdays and Wednesdays off. I requested the Wednesday since I know Mica is off that day and we can finally do something together. Because of this change in schedule, I will have to wait until Tuesday before I get some rest. I will be exhausted but what the hell.

Oo nga naman.

So I will buy a pair of Nike Airs soon...maybe today.

Since Andy will be gone for a month for Japan or India or both, we have a subletter named Undrea. She's a 25 yr old african american fashion designer. She was sweet. The first thing she said to me when she met me this morning was, "OMG you're so pretty!" HAHAHA! So shempre okay na ko sa kanya diba.

You will NOT believe who walked by the restaurant yesterday! I was hosting so I was up infront the whole day. It was around 4-5ish and the restaurant was quiet. My eyes were roaming outside and I saw her from afar. At first I wasn't sure if it was her. She was walking her dog and she had shades on (she even stopped to pick up poop! Haha!). When she walked by infront of the resto I had my eyes on her and I knew it was her for sure! It was NY's original Carrie, Sarah Jessica Parker! I was too awestruck that my hands were too slow and didn't reach for the Flip on time. Oh well.