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Our New Home

we will soon be moving to our condo unit along EDSA....we're just waiting any day now for word from the developer as to when we can visit the unit. we're very, very excited about the prospect of finally ending our days of renting an apartment and start a new life of owning a HOME!!!

(of course, the prospect of having a swimming pool a few meters from our doostep also isn't diminishing our excitement at all!!! hehehehehehe)

I'm Backl!!!......

yup! i'm back to blogging again!!!

so many things have happened since the last time i posted an entry here.....the most recent is that i have re-established contacts with Notre Dame of Manila Class '73 high school classmates.....through our own yahoogroup.

consequently, i've been meeting up with some classmates (some of whom i've not seen since our graduation 35 years ago!!!), most notably last sep 7, 2008 (which happened to be a day before the foundation day of NDM), and last night at the California Pizza Kitchen at Shangri-La Plaza.

it's always fun meeting up with friends while they're still "young", active, and alert!!! there are neverending stories of how things were.....and sometimes, there are even different versions of same story!

but one thing is for sure, we did have a very good time during our high school years.....and remembering and reminiscing about them now only extends the fun....as if we've always been together all these years!!!

Keeping a Doctor's Appointment.....

last tuesday i underwent a regularly-scheduled procedure.... but this time done at a different hospital and performed by a different doctor..... my colonoscopy. whereas 2-1/5 years ago it was performed by Dr. Chante at the Cardinal Santos Medical Center in San Juan City, this time it was performed by Dr. Naval at the Medical City Hospital in Pasig City. the reason for the change? mainly convenience..... since the Medical City is nearer to our meatshop.

the colonoscopy was scheduled for 1:00 pm at the hospital's ambulatory surgery unit.... and so i waited for jon to come home from work before we went to the hospital together. i would've wanted to go to the hospital alone but the doctor forbids going home or driving home alone after the procedure. besides, he requests that someone be with the patient during the procedure so that he can explain what he was seeing and doing. (i was also able to see it later because the entire procedure was recorded on dvd..... a copy of which i have in my iPod Touch.... how cool is that??? hehehehehehehe!!!)

during the 45-minute procedure, 3 small polyps were removed from the lining of my colon and according to Dr. Naval last saturday, they were all benign.... thank goodness!!!

my next colonoscopy is scheduled two years from now.

Happy Day.....

Sign of the Times....

from the time we opened the meatshop in may 2007 up to christmas time, we didn't raise the prices of pork. since the start of the year, we've raised it three times!!! is this a sign of things to come??? are we pricing ourselves out of the market???

i hope not!!!

one consolation though, our new prices are still lower than wet market prices.

Feb Post......Blasts from the Recent Past

hehehehe.....here's for february.....

before i continue posting here, let me show first some interesting photos of last year that i recently downloaded to my computer from my cell phone....

dinner with two college classmates and barkada, alice and josie, at kulinarya restaurant at the powerplant mall at rockwell center

jonlounging on a chair by a post at the lobby of shangri-la hotel, makati, while we wait for his family for a buffet lunch at the hotel's circles restaurant

processing fifty (50) pork carcasses in 3-hours' time at the meatshop for a special client one day in late november and another day in early december

buying and partaking of fresh, delicious, sumptous, and cheap seafoods from the seafoods market in baclaran, after a disappointing and expensive seafoods dinner at red crab at the fort

jon getting a tattoo of himself at cartimar's bodyworkz

with cora at the monterey foods corp franchisees convention at the hyatt hotel and casino in manila

flower arrangement from rob's pleasantries flower shop as a birthday gift to me from jon

complementary birthday cake from the gourmet restaurant at the fort where we had dinner with nini, rob, miguel, and cora

opening a special birthday gift from my two nieces, gwen and gail

christmas party of the management and staff and guests of monterey meatshop kapitolyo

by the christmas tree at the lobby of shangri-la hotel makati