Saturday Dinner....Without Nini & Miguel

dinner tonight was without nini & miguel 'coz they had to go to a despedida overnight affair at bob's family farm for bob's sister's family who are migrating to new zealand for good. notwithstanding, dinner was sumptous.... in spite of the absence of any pork or beef meat!!!.... hehehehehehe (not for marissa though!!!)

Philippine Fashion Week....

in connection with the ongoing Philippine Fashion Week, we were invited by marissa to attend the Penshoppe show at Glorietta in Makati. one of the bands who performed during the show was KALA - marissa's son's own band! the show was topbilled by some famous television personalities as well as by local celebrities in the fashion world.

after the show, we passed by Paraiba (nini's newest jewelry store at Glorietta) and bought some items.

from there, we proceeded to Modern China Restaurant for another sumptuous chinese dinner.

SM Fairview....

since the SM Fairview Mall is a bit far from our Mandaluyong, we left our place at 4:00 pm (even though our appointment with tita normie wasn't until 7:00 pm!). while waiting for our appointment, we toured the whole mall.... and would you believe..... we saw a chinese porcelain vase dealer selling clay teapots on sale!!! Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! we were able to add 3 more teapots to our collection!!!

after touring the rest of the mall, we decided to have something to bite at pizza hut.....

at 7:00 pm, we met up with tita normie and her friend, Ms. Salud..... and we had an all-Filipino dishes dinner at Max's Restaurant consisting of camaron rebosado, crispy pata, sweet & sour fish fillet, fried chicken, sinigang na hipon, and garlic rice.

dinner was fun and we had a grand time updating each other on what's happening to our respective lives. after dinner, we brought tita normie and ms. salud home.... where she gave us the padala of diko, ate nette, and gino for mommy & daddy, for kuya, gwen, & gail, and for jon and i!!! thank you guys for the goodies!!!

Tita Normie Calls....

earlier tonight, tita normie.... ate nette's mom.... called up and arranged for us to meet tomorrow. tita normie's here in manila for a vacation.... from the U.S., and she's staying with a friend (who came home with her) in Lagro. we'll meet and have dinner tomorrow at SM Fairview.... i'll keep you posted about our meeting later....

A trip to Chinatown.....Teapot Town!!!

we had to go to chinatown this afternoon to give some papers related to our business to our accountant. since we were already there, we went around and looked around the place for teapots that we could add to our collection..... we were quite successful 'coz we were able to acquire seven.... yes 7!.... teapots..... and one (1) gaiwan set!!! yipeeeeeeeee!!!

we got 3 clay teapots from an old lady who you can't haggle with:

a crystal teapot set and a green jade stone teapot set from another store:

a clay teapot set with a clay magnetic tea dispenser from another store:

a white porcelain teapot from a local grocery store where we also bought a bottle of rose green tea:

we even got a portable complete gaiwan tea set with its own bamboo tray!!!

it was a truly successful teapot exploration trip to chinatown that we had this afternoon!!!