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A week before and a week after

I celebrated my birthday a week earlier because of a special request of one of my friends who will be leaving on my birthday week... So I met up with my close college friends for that...

And a few days after my birthday, just last Monday, me and my "old gang" met up after so long and celebrated my birthday too... Had red wine for dinner and milk and cookies and pudding for dessert...

Incidentally both celebrations, though from 2 different circle of friends, all happened in Ortigas!

It seems like it's turning out to be "my place" to hangout with friends...

Hahaha

united colors of my birthday

GREEN

My favorite color!

and the color of my fave hangout place Starbucks

reviving my Starbucks Thursdays

(thanks to Catz & Yatz for this photo)

BLUE

A true blooded Lasalista like me would

have been caught dead first before wearing such a shirt

esp in a DLSU-ADMU game!

(good luck with that!)

But you have to admit I look nice in blue !

(sabi ni Sitti! haha)

RED

I may not be that superstitious but I usually

wear this color during my birthday

to usher in more luck and blessings!

this is my BEFORE picture

(before a pitcher of mojito and

shots of "bad boy", whatever that is!)

YELLOW

this is the AFTER picture

well just a few hours after "napping"...

who would want to sleep away her birthday right?!

Look Ma! No hangover!

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to view photos of my days long (haha) celebration

click on the photos below

SITTI @ 19East (May 20, 2011)

A rainy groggy birthday

It used to be Wed/Thursdays, now it's Friday or Saturday

I've been MIA lately in gimmicks. It's either one of 2 things - no time and no spending money - most often it's both to my chagrin! But I'm glad to say that I always find the time and ways to meet up with friends as much as I can...

2 weeks ago, we had Friday off in school to celebrate our school president's birthday with the usual party and eating in Seton

me and my colleagues in the Guidance Unit
That Saturday, I met up with mJ, Joy and Katek! I miss these guys and twas fun catching up! And as expected we did the catching up over dining and Starbucks and picture taking in between


with Ching, mJ, Joy, katek and kiks (thanks to Joy's Labidabs for taking this photo)


aside from mJ - I really REALLY missed my Starbucks! haha

to view more photos from aboveclick here

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Another group of dear friends that I miss too are my Psychos buddies! Fortunately for us Misty took my usual role of "getogether organizer" and contacted each one of us and set it on the first Friday of September - in Ortigas! Huwat?! Not again! haha But of course it would be to their advantage - Misty who works near Tiendesitas, Gutz who will come from the Fort, Jojoyce from Makati, Za from Manila, Aids who works in Ortigas too (but didn't show up coz he was sick! yah right! haha) and Tzi all the way from Navotas (due to unfortunate circumstances at work was unable to leave too) - waaaaa I'm the only one from down South! If it not for the free ride home (3 of us live down south anyway), I would hesitate from heading for another Ortigas adventure
Add to that - I left straight from work and was welcomed by a downpour when I got down in Megamall! You know the Aegis song...eto ako basang basa sa ulan...walang masisilungan? - good thing I had my trusty umbrella with me coz i had to walk from megamall to Home Depot down in J. Vargas street - I always do since it's faster than riding a taxi or what...
For the first time? no pictures for this getogether! ha! Misty forgot her digicam!Haha oh well, we enjoyed catching up and gossiping anyway...talking about Babies and Beaver! Say who?! What? haha
So instead of photos, I'd just share the link of the resto where we ate at citywalk, I mean metrodepot...no wait! it's Home Depot! haha
Jay-J's Inasal at Home Depot with branches in Timog Ave., Congressional Ave. and even in Macapagal Ave.

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Now this week end, it's another Friday holiday! Muslim holiday - end of Ramadan...and for us it's my little cousin Alyanna's 10th birthday! 10 years old on September 10! Cool! We're heading up to their house for dinner...then tomorrow, it's my sis Kisan's birthday! We might just celebrate it by stalking the RAIN concert in MOA! haha
Wonder if we'll get photos from this long holiday weekend....

my birthday food chronicle

I was looking forward to a different birthday this year

and despite my spontaneous Boracay weekend trip - with my friend Chi

I still kinda felt incomplete in a way coz as shallow as my reason is

I wanted to have a normal birthday cake!

which I realized I didn't get except for this:

I appreciate the sentiment don't get me wrong (thanks Chi )

but as I said I was shallow and wanted a real birthday cake!

but hey! I still got to blow my candle -

as big as the one used during blackouts! wohoo!

So to compensate for my birthday cake

I ended up having

a (almost one) month long celebration

with friends

AND FOOD!!!

Mexican food

Soft tacos from Mañana Mexican resto

right beside Starbucks branch in Station 2, Boracay

(oh and don't forget the margarita )

Now off to eating bar food!

Calamares

Maybe it was just served hot but I really found it delicious

Can't you guys tell?

I also had the spicy chicken fingers which was delicious too!

No photo of that though maybe because

we were quite tipsy courtesy of these two

Mojito & Apple Vodka

All thanks to Hey Jude, Boracay Station 2

Good thing I had enough energy to have breakfast the next day

Had to try this Calamansi Muffin

and loved it enough to bring home

I also can't help but pig out on these

and top it off with frozen iced tea!

Hmmmm had enough?

Well not me I guess...

Coz I still had time for...

these new favorites of mine

Will go back for more Sinangag na Sinigang

(or was it Sinigang na Sinangag haha)

and the Seafood Salpicao

and my usual Crispy Binagoongan

Cholesterol overload

at the Kanin Club

Which I was able to ease off with more...

Sugar intake!

Thanks to mJ for my Blizzard

and later that night...

I had an even bigger dinner

and is it real??!

Is this my birthday cake?!

all it lacks is a candle haha

And I'm not even done yet!

I had seafood overload

with another group of friends last weekend...

I told you my birthday was a month long celebration!

- we had another food trippin'

at the uber famous dampa in Macapagal Blvd...

Just imagine how 4 people were able to put away this...

and this

this

wait! that's not seafood?! haha

and this!

don't we look oh so satisfied after all that?

So yeah...

I guess that MORE THAN COMPENSATED

for my birthday cake...

so who am I to complain haha

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to see related photos click here:

psychos dampa trippin

post birthday weekend celebration

31 in Bora

spontaneous trip = birthday celebration

The last time I had what I would call an itch to go out of town and travel was way back 2006, that was when I wanted to spend sembreak out of town - I ended up spending it in Cebu with Zheila (former officemate) -

to relive our adventure in Cebu click here: Cebu adventure with Zheila

But even before that, there have been summers that I spend out of the country with family - been to London, HK and Singapore during one of those many summers long ago - or out of town with friends - officemates for our usual company outing or with my college barkada, the last one being in Balay Indang

Maybe I'm just lucky that my birthday falls on a summer so I would almost always end up having beach outings or out-of-town trips...I remember having to go on trips every year on my birthday without fail haha... I participated in an outreach a few summers back in Batulao with the Sittizens and spent my birthday last year during our first office teambuilding, but still out of town...

I didn't get to go out much during my birthday anymore and not that often really

So how different will this birthday be?

So how did I spend it?

I spent it in the sandy white beach of Boracay!

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*more details on my Boracay adventure in later posts*

you may view my lomo shots here:

Supersampler shoots Boracay

Lomo shots in Boracay

random thought: i miss blogging

i miss blogging...
simply put...I feel so busy that I can't find the "idle time" to put down words coherently
and come out with a blogpost...


I've had previous photo albums uploaded
I still have rolls of film in my lomo cameras...
but I can't seem to find a cohesive thought to link them all...

So maybe I'll just simply put links to the photo albums?

Or maybe some other thing will come to mind as I write this...
I do more with spontaneity haha

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What's wrong with this picture?

It seems like my friend has tree leaves for hair...






What's wrong with this picture?

No, there are no ghosts here... well not that I can see haha

This is the only picturesque "green" spot in a "dominantly blue" place






What's wrong with this picture?

There should be more balloons to lift this house =P




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click on the photos above to go to the photo albums

or click on the following links

Psychos Al Fresco
Visiting ADMU Grade School
Eli's UPventure Bday Party