the high heel-ed job

napansin ko, when i'm wearing high heels at work, i go home exhausted.

sobrang nakakapagod maglakad ng ganito ang suot na sapatos! pero kailangan kong maging presentable sa trabaho kasi any moment baka may client kami...tska yung mga hindi nga mgr kuntodo porma, tapos ako e miski ano lang ang suot, medyo hindi ata tama ang ganon. so high heels kung high heels ang labanan!

pero lagi akong may baong tsinelas. pagtapos na trabaho, tsinelas na ang drama ko, basta lang hindi umuulan! kahit sobrang ginaw pa dyan, tsinelas parin ang footwear of choice ko.

earthquake in l.a.

Malakas sya ha!

5.4 daw! So I texted my friends from l.a. to see if everyone’s ok. Ok naman daw lahat sila. Nakaka kaba talaga ang lindol kasi you’ll never know when it will strike. People say SF is up for a big one soon, naku in Jesus name! we will be spared!

jollibee birthday

it's my pamangkin's (andrei ryan sugatan, michelle's third cousin) birthday party.

we celebrated at jollibee in san jose.

click on jollibee for more photos

my buko pie!

i'm starting to make buko pie for chel's restaurant and will also be taking special orders. so if anyone out there is interested, please let me know so i can bake it for you.

if you want to try a slice, please visit tselogs at 6055 mission street in daly city so you can try it. the feedback i've been getting is positive. i'm also going to be experimenting with an egg pie (egg custard) recipe this weekend since a lot of people have been asking about it.

if this does well and takes off, i would like suggestions on what i should name my business and make it official. 'michelle's pies' is what i had in mind but if you have more creative suggestions, please let me know.

hindi siya ang may kasalanan!

Kelan kaya marerealize ng mga pinoy na hindi naman si Gloria ang may pakana ng pag taas ng presyo ng langis?

I’m no GMA fan…I think she’s done a lot of questionable things (and i wish she can be held accountable no!), pero ito, 100% sure akong hindi sya may kasalanan. Kung kagagawan nya to, sigurado akong lahat ng tao sa buong mundo, magagalit sa kanya. Kung si Bush nga di maibaba ang presyo ng gasoline, si Gloria pa kaya?

One reason daw sa pagtaas ng gas could be this… http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/24/markets/cftc/index.htm?cnn=yes

Sige mga pinoy, sa kanila kayo magalit!

back to square one

so we almost bought a house.

turns out hindi pala sya townhouse kundi condo which my husband does not want. it's a condo that's built like a townhouse but we will not own the land, just the structure itself. ayaw talaga ni paul.

agree naman ako sa kanya. kaya lang, nakakafrustrate maghanap ng bahay! mahirap ang limited ang budget!!!!

calorie sticker shock

New Yorkers try to swallow calorie sticker shock
New Yorkers have been in the throes of sticker shock since this spring when the Big Apple became become the first city in the country to implement a law forcing chain restaurants to post calories.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25464987/from/ET/

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This is a truly marvelous thing!

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I remember once at mcdonald’s, I wanted to get their snack wrap which is a piece of fried chicken tender, wrapped in tortilla with lettuce and ranch dressing. The serving is small, that’s why they called it the snack wrap, but I was still curious how many calories were in that teeny tiny thing. So I bravely asked one of the crew members if they had the nutrition information for the things they were serving. Of course they didn’t but I ordered it any way. I still don’t know how many calories are there. The last time I checked it wasn’t on the website.

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If hope California follows New York’s lead. This will discourage me from ordering high calorie items masked as healthier alternatives. There will be days when I just gotta have whatever it is that I wanted…like last Sunday when I indulged in a cheese burger with grilled onions and a strawberry shake from in n out. There was an order of fries too but those were eaten by my mom and michelle. I probably consumed 800 calories right there but I didn’t regret every bit of it. =D it was just one of those days.

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Gotta love new york for being the first in the country to require all chain restaurants to post the calories along with the price tag. Bravo New York!!!!

TSELOGS!

today is the day!!!

tselogs is open at 6055 Mission Street in Daly City between Evergreen and Templeton.

tselogs is the brain child of my best friend chel. i went there today and brought the whole family along to give our moral support. my parents are good cooks and are pretty hard to please when it comes to food. we ordered the chicken sisig (to die for!), embutido (with a very slight twist), bistek and kare kare. all of the dishes passed my parents taste buds with flying colors! they liked the food so much, we're bringing our relatives there next week to celebrate my mom's 58th birthday!

i'm not just saying all these good things about the restaurant because i want to support my best friend's business...i, too, am hard to please because i also cook. but I LOVE THIS PLACE! each customer will be treated with respect and courtesy and fed deliciously!

the story of tselogs is quite a tale. it is all based on faith in the goodness of the Lord and the love of family and friends. while this is chel's business, she has the support of everyone in her family, her closest friends, and our church. more than the business, i guess you have to get to know the owner and her relationship with the Lord to see what the restaurant is all about.

it wasn't too long ago that chel brought up the idea of putting up a restaurant. i was skeptic at first. chel does not cook! so i thought in my head, 'how in the world will she survive the restaurant business if she doesn't even know how to cook rice with a rice cooker!' but the Lord provides! whatever need it is, God fulfills! she needed a cook, she was blessed with 2 amazing cooks! she needed a good location, she was given a large space on mission street with a lot of foot traffic. she needed money, the Lord provided every single penny that went to the restaurant without the need for investors. so if you talk to chel, she will not take credit for any of it. and she shouldn't. tselogs was built by the Lord, entrusted to people whose faith knows no limits and whose vision knows no bounds. people like chel.

but the vision does not end with tselogs. chel is not in it for the sole purpose of making money. of course she wants the business to do well, but after this business takes off and starts making real money, she wants to put up a school in the philippines that offers the highest quality of education, free for deserving students who have the abilities but lack resources to pursue an education. every need of the child will be provided for: school supplies, lunches, you name it. now that i have seen what the Lord has done, i have no doubt that this vision will come to pass. if the restaurant was put up, then the Lord will build the school!

but right now, lets support tselogs. the address is 6055 Mission Street in Daly City between Evergreen and Templeton. You can call and order for pick up at 415-337-4670 or visit http://www.tselogs.com/

try the buko pie. i heard it's marvelous! *wink* =)

a mind of her own

may sarili ng desisyon ang anak ko. pag ayaw nya ng damit na sinuot ko sa kanya, sasabihiin nya masikip daw and she will not stop tugging on whatever she has on until i take it off and replace with something she likes.

if you ask her to get the shoes she wants to wear, she will only get her favorite pair kahit na totally mismatched sa suot nya.

kapag sinabi kong go one way, she goes to the other.

if i say yes, she says no and vice versa.

if i say go to sleep, lalo syang tatalon sa kama.

she's becoming very independent...in a 2 year old's sense of independence of course. but she is soooooo sweet. when she turns her charm on, no adult can resist! she knows how to make you feel like you are the only person in the world that matters--- and this not only coming from me, but from other adults around her (kahit hindi nya kadugo!).

salamat at tulog na sya for her afternoon nap. it's hard to keep up with all her energy.

senti chu chu

i just remembered that i had a dream last night na nagreunion daw ang mga elementary and high school friends ko sa pi. basta kasama ko raw silang lahat and i felt so connected parin sa kanila after all of these years.

i guess the dream was God's way of reminding me of the people close to my heart. nagkalat narin kaming lahat kung saan saang lupalop ng mundo...buti may friendster, kahit pano we manage to keep in touch.

nakaka miss. natutuwa ako pag nakikita ko yung present pictures ng iba sa mga kaibigan ko na magkakasama. masarap isipin na meron talagang mga pagkakaibigan na tumatagal ng 20-something years and more! some of my oldest friends sila mm and jean, constant parin ang communication namin. sila lyndon, jeff, arman, kenneth...nakikita ko parin sa friendster at minsan nagsesend ako ng mga message sa kanila. i mention them kasi i've been friends with them since shortly after we were out of our diapers. mga 4 or 5 years old palang kami, araw araw na kaming magkakasama. i miss all of my friends, pero yung mga friends ko from c.l.c. ang super tagal ko ng di nakikita at nakakasama...miss na miss ko na kayo!

i hope michelle finds friends like the friends that i have, yung no matter how long it's been since your last conversation or the last time you saw each other, it's easy to pick up where you left of. my life has been blessed and enriched by all of you!

happy family in oregon

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eto na ang fiktsoors namin.

energizer bunny

she keeps going and going and going and going...

i don't know where she gets her energy. we don't give her too much sugar naman. pero kakaiba ang energy ni michelle. today we had lunch with gracious and jay and several other friends from intel. (o di ba parang madami na akong intel friends dito?!!??!?!) hehehe michelle was malikot, as usual. noong malapit na matapos ang lunch, we noticed, puro pantal sya sa leeg at sa arms nya. nakaw! ano ba yan??? allergy! she only ate rice with sauce ng beef (something). hindi muna namin inintindi at magliliwaliw pa kami. she doesn't seem to mind the allergy either.

after lunch, nagpunta parin kaming rose garden. sobrang hirap maghanap ng parking dahil sunday so we found parking na medyo malayo na. mas dumadami na ang pantal. pero wag ka, takbo parin ng takbo ang batang to. hindi iniinda ang pantal pantal nya sa katawan.

after the garden, voodoo doughnut naman kami. sikat daw ito dito sa portland. masarap naman ang doughnut, pero i think pare pareho lang naman ang doughnut..iba iba lang ang tawag, iba iba ng flavors. kanya kanyang gimik at hype. pero they're all the same. sweet, sugary, and loaded with calories.

paguwi, andun parin si allergy. this time it spread to her legs ng konti. tsk tsk tsk. bili muna kami ng allergy medicine. pagdating dito sa bahay, wrestling naman para mapainom sya ng gamot. after 30 mins, ayan, ngayon lang naubusan ng battery si energizer bunny. buti may pampatulog yung allergy medicine. sana hanggang bukas na yung tulog nya at mawala narin ang pantal pantal nya.

(next week na ako mag upload ng pics. mahirap magupload dito, mabagal computer. hehe)

oregon, here we come!

happy family nanaman kami bukas! pupunta kami ni michelle sa oregon! =D