Archives for January 2009

New Year’s Eve At Eastwood

Last New Year’s Eve, we spend it in Eastwood (party people?). The kids want to see the fireworks and we did not spend much time preparing for the media noche. If my memory serves me right, the only thing on my brand new dining table (ehem) were watermelons and mangoes. waaah! (does it mean we will be only eating watermelon and mango for the whole year?) . Oh well I think the kids did enjoy the fireworks display, and we even saw kuya Germs (nyahaha). It was funny that before the clock strikes twelve, people were looking upward as if there were fireworks display, and we even look up with them, turns out, they were just looking and taking a photo of the clock.. Here’s some from the scene..

La Mesa Ecopark

In between Christmas and New Year there were 6 days of nothingness. We already spend two spending the kid’s aguinaldos (*wink) and going back home. That leaves us 4 more, and so aside from watching movies, we think it is best to take the kids out. The choices were: La Mesa Ecopark, Manila Ocean Park, Museo Pambata or Enchanted Kingdom. This outing is on the kid’s best interest and so we asked them where they want to. Their unanimous answer was Ecopark (they like the word park and they know they can do bike riding there). Good choice kids! It was the cheapest of them all..

La Mesa Ecopark is located in Quezon City, somewhere in Commonwealth Avenue. We drove down there utilizing the C5 road. Ortigas Extension, exits to C5 in IPI, then to Commonwealth.. We were lost as I thought the entrance to the Ecopark was along the road. We have to go back and thought of entering the La Mesa compound the other way. It turns out that the road we are planning to take is the part where they house the water treatment facility. Opps! We have to go back (bad thing before the good thing) and pay attention on the road, while my eyes were fixed on the map (how did I do that? I don’t know, but I end up with my head throbbing hard). Finally we reached our destination!

The park was all green, right to be called an Ecopark. The entrance to the park was not free, but it was very cheap. We paid a dollar each, free of charge for kids less than 3 feet. Bike rentals were cheap too (see their site for the rates). The food was cheap too, a meal which consist of rice and grilled fish or pork with a salted egg side dish was priced more or less 1 dollar and fifty. And it was tasty. Tables and chairs were open for rentals.. At 3 dollar a set (good fro 4), not bad for a day use.

Kayil and Mico enjoyed the day with their rented bikes, in the playgorund in between. Mommy and Chico found some shed and watch them and play with the camera. Daddy watching over the two (praning mode..)

The trip was fun, only we did not stay long..

Another bad thing about it, some idiot slammed their car door on ours, leaving one of our doors with scratches and vent. The car color was red judging from the scratch.. Moronic people are everywhere.. even on parks.

Noche Buena

Where did we spend it? in my Nanay’s house, where else. The night was rather crazy than festive. December 25 was my nephew’s baptismal and we spend the night preparing for the day. Aside from the usual food preparations, we busied ourselves with redecorating the house and destructing the cake (binastos ang gumawa ng cake). See for yourself.. hehe.. This used to be a two piece rectangular chocolate cake, my sister scraped of the icing and made a ‘dirt toad’ one.. I did the road.. and voila! And yeah she bought the cars, the baptismal was themed disney characters and cars.. (not to be confused with the movie cars)

Dylan was so amazed with his cake.. or amused?

Come midnight and our noche Buena food was still on the stove. Past twelve when we finally had a decent food on our small table. Woke up the kids to show them what’s on their Christmas socks. Then gave them their gifts (which they already know beforehand) and then off to devour our Chinese themed Noche Buena. What is on the table? Shrimp, cooked with garlic and chili (my very own recipe), tenderloin in mushroom and young corn (I would like to thank Mc cormick for the success of this meal). We also have siomai (purchased from the newly opened Robinson’s in our tuktuk ng Timbuktu province) and then we have spring rolls and Chinese kikiam (so oily and so yummy). And of course we have fried rice (supposed to be mixed rice). The night, though crazy, was fun and fulfilling (fulfilling the tradition of Noche Buena, hehe). December 25.. that’s another story.. and I leave it to Dylan to tell.