Straight from the (Jack)Ass' mouth

the weekend that was...

last weekend was interesting enough to be written about.

friday. my mom spotted me 1k for grocery shopping for a dinner i was gonna be throwing the following day. so i skipped on over to the LRT station and got off at gateway to do my grocery shopping in rustan's. i was so proud of myself. devise recipes on the fly, buy whatever it is that they had there, and still come up 100 bucks below.

saturday. spend the whole morning and afternoon as chef/cleaner. i was dicing, boiling, sauteeing away. when i was letting the food cool and the soup boil i was cleaning my room. C-L-E-A-N-I-N-G! quasi-cleaning actually since i just stuffed the mess out of sight... but i still looked clean. and that's what mattered.

by 6pm this was what i had to show for the day:
a.) a clean room.
b.) a spicy tomato and cheese soup with carrots, potatoes, and chorizo de bilbao
c.) spaghetti in red wine, shallot, and butter sauce with hungarian sausage
d.) a cold spiral-pasta salad with kani strips, cucumber, carrot and a japanese mayonnaise, cottage cheese and wasabi dressing

dinner was for some EU2004 friends. Arlo, Barbs, Pau, Jen, Ana, and Mike were the only ones who were able to go. but some is better than none in this case. dinner went well. people were catching up. there were lots of leftovers tho... i counted on 12. oops. funny though. i didnt see any of the leftovers the following day.

after dinner we took a small trip to my room then went to SBC for some coffee but adjourned after a while. me and barbs - ever not wanting to go home - went to pau's. that was fun too. of course pau took it upon herself to feed me. cookies. chips. not as much as i used to gorge myself on at pau's but that's coz we already had dinner. we were just talking and at about 2am decided to watch a dvd of Jan Dara. woah humping every few minutes. but it was a beautiful movie. i highly recommend! i even felt like doing a literary thematic analysis on it... haha nerdo.

we ended up sleeping over since the movie finished at around 430-ish. the girls of course got the room. i got the couch. didnt mind though since i was able to catch a little bit of anger management on hbo before going to sleep.

sunday. we had breakfast with pau's parents at about 9am. both marvelled at how much weight i had lost. then we were going on and on about work. barbs' job. pau's new job. my lack of one. breakfast stretched on to about lunch which was when we finally took our leave.

i slept the rest of the afternoon. happy to find that everyone - the parents, my brother and his wife, and the kids - were away. i went to mass alone and was happy for the peace. i got home and at about 7 my parents and i went to play badminton in valle verde with some titas and titos.

i so totally sucked that night. i resigned the cause of this trmendous suckage to lack of sleep. anyway, we finished at 9 and we had dinner at a korean resto along ortigas. food was SPICY! damn... it was an ordeal (the spiciness and not the overall taste) to get through but hey i'm a bit of a masochist so i loved it.

well... that's it i guess. so what's up with me now? reading Fury, by Salman Rushdie (i recommend)... cheering for the pistons... playing around with my graphic tablet... addicted to pau's chocolate truffles which i have recently discovered - to my horror - that they can only be purchased in HK... my tita, tito, and cousin just arrived from the states... thinking of things i'll get when i finally have a paycheck...

posted by Peejay @ 6/15/2005 11:56:00 PM