I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

You know, it is terrifying how time flies eerily fast. I don't know if that feeling comes as one ages or maybe it's just me. Parang kailan lang kakasimula pa lang ng February, yet here we are just two sleeps away from a brand new month. Scary.

So here's my update of what I've been up to this February and you'll see that my life consists mainly of food, worrying, books and oh, food.

So first things first- I finally took the commercial space. I am renting it for the nail spa. Fight kung fight. I think I can do this and you know what they say- the first step is BELIEVING YOU CAN. Oh yes I am going to think this positive all the way and of course, santong dasalan. All-out-effort. So help me God.

Now, on to the other stuff. Work-life balance, y'know.

Lola X was here for Chinese New Year. I think they had a long weekend vacation for CNY in Singapore so she had time to come home. In fernez ha, I already saw Lola X twice and it's only the second month of the year. We headed to Binondo the 18th of February, day before Chinese New Year.

And since we are creatures of habit, we ate at Wai Ying AGAIN.

Pero, in fair, instead of our default order of lemon chicken and pork siomai, we ordered soy chicken and shrimp chong fan. Staple na ang hakaw, non-negotiable na siya. Soy chicken was muy delicioso también but I swear they must have used MSG galore because I got dizzy after the meal. And since we do not use MSG at home, I think mas may effect sa akin.

Thursday, Feb 20, I had a scheduled meeting with a prospective client which was at 11 am. As usual, I was late. Re-scheduled meeting at 1pm so we had lunch first at SM North Edsa. We ate at Brickfire, a steak and chops restaurant, and here's what we ordered.

nasobrahan sa pagka-well done pero masarap pa din
and at P140, sulit ☺

first time to eat medium rare and i loved it ♥

And Feb 21 was A and my Valentine tradition. For three years, pre-BF era, A and I would usually go out before Valentine's day- eat out, watch a movie (usually a cheesy Tagalog rom-com) and coffee. However, this year was different. This year A was with BF so our tradition was held after Valentines although I think it was indecisiveness which led to breaking the tradition of a pre-Valentine celeb.

We had lunch at the Mega Food Hall. I had the grilled pork liempo with paella-jambalaya. It was okay although I should've opted for the marinara paella.

umm.. parang regular kanin lang naman siya with flavor

Dessert after lunch and yes, gluttony is my favorite sin.

Tried Tuan Tuan for the first time and I have to admit, I wasn't expecting to like it. Primarily because I am not a fan of teas and bread and anything that is overpriced. Still overpriced, in my opinion, but I enjoyed it though. Galit ako sa pera ngayon. Haha.

Movie afterwards. We wanted to watch Fifty Shades of Grey but alas, they didn't have it in Megamall. We watched The Last Five Years and I loved it. Again, no expectations and I really thought that this was a romcom. It was a heavy subject matter and that ending was frustrating. I complained it was open-ended to which A pointed out that I like. And I do. At this point in my life lang, I want feel-good anything.

I loved the movie. As in super. When I got home, I spent my entire waking hours watching You Tube videos of The Last Five Years and then some more the entire Sunday. I do have an addictive personality. So A and I analyzed the movie. We thought it was sad and that it the fall-out was more of Cathy's doing. Even at the start she was already this negative ball of energy who wouldn't share in Jamie's successes. I mean she's allowed to sulk but as a wife, she should be happy for Jamie as well. Jamie feels as if he can't be truly happy for what he has accomplished for fear that it might be as if he's rubbing salt into Cathy's injury. But of course, Jamie's not without fault. He did cheat on Cathy and I absolutely get why Cathy got mad when Jamie wouldn't spend her birthday with her in Ohio and chose to go back to NY for a party. I think Jamie still could've rescued her; he just chose not to. She's a brick and he's drowning slowly, to borrow the lyrics from a Ben Folds Five song.

So after all my energy was drained after feeling all that emotion, we needed to eat again. Haha. I was craving for takoyaki.

But of course we didn't have just takoyaki. We also had bulgogi nachos and I had strawberry black tea. Bochog.

Sunday. Inihaw na baboy for lunch, mi favorito ☺ But the highlight of my day was...

Jaime called me at 6:30 telling me he had available tickets to watch the show live but I had to be there by 7:30. And I haven't taken a bath yet. Pero umabot. We were there 8pm. The show started 9pm. Grabe one hour ang hintay but that was fun ☺ I hope by some twist of good fate (mine), there'll be available tickets for tomorrow's finals.

Monday was Divi day again with ze cousin. Original plan was visit Ama Jo with Lola X. But since my cousin was in for the weekend and she had the Monday off, I asked if she wanted to go to divi with me. I really really really wanted to have lunch at Wai Ying but because I've been having these headaches after eating scrumptious Chinese food, we opted to eat at Sincerity. Chinese food pa rin pero hindi ako nahilo. Good ☺

I liked the rice. Yung chicken, which is their specialty, so-so lang.

Visited Ama Jo after. Saw picture of the myomas removed from her uterus. Let's just say I'm not eating chicharong bulaklak anytime soon or.... ever.

So that's it pansit. More to follow ☺