mom's home

Mom went home last night. The surgeon gave her the all clear that afternoon and we left that night. I went to pay the bills, ask the whatevers, in short did all the adult thing i never thought I'd do. This was more my sister's forte. Well since she was at home and i was on old duty yesterday and the day before that, i was the old person that day. Boy was i paranoid when I was on my way to the surgeon's clinic to pay the bill. Thank God I didn't experience any trouble.



She's ok now, she can even hit me when i tell her she's old. haha. Though she can't reach over. So i do all my heckling from a distance so she can only grimace at me.



Man hospital food is brutal. Or should i say post-op hospital food is brutal. The day of Mom's operation they didn't let her eat. Monday they let her eat, and it was ick. strained oatmeal water. Can you eat that? I can't. Mom told me it tasted like paste.



I on the other hand, stuffed my face with the food the visitors bought. Thanks everyone for the pastries from Red Ribbon, Merced, Goldilocks and the like. You can really see how times hav changed. It used to be that anytime anyone went to the hospital, you'd see visitors clutching plastic bags with the familiar face of Goldilocks on the side. Now, I see more people bringing boxes of mamon(sponge cake) and ensaymada(sweet bread filled with generous amount of butter and sugar and sprinkled with grated cheese). I'm not a big fan of ensaymada but I do like the mamon. So much so that the bag I bought for that Sunday was filled with those. I actually just bought a bag forn the purpose of bringing the mamon coz our plastic for other stuff like books was transparent. I really didn't want the people looking at me like "Hungry much?".

I also ate more fruit than I've had in a while. People were also bringing a lot of fruits, on top of those ate bought everyday. So i had kilos upon kilos of lychees, grapes, bananas, ponkan, basically the usual.

I walked all around the hospital for all the paperwork that had to be done to get dicharged. Does that count as exercise?

I heart tita Flora

I heart Tita Flora. She visited yesterday and brought a LOT of food. Chinese from Causeway. Dimsum to be exact. She even brought hakaw (shrimp dumpling), my favorite. Also veggie dumplings, and this vegetable and seafood wrap thing i loved. Ate also found siomai that she liked better than Hen Lin.

The good thing about all this food was Mama could eat it. She was just put on a low fat diet, but she's really careful about the things she eats, so when Tita Flora bought this food, she ate it. One of the only things other than the hospital meals she's eaten (that and fruits of course).

I'm pissed at Jason. Pissed. My mom has been at the hospital since Monday right?My brother, the supposed mama's boy, so much so that he's taking on my mom's mannerisms and not my dad's, has been there TWICE.Both times he asked for money and asked her if he could go to this masquerade party that was their society's GA. That was last night.My mom's operation is today. Tita Au has been there more times than him. I'm this close to telling him off, but to what point?He's 18. He should know what he's supposed to do.

Pizza days at work

I knew I was gonna gain weight here when, during my first week to report to work, someone (Angge thanks!) treated the team to pizza. Two large ones from Jugno's. I never heard about this pizza place until I got here, but it really is good. We got two 20-inchers for the 9 (?) of us. We finished off those pies in like 20 minutes. Haha. My brothers in gluttony.

This week we had pizzas again from Jugno's for Aysa's birthday (thanks Aysa!). Now with ice cream. Yum. Not together though. Even though Isko tried it and liked it.

I missed ice cream. And pizza. Though i still want cupcakes. Yesterday at the MRT there was this woman who held her gonuts donuts box 0f 6's and a box of cupcakes from there too. I stood there staring at the box from Ortigas to Quezon Ave.

I love my friends. They went and visited Mama when I told them to pray for her operation to go well. A special thanks to Joms for putting a word in to his dad to make sure we had a good surgeon.

Karen and Joms even arrived at the hospital before I did. Joms from med school, Karen from work. Joms wanted to eat so we went down to the canteen and i thought "Oh great, hospital food." but apparently he didn't think the food there would satisfy his hunger so we went to Burger King to eat. I was thoroughly disappointed to find out that they didn't serve bottomless drinks anymore. And that they raised their prices. Karen figured that they wanted to narrow down their demographic. That demographic won't include me. Now the only thing drawing me to there is their onion rings, but that won't get me to make special trips to the few Burger King branches left in the metro.

Mom is still in the hospital. Hopefully the swelling in her liver goes down so she can get the operation. She's getting antsy in there.

What a weekend

I made plans with Tripod and Ka to watch Harry Potter at Trinoma after work last Saturday. As usual, by the time i was on the jeep on my way there I was already hella hungry.

I always get hungry on my way home from work. I don't get it. I eat enough at lunch, and I don't really feel like snacking here. Maybe I'm conditioned (Haha so I'm Pavlov's dog? Get on a jeep and my mouth waters?) to get hungry coz i know i'm gonna pass by the malls, or maybe I'm just really a glutton. Anyway, as usual I'm the first of us to get to Trinoma. So I decided to go to Wet Shop at The Block and try on the suit i was eyeing when Ma sent me to SM to pass that form at smart. Turns out, it didn't quite fit. (oh the humanity)

So i was thinking, I'm fat anyway, I'll just eat first. Sad to say, there were a hella of a lot of people at both malls, so i couldn't go hang out anywhere and just eat. I really didn't want to eat cupcakes alone so I just trudged my tired self back to Trinoma and waited for them.

We planned to meet at 6:30. It was past 7 when we got together. At that time, the lines for the movie were already too long and i was this close to chewing on my friends' arms so I suggested that we just eat.

Eat we did. Teriyaki Boy. I wanted to go to Cubao for my favorite booths but at the time all of us were already too hungry for such ideas, so we had Karen (our Mommy) reserve a place for us and waited. After like 20 minutes they had a table for us and so we sat down (yay booth, but boo no view) and ordered. Usually I'd get like a kani salad and a few orders of sushi. This night i was too hungry for appetizers and salad so I got my Teriyaki Chicken Boy Don. Yum I think i inhaled my food. I even got salmon maki for all of us, which i ate a lot of too. Ate texted me a few minutes into dinner and asked if we wanted seafood pasta (they were in A Veneto) and of course we said yes. Cool takeout for us.

After dinner, we went up to Timezone. Martin had his Timecard loaded and wanted to play basketball so we did too. Shot a few hoops. It was fun. i missed going to the arcade. The last time I did anything close to an arcade game was when PS had its Job Madness and there were a few machines in the lobby, i played a few games of air hockey. But that hardly counts. I then thought, "This would be a fun exercise routine. Go to the mall then shoot a few hoops." then I realized, the food i would be eating AT the mall would counteract, even overshoot thw exercise i would be getting.

For dessert we went to Dairy Queen. Pao's favorite. I was supposed to get a Mint Chocolate Chip shake, but the girl misheard me. I didn't have the heart to correct her, poor kid she looked so tired. I even noticed that the manager was taking orders too. And weird thing was, he was sweating a lot. I looked around at that point to make sure i was really in an ice cream store.

Went to Martin's to hangout afterwards. They did all these pc stuff, Joms had to IM someone for med school stuff, Karen loaded up her ipod with videos. I sat in the couch and watched Inside Man. And fell asleep 30 minutes into the movie.

Mom's in the hospital to get her gallbladder removed. Pray for her please.

So much for eating healthy

I avoided going down the North Avenue station yesterday so I couldn't go to SM to buy those cupcakes I've been thinking about all week. This is my attempt at eating healthier (read: LESS) and just eat home-cooked food that's better for me. When I got off the jeep in the street to our house I got a text from ate, telling me that Ma and her were on the way to the ER since Ma had a tummy ache. So I dropped my things off at home, then rode the jeep to Capitol.

I was hungry and knew that I would not want to eat hospital food so I stopped and got takeout from McDonald's first. Thinking that Ate couldn't have eaten yet, I bought two cheeseburger meals. In my hunger I forgot ate didn't eat McDonald's anymore, thanks to Morgan Spurlock anf his movie Supersize Me (to know more about the movie, click here: http://www.supersizeme.com/) but me, I just try to not eat at the place as often as I used to.

You see in high school we ate there almost everyday. Well, starting third year I think. After CO training we'd go straight to McDo and eat dinner, then go home. That was our night out. We weren't the gimmick nights kind of group. So I have a special place in my heart for McDo.

Anyway, going back to my point. I got 2 cheeseburger meals (big time) for takeout right? I started to eat at the jeep to Capitol, first just the fries, then the burgers, then i realized when I got to Delta, the food was all gone. It was only when Ate told me that Berto (who works at the Capitol ER) was there and looking for food did i realize what I did. I ate food for two people! So much for eating healthy (and less).

It was great though. I missed French fries. I eat them plain. Well, salt.

fyi. Mom's fine. We took her home. She's gonna have to take meds for two weeks and get a checkup from a gastroenterologist later though.

In other news...

I have had a total of 2, read 2, paychecks and I've yet to treat my friends to anything. I'm feeling a bit embarassed about this, since I promised them since I started working that I was gonna treat them to dinner, notably at Teriyaki Boy for the Tripod and Karen.

K too, since she's been treating me to too much since I've met her. It's time i did the same.

But probably, the person who has kept me most in food is my sister. I've been her dependent since she started working, more often than not half her salary has been spent eating at new places with me.

Now it's my turn. :)

I want me some cupcakes!

Going home from I work i take the MRT. The MRT is connected to six or so malls. This fact i love for the following reasons:

• Walking through a mall to get to a jeep (well for me) is safer, well actually, just a little comfier (thank you central ac)
• You never know who you might run into, we Filipinos love our malls. So i'd like to think that if i miss someone enough, I'll run into them one day walking home.
• Whenever i need to buy something for home I don't have to make a special trip.
• I can meet my friends after work at the mall of my choosing.
• When I'm craving for anything it's usually found at one of the three malls on my way so i can just stop by and grab a bite there or get takeout.

Why I hate that it's connected to the mall:

• There are always so many people, (like me) just wanting to cool off and not actually buying anything.
• Those days when I am not dressed for humans, those would be the times i'd bump into a person I really don't want to see.
• Since all i crave for is at the mall, my salary is almost always just devoted to food. (Sir Tobias, my Intro to Sociology prof told me that if you spend more than 50% of your paycheck on food, you're at the poverty level. So that means I'm extremely poor)

Anyway,back to my point. At one of these mall sidetrips I passed by one of those Brownies Unlimited stalls and I saw that they have now added cupcakes to their repertoire. I do realize this cannot compare to Sonja's cupcakes (or so I've heard) but I've been craving for one of those pink iced chocolate cupcakes ever since i saw them. The only thing stopping me? Fear. I'm afraid of starting another (food) habit. I will try those one of these days, if only to stop the voice in my head from chanting "Cupcakes! Cupcakes" everytime i pass by the BU stalls scattered along the mall.

On a sidenote, has anyone tried those Sonja's cupcakes i keep hearing about? Are they worth the steep price and the long travel (well for me) to Taguig?