happy birthday to me

my birthday is actually now officially over but still, i think i still have the right to greet myself. my birthday was nothing extraordinary but still this is one of the better birthdays i had. it actually started friday night. i know, i know, it was a good friday kaya lang i had no choice. twinkle, tito ted, tita cora and loy were going to cali the next morning and i wanted to celebrate with them hence the dinner friday night. since it was no-meat friday we ate pasta with shrimp (c/o of tita cora. the pasta was YUMMY, btw.), cheese and veggie pizza (c/o of pizza hut, which were also yummy), chips and sour cream, and for desserts, brownies and cheesecake. it sounds a lot of food for less than 10 people and actually- it was! ang daming pagkain na-overwhelm ako. i really thought hindi maaubos yung food. boy, was i wrong! i underestimated the powers of five hungry (and sometimes not even hungry) girls. we ate everything over the course of the entire weekend. but i am getting way ahead of the story. so, friday night, since some people were going to be late, nauna na kami nila twinks and tynee kumain at syempre mag-magic sing. i've come to realize that it doesn't matter if we have magic sing every time may gathering and we keep on singing the same songs, magic sing will never get old (baka kaya MAGIC sing.wahahahahaha! sorry, i couldn't resist it!). going back to the story, finally faye, phoebe and loy finally showed up and joined in the festivities. we just sang and laughed all night and didn't go to sleep until the wee hours of the morning.

my yummy handa

the "earlybirds"

taking advantage of the mic before everybody else gets here

early saturday morning (and by early i mean, EARLY), i woke up to the sound of wham's "wake me up before you go" courtesy of tynee's alarm. sa sobrang antok ko while looking for her phone to turn it off, i bumped my mouth into a corner of the center table and hurt myself. i even bled a little. after that, i slept again and woke up at around 930 am. by that time, gising na din si tynee so i made breakfast for us. actually i just cooked eggs and heated waffles in the microwave. hehehe. after that we basically just watched tv and waited for faye and phoebe to wake up. at lunch, we stuffed ourselves with crabs. at dahil sa kasibaan ko sumakit ang tiyan ko after lunch hanggang we got to dc and tysons. thanks to kuya don and ate milet for taking us to dc. buti na lang you did kasi if not we would have ridden the metro at pagdating namin sa DC maghahanapan pa kami ng cherry blossom tree na may pink flowers pa. asus. ang mga trees puro green na yung leaves, wala nang flowers eh ang highlight nung trip namin to dc is to see pink trees! as tynee put it, we played find-you-own-cherry-blossom-tree-and-quickly-take-a-picture game. but it was still fun. then we went to tysons (fyi, tysons is a mall. parang atc.) and medyo nawala ang tummy ache ko. hehehe. na-distract sa mall. we got there kinda late na so we only had an hour to explore the place at medyo nataranta kami ni tynee! an hour was not enough for us. we were rushing through the stores (sayang and H&M!. )anyways, i really wanted to buy a pair of gold shoes but wala akong size! kung kelan sobrang decided na ako to buy it, wala akong size! so on the day of my birthday wala akong nabili sa mall which made me kinda sad (in a totally superficial way). when we got to the house, kantahan na naman and then we went to sleep na kasi the next day was Easter and we were going to church early.

ang (feeling) anak-mayaman nagkakamay to eat crab

my birthday picture! (c/o faye)

i love my shirt on this pic! and of course, phoebe who's with me!!

sunday morning, i woke evrybody up and we went to church and we were really late and i felt guilty but i didn't hear mass again. when we got home, we made breakfast and because we were all meat-deprived for two days, meat fest and breakfast namin. we had longganisa (craving ni faye), bacon, sausages and eggs for breakfast. after breakfast, we basically just hung out at the house. me and faye went out for a while to have her car oil chenged but other than that we just stayed at home and watched tv and slept the whole day. tapos for dinner, tita rose and tynee took me and george out to eat at red lobster! super sarap! then we had coffee at starbucks. buhay baboy kami that sunday. grabe!

us: trying to prepare breakfast, george: looking on for moral support

the meat-fest breakfast (at syempre nangunguna ako, may rice na ang plate)

gutom na pero pose muna bago kumain!

my simple birthday dinner turned into a three-day birthday bash (feeling ko celebrity ako, talagang birthday bash!hehehe) and i couldn't be happier (except if my family was here). i was with friends and we had fun and even more food and it was great. i'm so thankful that even though i'm in a foreign country i have friends to spend my birthday with. sigh. thanks talaga guys! and to everybody who remembered my birthday and greeted me, sobrang thanks! it really, really meant a lot that you remembered! mwah!