How many birthdays can one have in a year? My actual birthday is April 9th but my official birthday, as registered, is the 10th... thanks to the hospital staff who did this. This year, as in some other years that passed, the day fell on a Holy Thursday (and/or Good Friday) which means no meat, no merriment. That is alright because I didn't want to have a birthday party anyway, if it only meant that I will be the one cooking and cleaning up afterward.Saturday, the 11th, seemed to be a good day to go to the mall but Bong was in a really good mood to do kitchen work and did not want to come along so I left him alone. Gem and I went to the mall. We bought a few things and I got a haircut (see photo). Contented and itchy from my new haircut, we headed for home. Surprise... surprise... family from Saginaw were in our house and the kitchen was really busy. Moments later, friends started to come, the 3E's from Canada even came. Yes, it was a surprise birthday party orchestrated by Bong and the kids.... thanks to them and all who came. You made my day!
The house, especially the kitchen, was a mess.... nobody knew where the right utensils or the dishes were. Three families had to spend the night but the house was not prepared for this thing to happen... so whenever and wherever one was and ready to get zzzz's, they just go. So.... until next year?
P.S. This is a very late publication (actual publish date: May 5th). Apologies to my readers who are now suffering from Kalidadis withdrawal.
I shall never run out of peanut butter. Last night, Derek came by to give me my birthday present... half a dozen of PB in 5-lb jars. Yeah, I am that crazy about my PB. Thanks a lot, Derek. And watch out family... this is what you will be eating everyday until it's all gone or until you get sick and tired of eating it, whichever comes first.
It is my birthday... yey! I usually announce its coming so friends will remember to greet me, but this year I did not have to since my friend, Ms. Randomness already did the honors, leaving my friends no excuse if they forget. My phone was constantly ringing, not to forget the e-mails, and I did not mind. So far, so good.... my list of friends has not been changed.
Jingle brought me an orchid plant. This makes me nervous because I am not a very good plant keeper. But this was not all... Arlene, Jing
le's sug, gave me a call to give me instructions on how to care for the orchid. Oh God, help me!I love my wii... will I love it
more with this new game that Jas got me? I guess I have to throw a party and see how this works. Who's comin'?
Gem came home for their short spring break. It's 'no meat' day so I made some vegetarian wrap for lunch... yum! Gem was my kitchen helper even though she's not the cook in the fa
mily. To make up for our culinary boo-boo, she took the piece that we burned, which was no less yummy, of course... and she did the dishes, too, so who's complaining?
What were Bong and Thaad up to? Hmmm... in the cold outside, they did the oil change on my car. Getting their hands dirty, my sweet boys!
To Heather: yes, my family treated me great but my husband has yet to take me out somewhere snazzy.
I am 48 and I am content.
"Multiply inches by 2.54, and you get centimeters..... so out with the English, be modern at last... the system of metric is better!" This was probably the most played tune in the early 80's. It was all over the TV and radio stations in the Philippines, announcing that the whole nation was ditching the old English Imperial system in favor of the modern Metric system. This was also the time that I would be preparing for the board exams.... after 5 years of engineering calculations by the English system, now yet another set of computations to convert to Metric have I to master... length: yard to meter.... temperature: Fahrenheit to Celsius.... volume: gallons to liters.... energy: BTU to calories or joules... etc., etc., etc. Looking back, that was really a lot of complicated work for everything to be converted and for everyone to be re-educated. But that leap proved great for it made measuring easier.
I cannot say that the nation is not modern because, in fact, it is the seat of the hip and cool, but the US has remained an English system society and I have no clue why. Now, having moved to the US, I have to go back and revisit my once comfortable territory of English Imperialism. Today's temperature is a mere 50 deg... which bothers my Canadian friends because theirs is just 10 deg... silly! It is the same temperature except ours is in F and the Canadians' in C.
How about this? In 1975, an Australian news program revealed that the country would soon be converting to "metric time." Under the new system there would be 100 seconds to the minute, 100 minutes to the hour, and 20-hour days. Furthermore, seconds would become millidays, minutes become centidays, and hours become decidays. Are you kidding? Do the math! I would just be 21 years old... would I look the age? This one's a hoax... happy April fooling!
