IN PANIC MODE

Exactly 2 months from now and we will be reunited with our family again in Pinas. I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it! June will surely be the busiest month of my 2011. Aside from our much awaited vacation, we are all excited as well for my kuya’s wedding which will happen in June too.

Yesterday, my ate and I were on skype discussing about the gown that we will be wearing. She sent so many options to me and nakakaloka sa ganda lahat! Here I’ll show you:

Wala akong mapili instantly because I find everything sooo beautiful! I personally love the design of the red gown though. My kuya’s wedding motif is violet and silver gray, so I’m thinking of adjusting the color to go with the motif. And with my ate around, my gown will look fab and elegant I know.

But the only problem is, ang taba ko! I don’t know if I have the guts or if I’ll have the guts ever to wear that backless gown! I am so in panic mode right now. I only have 2 months to shed off the unwanted fats in my bootylicious bod! Homaygulay!! I need to crash diet now na!

WHY I LOVE POY - Part 11

I was busy doing my thing the other night when out of nowhere husband said this:

Poy: “Bi gagawa ko TWITTER ko.”

Nani: “Marunong ka ba nun bi? Alam mo yung twitter?

Poy: “Hehe hinde bi, ano ba yun?”

Nani: “Ay sauce meh!”

Then last night during our usual “under the sheets” kwentuhan, I casually asked hubby the name of Lucky Manzano’s mom.

Nani: Bi ano nga ba name nung artista na mommy ni Lucky?

Poy: Vilma bi, VILMA MANZANO!

Nani: Huh? (in nalilito mode) Di ba Vilma Santos?

Poy: Eh di dapat Lucky Santos si Lucky? Di ba Lucky Manzano yun? Oh eh di Vilma Manzano nanay nya.

Nani: Laughing trip!!!     

Ikaw na magka asawa na gaya ng asawa ko, ewan ko na lang! =)

WORRIED, PRANING, WHATEVER!

Just like the title of this post, I’m feeling worried, praning and nervous for some reasons. Our baby dear is no longer a baby anymore. Time flies quickly and our Mimay is growing so fast! I don’t know if I’ll be happy about it or not. Selfish as it may seem, but I want to have her for myself a little longer while she’s still in her baby stage. I want to hear her oftenly calling “Mamee!” because this makes me feel that she needs me. Being away from her kasi makes me think that I miss so many things about our daughter. Nakakalungkot.

Seeing this picture of Mimay blowing the candle in her birthday cake with my mommy, makes me really heavy hearted. I should be the one carrying Mimay and blowing the candle with her. But hubby and I weren’t there. And this is what I am most worried of. Baka time will come that Mimay will feel that we love her less and we are only concern of earning money. Baka she will love her naynay more and neglect us. Oh Lord please wag naman po!

I am so confused right now. As much as I want her to stay here in Dubai with us, it will not be healthy for her. I want her to have a normal life, where she can enjoy and play like a normal kid does. Sometimes, it makes me think to just go back home to Pinas and just be with Mimay na lang. But husband is reminding me about our plans, our dreams which make me decide to just swallow the pain of being away from our daughter, earn good money, save and live our dreams for her.

I don’t know if this post is making any sense. I’m just worried. I just love my daughter so much and we want the best, all the best for her.

I miss you loads my baby. I just pray that you will not love Mamee and Dadee less because of our situation. “I wouldn’t be here (Dubai) if I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t care…”  I know anak, time will come, you will be very proud of having a parent like us. We miss you so much baby, mahal na mahal ka namin ni Dadee mo.

HOW WE CELEBRATE MIMAY’S BDAY?

cheers to mimay's 2nd year!

Since last Monday was a very special day because of our baby’s birthday, hubby and I decided to celebrate it by preparing home cooked meals. We could have just dine out but we chose not to because it’s our daughter’s birthday, so dapat special, dapat may effort ;) We took the day off from work and had Mimay all day in Skype. She was so kulit and hyper! She danced like there’s no tomorrow! 

Poy prepared his very own baby back ribs in BBQ sauce. It was so delish and lumalaban talaga sa Tony Roma’s! I’m loving Poy more and more. Ang sarap sarap na nya magluto ngaun. He really improved ng bonggang bongga!

 

For anyone out there who is salivating already, here is hubby’s very own recipe of BBQ baby back ribs.

For the BBQ baby back ribs sauce:

Ingredients:
1 cup of tomato catsup
1 cup of distilled white vinegar (hubby used Heinz)
2 tsp of brown sugar
1/2 tsp of salt
1/2 tsp of ground pepper
2 cloves of minced garlic
1/2 tsp of onion powder
1/2 tsp of chili powder (optional)

Just combine all the ingredients in a small sauce pan and bring to boil. Reduce the heat and allow it to simmer for about 20 minutes until it becomes as thick as any normal BBQ sauce.

For the BBQ baby back ribs:

The only ingredient is a 3-slab baby back ribs. Once the ribs are cleaned up, place them in a pot of water and boil them for about 30 minutes. Afterwards give them a generous coating of sauce and wrap them in aluminum foil suitable for baking. Make sure to seal ‘em up and then place in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.

After that preheat the oven to 250°F and stick the ribs in. Let it cook for about 2 and 1/2 hours and take them out. Then coat the ribs with the remaining sauce and stick them back in the oven with the foil unwrapped. Turn the oven on broil and let them cook for about 15 more minutes. It's a fairly lengthy procedure but I bet you, very worth trying!

Me naman made my very own Cheesy Baked Mac and Cheesy Baked Potato.

I swear, ako gumawa nyan! It looks yummy no? Aminin! I got the recipe from my friend Len, which she got naman from this site.

I also made a baked potato for the starter. The photo doesn’t make justice to the taste though.

Incase you want to know how I made this baked potato, here are the easy steps: Wash and scrub the potatoes well then pat dry. Coat the potatoes with some oil not butter. Poke the potatoes a few times in order to let steam escape during the cooking process. Bake the potatoes in 425 degrees for about 45 min to an hour, or until soft. Then garnish with lots of grated cheese and bake for another 5 minutes. Do not overcook the cheese just like what I did.

I am deeply sorry for the quality of photos, all were just taken from my iphone. I have to get my own blog camera soon! Calling bibi! =)

101 housemates had their share of the food too! And there goes our yummy and personal celebration of ineng’s birthday, simple but planned and prepared with LOVE.

JEMIMAH PHILISSE TURNS TWO!

Our baby girl had her pre-birthday celebration last April 3, a day before her exact natal day. We decided to do it on Sunday so that most of her guests can come and celebrate with her.

The simple celebration was held in Jollibee Caltex Sta Rosa, Laguna at around 4pm. Since we knew beforehand that we can’t join in Skype, we prepared a short message instead. It was read during the program by our dear friends Lady and Jhay C which made the guests and even Jollibee teary eyed. 

Let me post our letter here so that when Mimay can understand things already, she’ll know that mamee and dadee love her dearly and that we are willing to swallow the pain of not being with her (most especially in this very special occasion) just to be able to provide the best future that she deserves.

Mamee’s message:

To my sweetheart Jemimah Philisse,

Happy birthday beautiful! Two years came too fast. Looking at you now, I can’t believe that you’re that once tiny fragile baby in mamee’s arms. You are God’s most wonderful and precious gift to Dadee, Mamee and the rest of the family. I just want you to know baby that you are very much loved because you have brought us immeasurable happiness. You gave our life direction and meaning we’ve never known before.

Happy happy happy birthday (tomorrow) baby! Sorry we couldn’t make it to your party. I’m sure you will have fun. I’m so excited to see you in the skype later during your party. I’ll not cry, promise anak =)

We love you so much neng, sobra sobra sobra. You are everything to us, to me. I pray that you will grow up to be an obedient, kind and God loving person. In 1 year’s time, you will go to school na. Im very much sure you will make us more proud of you. Love you nak! Happy birthday!

Stay charming, pretty and biba!

With so much love,

Mamee Nani

Dadee’s message:

Dear Mimay,

Happy birthday neng.

Sensya ka na kung wala kami ng Mami mo jan ngayon, kailangan namin gawin to for you. We love you so much neng. We are so grateful that we have you as our daughter. No matter how many birthdays come and go, you'll always be our little girl.

We are so glad that God gave us a daughter like you. Happy birthday to our pride and joy. Happy birthday to a wonderful, makulit, matakaw and malikot na bata. You are our one true treasure.

Always remember that we love you so much.

Happy happy 2nd birthday Mimay!

Sa lahat po ng bisita ni Mimay, maraming salamat din sa pagpapasaya nyo kay ineng, lalong lalo na ngayong birthday nya. Sa kanyang mga ninang at ninong, kuya at ate, tito at tita, Naynay, Lolo at Lola sa Majada, sa Calamba, sa Cabuyao at sa Batangas. Thank you very much sa love at pagaalaga nyo kay Mimay. Sana po mag enjoy kayo.

Ate selo at kuya Dong. Maraming maraming salamat po sa pagaasikaso nyo sa birthday ni ineng na kahit sobrang dami nyong schedule, meron pa din po kayong time para dito.

Thank you po uli.

We love you all.

I just pray anak that you will be proud too for having us as your parents. We love you baby!

Let me take this opportunity also to thank our family most especially my ate, kuya dong, kuya dee and mommy for taking care of almost everything. Thank you for your unconditional love to our baby girl. Thank you for accepting and treating her so well. She is so loved and we will be forever thankful for that.

To Inay, Ate Dory, Tupen and the rest of husband’s family in Majada, thank you so much for loving Mimay and for always being there for her.

And to our dearest friends, Melai, Arman, Lady, Eon and Jhayz, sobrang thank you guys! Poy and I we’re talking last night that we are really very blessed for having friends like you. Talagang extended yung love nyo for me to my family and to our ineng. Thank you thank you so much!

Let me share to all of you some of the photos, c/o Ninong Dong, from Mimay’s 2^nd birthday sporty party.

 Here’s the birthday girl in her cheer leader attire, so adorable!

Opening prayer by Tito Dennis:

The happy birthday song and blowing of the cake:

The party games:

The party guests. Jollibee party is for ALL ages =)

I love viewing the photos over and over again. It’s just so nice to see all our loved ones gathered together for our daughter’s special day!

Again, happy happy happy 2^nd birthday to our pretty baby girl! We love you endlessly! Can’t wait to see you!

JUST MAY I SHARE?

Just like what I have told you here, today is a BIG day in our company that is why I wasn't able to take the day off and be with Mimay on her 2^nd birthday party. It is the long awaited Inauguration of our new mill. Just for your information, I am working as a Procurement Officer in a Steel Tubes and Pipes Manufacturing Company. And this Rebar is sort of an expansion for us although it will be offering a totally different product.

This will be a bigtime event since many VIP’s including Dubai’s Sheikh/ruler will be coming to grace the ceremony. Big time di ba?

Just because I want to share to all of you how bongga the preparations for this inauguration, I gathered some photos for your viewing. You do the math baby!

Invitations

Price: AED 1600 each (Php 19,200)

Roughly 50 pieces of this were ordered to be given as an invitation for VIPs. Kaloka di ba? 19K pesos for a single invitation? Di ako maka get over when I saw this. The invitation itself is engraved in a metal sheet and placed in a personalized box made of leather with chocolates from Xocolatl. And mind you, the chocolates are made especially for our company and stamped with our logo. Sosyal!

Printed Invitations

Printed invitations were also ordered for not so important guests hehe. But still, it’s perfect. The letterings were embossed in a high quality boardpaper that looked like a metal.

Events and PR

Price: AED 343,000 (Php 4,116,000)

This includes the corporate video, program planning, emcee, red carpet and event set-up. For more than 4 million peso fee, this has to be bonggang bonggang bongga! We even had an office shoot the other week for the Audio Video Presentation.

This is the stage layout that hopefully will be executed perfectly or else, sabog nguso ng supplier sa boss namin hehe.

Catering

Price: AED 450 per head (Php 5,400) for lunch and AED 500 per head (Php 6,000) for dinner

Ang hirap ata lunukin ng meal na worth 6k pesos! The caterer of the event will be Madinat Jumeirah. This is overly sosyal!! Take note ha, lunch pa lang yun. For the dinner, all the guests will go straight to Armani Hotel to enjoy the sumptuous dinner.

Give aways

Price: AED 3,900 each (Php 47,000)

And this one really made my eyes roll and pop out in amazement! Almost 50k pesos each for a give away??! Kakaloka so much!

Sobrang bad timing lang because kasabay sya ng birthday celebration ni ineng. Hay!