Search for new puzzle project

Saturday afternoon, as planned we went to Alabang town center to look for my new puzzle project. One of my puzzles was bought in the Hobbes and Landes (Alabang Town Center), the other four puzzles were bought at Puzzle Dazzle (Festival Mall Alabang). Well, I am looking for a puzzle of Van Gogh (Souvenir de Mauve), but unfortunately they do not have the puzzle that time. The store clerk handed me a business card so that I can call him to inquire if they already have the puzzle. My husband told me to buy other instead, so that I can do something while waiting for the puzzle that I want. So I took my tine to check on their puzzle display, I carefully look into each of the boxes (particularly for the size of the puzzle). There is one puzzle that caught my eyes; it is a panorama view of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge. Well, it is not for me this time, I told my husband that I will give this puzzle for a friend as my gift. I hope that she will like it.

Afterwards we headed to the kids section of the mall to buy the Christmas Gifts for our “inaanaks”. I already had a checklist of the kids that we still have no gifts yet. I decided to do it on my own, while Adrian is busy playing at the small playground inside the mall, and Claire is closely watching him. My husband chose to sit on the bench nearby (he is not the type that will walk from stall to stall). When I found good buy items in their stall I will call my husband to have a second opinion.

Finally we are almost done with the gifts, only three of my nieces were left with no gift this time. We decided to have a snack at Hot Shots where they served delicious grilled burgers. No pizza this time for Adrian, he loves fries, but not crazy on burgers.

Monte Vista

October 28, 2007, a day after Papa’s birthday. We finally came up with a decision to celebrate it at Monte Vista Hot Spring Resort located at Calamba Laguna. At 8am, we picked-up Ate and Kyla and start to travel to Calamba. We do not know the exact location of the resort but we have an idea from the location map we had found in the internet site. When we got to the town proper of Calamba, my husband decided to stop and ask the police officer about the resort. Luckily we are still on the right way. From the directions given by the police man, we reach the location. At the parking area, we saw Adis and the rest of my family members (except Ate Litel and JR).

Adrian is excited to see his cousins (JC, Jeremy, Ellah, and Charlie). At the entrance, it is only Adrian who came up free (it is because he is only 3 feet tall) and Papa being a senior citizen has a discounted entrance fee.

The weather is a bit cloudy that day, but since it is a hot spring, the kids and the adults enjoyed the pool.

Car Show at Elizabeth Seaton

My husband is a big fan of cars, so whenever he got news of a car show taking place (especially when held in vicinity of Cavite), he will not it pass by without attending. The location is at Parking space of Elizabeth Seaton School here in Anabu Cavite, when we got there at around 4pm there are few car entries/displays in the area, maybe because it is still early. We decided to go first to Robinson Imus, Adrian is asking for a toy racing car for a week now. We also need to buy some things that we need for tomorrow’s swimming.

At 6pm, we decided to go to the car show. When we arrived in the location, the parking area is already full so we have to park the car few meters away (the main road in that area has four lanes, the two other lanes were used as parking). Adrian is excited to see cars (he loves cars too). My husband is looking for his friend Kuya Larry who also maintains his car, if they do have entry for that car show, when we got bumped with our former co-employee Erick. We have some chat, update on the current condition of the company he works for, he also told us that our co-employee/friend Denis was there few minutes ago with his wife Michelle. We also saw my husband’s friend Fritz, who also a former co-employee.

We have not seen an entry from Kuya Larry, last car show at island cove his car is the grand winner so we are thinking why he do not have an entry this time.

My First Time Using IM

October 25, Thursday – I was trying to connect with our internal messenger (it is same as yahoo messenger). It was Ate Leng-leng who asked me to sign in, it was there for about a year, but I will be using IM for the first time. After trying my best and failed to connect, I ask assistance from my co-employee, well they can’t believe that it is my first time to use that communicator. When I successfully signed-in, I saw Ate Leng-leng is already on-line. I ask her about her birthday yesterday, she said that she only brought spaghetti for her co-employees. When we were younger, I can still remember that we do not actually celebrate a birthday alone, in case that there were birthdays that will fall in the same month, it will be celebrated only once. Ate Leng-leng’s birthday is October 24, while Lala’s is October 19, and Papa’s is on October 27. We usually have it celebrated once to save money.

Ate Leng-leng is the one in-charge with Papa’s 60^th birthday. Our topic then is, where, when and who are coming. I had a meeting to attend at 830am and we did not yet come up with the final decision on the place. We agreed that she will go to Mama’s house after her work (which is until 2pm only) and she will advise me with the final decision tomorrow.

October 24, Wednesday – It is already 6:30 pm when I got home due to slow traffic at Aguinaldo Hi-way (near SM and Robinsons). When I arrived, my son asks about his father, because this morning my husband decided to drive me to the company due to heavy rains. He works until 9pm so I rode the shuttle bus going home.

After the dinner, I ask Adrian and Claire if they were able to continue the puzzle this afternoon. Claire replied that they tried but they stopped when it is down to the difficult part of the puzzle. This is the part when the color of the puzzle pieces seems to look the same. They spare it to me this time, I went upstairs to continue the puzzle while Adrian is busy playing his favorite computer game, while Claire is watching TV.

The remaining puzzle pieces were down to less than 100 this time. The puzzle pieces were really confusing this time so, I have to really take a closer look to each puzzle piece, I am lucky to have a 20/20 vision. There are times that you think that a puzzle piece will fit on that other piece, but when you put it together, it will not. After less than an hour, and a lot of patience, the puzzle is now finished. I brought down the puzzle, so that Claire and Adrian will saw the finished puzzled. They were both happy to see that it is already completed.

October 22, 2007 - Puzzle in the Making

October 22, Monday – When I got home from work around 6pm, Claire is already cooking the meal for the dinner – fried chicken as requested by Adrian. I decided to go upstairs to continue the puzzle which we have started to assemble yesterday afternoon. Adrian also joined me in the room while waiting for the chicken to be cooked. Claire is also helping this time on the puzzle. After eating our dinner, we decided to continue doing the puzzle while waiting for my husband to arrive. At around 10pm, the three of us were busy doing the puzzle that we have not heard the arrival of my husband. He told us to stop and go to bed and continue it tomorrow.

October 21, 2007 - Christmas Tree

October 21, Sunday – Early in the morning, I opened the box that was sitting in the Living are for a week now. It is the Christmas Tree, my husband took it from our room (under our bed-which is also serves as our storage for other things that we use occasionally). It was Adrian who is very excited to assemble the tree, usually we have it assembled after the “Undas”. I soaked it with soap and water and left to dry. When Adrian

went down, he saw that the box was already opened and he was happy to learn that we are going to assemble the tree after attending the mass.

Actually the Christmas Tree was here for about 5 years now, but it is the first time that we allow Adrian to help in putting it together.