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Turning Two: Being Young and Lovely

December 14, 2009 by Janey

Our good friends Andrew and Anne (collectively known as Annedrew… cute)’s daughter turned two this Saturday. After last year’s 1^st birthday big bash at EDSA Shangri-la, the couple decided to tone it down a little and yet making it a fantastic fun birthday party for Karie.

In 2008:

Karie’s Children’s Party

December 12, 2009

Jollibee, Greenmeadows Branch

Since there was a shortage of kids to join the games, the host volunteered the friends to join in 😀 According to Jim, it was obvious how us girls were so competitive against the boys haha.

We took that afternoon too to discuss Bubba’s outreach program and schedule our packing day, as well as our Christmas party. For exchange gifts, each one picked out anonymously a name from the tray –rule is couples are not allowed to pick each other. Everyone will provide a wish list in the group email to give gift ideas to their respective “ninong/ninang.” Christmas party is slated on December 23, while the goody bag project on December 16, Wednesday night.

Image Source: Buch De La Cruz

Karie’s eyes are so much like Anne’s but nose down, it seems like Andrew gave his share, including charm 🙂 The Jolli party included games and a dance performance by Jollibee who was accompanied by Hetty. Karie was donning a red outfit paired with red shoes and socks –almost matching her mom’s and dad’s attires.

Happy Birthday Karie!!! 🙂

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DLSU Block LR23 Reunion

July 28, 2009 by Janey

Czar SMS-ed me about the LR23’s reunion last week that got me really excited. It’s been quite a while since I last seen my college friends. Date was on July 25, 2009 at 630PM at Gerry’s Grill, Blue Wave, Macapagal Avenue.

I barely made it to the block reunion arriving at 1030PM but it was all good since everyone was still there. I think the only person I missed was Llis and Tan’s proposal. I arrived 10 minutes too late.

Kisses for everyone while Tan gave me a big hug. Jonathan Van Haute, Tan for short, was the base player of our band. You heard it right. I was part of a band before.

Reminiscing Freshman Year

1999 -I remember FROSHIE orientation day vividly where I was standing in the same circle as Tan and Throi, who are both my band members. Each was asked for an introduction and sharing of their interests. Of course there was the usual, “Jane? Where’s Tarzan?” When I said that I play drums, I remember seeing Tan and Throi’s faces lit up. I speak their language. Music.

On to the term, Tan, Throi and Jason started getting together jamming. Tan and Throi have asked me to join their group. I asked what type of music they play and they said the likes of Metallica, Black Sabbath, etc. I played to Hansons’ MmmBop in High School and The Wonders’ That Thing You Do. Metallica was definitely not in my league. I timidly declined knowing that I haven’t listened to any heavy metal song plus the fact that they were all male. I proposed that they ask RJ instead, who is another drummer in the batch. The next term, Tan hands me a tape to listen to. I did and actually liked the music genre. Soon I was banging my head to the loud music. I was asked again but I was still tentative questioning my parity against their experience.

Tan offered a jamming session so I can see for myself. We scheduled it and played after class hours at a studio near Angelo King. Throi on lead vocal and lead guitar, Tan on base, Jason on keyboards and little me on drums. They taught me a thing or two and I actually enjoyed the session that several jamming sessions followed.

FASTIGAN ’98 Battle of the Bands

FAST ’98 sponsored a battle of the bands competition and my band had a bright idea of joining. We had several suggested names for the band but the band name that stuck in the competition was “Dr. Fungus and the Sunshine Kids.” Don’t ask me why. Leave it to the boys and their creative imagination.

I was all so nervous but friends calmed my jitters while Ainge sent me flowers. Hiding my fear, I had my hair all up in “braid” locks (trying to resemble dreadlocks). 3 hours before the event, we went to the auditorium (William Theater) to check the equipment and have a feel of the stage. To our forlorn, the old drumset that the organizers rented sounded like tin can. I don’t know what happened next but I think I volunteered to bring in my drums for our set. There was no time to call for the driver then, my band mates and I immediately rushed to my house in a cab. They swiftly disassembled “Red (my drumset)” and loaded it in the trunk.

The organizer asked if they could use my drumset for the entire thing. Tan was hesitant but I said okay. Later that evening, I see blood and scars on my snare while my tom-toms had nicks.

I remember the support from our block (and the Engineering block, good to have friends from other colleges *smile*) hooting and cheering while we were playing. It was tremendously heartwarming that it gave me plenty of energy to play. At one point, I looked at the side of the stage and saw a group of boys (I think part of the semi-pros) rocking with us, head banging and pointing at me with a rock and roll sign. We played three cover songs opening with Metallica’s “Die, Die, Die, My Darling.” We followed it with Black Sabbath’s Nativity in Black (NIB). We ended the performance with Metallica’s . I felt electrified after and I owe it to my band mates for giving me the coolest rockin’ memory ever! (Much love to Tan, Throi and Jason. You guys lived and breathed rock in college –from music to clothes to lifestyle –I couldn’t keep up ha-ha.)

Greyhounds, Chico Sci and other bands were invited to perform that evening as well. It was fantastic hearing their music. We placed 2^nd in the competition while 1^st place went to a band from batch ‘98. My band mates probably wanted 1^st place but I was extremely thrilled and satisfied bagging 2^nd!

News and Updates

10 years later and I cannot believe that it was even real… until I saw my band mates again Saturday night. Too bad Jason couldn’t make it. Tan proposed to his girlfriend that same evening! It would have been nice to jam again for old time’s sake but Tan is already based in Belgium (where his dad is originally from) and is leaving on August 7.

The first 30 minutes of our time, Bubba and I ate to our hearts’ content because we didn’t eat since lunch. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to catch up much with Czar, Francis, Donna, Kathleen, and Liz since they left early.

I was so surprised to hear from Czar that King is pregnant again! Czar, Davy and Eldonn didn’t look like they aged at all.

Panem looked a bit heftier since I last saw him at Megaworld. He has a family now with two kids. Davy is still hysterically funny! I remember telling him in college that I would get him as my “personal comedian/assistant” if I became rich enough to afford him.

Francis Dumaliang who is the brightest in the batch and a consistent dean’s lister is now working for his family’s construction business. Kathleen and Tan lost so much weight since college while I’m getting heavier each day. Both looked so great with their new weight!

Arezu and Liz are now lawyers and I am green with envy. I bumped into Jang at Tektite building the day before and he is also a lawyer working for Puno law firm.

RJ is now with RCBC Bank from Sun as a business analyst. Last time I saw RJ was when I invited him at the Nokia event at Embassy.

We talked about Tan’s future plans, Davy bumping into Ryan Lee (Dihia!) in Cebu of all places, their fart can, Davy’s ICP (instant pancit canton) speech in class that rolled us into laughter.

It was great to see everyone and it felt so short having to leave by 1230am. Still had a blast despite the short time spent reminiscing college days. I’m glad that Bubba met the people that shaped my college years.

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Krispy Kreme Apple Cheesecake

May 5, 2009 by Janey

Two weeks ago, I had a movie date in Greenhills Theater Mall with my Mama Mia and Bubba. We watched Crank that stars Jason Statham and Amy Smart. I cringed a lot during the movie because it showed a lot of brutality and nekkid ladies and I was sitting beside my mom.

Right after the movie, the Krispy Kreme light was still on and dear mother craved for some hot donuts. She treated Bubba to a box of his choice donuts while we brought home a box.

Mother’s Day is around the corner. It is in fact this coming Sunday, the week following the Pacman – Hitman bout. One place I will surely head to is a Krispy Kreme outlet to get my mom a box of their lip smacking Apple Cheesecake Doughnuts.

Krispy Kreme fills the doughnut shells with tart, apple filling offset by a sugary drizzle of caramel and rich cream cheese icing. The Apple Cheesecake indeed looks like a mini cake with fresh slivers of red and green apples decorating the top.

Whatever you give Mom on Mother’s Day, it’ll be a small compensation for everything that she’s done for you.

Splurge on something decadent, sweet and indulgent for the occasion that celebrates the sweet loving woman in your life.

Serve for breakfast-in-bed with a steaming cup of coffee to start her day right or stop by any Krispy Kreme branch and treat her to the indulgence of the new Apple Cheesecake doughnuts, paired with Krispy Kreme Signature Coffees.

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Hot. Fresh. Now.

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One Fun Saturday Night

September 22, 2008 by Janey

Saturday, Bubba spent most of the day attending his medical appointments –one was with his ortho doctor in Cardinal Santos and the other with his allergologist in Makati Med. I spent my afternoon cooking for the potluck dinner with the “berks.” That dinner idea started when we attended Ann and Made’s surprise birthday party for Dru and Eric last September 13. Since Bubba and I have been attending pua tiong chiu dinners lately, we suggested that we do one with friends. They were game with it so the Saturday dice-throwing get-together happened.

I cooked pasta (I’m sure Bubba is so sick of), curry rice and choco crisp. I need to extend my menu list or else I’d be cooking the same stuff over and over again. Ann cooked Buffalo wings, which were delicious and had crispy skin on it. There were a lot of food on the table –Heaven’s pork bbq with a delish sauce, lumpia shanghai, king prawns with cheese and herbs, and Razon’s halo halo.

I asked everyone on the table if they’re interested to play Laser Tag. Eric played the game at Market Market and we are planning a Laser Tag get-together this coming weekend. I cannot wait! Dinner made everyone full. While the table is still being fixed for the dice-throwing game, Eric shared their photo activity at Bohol that we tried to duplicate. It was really fun. Each couple had their idea of the “double” shot.

Around 9pm, the dice-throwing game ensued and this was where everyone was laughing hysterically. From the onset where Made had to call her mom to verify the rules of the game to Eric calling his mom to revalidate. That was so cute. Made, Buch and Marie gathered a lot of ang paos (red money envelope). Buch actually started slow with no wins but came out as the biggest winner of the night. Dru had to check the rules on pc, 2 flights of stairs up, twice. Jim got 4 (fours), which qualified him the top prize. Jim had to go up two deck of stairs to check too. We played a joke on him, faking that Buch actually got 6 (six) thus snatching the top prize from him. Everyone had to act and Buch had to roll one dice to make the sound. Jim believed it. I really doubled over laughing –my mascara making a mess on my face.

The dice-throwing game finished past 10pm. A poker game followed afterwards and boy was I happy! I haven’t played in 2 years!!! With 9 of us playing, with 4 re-buys, we finished around 2am. Eric won first place, with Dru playing the last hour on Eric’s behalf. Placed a few bad calls and folds, but I won second place by a hairline.