For my birthday treat to my housemates, I decided to bring them to Dampa, where my batchmates and I had our first monthsary celebration. Everyone was excited and was home promptly. We rode a couple of taxis over there and were soon shopping for squid, fish, shrimps, mangoes, lato (seaweed) & eggplants in the market.
Back at the restaurant we asked the cook to whip up sinigang na bangus, grilled squid, grilled bangus, grilled eggplant salad, mangga ensalada, buttered shrimp & calamares. Then we settled down to eat lansones and kilawin (my fave dish!) at the table.
After a while, the food started to arrive. The bangus was the best! But somehow the squid didn’t taste quite as great as I remember it the last time. Gay, lanlan queen, finished everything, except for the mangoes which we brought home. We left as soon as “Pinoy Big Brother” was over on TV. This reality TV series is the latest craze of the moment, and perhaps we can relate to them because we ourselves are co-habiting in a single house ala-Pinoy Big Brother style, but with less back-stabbing and intrigues, I’d like to believe.
And for the latest at our own Pinoy Big Brother’s House:
Chu came back from the states last Sunday, and he brought us chocolates and a few other trinkets. For me he had a cute teddy bear and a small armadillo replica. The latter was a request from me, because “The One with the Holiday Armadillo” is my favorite Friends episode (next to the one with Brad Pitt, hehe) and when I found out that the armadillo is the Texas state animal, I knew I just had to have one.
Maya accepted a job offer from a Unilab subsidiary, and she has tendered her resignation from Convergys effective a month from now. Earlier on, she was having doubts about it because the office was in Mandaluyong and the initial offer was low. But when I told her Unilab had excellent benefits (their subsidiary was one of my audit clients before) and their final offer got higher, she decided to accept it. Congrats, girl!
Gay will also tender her resignation from SGV because she can’t take it anymore. Thanks to her priority application in Jobstreet she has been getting plenty of calls from prospective employers. Her last interview had her scared because the job opening was as an executive accountant of the main office (with 20+ subsidiaries) which would have her directly reporting to the president and the CFO. She says she can’t handle that responsibility. But we tell her not to throw away such a prime position out of fear…and she’s now thinking about it. Man, I am such a good convincer. Hehehe.
As for the others, they’re basically status quo. And that’s it for this week’s episode. Tune in next week for the nomination of eviction. Kidding! 🙂