Before we get caught up with the hustle and bustle of New Year celebrations all around, I’d like to greet everybody a Happy New Year!
I pray that the New Year will bring our families happiness, more blessings and special favors, good health, peace, and a thirst for His word. He has nothing but good plans for us, and I trust Him with everything.
It’s just a few more hours before we have a new beginning. A new year to start again. Let’s take this new opportunity to start anew and make/do something great. We usually burn our time reading blogs, surfing, updating our Facebook, smoking cigars, or having a cup of coffee, but let us also take a moment to reflect and make plans for the coming year.
Happy New Year!
It’s going to be a great New Year. It’s going to be awesome!
What will you guys be having later to celebrate the New Year?
As usual, as will all special celebrations in our lives, we’ll have the all time favorite turbo chicken. But in addition, we’ll be having for the first time this 5-kilo turkey we bought in Subic. There’s also a citrusy trifle made with peaches and strawberries. The women went to great pains preparing everything, never mind the dark circle under each of their eyes just to prepare a great feast. And you know what will make this New Year celebration more awesome, we have our dear cousins, aunts, and uncles to join us as we jump, light fireworks, and make noise.
What’s your New Year like?
It seems like no matter how well you plan your holidays, it’s inevitable that your schedule will go haywire. My wife and I, actually it’s mostly my wife, went OC planning our Christmas. But like everyone else’s holiday, I’m sure, plans get scheduled, cancelled, and rescheduled, totally messing up everything.
We leave very early every morning and come home very late. Our schedules are so packed that the new apartment is being neglected (better get those steam cleaners soon). And we now realize that the craziness is but normal. It’s part of Christmas. We’re hanging on till a few more days.
What an awesome night!
Thanks to good friends M. and F. for hosting it again in their lovely home.
It was great seeing good friends sharing an awesome meal. I say the best way to get together is over food. Nothing bonds people more than good food in front of them. But one distinct item we had last night was this Belgian Chocolate Bliss cake from Red Ribbon. The company describes it as follows:
Layers of chocolate cake covered with luscious Belgian chocolate icing and lavishly topped with chocolate powder, chocolate swirls and almond slivers.
My wife makes a mean chocolate cake herself, and while this cake was indeed quite good, I was surprised to see that it was so small. Very small. At Php430, I was expecting something bigger. And I felt like it was kinda pricey (maybe if they added loose diamonds they could justify its price).
Have I mentioned how small it is?!
My industrious wife bakes because it relaxes her. Somehow, it’s therapeutic she says. But with the holiday rush, and orders for her cookies and cakes come piling up day by day, I can’t seem to wonder how she’ll be able to do all of it. Baking a few items over the weekend sounds ok to me, but putting one’s work gloves (I call it work when huge orders are due) on a weekend too seems rather too much.
Our precious weekend is now packed with so much stuff that juggling our schedule to do all things has me feeling weary already. But then this is what holidays are. And the orders are for dear friends and colleagues. And no matter how rushed and toxic it sometimes get, it’s all good. Christmas is but once a year anyway. Plus we’ll get to catch up on sleep when the Christmas vacation starts.
How’s your day today?
Just like last year (see here), we’ll have our annual potluck Christmas dinner party with a few friends. It’s been months since we last saw each other (Rax’s pink party, I think), and I expect we’ll finish very, very late catching up on gossip. Yup, you read that right, gossip. We guys do enjoy a little gossip every now and then, talking about Ferrari parts and cars can only go so far you know.
There will be fantastic food, and I’m very excited.
What’s your typical day now like?
To us, it seems like Christmas is fast approaching, and we can’t seem to cope with it. I guess we must all be very busy with Christmas parties left and right. Very busy time indeed. Every night, when all I want to do is take a hot shower or maybe soothe my muscles from all the hard work and the traffic in a walk in bath, we try so squeeze more time to wrap more presents for the next Christmas party.
After that dismal trip to the Converse sale and after gawking at the latest desktop computers in Megamall, we got hungry and planned out where to have dinner. Since my wife’s cousin has been craving for this Mexican place in San Juan, we decided to check it out.
The restaurant is called Ristras Mexican Grill.
After finding our way in Wilson St., turning at J. Abad Santos, and a little further, we saw Ristras. There have this big sign over the counter on how to place one’s order and choose what goes in it.
We were pleasantly surprised to see the burrito that I ordered. It was huge! It was thicker than two Coke cans bound at the base. As if that’s not enough, the chimichanga, which is basically a burrito that has been deep fried, that my brother-in-law ordered was much bigger, it that’s at all possible! While it was proclaimed as having the best burrito in town, the serving was huge, and the food was quite ok, it wasn’t a hit for me or my wife. I guess maybe we’re not that much into Mexican food. We do enjoy quesadillas though, but we didn’t get to try it here. Maybe next time.
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