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Archive for May, 2007

It’s our first wedding anniversary. I can’t believe it’s already been a year yesterday. We went to Redondo Beach with my cousins and had some seafood. It’s my first time there and the food was good. There’s also an arcade there. They had a couple of old games that I used to play like the Street Figther II series and Killer Instinct. I played a couple of KI games. Wow! How rusty was I! Of course I used Sabrewolf. I couldn’t remember any combos and moves. Bet those peeps I slayed back in RCC days can beat me now. They also had carnival games like “try to shoot a basketball through a rim that looks regular size but it isn’t” game. It’s $1 per shot and 6 wins = a big prize. My cousins went for it and won the big prizes. I felt rusty and didn’t wanna try but Abby wanted me to do it. I won the big prize – a stuffed cow.

While walking around there was a kid doing some yoyo tricks. He was pretty good. I took a video with my digital camera. Check it out on our photo gallery.

To end the day I took Abby to Miguel’s Jr – one of my favorite mexican restaurants. She also tried the horchata and loved it. Check out more of our Redondo Beach pics here.

Abby experienced her first 2 earthquakes this past Wednesday night. We were watching Grey’s Anatomy on Tivo while it happened. Being that I’ve lived in California for awhile I’m used to it so I just ignored it. She thought it was a big truck that drove by at first then it got bigger. I started to laugh and she got more worried. I told her it was “just” an earthquake. She started to calm down until 2 minutes later another aftershock hit. Then she started to ask all sorts of questions. I told her she’ll get used to it. No matter where we live, there’s a natural disaster in that area – whether it’s tornadoes, hurricanes, snow storms, etc.

Wow! Ever since I showed Abby how to blog, she has out-blogged me. Now it’s my turn. As Abby mentioned we arrived last Wednesday. Finally! After spending almost 3 months in Philippines, I have discovered the truth and a new found perspective about my homeland. Sadly, it is not as good as I thought it was. I hope the newly elected politicians will make changes for the good. Then again I’m just trying to be optimistic. Philippines has been the undisputed country with the most corrupted government (according to a commercial I saw). Not something to be proud of. But anyway I’m just very happy that my wife and I are back in the US, together!

I bought some Jordan 3s while over there since I missed out on the release. Here’s a pic of the pairs I bought (I haven’t had time to take pics of my own but will put them up once I do).

They still had the Jordan 1 Old Love/New Love package but Abby “convinced” me that two pairs were enough.

The black and yellow pairs are hot! It’s suede instead of the traditional leather.

Another cool thing that happened was this present waiting for me at work.

My work hooked me up with a brand new 24″ iMac – gotta love that 2.5GB ram and 700GB hard drive

And finally, I’ve updated our blog software to the latest version. So if there are any problems, let us know. I will be changing the theme soon. I’m getting tired of the orange look

My husband and I are finally here in California after the long wait. We left Manila last May 9 supposedly at 8.30 but you know PAL(plane always late) we left at 10pm and we arrive here at LA at around 10.30pm. It was cold when we got here and it took a long time to wait at the immigration because the line was long, but when we had our turn it took us 10 minutes to get out of there. I was welcomed by my husbands family then we headed straight home since we are so tired.

The following day we woke up early and went to apply for my social security number. We went to the bank after that to open a joint account. Then we stop by at DMV to get application form and booklet. It was almost afternoon and we forgot about luch since I enjoyed shopping which is our next itenerary. My baby shopped me for new clothes, cellular phone, PDA, etc. He was right I should have not brought clothes from Manila since the style of dressing here is a little bit different. What maybe a fad there isn’t the same here.

At around 9pm we had dinner at Cheese cake Factory, he kept telling me how good the foods are and true enough its not comparable to what we have in Manila( Not even the expensive ones there).

On my second day, my husband has to get back to work so I had time to unpack our luggage. He was home in the afternoon and so I asked him to teach me to do our laundry……yehey, it is a milestone for me since it was my first time to wash clothes. Now I know how to do it by myself:).

The only bad thing now is that my husband has high fever. He was fatigued since he slept only for 2 hours and had to go to work. I just hope its just stress or flu and not anything serious. Not a great way to start my bday, I hope he gets better. I can’t sleep whenever he is sick so I have been awake since 3am, i have to make sure that he takes his meds on time. Its good that he was able to rest and sleep now, he has all weekends to get better while I pamper him with TLC. Yahoo!