i can’t log-in i.ph yesterday, so this is a late post. for my first weekend, cooking and laundry of course. the place we’re staying is called galtier’s apartment, and although they have a common room for laundry, it’s not free..and since a couple of colleagues are staying in an apartment just across the street where laundry is free, i think i will be doing my washing there..hehe.. in fact, i already left my detergent powder in carmi’s place. haha
because this is going to be just a short stint compared to previous stay in hong kong, i have to be very wise in spending per diem. frugality, but not to the point that i’ll starve! it’s easy to cook here because grocery is just along the way going home from the office, and we have sufficient time to cook dinner, which will also be our lunch the following day. i also brought with me some food packages and supplies from the philippines, so it’ll save me from buying things like shampoo, soap, toothbrush, etc…
ok, not to sound like i’m having a destitute livelihood at the moment, i’m just preparing my financials to something big coming in the future. no! you’re wrong, i’m not soon to have a child to support, that’s extremely far from my personality. haha.
so apart from laundry and cooking, we had a small gathering last friday at our place, just some beer, and poker games. the next day, saturday, we went to mall of america. it’s not as big as mall of asia, but the items on sale are really tempting! it was season ender sale (summer started last june 20), and i ended up buying a vintage shirt, although i’d eyed on a lot of things!! like a swiss army laptop backpack, more shirts, a slipper from skeckers, and some shirts from fossil. good thing, a friend was able to remind me about saving money, and honestly, it’s not really hard to resist the urge to buy. i mean, it’s not that i need them badly. i guess i have more than enough shirts, clothes, and shoes back at home, and what’s more important right now is to set my property as liquid as possible. having said that, mutual funds is undescribably a great disappointment right now. *sigh* could you imagine that my lost is closing to 50,000.00 pesos already!!!
going back to the weekend, sunday afternoon was spent in tita letty’s house, a filipino here in saint paul. she’s been here for 20 years..and at the moment, living by herself in an apartment a few blocks away from galtier’s. colleagues from manila (who were here earlier) met her before, and now, it’s becoming a trend to have some gathering at her place whenever newbies arrive. they played basketball while i took pictures in the area. then, we had palabok, chicken, fish, shrimp, rice, and finishing it with homemade avocado ice cream. yummy. thanks tita.
to good to be true, there’s another dinner later today, also at a friendly filipino’s place. it’s so nice for these people to be preparing food to people they hardly know. probably because this place is unlike other states where filipinos are the next most populous nationality after americans, they long for some kabayan to share banters, hear stories, and as good as it gets, our group has lots of them.
