Chika Time With Friends @ Shangri La

Had another get together with my friends last night.

Oh by the way before sharing what happened last night, may I just day that I attended a very lousy wedding at Tagaytay. The church wedding was late by almost an hour thus the reception started at 1 pm. Then imagine that they finished serving our lunch at 3 pm!!!! We had to travel for like and hour and half for lousy food and late lunch. Aaargghhhh......

Moving on, I had another get together with my friends yesterday. They were craving for a dimsum feast at Gloria Maris Shangri La Mall. Our meeting time was at 6:30 but one of my friends called and told me she'll be there earlier. So I told her I'll meet her there at 5 pm.

Upon arrival at the mall, knowing me, I passed by a few stores and bought a few stuff. My first stop was Body Shop. I found an old lip stick at home and I super loved it so I decided to buy one. Unfortunately, since it was on old stock they no longer carry the same thing. So the sales lady just helped me approximate the shade and I think it is more or less the same. I bought the caramel shade (28) from Body Shop.

From Body Shop, I then decided to drop by Beauty Bar to buy an eye lash curler. I am not really into curling my lash since its actually very short but I decided that I want to give it try again.

My friend and I met-up at this point and we decided to go around the mall some more. This time I bought a large bottle of Citromint. Oh this is one of the best finds for me. It serves as an aromatheraphy oil that repels mosquitoes and cockroaches, can be used as flea repellant for my dogs and also use this to wipe my walls, tiles, floor etc. to repel all these bugs. I guarantee that it truly works.

After several clothes shops, we weren't able to buy anything because nothing really caught our eye. In one of our rounds, I bought a large choco chip cookie (I'm actually munching this while writing this blog) and then lastly I bought a celebrity magazine because I was really curious with the story of Pops Fernandez.

Finally, we met-up with our other friends and had dimsum galore at Glora Maris. We had hakaw (3 orders), chicken feet (4 orders), shao long pao, bean curd, siomai, and fried dumpling. We also ordered 2 way peking duck. YUMMY!!!!! Of course our meal ended by having coffee and dessert at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf along Emerald Avenue Ortigas.

We had a good laugh and ended our "chika" at around 11:30 pm since they all had work the following day :)

Crowded Pay Day Weekend at the Mall

Well it was a pretty hectic Friday for me.

All my previously stated plans went down the drain. Instead of taking care of finding my cook and fixing that messy one corner of our room, I got distracted into fixing one drawer of our cabinet. At least this was pretty productive for me because I was able to get rid of our old underwears allowing the drawer some breathing space because it was so jam packed.

After fixing the drawer, my husband and I decided to go to the mall (PODIUM) to buy some books for me. It was the worst day to go the mall. Firstly, we didn't know that there was a mall wide sale on that day. Meaning, the mall was so crowded (waahhhh!!!). It was a pay day weekend thus the mall wide sale. Of course, it completely slipped our minds. We should know better next time. (Photo coutesy of http://www.mandaluyong.gov.ph/shopping.html)

Then, I also needed to withdraw money. Again, a very wrong move for me because the atm machines were crowded as well. Both ATM machines had about 7-8 people liined up. I had no choice but to line-up as well and it took me 30 minutes before it was my turn. Then again since it was an unlucky day for me, the machine was not able to connect to my bank thus it was unable to dispense money for me (grrrr...).

At least I was still able to buy my books, the main reason why we went there. Then we decided to have coffee in one our favorite coffee houses FIGARO (http://www.figarocoffee.com/index.htm). Off the topic, they really serve good "barako" coffee at very reasonable prices.

Then off we went to CLUB MWAH (http://www.clubmwah.com/) for our get together. This is a highly recommended place. They showcase caliber performances, production design, costume, and make-up. The works and they do excerpts from popular Broadway hits. I would really encourage Filipinos or even foreigners to come visit this place. They will surely enjoy the show.

Only seven of our friends (including us) were able to make it compared to the usual of eleven. Nevertheless, we all had fun.