40 floors up!

Went up 40 floors the other day

rode in a construction lift for the very first time!
It was a bit freaky and fun :)

wore a hard hat too
and admired the view from the topmost part of the buildingview of Pasig
the car impound, Renaissance, St. Paul and Antipolo
view of Ortigas, Makati and Manila bay.
I love living here in the city :)view of our floor and unit.
I'll see you again in one year :)

Please explain

I encounter a lot of strange photos online but this one really caught my eye.A cute cat on the water with a huge watermelon? Eh? And the cat looks really annoyed. Hahaha. Can someone tell me what this photo means? How did they get the cat to pose? Please let me know so I can get Nugget to pose like this! :D

Door says "Hi!"

Spotted this door at Fort San Pedro in Cebu.It says "Hi!"

Also saw this cute cat thereSleeping...and it says meow!

Pampanga Weekend

After watching the hot air balloons take flight we decided to leave Clark airfield to look for a place to cool down. Actually, there were a lot of interesting things to see but after doing one round we figured that it would be better if we went somewhere else. We really wanted to relax considering the fact that we hardly had any sleep before going there. It was still too early to head to the hotel so we made a few stops to pass the time.

Our first stop was the Clark Museum which is located inside the Freeport Zone. We enjoyed looking at the varied items ranging from local artworks, Mt. Pinatubo eruption photos to assorted memorabilia from the American occupation.

We went to Nayong Pilipino sa Clark after. It was cool seeing so many famous Philippine landmarks (well, smaller replicas) in one place! They had the Barasoain church, Jose Rizal's home, Ifugao huts and many other important Philippine structures.

They have a souvenir area in the Aeta village where I bought a bird whistle for Nugget. Sadly, I don't think its effective because the sound freaks him out. Haha.Maybe I should have gotten the colorful ones instead :)

Time to declutter

I have years worth of accumulated junk in my room. Airline tickets, receipts and credit card bills dating back to 2003, unused clothes, toys and many other things that should have been tossed ages ago. I always plan to clean my room but never really get the chance to do an intensive one. I think its mainly because I find it hard to let go of things that I think are important to me. Too many memories attached and almost everything has a sentimental value! This year though I am really trying hard to simplify my life. No more buying of new toys and things that will just gather dust in my room. I will also be diligent in sorting my paper collection (bills, tickets, receipts etc.). In fact, I bought a paper shredder and have almost completed discarding all of it. Yay! I think I spent almost half a day shredding stuff. Haha! I'll be sending my huge bag of paper confetti to the waste market in a couple of weeks for recycling :)

I collected the things that I wanted to discard and joined two of my friends in a garage sale this afternoon. Like me, they are also trying to declutter their homes. Aside from clothes, we had a really strange collection of knick knacks! Who wants this alien salt shaker?Decorative dolls in international costumes... not mine but my mom's (?!?) The Korean version was the only one in this batch that was sold! Haha :)  Cute bots!At the end of the day I made almost p2,000. Not bad considering most of my items were in the p5-20 range :)Oh, I saw a couple of cute cats too! Me-ow!

Back to regular programming

Just got back from the vet and I'm happy to say that Nugget is fine :) His left eye was a bit swollen and teary yesterday but I couldn't bring him right away since I had so much work to do... Yup, need to earn money to pay for the vet! I also figured that it wasn't that urgent since he was still eating and grooming himself.

Time for eye drops!

The weird thing was that his eye was perfectly fine when we got to the vet! It's like I just imagined that it was swollen. So odd!Weight check
And after almost 3 months of Diet food (Royal Canin and Felidae)... Nugget weighs THE SAME! Still 22 pounds but for some reason he looks thinner and more toned. Or is that just my imagination again? :)Maybe he should have tried getting on the exercise bike instead of just sleeping beside it :DNugget must be thinking: "What! No weight loss after 3 months on cardboard tasting food?"
So instead of the special diet food, I decided to get the normal variant. We're trying Royal Canin's Hair and Skin which promises a visible coat change in 21 days. 2 kg bag at p660 at Animal House.Let's just see if it works :)

Ni hao, Popobe!

My sister just got back from China and she came home with these cuties.

a 4 inch Popobe figure that comes free with a McDonald's happy meal! I hope we'll have this here too :)Chinese fans, lions, postcards and a mini expo mascot

lots of cute postcards. drop me a note if you want me to send you one via snail mail. I have 2 extra designs :)

Um, beef jerky that looks like candies (for the meat eaters here)

and a nice cat coin purse for me by artist Jimmy Liao

Last week, she came home from Japan and got us these yummy goodies from the convenience store since she had no time to shop. I've always wanted to go to Japan but I would really have to save for it since it's quite expensive. Oh, and I also need a visa!

Hello Kitty, Meiji and UCC coffee sachets (from the hotel! yay!)I love Japanese packaging design!Sushi candies that are too cute to eatthe green tea chocolate is really green inside!