Manila Day 10 Mission: Krispy Kremes

Day 10, May 4, 2008... Last day in Manila... The day arrived and I had only one thing in my mind: Buy Krispy Kremes for Jeztah and the CORPO Boys. I woke up around lunch time. Kuya and I agreed that we will visit our nieces then go somewhere to abuse the gift certificates we got during the Serendra Food Tour. After some playtime, camwhoring, and video taking with our nieces, we hied off to Greenbelt. Some bloggers were meeting there on their way to Cavite to raid Coy's Graduation party. I dropped by McCafe to say good bye. Sniff! Sniff! But I ended up going with them to Cavite. LOL! Highlight of my afternoon: Gibbs Cadiz told me I won his contest. It's the first blog contest I "legitimately" won. Meaning, I didn't get the prize via random luck. So with Kuya Juned, Fritz, Gibbs, AJ, Jeffrey, and Poyt, off I went to Cavite to crash Coy's parteh. AJ was a damn good navigator, just had to say that. Coy had a grand party with plenty of food... yummy food! Coy's mom baked cakes. SARAP! It was fuuuun! We headed back to Metro Manila around 9 pm. Kuya Juned…

Manila Day 7: An Interview and A Movie

May 1, 2008, Labor Day: Woke up early to meet up with a journalist/blogger. Went to Gateway, drank Cafe Mocha at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf because I was early. Then, we met up at Pancake House where we had a very interesting and lively conversation about blogging and the gaming scene. Went back to Kuya Andrew's house to rest but ended by twitting around and chatting with people. Left for Greenbelt at around 4 pm, went to Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf (again!) to have some Mango Smoothie and the Asian Chicken Salad. Met up with Ade to buy the tickets I reserved. We were 2 minutes late and the reservation was forfeited. We got tickets for an earlier showing. We waited for Poyt at Figaro. And we decided to go inside the cinema without Fritz since he has watched the movie the day before anyway. :P Iron Man was in a word... greatawesometasticbulous!!!! We ate Nut Pesto with Chicken, Italian Sausage Parmigiana, and Puttanesca Pizza at A Venetto in Glorietta where Allan also showed up. I dissuaded Kuya from busy yet another laptop. HEH! He treated me to another round of eating at Friday's. The Loaded Potato Skins…

Manila Day 5

Another boring post... Kuya and I woke up before lunchtime. Ate yummy sinigang and beef kaldereta. We both got bored so we decided to strut around Greenhills. Drank Coffee with Coffee Pudding at Quickly. YUMMEH! I got bored at V Mall and Shoppesville, but managed to buy a nice dress at Theatre Mall. Happy, happy at Fully Booked but the two books I wanted to buy weren't in good condition anymore. Ate Strawberry Shortcake at Bizu. Lachi's is wayyy better and cheaper. Bizu's was not totally bad though. Transferred to Greenbelt to meet up with Winston and Blogie for a business thing. Bought three books at Powerbooks. 2 by F. Sionil Jose and another one about Education and school. All are compilations of essays. Realized that I don't have time to read short stories and novels. :( And they didn't have the Belle de Jour book, Sophie's Choice, and any Umberto Eco books though. :( Passed by the Greenbelt Tasting Room thing and ate delicious food from Kai, Haiku, Max Brenner, Fish and Co, among others. YUMMEH! SUPER! I'll blog more about it laterz. Met up with high school friends EJ, Rhoda, Patrick, and Patrick at Italianni's. Terrible service, great…