At Sheen and Sarah's Wedding

30 May 2008, 2PM
The Good Samaritan United Methodist Church
Quezon Avenue, Q.C.

The first wedding we attended after our own. No picture of the groom, though. Nothing much, actually. We weren't able to make it to the reception either. We had to go somewhere else.

Sarah is the daughter of Vincent's lola. So that makes her our, er...aunt? Our press release is that she's a cousin ;-)

Typhooned!

THE MORNING AFTER the storm passed over. How it looks like in front of the house.

Despite the howling winds and pounding rains, we decided to push our way to Zambales last weekend. Never mind the typhoon. The trip had long been planned and Papa Joel's birthday was what really mattered to us. There's no putting it off!

Buffet "guardians".









TULOY ANG BIRTHDAY!!!

We weren't able to catch the 8PM bus and the next available tickets were for the 11:30PM trip, so we had to stay put in the terminal for a couple of hours more. We cannot even afford to go to the mall which is just walking distance from the terminal because of the heavy rains. The night trip was swift though, as we were able to make it to Iba in four hours' time; a far cry from the normal day trip which drives for about six hours max because of the stopovers. But by the time we reached the Abrigo home from the bus stop, we were all soaking wet.

Then again, the downpour did not stop Papa's birthday lechon from coming out of the pugon (oven)! Even when the gusty winds uprooted three huge mango trees around the house and the gasera (gas lamp) was the only light source (power was off the whole time) we had, relatives and friends came to celebrate the day with the whole family. Too bad for some guests, the videoke machine does not run in kerosene. Hehehe.

Mind you, the province was hard-hit by the storm big time (signal no. 3!). We're grateful that not one of us got hurt nor ended up homeless. We're grateful too that buses for Manila came on by Sunday afternoon.

Mr. & Mrs. Exhibit

We’ve been getting things like these lately.
We have a feeling, more will be added to this “Mr. & Mrs. Collection” in the years to come :)

When stuck at home

We're on the road to full recovery, thank God! So far, we're on bottle #2 of mucosolvent and we have 3 more packs of antibiotics to finish off every 4 hours. We've stopped taking paracetamols as we're totally out of fever, which is great. We surveyed our house this morning and for the first time, we felt how much our infirmity has reeked the place. We want to blanch everything in Lysol!

If there's one good thing about being at home while recuperating from the bug is that this gave us the extra time to spend with each other. Last night over dinner, our topic spanned from the government wanting to take over Meralco, to Sharon Cuneta's private life! We also slumped on pop Tagalog movies shown on cable and feasted on doughnuts. Oh, and Game Ka Na Ba's papaya dance (new version ha) has totally grown on us, too. Grabe. We are so amused at ourselves!

We're going PUBLIC!!!

Yup! That's right. We are going public!!!

After years of hiding in the proverbial closet, we have decided to come "out!" Well, not that kind of coming out as many of you might think but rather, it's about time we show that greater public that we are very much in love and proud of it.

So to our many fans out there, feel free to browse through. read about our love story and may be even pick up some tips along the way. I for one did. It's not always good doing PDA's you know.

In sickness (coughs, colds, flu, sore eyes) and in health

Mr. and Mrs. are down with viral infection. I was the first one to pick up the flu, and then came the coughs, capped off by conjunctivitis. Vincent stayed on and watched over me the whole time. Now, the red eyes are gone, but the bout didn't spare my husband. He's got really high temperature, but the last time I checked up on him, the fever has gone down. Hopefully, it will totally go away by tomorrow morning. This time around, I'm the nurse and he's now the patient.

Like what my husband said before we went to bed two nights ago, "We'll cuddle each other in sickness and in health."

Get well soon to us.

Christine interning at the ILO

Start:	Aug 1, '08
End:	Oct 31, '08
Location:	Geneva, Switzerland

Three-month internship at the International Labour Organization Library.

The Ting-ay and Mumuy archive

Ting-ay the pup and Mumuy the little cow (Cowlette! Hehehe): our little cuddlers. We'll see to it that our future kids will get to squeeze them, too. Read about them HERE.