monty's first sprint. (01312010)

repost from nini.


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my sister bought a new car. and i think, she followed my lead and named him monty. the copy cat that she is. hahaha! cool car actually. i know for a fact that my parents wanted to buy that also but opted not to cos we just bought a new one when it came out. so we just waited for my sister to buy it. then we'll all hitch. haha! so first thing in the morning (or at least that was the plan), we were off to subic to break him in! but being the ever-so-punctual family that we are, we ended leaving the house half past ten. which doesn't really give us much time to run off to subic. so we opted for clark instead.

stopped over at the new ayala mall in pampanga. i think they call it the marquee mall. no one will ever know the logic.

had lunch in sizzlin' pepper steak.

in pampanga, "stop" tells waiters to not stop. go figure.

daddy moment. i'll never understand.

call me lala.

pepper steak was amazingly very filling. well. who wouldn't be filled to the brim with all that peppered rice. and we were very happy with the people there. get this, there were eight of us and the place wasn't really that big. so we practically remodeled the tables to our convenience. and the waiters were very gracious enough to go help out. well. they had to. but they did it with smiles. so we left a big tip. we were happy eh. so a few walks around the new mall later, we were heading our way to clark.

we only had a couple of hours to go walk around since my sister had to go dinner with my brother-in-law's family. so we went to this random duty free place. a sad and dilapidated one at that. but we went ahead and walked in. we're a scavenging family that way. the place sold everything. and they sold them cheap.

gabbie goes gaga over toys.

cheap-kers. i try to be witty. haha.

mama mary on buddhist amulets. multi-tasking religion. brilliant.

segmented shopping.

find the pineapple.

we didn't get to buy anything. i sort of had a hard time breathing at one point. the air was heavy with dust. and well, i started sneezing and shit. which wasn't a good sign. so i walked a few paces towards the exit to get a whiff of decent air. there were these canned pasta sauces that they were selling for slashed prices though. they were even selling them for buy one take one. only catch is, it's only best til next week. hahahaha! talk about great bargains. LOL. 

my sister's 34. who would've guessed.

monty.

i wanted to bring kurt with us. but they wanted us all to be in just one car. made sense actually. too bad i didn't get to stretch my nerves out on the road. i'll be on a decent road trip soon! i'll make it happen. today was nice. but i didn't get to drive. and it was too quick. in and out in a couple of hours. but in any case, it was a great day.

welcome to the family monty!