The Public Market

In search of a cotton fabric for Dirk's short pants, we try the binan public market. There are lots of stalls but they're not selling cotton fabrics for jogging pants or t-shirt. They advised us to go to divisoria for that material. Our trip was not wasted because we found a glass and aluminum shop that will supply us with window screen and sliding door for our closet.

While browsing the area, we found this barber shop and the haircut is just 15 pesos, very cheap, isn't it???

Cool mom in Ukay-Ukay

After visiting my daughter in the hospital, i saw an ukay ukay store nearby. I really have no chance of going to any ukay ukay store because of time constraints. I just browse around and didnt buy any clothes. The store offered very cheap clothes and womens accessories. In this time of crisis, people are just being practical.

They also sell shoes and bags.

Monday Adventure

Today, we have a sumptuous lunch at Kingbee, the new chinese restaurant opposite paseo de santa rosa. We then drive to tagaytay to order two beds and couch for our terrace. My two daughters enjoyed very much shopping for fruits. I thought the 4 pineapple for 100 pesos is very cheap, but they were able to buy the same size for only 10 pesos each.

The girls had fun posing in one of the furniture store

Southforbes Tour

Today, we toured around the southforbes area together with my sister who's also here for a vacation. At tokyo mansion, we chanced upon some movie stars of TV 5 taping for Lipgloss. I don't have any idea if its a teleseries or just a tv program.

One of the star, rosanna roces was kind enough for a photo ops with cool mom. She is half German and Filipina and even tried to speak the german language.

Take note of the skin color difference but i'm proud of my brown color. From villas, to tokyo, we then proceeded to bali mansion.

We also showed her the chateau de paris houses and was surprised of the price.

Our last stop was at southforbes golf terraces. It's very near the golf course and there are at least 30 units, 4 of shich still not sold.

The B's are Busy

Yesterday, we did drive to market market to do some house shopping at MC Home depot. Because of the on going skyway construction, the traffice was very heavy. We bought some bathroom accessories and door locks. We then have our lunch at Sbarro, an italian restaurant inside the market2.

On the way back, we encountered the same traffic situation. At alabang home depot, we ordered doors and granite for my dirty kitchen. It's really very hard if you're constructing a house.

But today, our tagaytay adventure is a mixture of nature trip and fruits shopping. Along the tagaytay road, there are lots of stalls selling pineapples, bananas and other fruits and delicacies like buko pie.

I bought 4 pieces of big pineapples for 100 pesos only and cluster of bananas for 30 pesos. Its really worth your money, everytime we go to tagaytay, we really stop in these stalls.

We also tried the mexican restaurant along paseo. The lunch buffet costs 330 pesos and I would say that the price quality relationship of the foods was superb.

Color Coding

Today, we did go to the construction site twice to meet the kitchen contractor and the landscaper. If we're busy buying things here and there, its the same with our 35construction workers. The first thing i noticed when i saw them last sunday is their color coded t-shirt.

The workers belongs to different contractors. Actually there are four colors, those who are wearing red belongs to our contractor, the blue from cosmo stone, and they're responsible for putting the granites on the floor, the green from the electrical company and white for architectural.

Nice to be Back

It's nice to be back not only here in the Philippines but on the web as well. I really missed the blogosphere, its already a part of my life.

My two daughters picked us up at the airport and have lunch with them. Our family car is just small so all my children will not fit in. I'm going to have a mommy moments with them later. I should first adjust myself with the time difference and its really hard.

We then visited the construction site and was surprised that the workers were there. They said that they're really working overtime to cath up with the schedule. Dirk was very much satisfied with the way our retirement house was done.

Hopefully, it will be finish in september.