Yiek my personal cook

I’m really, really lucky to have Yiek  as my personal cook. He’s been whipping up yummy dishes almost everyday (kasi naman everyday din masakit ulo ko!). Heaven-sent because I HATE cooking. It’s not one of my forte.  You should taste his humba, its his specialty.  Right now his cooking menudo for our baon, sure ako masarap na naman lunch ko

Credit Cards

Here in the U.S., credit history is a big thing, it would be difficult for you to buy big ticket items if your credit history is non-existent. Say, you want to buy a car, if your credit history is non-existent, you’d get an interest of 15-25% per annum some even get denied, now if your credit history is excellent then you’d only get 0-5% interest per annum. That’s quite a difference! The only way for you to build you credit history is to open up a credit card and spend, spend and spend! Of course you have to pay your bills on time or your heading to bad credit history, there will always be ways to eliminate credit card debt but its better to pay your bills than go delinquent right?

Pregnancy Rant 2

I’ve noticed that whenever I eat something acidic I always end up plastered on the toilet bowl or should I take this as a sign that baby no-name-yet does not like grape tomatoes, singkamas,mango juice and guyabano juice? I hate this! I’m suppose to be easing up into my 2nd trimester and here I am finally getting all nauseous every damn night! I can’t even enjoy my food without gagging. In fact I’ve been eating lesser than I’m suppose to, last night I can only take 5 servings (1 serving = 1 spoon), with a 15 minute gap after the 3rd serving just to lessen the feeling of wanting to throw-up. They say I should feel better on my 2nd trimester, well I’m feeling worse! Di nako magpa-sperminate oi!

Mantra to self *it will be worth it..it will be worth it once you see baby no-name-yet*, in fact I’m always whipping up my ipod to see baby’s cute ultrasound picture.

P.S.

I hate calling our baby, baby and I can’t think of a name I really really like. Based on the chinese calendar, I’m having a girl but Yiek thinks otherwise and wants a bouncing baby boy. I’ll call her baby makabaligguten, ok ba? (sorry tagalog readers, just ask cebuano friends what this means). Just kidding, I’ll call her/him baby latte for now since I soo miss my cafe latte pwede pud baby monay, just think of the bread instead of the ilongo word. LOL!

Help!

Help Me!

I’ve been trying to include veggies in my diet, so baby will get all the good nutrients. I’ve been stuffing myself with burgers, fries and all that junk fast food. Also, since Yiek is a non-veggie eater, all our dishes would be all-meat or carbo-loaded i.e. adobo, humba, bicol express, porkchop,spaghetti, pancit canton. Yiek has agreed that we will cook separate dishes, so I need all suggestions/recipes from you.

I’m not really a BIG veggie eater so my recipes are very very limited. So far, I have tried Guisadong Beans, Guisadong Sayote, Nilubihang Kalabasa and Apan-apan (kangkong dish). It all tasted blah, except for the kalabasa which lacked buwad. I don’t eat ampalaya, okra,gabi and brocolli. Eggplant is a no-no daw because it can induce miscarriage, I’m not sure if this is true but tortang talong would have been a nice dish. Old wives tale or not? How do I cook tsibogs-like fried kangkong?

What else can I cook? I’m thinking of making some vegetable lumpia to store and cook when the mood strikes or cook vegetable tempura (I saw a tempura batter in the grocery, thing is I don’t even know what vegetables to use, kalabasa?) and how do I make the tempura sauce?

Even if you don’ know the recipe, just give me the name of the dish, I’ll just ask the help of Mr. Google.

Our baby at 12 weeks

Yesterday, Daddy got to see me up close and personal. Mommy was a little miffed because he took his sweet time getting ready. It took a while for them to be registered and Mommy was registered by a nice Filipina who narrated her experience here in the U.S, when she asked for her Company Address, Mommy had amnesia so the nice lady said “masama kang bata ha”.We then went to the 3rd floor and Mommy got confused as to where the Doctor’s office is which wasn’t really her fault because they transferred across the hall. They pricked her finger and squeeze it real tight to check if I had down syndrome, Mommy is really getting tired with all the blood tests as its been happening monthly.

“Wow!” was the first word Daddy said when he saw me, I’m a little bigger now and my little organs are almost complete, I now have hands, feet, spinal column and my head is now smaller than my body. I was peacefully sleeping when the not-so-nice sonographer, pressed Mommy’s tummy and circled her razor thingy to make me move. I raised both my hands up to say hello and flexed my arms so I can punch her, oh! mommy thinks I should punch daddy too. Don’t worry mommy, I’ll practice more so I can punch Daddy for you.

The sonographer said that I’m stubborn because I won’t move to the position that she wants, she even let mommy walk for 15 minutes so I would change my position. Ha! No one is disturbing my sleep. I’d occasionally stretch my feet and arms but I’m not moving. No siree! Mommy said I got my stubborness from Daddy but me thinks both of them are stubborn so I got it from both of them.

Here is a picture of me at 12 weeks sucking my hand.

and another of me sleeping peacefully.

HP7

Oh! The excitement! 1 week from now, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be released and since I such an eager beaver, I pre-ordered my copy online months ago. I am even having nightmares of not receiving the book on Saturday. Walmart is having an extravaganza, check this out. I know Barnes & Nobles and Borders are having one too. I am sooo tempted to be there at 12:01 am, Saturday, July 21 but Yiek is such a spoil sport, “Buntis biya ka ha! (You are pregnant!)”. Dammit! I so want to join the festivities.

I’ll be waiting for Mr. Postman come Saturday morning and if the book will not arrive, hell will break lose LOL!. Seriously, if the book would not arrive on-time, I’d march by the nearest bookstore and buy my own copy albeit more expensive that my pre-ordered copy. I even warned Yiek that he shouldn’t turn the tv on and its best if he stays far away from me as possible. haha!

What I really want…

I kept on pestering my husband where my gift is, and he said he will buy one of these days. Cguro kahit nanganak na ako one of these days pa rin sagot nya. He is daft, I tell you!

I want a FUJI F30, there I said it, I have been obvious with wanting this camera, a camera I can bring and whip-up wherever, whenever and he couldn’t even order it online in time for my birthday and to think I have been careful in not viewing the details of our credit card statement, so I would be surprised. The element of surprise is not there anymore, you killed it. Thank you very much.

Breadtalk

If you ever come by Manila, try the breads from BreadTalk. Although the waft of freshly baked bread always gets me on high when passing by their shop in Glorietta and the arrays of different breads where too tempting to take, it took me a long time to try their breads because the Cebuana in me thought it was too much to spend 40 pesos on a piece of bread. After I heard Ria saying that Nats really liked their Pork Floss (their specialty), I swallowed my damn Cebuana thrifty pride and bought a piece for myself. It was weird tasting at first but I think I died and went to bread heaven after I got the hang of it. From then on, I’ve been buying and trying their breads one or twice a month, easily spending more than a 100 pesos per visit. My favorite would be their naan curry bread (36 pesos for the small one and 55 for the big one), I’d try to put it in my bag to relish the taste later but always my self-control would fail me and I’d take a bite or two to appease my craving. As expected, two bites is not enough and I’d wolf it all down in an instant. The chewiness of the naan bread and the tang of the curry is such a heady experience.

BreadTalk is based in Singapore, so lucky, lucky singaporeans. I browsed through their site and there is no U.S. branch. Wah!!! I want one now, please. I tried one here but the taste is just not the same. In Manila, Breadtalk can be found in Glorietta, SM Megamall, Mall of Asia and Gateway mall (am sure there are other branches but these are the ones that I’ve visited)

Grape Tomatoes

I thought I’d be remiss of the usual nausea and puking since I am on my 10th week!!! (2 weeks more to go and I’m moving on to 2nd trimester) I was dead wrong, this morning I puked all over the restroom cube, it didn’t help that I ate lots of grape tomatoes, so there were tomatoe tidbits everywhere. I did not do it once but thrice successively. Now my stomach still feels queasy and I’m a having a headache that won’t seem to go away. Ohh! the joys of motherhood

Bisdak 2

sa katulugon. Kabalo ko dapat ko magtuun kung wa naman lang ko gibuhat magtuun di ba? Pwede pud ko mag paid blogging, PERO kapoy man huna huna ug isulat oi. Kabantay mo wa na kau nagpost ug way pulos, basin mas nalipay mo kay mas wala na garbage akong blog.

Pirmi ko way tulog mao na pirmi ko giduka, kay ikaw ba kuno every hour mangihi inig gabii makatulog ba ka ug klaro. Naa man dyud koy “over-active bladder” meaning o.a. akong bladder kay gusto siya nga mag cge ko pangihi ning samot pa dyud karon nga juntis ko. Naa tambal ani pero di ko pwede mo inom ana karon. Naa gani daw to taga cite sa una sa NEC nga gina tally daw kung kapila ko mobalik sa c.r., ako to sila tuk-on kamo ba’y naay bladder parehas nako lalim ba? unta kilatan mo! Nyehehehe! Dos. Lisod kaau mangita ug comfortable na position, naanad ko magkulob, syempre di na pwede, di pud ko pwede maghayang (off topic: naa americano ning adto sa pilipinas, kita siya ug mga gwapa nga babaye iyang gi greet ug “Hi Young Girls!”, ning hayang pud dayon ang mga babae) kay di daw macirculate ang blood padulong sa baby, so no choice, side sleeping lang. Haay! mosamot pa dyud daw ni kung dako na.

Nya hapit naman tani mahuman ang first trimester karon pa ko naka feel ug mga pagbati, una, malipong ko kung magdugay ko sa sakyanan, molabad akong ulo nya kasukaon ko. Morning and night maglabad akong ulo, kung di maglabad akong ulo magsakit akong tiyan. Nganong ning Enter!

Wa man ko lingaw mag kanta na lang ko, mao ni kabuang nga kanta gitudlo sa akong Tia Pening:

Version 1:
In 1969, I have nothing to do
I went to the C.R. and eat my igit
it was very pait!

version 2:
In 1969, I have nothing to do
I went to the C.R. and cut my bol-bol
it was very katol!

Mga kanta nga pataka lang ko ug lyrics:

“Papa don’t preach I’m in love with you” (HUh? kalain ani nga kanta oi!)

“There’s nothing but some penis.. and I will love you always” (kabastos gud ani nga kanta)

“Banana banana pe pay mo ma mi” (name game ni siya, grabe ka pataka lang ko ug lyrics!)

“Cherish membrane, be by myself” (bungol dyud cguro ko katong bata pa ko)

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Kani tinuyo.. kabalo mo ani tanan

“Angelina… bahong boto mo..” (kana ra akong manumduman)

Puros lagi ni bastos akong mga kanta.

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Tenk you very much, nawala akong duka gamay.