- hapi bertdi papa d, chris and mama lily!!!! -

we had a triple birthday celebration ... one for papa d today, the 3rd ... for chris tomorrow and for mama lily on the 15th ... there were a total of 9 people - papa d, farfertch, chireh, may, chris, lily, david s, jeremy and me! ... julie came much much later ... the food was overflowing and awesome ... we made lasagna and baked chicken - first time that we did it but it turned out pretty well ... salad, farfar's famous refrigerator cake ... biko, pansit bihon and satay from lily ... i can't remember the other food!

anyway, pictures to follow ....

- and my bertdi celebration continues -

at around 6am this morning, i heard some distant pounding coming from somewhere ... jeni checked it out so i decided to ignore it already ... a few minutes later, farfetch came inside the room and said to me - "nde ka pinapaaral para gumising ng tanghali!" :D ... that is not verbatim but that's the idea ...

i got another surprise from them!!! we celebrated my bertdi bwekpas together ... pinoy bwekpas ... fried rice, tuyo, salted egg with tomato, hotdog and tocino!

- tuyo (stinky fish to some people but just delicious fish to pinoys)

in the evening, chireh, jeni and i decided to have a barbecue and wine at our rooftop ...

one of the best bertdi celebrations ever!!!

hapi bertdi to me, hapi bertdi to me

hapi bertdi, hapi bertdiiiii

hapi bertdi to me!
yey!!!!

- hapi bertdi to me -

fact, i love balloons ... when i first celebrated my 24th birthday, jeni surprised me with 24 white balloons at home *awwww :P* ....

imagine my surprise and my sheer joy when my fab friends - chireh and farfetch - together with jeni gave me a bunch of balloons ... i got them at around 12mn, nov 21 : ) ... we were still in the office at that time ... paglabas namin, nagpalipad ako ng lobo after making a wish ... ang saya!!!!!!

- me and jeni goofing around with my balloons -

some more goofing around here -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/santos1978/sets/72157594384534264/

- my bertdi celebration, november 18 -

since my 24th bertdi is a week day, i decided to celebrate with my friends earlier ... i invited chireh, farfetch, papa d, may, chris, lily *new found acquaintance through chris and may* and of course, jeni to have dinner at this thai-japanese restaurant near chunghsiao fushing ... the resto's name is lacuz (http://www.lacuz.com.tw/ginanfirst.html) ... all you can eat thai resto ... they have 2 options - 38-dish menu or 65-dish menu ... they also have barbecue ... we opted for the 38-dish menu ... and it was soooooooo filling ... and the food was fine, too! ... we got shrimp cake, papaya salad, beef salad, coconut chicken, beef curry, shrimp roll and the list goes on and on and on ...

tonie gave me my cake and i got my gifts and i got my friends' wishes for me! *which almost made me cry :P*
some pictures from the celebration ...

-blowing my cake, oil painted -

- eating my cake, through chireh's fisheye camera -

- hmmmm -

- pekyu!!!, november 19 -

we learned from tita jan that manny pacquiao will have a match with erik morales today ... we tried finding a coverage via our cable but to no avail ... sooo, we decided to haul our arses to the pinoy store near yuanshan station ... in the bing-go store, there's a not-so-big tv showing the live coverage and where other pinoys were waiting for the pacquiao - morales match to start ... we stood in front of the store for like 2 hours but it was worth it!... pacquiao won in just 3 rounds! ... and it was so much fun watching the fight with other pinoys ... specially when the crowd has the same reaction when pacquiao was pounding morales - "uh, uh, uhm, uhm!" ...

well, part of me was wishing that the fight would reach the 12th round para naman matagal-tagal ang laban ... pero pede na din ... as long as pacquiao won!

more pictures from chireh's flickr page - http://www.flickr.com/photos/santos1978/sets/72157594388119001/

- hapi bertdi ate mean, november 20 -

- last night's play-doh project -
grabbed from chireh's flickr page (http://flickr.com/photos/santos1978/283652848/)

- hapi bertdi kuya! -

is the resemblance evident - http://www.flickr.com/photos/santos1978/273979840/in/set-72157594316851840/?

- hapi bertdi farfetches! -

^ we celebrated farfetches bertdi today ... together with papa d, chireh, mae and chris, we had dinner at this quaint moroccan resto called river side restaurant - http://riverside.network.com.tw/. it's located inside the taipei national university of the arts so after dinner, we walked around the campus. in one of their buildings, there's a really great view of the city ... by the way, i love the resto's mint tea/milk mint tea.

thanks papa d for the pix!