A day of firsts and lasts

02Nov08

If it were not for some bad news I received this afternoon I’d say my day was pretty good. I woke up, chapped lips (from eating 2 bags of junk food last night while watching Grey’s Anatomy 3), hungry for some warm, home-cooked food, and I flicked the TV on the Lifestyle Channel. Man, the food made my feeling worse! And so I resolved that today I will have either a) some good Italian food at La Toscana, or b) a food trip with authentic Japanese food. Problem is, since I don’t have “weekend friends” here I’d have to eat alone– which I NEVER do. Until today.

I had a problem with eating alone since I hate it when people always look at me while I’m doing my thing, what more if I’m eating, and worse, alone! I’ve never tried it too in Manila, either in the office or back in college (I’d always text someone to eat with me, or else I’d rather not eat at all or I’d eat in the car), since someone I know who’s with company might see me and say I’m a loner or something. Hehe. Anyway I decided to try it today, for lunch. It’s my last weekend in Davao anyway, I haven’t eaten anything decent in 2 days, and I think I deserve a nice “last weekend in Davao” meal. I didn’t eat Italian or authentic Japanese food; instead I had lunch at Buffet Palace where they served all sorts of food on a buffet (duh). 

What I learned? Eating alone in public is not so bad after all. Or maybe because I ate at a nice place and everyone’s just too busy to mind others’ business. But to be safe I brought a book with me, a nice memo pad, and drafted notes I was gonna write on cards for Cy (his birthday’s next week) and my boss (my goodbye letter for her). Well, I had a good time eating by myself. The waiters were looking at me here and there but it’s easy to just say “walang pakialamanan!”

And so these are what I ate. I had to get a portion of everything since I’m pigging out anyway. Man, I ate so much I felt like puking after! But the food was good, sulit yung 270 pesos ko!!! :P

Japanese food as the “pre-appetizer”

Sisig, chicharon, kinilaw, and potato & macaroni salads as the appetizers

Sweet & sour pork, adobong squid, steamed fish, beef kaldereta, yang chow rice, and crispy pancit. Saraaaap.

Almond jelly, ube flan, mango float and halo-halo for dessert

I never thought I could eat so much, especially with my habit of not eating too much recently. Bali wala yung gym ko! Haha! Anyway. After eating I went to the salon to have my bangs cut (since they were already too long and wavy), had my eyebrows threaded, and had a pedicure. My last pampering here in Davao! I have to admit for the past months I’ve been spending a lot of money buying beauty stuff and pampering myself. Haha. It’s also my last time to go shopping alone on a weekend, but good thing I had the resolve today to NOT buy anything for myself. I just spent money buying pasalubong food for the people back home.

Anyway I also received some bad news today, that one of our Operations staff in Gen San died of a stroke this afternoon. The guy’s not even 50! We have the same birthday, and he was really nice to me and he always gave me food when here was here in Davao. I just spoke to him last Friday, and he’d always tease me about HB. Hay. I didn’t realize that last Friday was the last time I’d talk to him. Life is short. 

A pic from last July when we had our 80th celebration. Godie’s the one on the right.

I’m giving my Dad a call tonight to tell him to always take care. I’m thankful I’m getting into the habit of exercising at this age, and I plan to keep it that way. Weight loss will follow if it will :P Anyhoo, I have 6 more nights to go here in Davao before I fly back to Manila on Saturday!!! I can’t wait, but I also couldn’t help but feel sad that I’m leaving. I’ll be writing more about that later.

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