our initial wed date was 17sept2005

haha. just wanted to take note of that.. henceforth it is recorded..

anyway, here are pics from the weekend..

HORSESHOE BAY

at Elbow Beach

we spent last saturday (sept 10) afternoon at the beach... here are some photos...

pix from last saturday

we had dinner at my apartment last saturday.. a sort of welcome dinner for jay, lorie's fiance.. a reason to cook.

i cooked embutido and chopsuey (had great review, too)
jag cooked the spring rolls, beef steak tagalog, brazo de mercedes and baked cookies from scratch.
laila cooked the rice..

here is a picture of all of us... from the back (left to right) are sonny, jag, me, jae, martin, laila and jae. on the front sitting on the floor (left to right) are lorie, eric, jack and steve..

and more group pictures....

after eating, we sang a bit.. using the brand new Magic sing brought by Jay from Pinas... had fun.

i was actually waiting for my neighbor to knock on my door and tell us to keep the noise down.. hahaha.

so yeah.. chat a bit about my friends: jag is from Deloitte and Touche, currently seconded at Bank of Bermuda (HSBC). He is British by heart, Filipino by birth, and Thailander in looks.. hahaha..

jae is from Bank of New York, a Korean born and raised in Toronto, loves Toronto so much.. and easy to get along with.. just that he always laughs at me and finds me weird. goes to the gym regularly too.

martin is laila's irish boyfriend who loves the Filipino dishes. he is really a nice guy.. works at Marsh, is into sports, fishing, diving...etc..

laila is pinay, really a hit among the the other nationalities, used to be an ambassadress of sorts and works at Deloitte. she is really sweet and cool. a really good girl.

lorie is our very own ms. friendship... sings very well.. used to be a part of the UP Singing Ambassadors from what i heard.. has a very cheerful disposition... is like sunshine. works at E&Y.

jay is also from E&Y. haven't had that much of a chance to get to know him but i know he sings quite well too and he can rap..

sonny is from Deloitte.. i met him at church. he said that i looked familiar coz we both used to work at SGV. he sings quite well, too. and has a really nice bike.. well-travelled as well.

eric is chinese, also from Toronto, works at the Bank of Bermuda.. always working.. he is leaving today for vacation in Europe with some of his friends.. loves sports, he tells me he is into volleyball (haven't seen him play though) but he smashes really hard and has really nice biceps.. hahaha.

steve is korean from Toronto as well. he is in IT.. his email addy is Bank of Bermuda although im not quite sure coz he has clients.. hmmm.. he is sweet.. loves to dance even when alone.. easy.

i didn't like jack so much when i first met him.. but now he seems quite nice.. always joking with steve.. he is vietnamese from Toronto too.. i guess they know each other for almost a decade now.

well, i hang out with these guys most of the time - for dinner, beach, movie, badminton, night outs... its cool actually. great to have new friends here..

the interior of my lovely apartment

i just want to share some pictures of my lovely apartment..

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T3

i asked a friend (Gerson) who works at the Seven Seas Navigator cruise ship to get me a digital camera when they travel to New York.. this is what he brought back..

Key Specs:

Power Source: InfoLithium Battery (rechargeable)

General features: Flash cancel (on/off), Photo date, time stamping, Red eye reduction, Slow speed sync

Interface type: USB, Video out

Max horizontal image resolution: 2592 pixels

Max vertical image resolution: 1944 pixels

Max zoom: 12x

Memory type: Memory stick duo

Digital zoom: 6x

Optical zoom: 3x

LCD Screen size: 2.5 in

Removable Flash memory: 32mb

Exposure settings: Aperture priority, Auto exposure, Exposure bracketing, Shutter priority

Flash characteristics: Built in flash, Forced flash

Focus characteristics: Auto focus, Multiple point focusing

Height: 2.4 in

Width: 3.9 in

Depth: 0.8 in

Weight 5.64 oz

Sex on the Beach Party

More of the previous weekend... Saturday night:

we've got lots of options that weekend:
1 Sex on the Beach party at Chaplin Bay
2 House party at Spanish point
3 Meet Gerson and Aris in town after their midnight basketball game
4 Birthday party at Shelley Bay

we only ended up going to numbers 1 & 4...

anyway, here's a shot of us at that party with a bunch of guys from Aon, Bank of Bermuda, etc..



lots of drinking there was.. wasn't the slightest bit drank.. probably getting used to drinking so much.. hahaha...

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and this wednesday.. just when i am so loaded with work i didn't go to the movies with laila, jag and jay, nor did i go to dinner with jae, jack and steve.. i refused manny's invite to go out with a bunch of his friends.. but i had to go to a birthday party. arnel called me and said that it was his birthday. oh. and there were just the 2 of them celebrating so i ended up going to that with manny and rachel and met more pinoys. we partied at Flannagan's and Ozone.. i worked still when i got home...

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a long weekend is coming up.. Monday is a holiday here. im looking forward to that.. friday of course is night out. saturday, a bunch of us is having dinner at my place -me and jag are cooking. (so stressful that what i cook will end in disaster)..