This past weekend was filled with celebrations!

May 9 - Happy Birthday to my cousin Donna! I love you cuzn and why don’t you get married by now, you’re getting old.

May 10 - Happy Wedding to my cousin Kuya Cezar and Mei! Congratulations! It was held at Santa Rita in Quezon City, I was one of the bridesmaids and the reception was at the Patio Ibarra. I like the place so much, love how it was decorated, the food and the party itself. It was a beautiful and lovely wedding. After the party one of my Aunts invited us to Alabang and we had dinner at Cabalen. After dining we stayed at The Bellevue Manila a 5 star hotel in Alabang. I really want to take a dip at the pool to bad I don’t have a swimwear. So we just go to the lobby of the hotel and since it was Saturday there was no band scheduled for that night so we just watched people ballroom dancing. After roaming around the hotel we go back to our hotel room and I really want to have "me time" at the bathtub but I was too tired to do that so I just watched TV till I fall asleep.

May 11 – Finally it’s Mothers Day! Happy Mother’s day again, Mommy! Luv yah!

May 12 – And lastly, celebrating Aljon’s 7 months in this world. Happy 7-Month-Old, Aljon! Aljon is my very first nephew and he’s learning and developing in advance. Love you my Butchokoy!!!

Yeah, yeah, I know it is already late to post this but this is the only time I got to upload the pictures. Anyways, after our first day of Leadership Training, we decided that it was the best time to treat ourselves for a sumptuous dinner and we all agreed that it should be in Dampa in Ortigas in the Metrowalk complex.

Dampa is a wet market where you can buy fresh seafood. It’s up to you what kind of sea food/meat you want to buy for your meal. Usually they have a great selection of sea foods specially shrimps!!! Oh, they are so big and to many to choose from. Then after you decide what to buy you just have to choose any of the restaurants there that will cook your choice of meal. The price of your meal will depend on by how many kilos (or half-kilos) you have ordered, as each type of food have a specified price per kilo, ranging from P100.00-P200.00 and P60.00-P100.00 per half-kilo.

What we bought are 1 kilo tahong, ½ kilo shrimp, ½ kilo prawns and ½ kilo lato (seaweed). We made 5 dishes out of shrimps, tahong and lato. We had calamares, baked tahong, buttered garlic prawns, lato (seaweed) with tomato & onions and mussel soup with rice and coke.




We truly enjoyed our night especially Dex, since we thought that it will not push through since some of our officemates backed out. But it was good that we still went there though we are not complete and we still enjoy. And the food? Oh, they are so yummy. More, more…

I'll be going to Manila tomorrow afternoon with the rest of other Team Leaders and Supervisors to attend the USAP Leadership Training by Guthrie JensenT. This training will start on Monday, March 31 - April 2, 2008. This is a 3-day development program.

I'm looking forward for this training coz' I know that I will learn a lot from this and that this will help me too, on how to become a successful leader of my team/department.

But, I know, that this is not just all about training. We will surely be enjoying our stay there and maybe a lot of drinking, too!