today's bdays

Today my mom celebrates her 77th birthday, while a younger sis celebrates her 42nd. Yes they have the same birthdays. So how does one celebrate a loved one's birthday who is separated by distance? Today I prayed for them, asking God to bless them, to give them good health, strength, guidance, protection and a good/ fulfilling life. I also included a prayer that their hearts will be open to the Lord and they will draw close to Him, as He desires to draw near to them.

It is a practice in our place that we have to eat noodles during birthdays. They said for long life. It is sort of a Chinese influence. We would usually prepare different types of noodles such as canton, bihon, palabok, etc. Spaghetti is also ok. So today I told myself that I will have some noodles. So at breakfast I had 'bami heng' - that's yellow egg noodles with some roasted red pork and vegetables, without soup. To celebrate further Key & I had ice cream for dessert after our lunch, then after dinner we had chocolate cake. After arriving at home tonight, before we did our laundry, we had almond cake. So it was a day of celebration, it is not often that we do this. If only we were near a Secret Recipe bakery, we would have bought our favourite cakes such as tiramisu and cheese cake. We had to make do with the above. We were thinking of my mom and my sis, missing them and other members of the family, wishing we were there to celebrate with them. Of course missing Dad terribly.

I was also able to call my mom at lunchtime using deedial service. She was in a restaurant with her friends. Sure glad to talk to her. I tried to call my sister but there was no response. So just communicated with her through sms and facebook.

May they experience God's answers to our prayers and feel loved always.

LP: Merienda (Snack)

Isa sa mga masasarap na kakainin sa merienda ay ang mga produktong tinapay galing sa Iloilo. Masarap isawsaw sa kape or tsokolate na cacao. Naalala ko yong aking ama tuwing pumupunta sya noon sa Iloilo palagi syang bumibili ng mga ganitong tinapay para sa amin. Masaya nga dahil sa isang kahon iba-ibang klase ng tinapay ang laman. Pero napansin ko ngayon medyo lumiit na ang mga ito (kiddie size), siguro dahil na rin sa ekonomiya natin kaya nagtitipid na rin ang mga gumagawa. Pero masarap pa rin sya, lalo na gustong-gusto ito ng mga bata.

Dito naman sa Thailand kung saan mura lamang ang mga prutas, madalas prutas na rin ang aming kinakain tuwing merienda, lalo na pagdating sa bahay galing sa opisina, o di kaya pagkatapos ng bible study o kahit anong pagtitipon. Kahit sa mga coffee breaks sa mga otel, may mga prutas na rin silang binibigay kasama ng mga tinapay o cake. Sa mga ayaw kumain ng mga nakakatabang pagkain, puede na itong prutas at maganda pa ito sa ating kalusugan.

Marami pa doon sa Litratong Pinoy ang tungkol sa Merienda.

saturday...a birthday

supposed to post in the other blog but sometimes i drop by here. today is kiko's birthday. an ordinary day for him as guys go. maybe just being practical. he had to go to work also today. but i prepared a small cake and card. tied the cake box with a nice gold and red ribbon. he appreciated it as well. of course i gave him a birthday kiss. since it's saturday we did laundry as usual ha ha ha. oh well, now that's done so we plan to go out and have some nice dinner in a nice restaurant...we will travel to singapore end of the month so we consider that as his birthday treat as well.