One liners...

ONE LINER RAVES...

Mommy Ybeth loves Baby Zyrus very much!

Hooray to Baby Zy’s high grades.

Clap, clap to mother and son bonding via phonecalls and internet chats.

18 months and stronger. Thank God for 11. *wink*

Loving anything and everything related to my man.

Thank God for real friends – home parties, cocktail night-out, bar hopping and bbq parties never become this fun!

ONE LINER RANTS...

Pathetic are those people who make up invented stories just for them to look good even at the expense of an innocent victim.

Narrow-minded are those people who believe gossips without even analyzing facts and checking if the those rumors are indeed true.

Narrow-minded people become hopelessly gruesome people when they started to spread the same gossips.

Blessed the soul of those people who are befriending you in front and backstabbing you when you are not around anymore.
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Plastic people = two-faced people

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Late Post: Memories of 2009 Blue & Silver Christmas With My Man...

red wine and sparkling cocktail

Everything was perfect baby... sentosa strolling and late-night rides... christmas ham dinner and cocktail... our exchange gifts... us in blue & silver room ambiance... thanks for making me feel so special babe... you are my sweetest thing... loving you more annd more...

blue and silver everywhere!


improvised handcuff and edible cream? hmmmm =)


blue balloon and blue/silver christmas hats

bule/silver giant christmas sock on the door

Looking forward to our next christmas celebration... ready for red and gold theme this december? hehe....

Rant Mode!

Though I'm very happy and satistied with the thnigs happennig in my life, my subconscious giving me the rights to rant a little. So please allow me to do it in a couple of sentences.

It has been a universal law that everyone is entitled to espress their own feelings and belief on any form he/she knows how. Freedom of expression is one of the most valuable privilage any human being can have. As long as you exercise it without hurting or disturbing anyone negatively, you are allowed to blog about anything you want to write... or put facebook shoot-out as offten as you want... or even change your chat status every minute. No one can stop you, that's your right! Sometimes life is a damn if you do, damn if you don't cycle. If you are sad, people talks... if you are happy, the more they talk too. So where will we put ourselves anymore?

So what better way to do but to go ahead with your usual life and pray that these people will get a life and just simply fuck off!!

And rant mode ends here....

My November Long Weekend...

November 27 is Hari Raya Haji and considers as one of the public holidays here in Singapore. That makes the last week of November 2009 a long weekend. Hooray!

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Thursday:

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Went Kha Restaurant for some cocktail with my man. It was our second time here actually (though our first time was over dinner), I really love the ambiance and the open deck lounge concept. I specifically requested to be seated on the pink sofa, hehe... Seated together hugging and stargazing over blueberry martini, perfect Baby! It was my man's first time to taste crab and prawn cake, suprisingly he liked it. Of course we also order our ever favorite chicken bbq skewers.

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open deck lounge of kha restaurant hortpark

kha restaurant veranda - where we had our dinner last november 17

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Little problem arise when we already paid and noticed we were mistakenly charge 4 martinis instead of only 2. It was actually a 1-for-1 cocktail promo. Goodthing my man saw it and the error was corrected in minutes.

honest mistake of kha - we were charge S$96++ instead of just S$58++

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Friday:

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Spend quality time with my man the whole morning. Cuddled and talked about exciting things about our forthcoming activities together. Went raffles to get my office laptop then went straight to Mccdo Bedok to book a kiddie party as my birthday treat for my other mommy friends. I initially thought of organizing a couple's lunch or dinner but I decided to prioritize the kids enjoyment - wanted them to have fun. I always get invited on thier birthday so why not invite them for my special day also? So McDonalds for me is the most hassle-free reasonable gathering I can come up.

McDo kiddie party as mommy ybeth turns 32

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Then went toa payoh and help friends transfer to thier new home. I reached the place and wonder if the old owners are either pig, carabao or horse... The flat was sooooooooooo damn dirty!!! Bigtime cleaning we did. My friends swear that it was not like that when they view the place a month back. My friend called the agent and the conversation goes like this:

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My friend: the house is so dirty. can you ask someone to clean it and please pay for it.

Agent: it's not dirty, it's on an average ready-to-live condition. oh, you are filipinos right? don't expect too much! you are not australians or caucasians to act like that!

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Couple of strong words exchanges and my friend hung-up. Sad that after an agent close a deal, he will totally be unaccomodating (well, I'm not generalizing ok. Surely there will be helpful ones too). But hey, it's not about the race. Being a Filipino means we can tolerate dirt and foul smell? Only nationalities of first world counrty deserves to be hypersentive to clean living? Again, it's not about the race, it's about hygiene, it's about proper sanitation regardless of who you are. Especially for my friend's case, she paid well enough for a flat she liked only to face horrible hand-over. But what to do? Don;t wanna be stress anymore so spent 3 hours cleaning, girl-power-style! Whew!

Reached another friend's place at 8pm for her 2nd tattoo party. I arrived and 7 people are still on que for being inked. Met new friends again. I was so tempted to customize my recent tattoo but I diciplined myself not to. Just did alot of chit-chat, eating and drinking.

me with the tatto party part 2 host

vhin being tattoed for 2 hours! end result was too good...

unlimited food and drinks that night

me with my vodka session partners

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Went home at 1pm. Went online and talk to my man for a little while then went to sleep at 3am.


Saturday:

Clean room and laundry my clothes morning. Went back to my friend's new toa payoh home for lunch at 12nn. Though little foul smell is still there, the flat is already clean and looking like home for human beings now. Hehe... Had mega lunch of sauted prawn, fried salted fish, steamed kangkong and pork stew. Did some picture taking and watch several filipino movies over wall's vanilla ice cream. Fun!

our hearty lunch

they set-up a purple-themed christmas tree

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Met another friend at 4pm and went john little sale at singapore expo. It was so crowded and big-time shopping is not my priority right now. So after satisfying my eyes with lots of window-shopping, we proceeded to giant tampines for my weekly grocery. Dinner of ikea's famous swedish meatballs and I'm home at 10:30pm.

my simple buy at john little

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Sunday:

Woke up at 7:30am to prepare my man's breakfast in bed. Spent another quality time with him before I proceed to Bedok for my kiddie birthday treat (will make a separate blog about this McDonalds party).

breakfast in bed baby...

macaroni soup, blueberry pancakes (notice the lovenote. hehe..) and sweet corn flavored soya milk exclusive for my man

at my McDonalds kiddie party

ready for candle blowing

eating my ronald mcdonalds cake

giving party lootbag for kids

mommy ybeth carrying baby zy's gift (i requested my friedns to gift my son instead of me)

mcdonalds give-aways and thier gift to me

so many gift for baby zy!

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That's all folks! Will go down now for dinner then will iron office clothes once back. Busy monday is near but hope you all had a nice relaxing weekend.

Happy Birthday To Me!!!!!

Happy birthday to me…
Happy birthday to me…
Happy birthday, happy birthday…
Happy birthday to me!

As the saying goes, another year older is another year wiser. Mommy Ybeth just turned 32. Whoa!!!! Thanks for the greeting guys! Those calls, sms, offline chat messages and facebook greetings means a lot to me. Sharing to you how most of the people dear to my heart made my birthday very special…

BABY ZYRUS AND MY FAMILY:

November 22/ Sunday night - I was busy packing my stuff as I have an early flight to Singapore 6am the next day when my room light died. I went out and saw my Mom.

Mom: oh, black-out!
Me: if black-out, then why Alexander’s room has lights?
Mom: will check, let’s go down.

I was taking down the stairs when my whole family, especially my one and only son started to loudly sang happy birthday while the only source of light was my cake candle (I think they imitate what I did to Baby Zyrus last bbq/camping party. Hehe…) I was really surprise as I never saw that mango cream cake in the fridge thar morning.

Me: wow! when you bought the cake?
Mom: i asked sharon (my sister-in-law) to buy one when you instructed her to buy some stuff for you yesterday. you notice your money change got smaller than the total bill? because you technically bought the cake too.
Me lol! (it’s ok, at least the thought was there. hehe…)

Thanks Baby Zy, Mama, Alexander, Mac, AC and Linggit! I love you all! In this family lies my comfort zone, we are just simply perfect and intact together!

MY MAN:

November 23/ Monday – Spent this entire day with the most important person in my life outside my family. Carrying a rose bouquet and mini-black forest when he arrived, I gave him a tight kiss back. After few exchange of stories and quality time together, we headed to Kenko Spa Esplanade for a relaxing 45minutes foot reflexology and head/shoulder massage. Then he surprise me with a dinner and cocktail at 70th floor Equinox The Stamford Swisssotel. I was very impress not because of his restaurant choice as I know he can very well take me to the finest and most elegant places around, but I was mostly touched upon knowing that he made prior arrangement and reservation. Imagining my man researching where to take me and calling/ sending booking emails makes me feel proud I’m his girl. Ordered martini for him and dry red wine for me. We were eating our main course of potato sausage and roasted family bird when the surprise cake arrived. This one I was totally clueless as I never expected a cake, love it Baby! After dinner we went for little city strolling then catch a cab to home. I was typing an sms for him when a message from him came (goes without saying that we are doing the same thing at the same time).

My man’s sms: hope you like it mahal. love you and happy birthday.
My sms: everything was perfect babe. thanks for making me very happy on my birthday. love you!

Then he called and we spend another 10minutes talking and saying our long good night. (I was typing this part of my blog when he called and I told him I will write our November 23rd memories. Then he told me that there’s no pictures to support my story - it's ok Babe. If someone will question me, I’ll borrow your credit card bill then I’ll slap to them. Hahaha!)

I will never forget what you did Babe. Love you a lot! Looking forward to our own Christmas and New year celebration.

MY OFFICE FAMILY:

November 24/ Tuesday – Blow my birthday candle for the 3rd time. Thanks guys! You know I consider you all as my Singapore family (not to mention Madam as my Singapore Mom. Hehe)

MY FRIENDS:

November 24/ Tuesday - Rica and the whole gang – Western food dinner treat at Café Cartel Plaza Singapura. Special mention to you Aman, thanks for the birthday coffee and lovely gift by the way.

November 25/ Wednesday - Old guillemard housemates – Seafood dinner at kallang. Let’s go back there guys, the black pepper crab rocks!

November 29/ Sunday – Mommies friends and their families – Organized a McDonalds kiddie party so all the kids can enjoy. Thanks for all your gifts to Baby Zyrus.

November 22/ Sunday – All my Philippine-based friends – Thanks for coming to Baby Zy’s birthday party. We will schedule night-out party on my next month vacation. See you all!

Yes, I’m already 32 – totally out of calendar. It’s ok, nothing to worry at all as age is just a number. I have a very smart son… I have a supportive family… I have a stable and financially rewarding career… I have my man who’s making me feel loved and special for the past 16months… and lastly, I still have a 36-25-36 vital statistic. Hahaha! So nothing to feel bitter about. At 32, I know I'm definetely luckier, happier and more fulfilled than some people younger than me. Hehe...

Wordless For My Man - Part 6

Wordless for my Man... but photo captions allowed. (wink!)

thanks for the jungle-theme friday night-out babe. love it!

another game? best of 3? hehe...

you passed the beginner level of tagalog lesson. =)



can't wait for them to open and eat there with you !

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Blue and Silver Christmas...

I'm so excited for December. Aside from me spending the whole holiday season in Manila with my one and only son, this will also be the first time me and my man will be celebrating Christmas together - and without his consent, I decided that we will do it on blue and silver style! Why blue and silver? Nothing, just like that... (baby, borrow your line ha. hehe.)

give me an hour and our room will be on very christmas spirit

cutie mini-christmas tree


your do's and dont's christmas sock baby! so no need to give me one now. hehe.

our celebration hats... *wink*

see, even our wine and glasswine has a touch of blue =)

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Now, for our exchange gift - you have to choose the theme:

1. something soft and long

2. something hard and round

3. something soft and sticky

4. something naughty and nice

5. something musical and loud

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Can't wait for what awaits us on December babe... Looking forward to spending more occasions with you. Love you alot!

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Another Nice Weekend

It's been a while since the last time I blog about my weekend escapades, so just trying to bring it back again. =)

Friday:

Had lunch with my man at Hotel Re. A relatively new hotel near Outam mrt station that serves 4-course meal for as low as S$15. They have different theme menu per day (monday - thai, tuesday - western, wednesday - nonya, thursday - italian and friday - japanese). Our food is consist of free-flowing coffe/ tea and bread, salad of the day, beef shabu-shabu soup, main course of chicken/saba fish teriyaki (chicken for baby fud and saba fish for me) and dessert. Service was warm as most of the staff were Filipinos and reservation over phone is hassle-free. Food was great and serving portion was more than enough. The restaurant chef was even accomodating in helping us choose the bread and assisted us in toasting it. Most of all, I love the dessert. Sorry I weren't able to take photo of it but it was nicely presented, a long plate of mint ice cream, fruit medley, chocolate and strawberry cake. Surely we will go back there again sometime and try thier italian set. Opps! Before I forget, we also availed the hotels 10-minutes atama & kata massan-ji. Soooooooooo relaxing.

hotel re's different daily set menu

My friend Mark, who did my recent photoshoot, came to office at around 7pm to hand me the full-copy of all my shots. Please get his photography service if you have some occasions you wanna capture perfectly on print.

Went home to change clothes then went to clarkquay and meet former guilemard housemates. We were suppose to stay at Zirca but we found it so crowded. We opted to stay at Mama Caribbean bar instead. One song that was playing non-stop caught my attention - it's was one of those "the ugly truth" movie sountrack. Love that scene where katherine and gerard dance - so sexy and so seductive. After 2 tequila sunrise and lots of chit-chat, I headed home at 12:30am.

our friday night-out location



one of those "the ugly truth" themesong

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Saturday:

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I spent my morning collecting my new pass at Ministry of Manpower. Then went to my friend's house warming party. I arrive a little late though so I weren't able to see the priest who blessed the place. I arrived eating time already. Waaaaaaaa!

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yummy food!

mommy ybeth with the other mommies

wine toasting for lhanie's new home

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Left the place at 6pm and did little window shopping at Tampines Mall until 8pm

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Sunday:

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One of my former staff in Manila asked for some help on suprising her boyfriend on thier Anniversary. Her man is now working in Singapore and this is the first time they will celebrate thier day long-distance. We planned this suprise for about 3 weeks. So after several exchange of suggestions, thier day finally came. I will make a separate detailed blog about this event, don't worry. But as of now, photo captions will do. *wink!*

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printed photo-loveletter and one long-stem rose

still sleeping mode and was really clueless

suprise successful, he's now talking to her using my phone. lol!

After having pancake breakfast at a nearby Mcdonalds, I went straight home and spent quality time with my man. 11am I went Fairprice to buy my weekly groceries. I decided to purchase something and cook since I still have 3 hours free time. I prepared garlicky chicken liver/gizzard and pinoy-style sweet spagehetti.

garlicky chicken liver/gizzard

pinoy-style sweet spaghetti

5pm I was all set to go harbourfront for Ziggy's 1st birthdaay party at gymboree. I'm so excited to see my mommy-friends with thier families.

happy birthday ziggy!

mommy ybeth with the birthday boy

me with mommy violy

i want to play on the clides too. hehe.

I wish I'm with Baby Zy everytime I attend kiddie parties. I know my son will enjoy alot. But well, he's having so much fun also doing track or treat. I invested 1,000pesos worth of dracula costume and he were able to get roughly around 200pesos worth of candies. So worth it noh? Hahaha!

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Another weekend gone. Tomorrow is the start of another 5-days work. Need to iron my clothes now. So until my next friday to sunday article. :)

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