Sunny February

At the beginning of the year, I had imagined a long and excruciating wait till this semester finally ends and I get my summertime. It's now almost a week into the third month of the year, and I've got to admit, the first two flew by unexpectedly quickly. It's the final sprint till my college degree, so these past few weeks (and those to come) have me filled to the brim with school work. Blogging is a luxury I can barely afford, hence, I am cramming the latter half of February in this one post.

On the twenty-second, a good friend of my family from Japan (plus another new family friend) came visit so we went out for dinner at Zao, a Vietnamese restaurant at Serendra. Masaaki-san (the said family friend; farthest right in the last photo) is this really awesome (I do my vocabulary no justice, but I cannot find a more befitting word) director-composer whom we have known since 2007, and we are his, and I quote, "family in the Philippines". He has this unbelievably adorable son whom my sister and I always volunteer to babysit in spire of the glaring language barrier. Their family will be coming to visit this April so that's one other thing to look forward to this summer.

The day after was The Father's birthday, and we had a small celebration at Amici in Megamall. The cakes and gelato in that place are so interestingly designed so those always make for good photos.

In the week after that came the highlight of my month. The twenty-ninth marked the day of our batch's graduation photo shoot. It was one of the better reminders of our inevitable aging and the looming grand change in our lives. For my creative shot, I chose to immortalize my geekery by going as a modern-day Princess Leia, complete with See-Threepio and Chewbacca Mighty Muggs, and a sith lightsaber. I spent most of the day with two of my favorite girls, Lavina and Lesley (to whom the photos of us three are credited). In my best stereotypical surfer dude accent, that day was pretty rad, bro.

And that, boys and girls, is my two weeks in a nutshell. Till then, I will be chained to my corner in the library, by the window with the view of the tree, waiting for this semester to end. It will be fantastic.

Cheerios! ♥