Happy Holidays Indeed

It's not 2010 yet, but blessings are pouring in already! Today was sooo good. I don't want to jinx anything so I'll reveal these wonderful news next week. :)

Together Forever With You

My Mac family has a new member: AirPort Extreme for my wi-fi needs, err, wants. (This is 100% a want since I'm the only internet user here in the house. I just need wi-fi whenever I would rather surf my heart out in my room or in front of the TV instead of in the horribly cold basement. Mina, there are starving kids in Africa!)

Despite my efforts of holding back on Black Friday, I gave in and bought a new one off of eBay recently for only $107.52. Yes, the price was definitely right. To much surprise, the seller sent me the newest model and not the previous version which I had bid on. Happy holidays to me indeed.

And the multi-million dollar question is: What's its name? It's Incheon, named after my favorite airport in the world. Tee hee! ;P

Papa, Kulay, Red, Tuchie, and now Incheon. What a lovely bunch...The Mansanas Bunch. ;P

Pinoy Food

I decided to check out the only sit-down Pinoy restaurant in South Seattle: KawaliGrill. I ordered the Pandan Fried Chicken since it was the only thing that had a picture on their website. It was panko-crusted chicken breasts with sweet chili sauce. I barely tasted the pandan since it was more likely overpowered by the sweet chili sauce. Honestly, I think I could've made this at home. However, the serving was huge and it was a nice change from the usual "karinderia" set-up.

Whenever I watch Adobo Nation, I always think, "Man, if only we could have that restaurant in Seattle!" Can you imagine if we had a Gerry'sGrill here? Oh my gulay! Heaven! Actually, if we only had Jollibee here, I think I'd be content with living in this city. *SIGH.

I Want No Thing, No Thing, But You

Meet Candy, my new Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi. I was thinking of naming it "Tr1llanes", "Magdal0", or "Gring0", but why take the sexiness out of naming your new Rebel. Candy na lang para sweet because I want to feel that life is indeed sweet when looking at the photos that I've taken with this. Naks!

I decided to make the leap from point-and-shoot to an entry-level DSLR because I'm so tired of horrible night shots when I'm on travel. They've been so bad that I didn't even try taking night pictures in both Korea and Japan last April. I hope that the new DSLR will bring justice to my travel photos...which actually makes me want to re-do all of my Asia travels just to take photos. Hmm...

Recession, employed part-time (at a non-profit no less), but the girl has a new DSLR. All I can say is: take care of your money and it will take care of you when you need it most. :)

Heroes

I stayed up last night to watch Probe Profiles (which is just a copycat of Ces Drilon's Pipol, IMHO). Am I the only one who thinks that Efren Penafl0rida isn't that bad looking? And his English is actually pretty good based on his CNN Heroes speech. If I were still in Pinas, I'd totally hook him up with one of my WV co-workers.