I’d like to remember my dad’s 50th birthday in (food) pictures. 
The night of his birthday, we had our family dinner at Emerald Garden in Roxas Boulevard which is one of his favorite restaurants. No meat for us since it was a Friday. Although I think we defeated the purpose of abstinence, that is to have some form of sacrifice, because the food was just delicious. lol.
Some food shots below. (Thanks pictobrowser for this nifty slideshow application. 
) Go ahead and click on the picture to see the next one.
The following night we had another family dinner - this time in our home with our relatives. My mom cooked her specialty, Kare-kare, which I think is the best version ever. My brother also whipped up his version of Baked Chicken with Tomato and Basil that turned out really good.
It was an amazing week for him. I think he had 5 birthday parties that week - 2 with the family and 3 from his friends and colleagues. All these people wanting to celebrate his birthday - this just shows how loved he is by people whose lives he had touched. I’m truly blessed to have him as my dad. Happy birthday Papi! Love you! (xoxo from your favorite daughter )
I was randomly searching for more info about Jose Gonzalez’ Heartbeats (my current LSS. see the post before this) when I stumbled upon this amazing and colourful Sony Bravia ad in youtube. I didn’t know about this until today. I know! I’ve been living under a rock. I’m not quite sure if this was shown here in the Philippines, but if it was, I don’t think I’ll be able to watch it anyway because I barely watch TV. lol
I could watch this video forever. I like that after the clip, you get to see the behind-the-scenes of making the commercial. The soothing and calming scenes of tiny colourful (haha I’m spelling like the Brits now ) balls bouncing slowly down the streets of San Francisco, is very different from the noisy and not to mention, potentially damaging actual shoot. You could hear that ‘thud’ as the balls hit the parked cars and also the car alarms as they go off. Yikes! One of my favorite parts would be that frog jumping out of a pipe. I like noticing tiny details.
Click here to be directed to the official Sony Bravia site.
Wow! So the creative geniuses in Sony produced a follow-up commercial. This time they used colourful play-doh molded bunnies and stop-motion. Again, it blew me away! Imagine the effort they all put in making the ad (they didn’t use CG!).
I’m pretty sure that Sony Bravia sales shoot up, thanks to these ads. They’re pretty effective, imho. And if only I have the means, I’d probably buy an LCD TV. (I wish! lol)
Thanks Way and Maws for letting me know about this Asian Bravia ad.
Brilliant beyond words!
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To the sweetest dad in the world, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! We have a surprise for you this evening (part of which, I’m making right now) but you wouldn’t know because you don’t read my blog. lol. Love you! xoxo.
I’m a little late in joining the Guitar Hero bandwagon. I only started playing about two weeks ago, when a colleague of mine lent me his guitar. It turned out to be so much fun! I never had the opportunity of trying the game out because first, I don’t own a guitar and second, I have no guts to play those music games in the arcade (the guitars, the drums, and ok, let’s include the dance revo) . I’m just too easily embarrassed! The only music game I’ve tried and enjoyed until now is O2Jam only because it’s free and you play it in private. I don’t know, but I don’t feel comfortable with people around watching. Though I’m growing to love Timezone because of their videoke rooms but that’s another story.
So far I’ve pretty much survived and 5-stared most of the songs in medium but I have yet to learn how to play the songs in hard mode. I can’t seem to figure out how to place my fingers on the fret buttons. But I guess I’ll learn this eventually. At the moment, I can only finish [barely] 4 songs in hard. Argh!
This new pastime prompted me to buy my own guitar. I immediately got one in Greenhills for P1400. And then the following day, after realizing that it’s more fun playing with another person, I bought another guitar but this time from a different store (costs only P1,350) so that my brothers could join me. So last weekend, my brothers and I bonded over GH.
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Speaking of bonding sessions over GH, I and the boys of our team had a little bonding session over at our Team Lead’s place. I dubbed it our team’s Geek Night. Basically, the plan was to geek out and play video games. I brought our PS2 (my brothers’ actually, since I haven’t played in what, 10 million years? well not until GH anyway haha!) and my two guitars so we could have Guitar Hero matches. Someone also brought his DS Lite in case anyone would want to play.
That’s that plan anyway. Apart from indulging ourselves with fish fillet and spaghetti. (yumyum~) Food, even if it’s sans meat (since it’s Friday) was delicious as always. Thanks Mommy Chen (that’s how I call our Lead’s mom ) for preparing the lovely dinner (AND for getting me my own 1 Litter bottle of Vidalia Onion woot!). You’re the best! I had quite a few servings but did not stuff myself too much so I’ll still be able to stand up and play GH. lol.
Food Pictures! (because I love taking them )
Istapegi! Yum! (This is just how I like to call spaghetti hihi)
Fish fillet.
On the background was what we used as dip, which is my fave dressing so far. Vidalia Onion Dressing.
my first serving (followed by my 2nd, 3rd, 4th…)
And the following are pictures of us playing GH.
Haven’t uploaded them in my multiply yet. I’ll try to squeeze that in one of these days.
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I’m in emo mode and my current LSS are:
1. Dashboard Confessional - Stolen (I like this slower version better, though.)
2. Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats (I find this song very calming and soothing. )
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