Friends in UK

Apologies for the one week hiatus.  Our last stop, which was in London, was fully packed.  I'm back now, and recuperating from the flu... sigh!

Anyways, this post is to thank all my "UK" friends for taking care of me and my family.  You made our trip extra special :D

NIKKI GO, my childhood friend ;) Thank you for squeezing us into your house, and for driving us around New Castle and York.

JOHN GONZALES, my new found friend :D Thank you to you and Alex for letting us stay at your beautiful home, and for driving us to Bicester Village. We had so much fun!

DOHN YU, my schoolmate from nursery to college (haha... it's been that long!).  We love the restaurants you recommended.  Keep me posted with you-know-what, you hottie ;)

PAUL TIU, my childhood seat mate (fellow bus rider).  Thank you for touring us around London, and bringing us to my mom's requests :D

MARJ AKIL, my colleague back in Chalk magazine.  It's been 8 long years since we've seen each other!  It was so great to catch up with you.

We all had a lovely time, thanks to all of you.

Hope to visit UK and hang out with all of you again soon :D

Friends for Keeps

Last Friday was a packed one. I stayed at the store the whole day, but managed to do some errands over lunch.  Was supposed to have dinner at Cyma in Greenbelt with a few members of the ol' PINK gang, but had to finish up at the store.  Besides, I wasn't really looking forward to driving all the way to Makati on a Payday-Friday night :o

Got to Greenbelt around 10 p.m.and I was quite surprised with how busy Greenbelt 2 is again.  It was pretty packed!  It took as a while to get a table at Barcino's.  On our way up, I bumped into fellow editor and blogger Frances Amper-Sales.  She was there with a few of her colleagues as well---what a coincidence ;)  Too bad I wasn't able to take a photo with her :(

Here I am with the gang: me looking very tired, Ria and hubby Dix Perez (photographer), Bebeth Timbol and Ava Samson—there goes Ava again, goofing around ;)

Now, I don't drink but I can manage a small glass of wine as long as I drink a lot of water.  I drank about 5 glasses that night :o just to make sure I'm still okay to drive home by myself haha... 

And I made sure to eat a lot of tapas since I wasn't able to have a decent dinner:

We called it quits by 1 a.m.—I was up since 8a.m. and Dix had shoots lined up the next day. Here's one last group shot with the girls :)

It's been soooo long since we last hung out, and I sure am glad we were able to do it last Friday.  

Miss the ol' PINK gang ;)