A first proper Valentine's Week

So, this is my second blog post for the day. In recent years, this is RARE. I almost always only write here, like, once a month or so. And I noticed today that usually I'm on leave when I write here. Ibig sabihin, hindi ko talaga nabibigyang pansin ang magsulat nang magsulat sa blog na ito para ikwento ang mga pangyayari sa life ko these days. It's more like pagnaka-leave ako, nawawalan ako ng gagawin kaya naiisipan kong mag-blog na lang.

And since today, naka-leave nga ako, I will talk more about my week. Specifically, my first proper Valentine's week. Ayyy! Also, I really do promise to blog more often. It is so nice magbasa ng old posts seeing pictures and random moments. Sige, I will post more pictures starting today!

And why 'proper'? Well, as I have hinted in my post last November, I started dating again. Five and a half years after that disaster of a shit hole that happened to me and my close friends, I think kaya ko na ulit makipaglandian (hahaha). But more on that event five years ago next time.

I have been dating Mark (a different Mark, mind you) for almost 4 months now, and have been exclusively ever since. Girl, this is the longest 'relationship' I had. And probably it's his as well. Anyway... we had a simple dinner at Provenciano along Maginhawa. It's a nice Filipino restaurant in the likes of Manam or Mesa. Pero medyo saks lang yung food, or baka medyo di ko lang trip 'yung na-order na pagkain.

Here we are after we were done eating. Sana nga ay nakapagpalitrato kami nang may pagkain pa!

We order three dishes: pako (fern) with mango, pininyahang manok and Batangueño adobo. I like the manok and adobo, but the pako not so much.

A gift

He also gave me a gift, the book A Brief History of Mankind by Yuval Noah Harari, na hindi ko pa mababasa kasi hindi ko pa tapos yung hindi ko matapos-tapos na Fire & Blood by George RR Martin. I was so surprised because hindi nga kami ma-gift sa isa't isa. But probably because I gave him a Haruki Murakami gift last Christmas, he decided to give me one this Valentine's.

It was a simple dinner which I like. We actually decided na we don't like grand gestures, and that giving gifts is not our love language (except when they are books!).

The dessert we had which I really, really liked! Para siyang suman with cheese.

But Valentine's was not only felt that day. Actually, a day before, may pakulo yung Grab called Grabbae. And the my officemates decided to give it a try!

Booking a Grabbae

In fairness naman sa Grab ha, it was a nice PR thing they did. At marami talaga akong nakita sa social media na nag-try. After posting pictures on Instagram and tagging Grab and using their hashtags, the Grabbae we got even interacted and answer my stories poll.

My officemate (Meg) and Grabbae (Edrei)

They even gave us promo codes through this cards na pinamigay nila

Here's the view last Feb 14 morning. As usual, maraming ganito sa Katipunan tuwing araw ng mga puso. I mean it's cute, but I don't buy these stuff kasi I don't like giving gifts and kasi environment!

To end this post, here something I saw online:

Naalala ko tuloy yung pagsisisi ko na hindi ako makakaboto this coming election. I am so annoyed with myself because of this. I promise to vote on 2021. :S

Anyway, it's nice to post something like this!

See you later!