Meeting new friends

I am not feeling well today. I guess it’s the over-exertion from holding Eman. He is becoming more and more active and when he’s on my lap, he tries to reach for things that he finds interesting. He also have this attitude of making his head fall back when he can’t get what he wanted. Well I am the mother and he can’t get his way. I am giving him a swat on the leg and tell him it’s not good each time he does that. He’s 9 months and he’s not too young for discipline. So there you go, nip it in the bud.

So the whole morning I was feeling sick. Donald gave me a massage and he said what I needed is a joy ride. I don’t want to be called a wet blanket so I agreed. We went to Mintal taking the back road as usual. The afternoon breeze was cold and I somehow felt better. We wanted to eat so we looked around for a resto that serves Pansit Guisado and the like and so we did some kind of a little tour because we are not yet familiar with the place. While we are looking around I told Donald about the fellow blogger, Chikai, who grew up in that place. Last night I scoured her blog for the post she did many months ago when her grandma died. It has photos of their house. I was lucky to have found it last night so I told Donald about it and he was interested in finding it too. I knew the name of the street but we didn’t get around to asking people where it can be found because on our next turn I saw a house that I thought their house (I mean her parent’s house - since she is married and is based in the US now). But the house is not like what I saw in the pictures…..theirs is green and beside it is their grandma’s house. We are slowly moving and as we got near the curb, I saw a very familiar house.

Snagged it from Chikai’s blog. I was ecstatic when I saw that house. That’s their neighbor’s house and I pointed out to Donald their house. I saw her sister Bevs holding Cache (the miracle baby) in the porch and guess what I did? I called her and introduced myself to her older sister Liezel who is a fellow blogger. Kapal muks noh? I actually don’t have a plan to drop by but I got so excited and I couldn’t let the chance pass because they are based in General Santos and I read last night in her blog that they are coming to Davao to get Cached checked by her pedia. So if I won’t drop by and say hello, I don’t know if there will be a chance of meeting her again. She is nice and we chatted for a while but we arrived unannounced so we said goodbye so it’s not nice to stay long. We went back looking for a resto. Nothing like in my hometown. I missed Kabacan but I am loving this place. We ended up eating at a bakeshop. We could have just bought bread and siopao to bring home but we chose to sit in one of their little tables. I have slight issue with tables. I hate tiny ones. I love resto’s that has large tables like the size of the exam tables I saw in my doctor’s clinic because it gives me more room to move and breastfeed (I can do it discreetly with my baby sling) in case the little guy demands it. There is a local park across the bakeshop and Ella wanted to play for a while but it started to drizzle. Maybe next time if the weather is good I will definitely come back ’cause I have not gone to the ukay-ukay stalls this week.

Tags: blog, blogging, bread, Davao City, death, Donald, Ella, Eman, food, friends, Kabacan, Mintal, pansit guisado, resto, siopao

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