It has been a tradition in our section that somebody is assigned to treat the whole section for lunch every Friday. This Friday, our big boss is paying for our lunch as his way of saying Thank You for all the good work that we have done for the whole fiscal year. It was also his birthday last Sunday so it is his birthday treat for us also. It is also our farewell party for one of our officer who is leaving for his next posting.

Since there are a lot of things to celebrate today, our boss decided to treat us beer and pizza for lunch. We even have wine and a cake. This is one cool thing that I like in working in a foreign mission. The boss is really not that formal so they allow us to drink beer and wine during office hours. Isn’t that cool? LOL.

We visited my friend’s mom (who is also one of our godmother for our wedding) last night to pick up the “pasalubongs” that Jacq and Neil sent for us. We had a nice chat and she told us that Jacq already received her green card last February.

Yehey. I was so excited upon hearing this because my good friend Jacq has been waiting for it so they can finally go home and have a vacation here in the Philippines. I was able to chat with her also this morning and she said that they are just waiting for her husband’s visa to be released (she sponsored her husband so her husband’s visa will be release anytime soon also) so they can pack their bags and finally be able to have a vacation here.

They plan to have a vacation here next year. Hope their plans will push through as she is also 5 months pregnant now. I’m really excited and we would love to take them to Bohol.

So, Jacq & Neil just let us now and we will immediately file a leave as soon as you confirm it so we can all go to Bohol.

For this week’s coffee break question from Jan:

What was your High School
Graduation song?

Do you know the song with the lyrics “We used to be frightened and scared to try of things we don't really understand why….” I think the title of that song is “Farewell” by Raymond Lauchengco. That is our high school graduation song. I remember during our graduation, almost all of us are crying while singing that song.

High School will always be one of the most memorable days in my life. It is here that I learn to grow and learned things that helped me become who I am now.

It is ironic, because even though “Farewell” is our graduation song, we never really bid farewell to each other because up to know, I still have close contact and constant communication with all my high school friends. Almost all of us have our own family now but we always see to it that we still keep our communication and in spite of our busy schedules, we still manage to have a get together once in a while to catch up with what’s going on with each of our lives.

My husband covered an event last Saturday for the launching of the new building sponsored by our Congressman. This building will be a Training Center where constituents of our district can receive free technical and vocational trainings.

My friend attended the launching ceremony and she checked out the trainings being offered at the center. One of the trainings they will be offering is pharmacy technician training and my friend was really interested in taking it. She knows that pharmacy technician salary is competitive specially nowadays where there is a big demand for those in the medical field.

My friend is really decided in becoming a pharmacy tech. Hopefully, she will find the best training to help her become one.

After seeing Pheng’s post about mangga & bagong (green mango and fish paste), I have been craving for it that for the last two days, I always buy a plastic of mangoes with fish paste at the vendor outside our building. And I don’t even dare share it with Howell. I can finish the whole plastic all by myself.

And then at dinner time, my aunt gave me another piece of mango to go with my viand (tapa) and so I was really full after eating.

I wonder when I will ever get tired of eating it.