An Empire State Love...

- Victor’s (former co-worker) wedding yesterday
- Held at Sheraton Hotel, Flushing
- No traditional Chinese wedding ceremony (wish I experienced this not to mention I wanted to see their Chinese wedding dresses)
- Bride changed gowns 3x
- Met new people (including Victor’s online gaming friends from Canada)
- So much food
* appetizer: a platter of roast pork, chicken and beef; breaded shrimp with walnuts in cream sauce; and scallops with veggies
* chicken soup
* main courses: fried chicken with prawn crackers; steak; lobster; steamed fish, lo-mein and fried rice
* desserts: red beans and dates in a warm sweet kind of soup; cake; and fruits such as grapes, raspberries, pineapple, cantaloupe and honeydew
* drinks: tea, red wine, soda
- Rice and noodles always the last ones to be served (kind of weird for me as we're used to having rice with something else and not just the rice alone)
- Bouquet throwing done one time for both single ladies and gents
- Parents join the newlyweds as they go from one table to another for a toast
- Picture taking with the newlyweds takes place on your way out (the bride holding a tray full of candies)
- Couple going to Spain for their honeymoon (How’s that huh!)

Anyway, congratulations and best wishes to you and Kelly!

jolly good!!!

This is rather late…

Anyway, IFC has received his EAD. This is really good news for him as he can now work legally in the US not to mention that he is now eligible to apply for Social Security #. He went to the SSA office on August 27th and received the card a week later.

And since we’re going for a vacation in the Philippines this Christmas, he said he’ll start looking for a job January next year. We are just so happy that things are getting better for us.

trying hardER

We are so desperate to lose some weight and we only have 3 months to do that. Why 3 months? Well we do not want to hear people say… “ang taba mo!” so we have to drop the pounds before we go for a vacation in the Philippines. *sigh*

So what are we doing to achieve our goal?
- The other night, we walked a total of 4 miles. That took us an hour. Not that bad huh?! We could have walked more… only if we have time though. I wish we have more time but we also need to rest especially IFC. I’m actually surprised I didn’t even feel tired or soreness in my legs. We plan to do this maybe 3x a week.

- Cereals for breakfast, cold-cut sandwich or the usual Filipino food for lunch and oatmeal for dinner. All three meals are with fruits. Sometimes we treat ourselves with something heavier for breakfast like ham/bacon/sausage with egg sandwich.

- Fruits (mostly) for snacks or nothing at all.

- We will have ice cream once in a while and 2 pieces max of bite-size chocolates like this in one eating.

That would be it for now. I wish I could do some exercise on the days that we’re not “walking”. Yeah… why not!