After the best boss in the world treated me to a Brothers Burger dinner of Crispy Fish Sandwich and the best-tasting Serenity Green Tea from Nestea, we walked over to UCC where she got us desserts. While she had some coffee, I had a green tea milkshake. We also shared the crispiest, sweetest, yummiest Sansrival that I've ever tasted over the craziest, laughter-filled conversations.

I seriously need to say bye to sugar.

Sundays have always been a family day for our clan. Even without planning or agreement, everybody just appears in our BF Resort house for lunch, chitchat, snacks, TV, naps and even more food.

Several years ago, it was just cousins and aunts and uncles – until everyone grew up and started dating. So now the family’s bigger and the house seems smaller.

Last Friday, it was my lovely lola’s birthday so we dropped by and gave her a roll of her favorite ube macapuno cake. Not everyone was there – because the scheduled party was the following Sunday – but we nevertheless had loads of fun goofing around, taking pics and stuffing ourselves silly, of course – with spaghetti and chicken lollipops.

Sunday came and it was an even greater party. A lot of relatives were there and there was (yay) more food: fried rice, barbecue, mechadong manok, potato salad, adobong balun-balunan, lumpiang isda, baked mac, minatamis na saging, puto. (I was so busy putting stuff in my mouth I didn’t have time to actually take snapshots).

Everyone was just so happy – exchanging stories, laughing, joking around, taking pictures and video clips. The younger ones were busy with toys and DVDs. My cousin Trina introduced her lovely little pets to us while we tried to enjoy Ratatouille.

Even after most relatives left, we still had a blast. My cousin Ikoy performed scenes from School of Rock. He’s such a performer I hope he becomes an actor when he grows up.

And then it was finally time for us to go home.

When I got home, that was the only time when I realized that since my aunt and her family will be planing to New Zealand pretty soon, Sundays will never be the same again. Gotta make the following Sundays really extra special then.

I've been spending too much time with my laptop lately. I've been staying up late just surfing the net, checking out others' blogs and updating my several accounts. I can actually feel my eyes suffering from all the lack of sleep and my monitor's ultra brightness.

Concerned about my eyesight and the fact that I've been neglecting my other interests, I vowed to spend a little less time with my lappytoppy.

Awhile ago, I dropped by the heavensent Book Sale and was delighted to find out that they have new stuff. I instantly transformed into fight mode, like a super selfish brat in Willy Wonka-land.

My goal was to check if they have new issues of my favorite magazines: Domino, Real Simple and Blueprint. And they did!

And since I super love love Domino, I finally bought a couple of issues of its sister title, Lucky, which I am totally enjoying. I suddenly remember my friend Monique who's in Paris right now - she introduced the magazine to me a couple of years ago, back when we were still working for the celeb mag. We're Lucky sisters now!

To complete the mag reading experience, I also bought some munchies: dark chocolate-covered raisins, which are just heavensent.

Now you have to excuse me because I have to do some major mag reading.

Yesternight, I wasn't able to sleep much because I knew I'd see my godson Katsan in a while. I was so happy and nervous and excited all at the same time. I couldn't wait to see him again after he flew to Japan four years ago. However, I was also afraid of how he'd react upon seeing me. Would he be as sweet as he was several years ago? Would he even remember me?

Awhile ago, on our way to the birthday party of Hitomi (Katsan's sister), I got annoyed because it took Honeybun forever to apply her make-up so we were kinda late for the celebration. I felt like severeal seconds were wasted.

Our reunion was cinematic. My heart skipped three beats the moment I saw him again. He looked a little different: a couple of inches taller, teeth a little bigger, some pounds lighter. He even acted awkwardly, focusing on his toy robot and avoiding my eager eyes. I was heartbroken. But I didn't give up, of course.

It didn't take a while before he fully remembered. Who I am, how we met, what we shared, why we were together again.

We didn't have forever so I made sure we made the most out of the little time we had.

While I am a fan of theme parks and amusement centers, I am not a huge fan of actually riding the carousel, the bump cars, etc. But for Katsan, I rode each and every ride present - except for the rollercoaster. He kept on dragging me - saying no broke my heart - but I just couldn't.

When Katsan was small, he had a hard time communicating. He wasn't good with enunciation and he simply didn't talk a lot. Now he talks straight and so clearly - but in Japanese. It was so frustrating trying to have a conversation with him. Eventually, I just talked to him in English and he talked to me in Japanese. We didn't understand what the other was saying but somehow, we connected and just understood.

And then the time to say goodbye came. It was heartbreaking as usual but strangely, I didn't feel like crying. Katsan wasn't his usual crybaby self too. I guess it's because we'll be seeing each other again this Wednesday. I guess the tears will fall this Wednesday then.

I love my godson so much and I wish he were my own son. I can't wait to be with him again. I can't wait to have my own son.