How Do You Spend Your Weekend?

One of my blog hopping agenda is looking at how people from other places spend their days particularly on the food that they enjoy. Based on the blog comments from my favorite sites, there are lot of us who are interested on everyday, ordinary people's way of living. For those people out there wondering how we spend our ordinary day here in the Philippines, here's mine:

Yes, you are looking at an arcade machine. We spend our Sunday (after church) at an arcade playing games. And this is my favorite game because I always win tokens:

This is not the ordinary day things. I had this baby back ribs while vacationing in Cebu City, visiting my best friend working there.

Another food while on Cebu vacation. We ate at the famous AA's Barbeque :

One of my ordinary day activities, playing play-doh with kids. Yes, I did that, dressed the gecko toy with clay, a summer outfit. or maybe it's a spa for mr. gecko.

And this is part of my weekly grocery shopping list. They vary of course but you can already imagine how my grocery bag contents look like.

and this is an authentic Filipino sweet from one of the cafe near a tourist destination in our town, Sampaloc Lake. This delicacy is called suman for those living in the metro. I don't know what its called here {my bad}.Its a sweet sticky rice with sweet coconut syrup.

I wanted to show off the house that we purchased but its too soon to do that because we are having some issues with the financing. What are the things on your everyday, ordinary life?

Decluttering Yahoo E-Mail Account

My day would always start with blog hopping and pinterest "pinning".

Pinterest account have served me well until I forgot my passwrod and user account.

 My bad. 

I am back to pinning again since I was able to retrieve the information I need to get back on the roll.

image credit here

Another thing that kept me busy this week is my email organization.

Yes, I finally found the time to work on my email account and remove the 9,000 unimportant emails that has been there for years.

After deleting those, I feel sort of free from clutter.

That was for my yahoo account.

My gmail is another story.

I haven't started on working on it.

image credit here

With the yahoo account, I have been using the "Other InBox" organizer that comes with the email. It makes deleting messages easier and faster.

You just have to click the icon on the left side bar and it will prompt you to update your settings.

The cons will be additional folders on your account with names like OIB Home, OIB Social Network...etc. existing and new emails will be categorized there.

Then you can delete.

If you haven't tried it, do it now.

Home Ownership in the Philippines

We are in the process of waiting for our home loan application results.

The ad says processing of the loan will take five days. 

The home ownership is putting us into another level of planning and organization. I have failed terribly on the planning part. At least around 25K has been lost from my poor planning and maybe we will have another dent on my planning ability when we are done paying to the realtor. Silly me have forgotten the registration process right that comes after paying the whole amount. according to some website the transaction cost comprises the following:

1. legal fees
2. local transfer tax
3. deed of sale 
4. Capital Gains Tax
5. Real State agent 's fee
6. document stamp tax fee

the last three items will be shouldered by the seller and the first three will be the one the homeowners will have to prepare for. Based on the computations, legal fee such as notarial will cost around P200 per document, local transfer tax will depend on the zonal value imposed by the municipality government and the documentary stamp tax will cost around P15 per P1000 (value of the property, i assume) or 1.5% whichever is higher. House and lot with value of 2.5 Million below are VAT-exempt so mine will fall under that category. To give an idea of how much a registration cost will be, the example on the website provided a computation of around P28,898 for a 12M property. If the zonal value is not that high, our house  and lot processing fee will probably cost around 4k.

Vice Ganda Concert: An Hour Late and Other Weekend Specials

I watched Vice Ganda's concert at the Araneta Coliseum, Friday night.

S/He is more than an hour late. 

I was pissed when the show have started and told my best-friend that even if Vice makes me happy and rolling with laughter the whole show, I will blog about the tardiness. 

She was late. 

But I laughed non-stop till one o'clock in the morning.

While waiting, we had our fill of Jamaican Pattie. It is one of the hubs favorite.

my favorite, Beef Pinatubo. This is the spicy one.

(photos from their fb page.)

Sleepless from the show, I have to proceed to our family date (I missed the seminar at work because it will be impossible to get back to the metro on time, i feel sort of guilty). 

mozzarella sticks

banana split worth 25 pesos with edible bowl

banana split (again!) with textured ice cream

pizza, Hawaiian and bacon&ham

I had a great week although the rest of the Sunday was spent sleeping almost the entire day, thus we were not able to attend the Sunday service. 

I hope you had a great weekend too.

Inspiration of the Day: Stamping (DIY)

I love crafting. Although time is scarce these days because of the new job and other things that keeps me busy, bloghopping is still my favorite past time. Today, this one caught my interest:

Hand Carved Stamp Tutorials!

hop on to Genine's blog.

That is where I found the photo and tutorial.

This is going to my to-do project list for sure.

and another discovery from her blog: Craft Gawker.

How did I miss that site? It has the best diy that are doable for people like me. 

Go on, visit the site and do some craft like this one:

fabric lanterns found through Craft Gawker.

found original photo here