What a week!

It's been quite a week full of activities here on my end. Alexander and I had a late start this morning - waking up at 10am and had this craving for pancake and bacon for brunch! We were actually up as early as 4.30 am to say goodbye to my sister-in-law who has an early morning flight back to Madrid. After they left, we headed back to bed - very sleepy and tired.

With Jan working today, Alexander and I are not really up for anything special - but he did propose for us to build a "volcano". Hmmm, we'll see about that. Otherwise, some house chores are on top of my list.

Yesterday's activity at the ESG Food Day had been great. My Pancit Malabon did well and there were quite a number of dishes there that I would love to try myself, especially the special cake from Australia which is said to be a national dish for dessert - a cream cake topped with fresh berries and mango bits. The chinese dishes were very interesting, too. I love the chicken dumplings and the bean curd dessert in sweet ginger sauce ... it reminded me so much of the Philippine's well-loved "taho". And then, there's the siomai and siopao which were just as I remember them to be - the Kowloon way!

Such gathering had also been an opportunity to get to know the other parents of children attending the school - more like bonding as children played out in the grounds and parents tittered and tattered among themselves. 'Twas an interesting mix of people ... young and old alike.

At this point now, I'm beat! There's no mistaking how great the week that passed had been, and then you realised you've put in a lot of effort into it and wonder how did you manage to pull it off ... I know I didn't. I may have been stressed without me knowing it, but I enjoyed doing it all.

Yeah, maybe I was stressed because I've been enjoying eating way too much desserts just this week. You see, if you spell "stressed" backwards, what do you get? DESSERTS!