Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Sunday, June 19, 2011
first beach day this year
the other night i rented "the endless summer" from iTunes, and it made me want to go to the beach. not to learn how to surf, you crazy? just to go to the beach. so this weekend i did just that.
woke up mid-morning. had breakfast at "the flying pan" where for the last three weekends i've ordered the same thing (spanish-style egg white omelette with smoked salmon, wheat toast, fruit bowl, orange juice, long black coffee) and left tip, tho not customary here in hong kong, just so they'd remember me and my order, but they always manage to give me a wrong omelette anyway (once with egg yolks, once plain - without the things that make it "spanish", and once without smoked salmon). i'll give it one last time next weekend and if they still don't get it right, i'll just make my own omelette breakfast.
i asked rene, benj, and josen to come with me to the beach but they said they'd rather go to a soho bar to drink the afternoon away, so i went by myself. dumped everything in my tote (photo, above): my big-ass towel, pretty floral shorts, sunscreen, sunnies, and most important - a nice book to read (isaac asimov's "the complete robot" compilation). took the mtr in flipflops, got lost in shaukeiwan, especially after asking locals who pointed me at the wrong direction, then finally got to the minibus (craziest drivers in hong kong) that took me to shek-o beach. my first time going to this beach - really nice weather, and rather crowded so i just went and stayed in one end.
i had a ticket for "x-men: first class" in the evening so i didn't stay in the beach very late. movie was great. it wasn't until the movie was over and i was brushing off popcorn from my shirt that i realized i locked myself out from my apartment yet again. (i was in such a hurry from getting home from the beach to going to the moviehouse, while being on the phone with rene and benj who were still drinking in soho and asking me to join them, that i forgot my keys again). so i had to go to emi to borrow her copy again.
when i finally got in i got an email notification from iTunes saying there's a new doctor who episode that i can download. yay! only it turns out it's just a teaser. new episodes won't be availabe until fall. sigh.
anyhoo. i love my color today. next time i'll try a different beach.
XXX
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
jane's visit
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Sunday, March 06, 2011
the libunaos
© Joselito Briones
the occasion? marielle's birthday, and oni and lib's wedding anniversary. the whole family was there.XXX
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
drinks by the opera
what's a trip to sydney without checking out the opera house, right? harvey and i went to opera bar for drinks (great view, very noisy tho) before going to longrain (super yummy food, but no pics, sorry. was too busy eating). we were gonna go to quay restaurant but they were all fully booked already so we made a reservation for the next night instead.
above is sydney's skyline as seen from the opera.
XXX
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
maggie and sat's little love nest
last weekend maggie and saturday invited me for a late lunch at their new flat in fortress hill. you know there's no place i won't go for free food. and there was so much of it - maggie spent the whole morning cooking. the best was the chicken wing marinated in coke zero, and the enokitake salad.
the flat was cute, full of toys and knick knacks (not for a future baby, for them!) ah. to be young and starting out.
XXX
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
christmas meet-n-greet
more holiday get togethers. some of my nicest friends since high school: (r-l) christie, cynthia (whose youngest is my godson, poor child), and joy (here with daughter nikki). they dropped by my parents' house when they learned (thanks, eric!) that i was gonna be there this holiday season. last time i saw cyntch and christie was at eric's wedding last july, last time i saw joy before this was probably high school graduation day. she seems a lot more down-to-earth now, and happier. she has this spiel, poking fun on herself by saying that she breezed through high school because two of our senior year teachers just happened to be her parents. first time she did it i searched her face for any indication that she might be looking at how someone reacts to this (if only to see if the intended audience agrees with the statement or not), then decided she really was doing this just for comic effects.
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
more holiday chow-downs
Friday, December 10, 2010
some guys
you know how sometimes you feel bad for not keeping in touch with people you used to hang out a lot with? john (photo, above) is one such person so when i learned that he's in hong kong visiting i invited him for dinner to catch up. last time i saw him was twenty or so years ago, in mapua. so he does mostly turnkey projects now and lots of golfing and diving and underwater photography and traveling and shopping.
so anyway we just walked around lan kwai fung and soho and non stop talk and had big ass yummy steak dinner in staunton street, then drinks in a bar in hollywood road. don't you just love it when you see someone you haven't seen for a long time and it doesn't feel weird? fun night.
XXX
p.s.
i remember we had a small group back in the days and we had a song! lol i've forgotten how it goes exactly but supposedly each of us represented a "type" in the song : "some guys have all the luck, some guys have all the brain, some guys have all the pain, etc. etc." silly song.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
better be worth it now
floren emailed me these photos he took with his phone earlier today. first one's with the always fab and beautiful faye. am not even sure that's how she spells her name. maybe without e. i don't know. it feels like it should be with an e if only because she has cheekbones sharper than dunaway's.
second one's of me having breakfast. at 5pm, same table. 2 photos a few minutes apart. i know that glass of wine looks very wrong in a breakfast setting. i swear i only had one. not that there's anything wrong with having more. for breakfast i mean. if that's what you're into. woke up very late. i was supposed to be there at 2pm, but then i know that when floren says 2pm it means 3pm earliest. and anyway i wasn't expecting to eat there. i had a couple of snack bars before going. last time we had a mini party there we had to wait so long. i was already very hungry and cranky by the time we started eating. this time i was prepared. i was only going there to chat and catch up with them. that there was food was a plus. it was a bit disappointing that not all of the usual crowd wasn't there. but the ones who were there were fun. especially faye. she was there with her boyfriend simon of course, and their new spoodle (sounds yummy, no? like home-spun noodles) which is a two-tone
XXX
(eta: currency)
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Hampstead Heath
LIfe's been easy... most weekends Jerome and Ronnie would invite us for a drive somewhere nice for a weekend (they bought a brand new volvo). This time the destination was Hampstead Heath, within London. The area we set up picnic in is called "Kite Hill" or "Parliament Hill". Needless to say, there was plenty of food and wine, and picnic necessities (plates, cutleries, wine glasses) willingly lent to us by Waitrose. Pictured above are (L-R) Mati, Ronnie, Jerome, Gaudi, Mickael.
XXX
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Coordinated
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take 2 - i don't know what happened this time, the photo got posted but not the text that i wrote with it.
we met up with the jonescheits tonight and it was the cutest thing that they showed up clothes coordinated - jeans and white shirt and khaki jacket and summer coat. zoë also had a hairpin on her barely-there hair :) the photo, again was taken by the iphone. i'd have taken a proper photo too, only it was already getting dark when we met up that i didn't even bother bringing a proper camera.
XXX
take 2 - i don't know what happened this time, the photo got posted but not the text that i wrote with it.
we met up with the jonescheits tonight and it was the cutest thing that they showed up clothes coordinated - jeans and white shirt and khaki jacket and summer coat. zoë also had a hairpin on her barely-there hair :) the photo, again was taken by the iphone. i'd have taken a proper photo too, only it was already getting dark when we met up that i didn't even bother bringing a proper camera.
XXX
Luisenpark
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Luisenpark is in mannheim. We're here until friday, then off to
stuttgart to attend frieder's wedding.
XXX
Luisenpark is in mannheim. We're here until friday, then off to
stuttgart to attend frieder's wedding.
XXX
Friday, July 17, 2009
chris
XXX
Saturday, July 11, 2009
floren
Friday, July 10, 2009
clones
Thursday, July 09, 2009
michael
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
chris
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
jerome
© Joselito Briones
i've just realized i haven't posted a photo of jerome yet, so here it is, taken in baslow hall.
XXX
Monday, July 06, 2009
wil in haddon hall
Sunday, July 05, 2009
one more of wil
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