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what the... my new mouse drained one "eveready" black AA battery in one week! oh no, this is not a good sign. to think that i don't forget to switch the mouse off after i shut the machine down. i do hope it was only a bad battery, even if it was from a newly opened pack. does this mean i have to switch to a gold "eveready" or to another brand?

here's the ube macapuno cake {half roll} from max's corner bakery that we had on the 24th, for 204.75 pesos. when i called on the 23rd, they told me it was 190+, and they said they don't deliver if orders are just for the bakery stuff. i think i could have gotten away with just the cake on the 24th because i could tell they were swamped when i called; it was so loud over there that the person who took my order could not hear me very well. but i also ordered lumpiang shanghai anyway. it was nice that delivery did not suffer, they were here in less than 30 minutes, like always. so reliable, max's. oh, and this cake tasted yummy too.

lechon kawali + pancakes = yummy! a play on "chicken + waffles?" but the meat was not spicy {no hot sauce here}, instead, it was salty. i discovered it yesterday afternoon. my gulay, it was delish! the left-over pork {from lunch} was salty. they cooked the pancakes this afternoon. a forkful of pork, then a bite of pancake, or both in the same bite...! the maple syrup on the cake was required to get it right. wow.

December's package no.2 arrived this morning. I'm getting in as much shopping done this week - I want to have it all done this week, hopefully. I would have taken a picture of what's inside but they're going to be gifts so... hehe. This is my second human heart nature delivery order too. Now, they have the online shopping thing worked out pretty well. They don't have a lot of products so I guess it makes sense that they don't have a wish-list feature as of yet. Here's a time-it-took run-down: Sunday evening - Ordered and paid for {in one go; no waiting for confirmation, no glitch, no hitch} Monday - Received email that package was shipped. Tuesday morning - Package arrived. Human heart nature used table rates for shipping. It's the most affordable I've worked with so far. They used LBC. Needless to say, I lost no sleep with this one.

Shopped online at tradeport.com.ph again. I bought the Microsoft Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500. I wanted it in pink but their MS vendor only had it in purple, so purple it is! Tradeport had a technical problem last week -- the PAY button did not work. They had to manually send my invoice {with pay-link} before the order was processed. I kind of thought there was a problem because the last time I shopped there, I got straight through to paying without a glitch. Anyway, I hope the problem's fixed. My package arrived Friday afternoon. I paid for it Tuesday afternoon. 3-day wait = nice! They used Air21 for shipping. Air21 sent me delivery-progress text messages all day on Friday: * {8 AM} that shipment is Friday, * {10 AM - twice!} that it was scheduled then + a reminder that either I or an authorized rep be there to receive it, and * {4:30 PM} that it was delivered + name of who signed for it. So much attention from Air21; it was great. Tradeport communicated well too.

now this is messy, but it's tapsilog ! transferred from a polystyrene container, microwaved and into my tummy. yummm! i've been told that there might be enough leftover rice for sinangag tomorrow. oh no, don't you dare kid about that. nothing hurts me more than broken promises of sinangag . oh right, nobody promised anything.

5 audio minutes done in 50 minutes {clear audio, unedited}. that may be my standard speed to date. i rarely transcribe now; more important things on my plate. but when i heard this, i grabbed it. the recording was clean, clear and nearly {not quite} perfect. it took only an hour of my time {editing included}. why is it when you're busy, you inadvertently do something else? oh you don't? right.

i really like stews that are thick and savory. this is pork kaldereta {last night's dinner}, they put cheese cubes in it. i was supposed to get another plate after i wiped this out but i was still full from brunch. i remember we used to order a big bowl of rice topped with beef kaldereta, topped with a zig-zag-squirt of cheese whiz at a hole-in-the-wall when i was at uni. we didn't go to that place often but when we did, we'd always get the kaldereta. i remember we'd go there at the worse time: during our lunch break, and i hated it because we had to eat quickly or we'd be late for class. it would come out of the kitchen hot and steaming, and we'd have to wait to have a first bite. fun times.

there was chaos this morning. one of our dogs ran out of the house. when he gets out, he normally returns after he's had his fun which doesn't take very long. it's just that this time, they didn't want someone seeing our uber-friendly canine. if he was a little dog, it would've been cute but since he's not... well. they didn't mind it when he was a puppy though. so i did not sleep very well because of it. i am sleepy now.