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Christmas day lunch. Clockwise: I had lengua with sweet potato and saging na saba slices, roast chicken, embutido (it was my late grandma's recipe daw ) and a pork rib. Not pictured was a bowl of savory pancit molo that I also dug into. The lengua was my fave on this plate -- yummy! This may not look like a lot but it really was. It's just that we used big plates. Happy new year! :)

How strange this must look... like a novelty cookbook page (sans the recipe) that was made with the thought that filling up every space with media makes for good page composition. Moving on... The portions of food we had at this year's Christmas eve dinner were bigger than what we'd normally have. There was much left over. But we figured that the pansit canton (left) wouldn't keep well because it had corn starch so we ate as much as we can and it was nearly polished off. We tried to do the same with the menudo (right, pinoy version with purefoods hotdog) but failed because we ate with lots of rice. All in all, a filling eve. Oh, we had fried chicken too. Almost everyone had a cup of decaf or tea afterwards, enough said.

yahoo email was fine with receiving mms. but months ago, yahoo quit receiving mms. see, i take pictures with my phone. i used to send photos on my phone to a yahoo email via mms without worry. suddenly, at one of those mms-sends, the phone prompted that the mms was sent but it did not show up in the recipient's yahoo email. at first i thought mms was buggy so i tested it some, as is only logical, and sent an mms to another email domain that's not yahoo. that went through and was successfully received. ergo, only yahoo quit receiving mms. tonight, i took pictures with another person's phone. i sent the photos to a yahoo email... yes, via mms. toink, that's (their) 10 pesos down the drain! i forgot that yahoo quit receiving mms. sorry. [data cables and wi-fi weren't viable options in this short narrative... in case you were wondering]

christmas food pics coming soon! took some shots of our noche buena's & christmas day's grub. i ate a lot, to the point where it's like you're pregnant & it's hard to breathe & walk. sigh. it feels great when all you want for christmas is to see your baby nieces holding the christmas presents you sent them... and you get a picture of that without even asking. i've dropped my sister so many hints about taking pictures when i send gifts to the babies which i stopped doing when 2010 started. i'm glad she remembered it this time. happy, happy me.