The Avengers

The past few days have been anything but dull. Since my departure from the house to run some work-related errands that seemed to have been more practically spent in the company of my girlfriend Kai - both for the company and convenience - I have been in and out of a house to go to either the mall or elsewhere.

Last Wednesday, April 25, Kai and I went to get our NBI Clearance at Robinson's Metro East, just a trike ride away from her house. We were there somewhat expecting the long line but in the end it turned out to have been a long wait. Since the Clearance center only accommodated 500, they gave out numbers to everyone who was in line. Luckily, Kai and I got 399 and 400 respectively, so we managed to get to get the process done by the end of the day. The day was especially special because it was the opening day of The Avengers here in the Philippines, and being there in the mall as early as we were, who wouldn't line up to buy tickets?! So I treated Kai and myself to a 3D screening of the movie at 6pm. Well worth it!

After all was said and done, we had the privilege of watching it again yesterday with my relatives at Shangri-La Plaza Mall, care of our cousin's running team's premiere screening. Since my brother wasn't watching with us and Kai was already sleeping over, we invited her to come along to not waste the ticket.

Considering it was both our first time exploring that mall, we were more than amazed. But of course, not as amazed by our second viewing of the movie.

I finally took the opportunity to get a picture with the promotional board of my favorite actor & character of the bunch, Tony Stark/Iron Man played by the forever awesome Robert Downey Jr.!

Since we got an advanced screening from America, I won't give out any spoilers, but will say how it's worth every cent to GO AND WATCH THIS MOVIE! Looking forward to the sequels The Avengers 2 and Iron Man 3 in the future!!

Last Week of Bumming

It's been a while since I've made a blog post. Call me lazy, but bumming around isn't exactly and equivalent to not doing anything. It's more of spending most of the day doing one thing and lazing around with everything else. Not long from now I'll have to take in the habit of waking up early 5 - or sometimes 6 - days a week to go out and do my work.

Well, that aside, last weekend was an interesting one, filled to the brim with two consecutive grad parties!

As you may have guessed I themed my party as Harry Potter, and I had the cake designed specifically for it. I have to say I was impressed with it! Shoppersville Bakeshop outdid themselves with following the picture I gave them! It was a chocolate cake, so it was well worth the money spent for it.

During this party I invited family and friends - mostly from my college days - for a night of laughs and company; a welcome invitation from the life of bumming around waiting for work to start or something for me and my blockmates. It was a sight to see them, after all~

Work Around the Corner

So I just came from Makati about an hour and a half ago; back from a contract signing, sealing my fate with Anino Games for the next 32 months, approximately. Starting May 2! :D Here's fingers crossed that things sail smoothly in that span of time and regularization comes sooner than expected.

Anyway, I tried a new way home, as suggested by my dad just before he dropped me off at TriNoma to go to Makati. A P36 bus ride from Ayala to Fairview. The clincher was that it was just one ride compared to my usual MRT-Jeep route, plus it was air-conditioned! Who could say no to that really? xD

Of course, since I took the MRT rout going to Makati, I passed by SM Makati and more so the ever-familiar Toy Kingdom with the Gashapons. Deciding to try my luck, I ended up with a new one; Kamen Rider W's Trigger Magnum. Now it's just the Cyclone USB missing from the full set!

Hopefully next time I'll be lucky to get that one.
Fingers crossed.

Nikki Heat Novels

After knowingly digging up some information about Castle (this post), we found out that the Nikki Heat novels that Richard Castle writes in the course of the seasons was published by Hyperion to give the show more publicity. Of course, while the author remains as Richard Castle, the books were penned by a ghost writer to retain the scope of the show. Much as luck would have it, I wanted to get my hands on these books and have an excuse to read something on paper than on screen, just to give my eyes the needed rest from staring into my iTouch the rest of the time. And didn't luck shine down on me when we passed by Fully Booked after our eventful afternoon of visiting churches did I find these two in the shelves and in stock. Sadly, the third book, Heat Rises, wasn't part of it, but I'd settle for these to keep me happy and preoccupied.