As you all know I turned 27 yesterday. While this isn't exactly the life I imagined to have 10 years ago, I am glad it did not work the way I imagined it. I imagined myself working in a magazine, some fancy corporate job, and in a stable relationship with a corporate dude looking crisp in his dapper. But life led to a direction I did not see coming.
Not only am I in a stable relationship, but I am in a marriage bursting with so much love, patience, and joy. Instead, I married to a low-key, hard working dude from high school. He may not be wearing dapper clothes, but I still get kilig when I see him wear his white coat. My husband makes "happily married" an understatement. And our kids? They are absolutely the icing, sprinkles, ganache of the cake.
As for work, I am not a corporate slave, instead, I am a work at home momma where I work in my classic pambahay and ligo is negotiable. heehee!
This year, I decided to spend my day with my husband. No kids, no mommy, just me and Tatay. As you all know my husband is the classic macho filipino husband and is not romantic. But I found it sweet of him that he moved his duty so we can celebrate my birthday on the exact day anniversary of my birth.
On my 27th birthday, I was looking forward to start my day that I woke up at 7am to play and spend my morning with the girls. I had to shorten my working hours so I can give them a nice shower, and spend the morning giving each of them lots of hugs and kisses. I know they'd be looking for me all day, so I thought i'd give them baon.
First on our itinerary, we picked up our passport at Reli Travel and Tours at Dusit Thani Hotel. The travel agency who arranged our visa for Japan.
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| SINGLE ENTRY GRANTED! WOOOHOOO! :) |
After getting our passport, we headed to The Medical City to visit families who are currently admitted there. We had lunch, made kwento etc. I realized how lucky I am that I am married to my husband who is part of a big family, and that makes me a part of it too.They are a sister, brother, tita, tito, cousin to my husband as they are to me. You see, I don't have this. This big, extended, family thing. Big christmas parties, birthday parties with all your cousins gathered together and tita consistently making chika and all. I am glad that the Recio family welcomed me, and made me a part of theirs. God truly is amazing, he gave me cousins and tita's in the form of Jaggy's extended family.
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| Lunching with Tatay's cousin at TMC. |
Tatay and I went to Megamall as we originally planned and had my hair colored at Bangs Prime Salon, the Sister company of Tony and Jackys Korean Salon. I always wanted to try their services but was always hesitant to spend so much for my hair. The last time I had my hair done was Danny's baptism.
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| Waiting time! :) |
And wow, no wonder why they call it prime. I always had my hair done at Davids Salon, Lipa and the service is so so. But I was very unhappy with my recent hair color with them that made me decide to finally make the switch. My kuripot husband is very supportive when it comes to my arte in life that he insisted to pay for it as birthday gift.
THE DIFFERENCE IS UNDENIABLE. My husband hates it when I pay more rather than get it cheap. But I've experienced, that paying more for services means more too. The same is the case with this. In Davids, they apply it once and after 30 minutes you are done. The color was barely visible, and worse it was not even! As I recall, sana nag DIY na lang ako sa bahay. :/
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| DECEMBER 8 2016 Bad coloring from Davids. :/ |
In this Korean Salon, they applied the color 3x! It was done meticously, and carefully done by professionals. Even during haircut, they took their time and did not rush. I think the hair color and haircut lasted for not more than 3 hours. It may be more expensive than I usually pay for but it is definitely value for money. More importantly they did not harass me to avail this and that bla bla bakit dry ang hair mo day! Nope, I nicely declined and offered no more.
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| Service is nice, even the Korean Satylist who was masungit at first was friendly. |
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| They were able to achieve the hair colored I liked, and ITS EVEN! |
Lastly, tatay and I had dinner in Sambokojin for unlimited Jap food. Luckily, that day, we did not break the bank. Since it was my birthday, I got to eat for free! We ended up paying P888 for unlimited Jap food for two! The kuripots won again! :)
I was happy I spent my day with my husband. I learned to appreciate how much he does for me, and giving our marriage priority. The time away from my kids gave me a better perspective of how life has been for me. It was a difficult process getting to where I am today. Battling undiagnosed anxiety, depression and being labelled as "masama ugali", "difficult" when it was a call for help. But when I had my kids, slowly it went kaput. Jaggy were with me from start to end and is still here with me today. If he had not sticked with me, we would not be this happy. Hopefully he does not read this, but this guy right here made all the difference.
At 27, I have fewer friends. I can count with only one hand. But they are good as family to me. I know that they will not mock my weakness, laught at my flaws, and does what they can not to miss any milestone in my life. At 27, I have 3 kids and ridicously happy with my marriage. At 27, for the first time in my life I have savings. At 27, I realized it is more important to to give than to receive. At 27, there is absolutely nothing that I could possibly ask for. At 27, I may be fat and all, but I have every reason to be thankful.
