14 January 2009 @ 1pm

On a walkabout @ Taguig

I thought after nearly loosing my breath at the treadmill today that I would go for a gentle walk around Taguig. Fort Bonafacio has been here a long time and used to be one of the an army base, I think but is now fast becoming one of the CBDs and is quite a posh place to live, you could compare it to Double Bay, Northshore in Australia. Something I still have to get used to...it clean and a pretty secure area. It is still developing so there's a lot of construction going around.

I also decided to take my camera so I could actually get to know how to use the thing!

Burgos Circle (@ daytime)
This is about a 5 min walk (10 min Filipino time) from our place. It's where all the restaurants are in the area. It's quite a poshy place at night and perfect for those romantic walks during the daytime it's where the workers around the offices within the area my go to have thier lunch. One of our favourite places, where they actually make real good Wagyu steaks and Angus steaks - Melos, the owner is a FilAm Daniel who's really a nice guy :)

Mom & Dad we'll be taking you here when get here :) Al and Ness I think was one of the restaurants Rom was suppose to take you if he knew your budget...the steak melts in your mouth!!!

I met Rom, Polly and Kat here @ Coffee Bean for lunch :)

Whilst eating our lunch, because it's quite windy today, I noticed that one of the umbrellas at the front of a restaurant had been toppled over (it took about another 5 mins for a person to notice this), then I saw an amazing thing which is fairly common here in Phils. 2 Security guards, perhaps one of those attendants at a restaurant standing over and contemplating, assessing the situation about what to do with the umbrella another 2 mins passes, the attendant was acutally taking pictures of the person trying to fix the umbrella...it all it took about 10mins before the umbrella was taken away...being Australian I found this quite funny...usually as soon as something that big falls, a waiter will come out perhaps ask the assistance of another collegue and take it away...presto all done in 2mins...

So after lunch I thought I'd continue on my walkabout...

I wanted to show you the distance of Rom's work to home...see below again 5 mins walk (10 mins Filo time). Still Rom takes a trike...mind you on a hot day, wouldn't want to walk down the street anyhow, you'll be sweating by the time you get to work...for those of you who know where we are you can see our home in the horizon heehehehehehehe

I took this picture at the back of our home, it's a Frangipanni, it reminded me of my Tita Jo's and Uncle John's home in Woy Woy because they have one in thier backyard - a big tree of it :) Missing you Tita and Uncle John...

Ok tomorrow I'm going to hit High Street to practice on my camera :)