I am without a fridge for more than a week now. I had to throw out a LOT of food and the frozen goods that thawed had to be transferred to my mom’s house to be cooked.

It took a week before the Panasonic Service Center in my hometown to pull out my fridge. And it will take another week for them to bring it back for PHP 7,300.

I can’t cook because I have no food except for canned stuff and instant noodles. If I cook, there should be no leftovers. I had to throw away leftover rice.

What I have are eggs and Chinese buns. I cooked them on the steamer that my older sister handed down to me. She received this as a gift or won it at a Christmas raffle and had been stuck with her for two years because she doesn’t cook.

So I made steamed eggs. I didn’t have spring onions with me because I had thrown out all my vegetables so I had to do without. Twin I and I liked them that she ate it with rice.

Hmm, I can make steamed fish in ginger and soy sauce.

Twin I said she can’t wait for the fridge to come back because she misses my cooking. ❤️ She is so done with food deliveries.

This is the first bankers night at the central bank that I didn’t take photos of. The first in the 19 years I’ve been attending this annual event, except of course duringthe pandemic years of 2020 and 2021.

Why is that? I don’t know. The people that I had been fond of are no longer attending because they have moved on from their former roles, or they have moved on from this plane. Maybe I was just too busy chatting with people.

I saw journo friends and many of us stayed behind after the bankers have left. We were the ones left eating the excellent wrapped spicy sisig, lechon, roastbeef in pan de sal… The caterer was CIBO and I say Margarita Fores delivered. 👌

One good TV reporter friend of mine, GDP, and I exchanged gifts at the parking area. I gave him the 1001 song book I found in Booksale and the Gold Roast coffee I brought from Singapore. For some reason friends and family like Gold Roast so the last time I got home from SG, half of my luggage was coffee and milk tea. 🤷🏻‍♀️

GDP in exchange, gave me this from his family’s trip in S. Korea:

I guess I would have to start dabbling in watercolors again. 🙃