Birthday feasts galore

Today is the birthday of both my mom and my boss at work. And with it came the requisite birthday blowouts.

First, yesterday my mom treated some former officemates to catered lunch at her office. As a result we now have container of buko salad (pandan gulaman with buko strips and nata de coco) in our freezer. Thankfully it's just a small container because I'm not exactly fond of artificially flavored and artificially colored (bright green!) gulaman and buko salad. Apparently her former colleagues gifted my mom with a fruit basket as well; it's now sitting on counter in the pass-through between our dining room and kitchen.

Then just today, my boss treated all of us at the office to a merienda which for me was more like an early heavy dinner. There was spaghetti (the sweet Filipino style with hotdog which I rather detest but never mind, it was something to eat), lumpiang shanghai, some kind of BLT sandwich and three-layered cake! Boy was I so stuffed this afternoon that I didn't need to eat anything for supper this evening.

I also found out that my mom also treated former officemates at her other office to merienda today. She had bam-i, pork and chicken barbecue and brownies. I have yet to find out if there are leftovers of that blowout in our fridge.

Then for our own little celebration here at home, I bought a cappuccino mousse chocolate roll to bring home only to find some of my mom's friends had also bought her a cake from a local bakery. (Good thing I didn't anymore buy ice cream to eat along with the roll!) Except that it was pandan flavored with yema filling. And after having a slice myself to try, I decided that pandan should never be used as a flavoring for cake or icing. It simply doesn't go. And the yema made it too sickly sweet. Ah well, I managed to get rid of the taste by having a small square of dark chocolate.

But anyway, here I am, still feeling filled to the brim and ready to go to bed. Burp! Excuse me...