Monday, April 30, 2012

Bday Preps #1

Yes, our little one is turning 1 already in exactly 1 month and 4 weeks as our ticker says. (found at the right sidebar).

A and I decided that we will just make it simple. A party in a regular fast food store will suffice since Jared still don't know how to enjoy his own party. We are only targeting 100 pax (adults and kids combined).

So, before the sun sets in today, I started to inquire in the nearest fast food (the happy bee) in our place. I checked on the available themes to choose from and there are only 3 options. I learned that the minimum booking is 30 pax. We can bring cake of our choice but should NOT be the brand of their direct competition. Cake from not-so-commercial bakeshop will do but it's a Big No to eat the cake during the party. It's only for candle blowing and picture taking purpose. Well, this is acceptable since they avoid being blamed for food poisoning issues and if such thing happens, the only culprit will be the food served from their store and nothing else.

There are 4 Food Packages to choose from, well, technically 5 since the other one is Build-Your-Own-Menu.
From the packages, I can sense that we might will go for Package 5 (Build Your Own).

I could say, it's a blessing in disguise that we were not able to book for a face painter because the store does not allow it. They only allow Videographers and Photobooth. And it will cost us additional 200/hour for electricity for our Photo booth. Yes! We are having Photo booth too for Jared's birthday. hehehe. Similar to our wedding, Photo booth pictures will serve as souvenirs for his party. Actually, the Photo booth was the first supplier booking we had in preparation for Jared's 1st Birthday. We booked it last year pa! hahaha. (Adik lang mga parents pagdating sa photos. :P )

Ok, as the Q & A portion went on, I was surprised that it will really cost me almost 19K for 100 pax. Complete Birthday Package na ito.
  • Food
  • Party Fee (Misc) - Mascot with 30 mins appearance, guestbook, crayons, balloons (ceiling displays)
  • Party Add-Ons (Party hats, party liners or the paper placements, 30 pcs. balloons (P12/pc for add ons)
  • Special Loot Bags (P50/pc) - The Standard is P25, Premium is P80
  • Cake - Only small and regular size available. Regular size is 900.
So If our guests will exceed 100 (I'm sure it will) then we will be over 20K budget! Waaahhh!!! Kami na lang kayang 3 magcelebrate. hahaha.

If we are to book with the happy bee, then my choice of having a themed cake like on his baptismal will never be possible anymore since they don't allow it. No famous characters or brandings allowed like mickey mouse, barney, ben10, etc. If we are to insist to bring in our cakes, the general designs will be acceptable. Hmm....ayos na rin....we can have a 12 x 8 in cake at 900 only. Tipid! :P

Well...this is just my initial inquiry. Will ask the pizza store nearest our place maybe this weekend. As for the the other happy clown store, the nearest is in Market Market, while the nearest chicken store is in Fort.

On this preparations, I will have to remind myself again and again of our Goal. Just a SIMPLE birthday celebration.

Let go of the nice and fancy loot bags.
Let go of the clowns.
Let go of the face painter
Let go of the party carts.
Let go of the balloon toy making.
Let go of catering service.
Let go of the professional photographer and videographer.

Hahaha...so far, I'm on track. (Can someone give me a pat on my back pls.)

Again, the photo booth is already booked so that's not counted as "Kaartehan". :P

More update on next posts.

Need to sleep for now.





Sunday, April 15, 2012

Ooopsss! I was tagged!

Ok. I confessed, I've been too lazy too tired to write even a short update on this blog for more than a month now. All I can do nowadays is to post some tweets, check out FB, link my tweets to FB, took some photos and post it on instagram. Blog hopping and blog reading will be of lesser priority if I still have an extra time or two to spend...like now...before hitting the bed.

And so because of me blog hopping, I found out that I was tagged by N@wie friend, Micah.
As a sign of gratitude, (number 1 pa naman ako! :P) Let me do my part.

Here are the rules of this game:

1. You must post the rules.
2. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post and then create eleven new questions to ask the people you’ve tagged.
3. Tag eleven people and link to them on your post.
4. Let them know you’ve tagged them!

To answer Micah's questions:

1. What scares you the most and why?
Death of someone that I dearly love. I can't simply think of it. Ok stop na.

2. What do you do in your free time?
Surf the net. Play with my baby.

3. Do you like chocolate?
Super dooper to the highest max!!! :D

4. You can have one of the following two things: trust/love?
Trust. It's harder to trust than to love likewise more harder to win trust than love.

5. If you could do anything OR wish for anything that would come true, what would you wish?
Salvation for my whole household.

6. What was the last thing you ate?
Longanisa + Sinangag

7. Which is your favorite body part of the human body and why?
Hmmm....no favorite. But I like to look at human eyes, teeth (especially beautiful set of teeth), hands.
Why? Eyes - window to the soul; teeth - makes a good smile; hands - tool for creation.

8. What makes you bored?
Idleness.

9. How often do you go online? and why?
Almost everyday because I need to, I have to and I want to.

10. When was the last time you lied and to whom and why?
Today. To my hubby. Told him it will only take 15mins for me to blog this and then I will sleep, but I guess, i'm going to take more than 15mins. :P


11. Tell me about someone you really admire.
I admire Jerry Yan. Ultimate crush ko. :P
I admire Ninang Net. She's an amazing woman of God.
I admire Ptr. Joey Bonifacio. His passion for being a worker of God is truly something so remarkably adorable.


Now, Here's my questions.

1. Why do you blog?
2. How do you view yourself 5 years from now?
3. What pisses you off?
4. What is your most wildest dream?
5. If you only have 24 hours to live, how will you spend it?
6. Think of 3 persons you hate/hated or angry with. (no need to name them) Why do you hate him/her / Why are you angry at him/her?
7. Do you have the balls to say "Sorry, I was mad at you. Can you forgive me for hating you?" to the 3 persons you thought of in no. 6?
8. Can you totally admit that you are indeed happy and contented with your life now? Why yes/no?
9. Do you know love Jesus?
10. How do you show that you love Jesus?
11. What can you say about Romans 6:23 and John 3:16?


The people I tagged:

1. You - that read this blog. I challenge you. :P
2. Micah
3. Suyen
4. Giday
5. Nani
6. Mei
7. Khim
8. Mae
9. Mar
10. Annaley
11. Ayen

Saturday, April 14, 2012

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