03.23.2009

today is the last day of my 4 days off from work. i spent the first part of the morning paying my brother's real estate tax at the City Hall. i was impressed that the process went smoothly, i was done in less than an hour. i was amazed at how "pretty" the City Hall has become. since i was already in the area and i got a good parking, i seized the opportunity of visiting the Sto. Niño and lighting candles for Him. i also took pictures of the pilgrim center and the Magellan's cross as well as the City Hall. i was one of the tourists there this morning. it felt good being there without having to leave immediately.

i went to SM with mom and cousin, Bing around noontime. as much as i wanted to grab new clothes for me, there were no pretty plus-sized pieces. frustrating! and since i was (and still am) not over my disappointment over the disapproval of my leave application, i got myself three books from my to-read list: snow flower and the secret fan by lisa see; three cups of tea by greg mortenson & david oliver relin and nights in rodanthe by nicholas sparks. would have wanted to include the lucky one but it was out-of-stock.

the 'main highlight' of the day is the sale of M's white Honda Civic as fast as a blink of an eye. my ex-officemate at the bank mentioned to me last friday that somebody was interested to see the car but i was too busy to bring it to him. today, he asked again and M said he will take care of it because i was busy. they met at the bank's parking area and i was so surprised when he got home at 4 PM with the buyer in tow :) the buyer liked the car and paid him right there and then. i still couldn't believe it all happened so fast but as M would say, we have already decided to sell it since last year and there's no point in holding on to it now that we found a buyer. you might be wondering why we wanted to sell his car. it's part of our anti-global crisis measures :) seriously, we all believe it's quite impractical already to be maintaining two cars when both M and i drive just within the city, our offices are even at the same area. with the proceeds of the sale of the car, i can now pay all my credit card dues and start anew :).

that's all. i just wanted to "document" this day, the day we said goodbye to GLV 272.