My Year Ending Post.

[Okay, so I totally ripped off the title from Elwin's blog entry. HAHA.]

I rushed to Fooda to buy ingredients for Black Sambo dessert. I somehow kept calling it Black Samba. The grocery was packed and the lines were long, I see a lot of people were doing last minute errands as well. My sister and I finished surprisingly quick though. Thank God. 

So while waiting for my mother last night to finish bonding with her friends, my dad, sister, and I were at Starbucks. I was scanning through Foodie Mag, the cookbook magazine and took photos of some ingredients. Culinary has always been close to my heart. I remember watching Rachel Ray's cooking show and others of the like. I remember buying the cute orange apron, that wooden chopping board, and taking a baking session at Caro and Marie. If only we had a better kitchen. Anyways, so I thought of making Elwin something for New Year. :)

I researched online the ingredients for Black Samba but mom said she had her own. It took time before she found it so we were able to go purchase the ingredients at around 3:30pm. Elwin was already on his way to our house. By the time he got to our house, I was done with one layer. But I messed it up! I didn't used hot water. Thankfully we had spare ingredients so I had to start over. 

Elwin made Mango Float and he brought over some to our place. It was the best tasting one, no kid. :D Even Holly commended his Mango Float. I was still going nuts over trying to make the Black Samba work. I told Elwin to tell his family we just bought it, in case it tasted bad. 

Mom said it was like we were exchanging gifts, him with his Mango Float and me with my Black Samba. My Black Samba however was far from perfect. The taste of his Mango Float was delectable. 

So I'm thankful Elwin had dinner over at our place with my dad, mom, sister, and three aunts (goco, saco, laku). I couldn't imagine any better way of spending our last dinner for the year 2009. 

2009 was full of ups and downs. I enrolled in three different Universities for this year, took and entrance exam 4 times, went out and open to my family about my relationship with Elwin, had Phoebe as an addition to our family and keep Miggy company, met up with old friends (elementary and high school), and faced new challenges like enrolling without my dad and going around downtown on my own. So I guessed I can say I'm a bit more independent than I used to be. I'm not fully there yet, but I'm surely getting their.

Cheers to 2009, for the blessings, the challenges, the friends, family, dramas, and all others. 

Let's usher in 2010 with a big smile on or face, a heart full of love and hope, and with the belief that things will only get better. God has a lot of great plans for each of us this 2010, I believe. 

Thankful for 2009 and all the more for the coming 2010,

-pringles08

PS: I still have post/late blog entries to put up.