iphone pics of the week..and the Pamela Wan saga

if i want to remember what i did for the past few days, i get a reminder thru the pics on my iphone..

the photos on our phone are swatches of what happened during the week, as theyre the easiest and handiest photographic tool one is carrying these days.

i wanted to organise what i did this week, but i was thrown off by the anniversary date, in between events that happened before and after that.thank goodness from phone cameras, most especially, big storage in phones.


here are some photos from the phone (interspersed with photos from my Dinky Niki phone)..





ebi katsu from Wagamama meal Adrian and i enjoyed over last weekend..(iphone)



and the yummy chcken katsu curry...(iphone)






coming out of the resto/wagamamaplace, this was the lakeside 's array of restaurants.. (Nikon coolpix)




a view of how busy a weekend meal could mean...(Nikon coolpix)



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also, i did a make up job this week, for a friend of mine.She is the mother of the bride.

she was quite happy with her make-up..For someone who doesnt wear make up, she asked me to have look that will look fresh and stay the whole afternoon til the wee hours of the morning.






(iphone)



(iphone)




(iphone)


Lisa was so happy most of all, because of her eyerows. She didnt know anyone who could draw her eyebrows the way she wanted it. She has barely there/to none eyebrows as its very thin and the colour is so fair. I had to literally draw eyebrows over and above the original one, to lift out her eyes. Yes, ladies, age is not kind to us..No matter how beautiful our features are, gravity gets to us, and it sucks..Thank you Lord for make-up.


The photo was done hours before the wedding as i had a prior engagement on the same day.


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and then on friday, a late lunch with Bing. a filipina friend, my first ever filipina friend, when i moved to england, and who is just like my second mother. we had to squeeze a lunch meet-up because she was turning a year older this Thursday (12th) but i wont be able to see her.


We had lunch at Las Iguanas..we ordered the same exact food Ana and i ordered when the sis was here to visit me. I didnt take a photo of Bings and mine's lunch, but here's a phonecam photo of Ana and mine's lunch in May at Las Iguanas..




it was my birthday treat to a friend who is much like family to me. and we hardly see one another considering were just a few blocks away from eachother. we had to schedule meeting one another..




(iphone)

here's Bing during the ice cream dessert. This was her treat for me, and who am i to say No to ice cream?





(iphone)


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And last night, a birthday party for Glen and Lionel at the local TGIF.

Lionel who's office is in Brussels likes TGIF for some reason (there must be no TGIF in Brussels,haha), requested to have the dinner there.


So off we went last night.





(Nikon coolpix)



(Nikon coolpix)

Heres the two..




both had birthdays together..one was the day before, one was the same exact date we celebrated.
both are South Africans..and gosh theyre like family to us..


after desserts we proceeded to more drinking and karaoke at Cheryl's house.




this is a photo of Cheryl, Pamela, and Glen, saying goodbye to us.. it was around 3AM. they were about to sing (and dance) the song Pamela Wan to me as a goodbye song. (i know theyre the craziest and funniest bunch..South Africans are the best party animals there are).


At the karaoke:

They asked me to sing the song Pamela Wan. They love it even if they cant read the lyrics nor sing it. They just loved that song because it has the name Pamela on it, which is Pam's complete name.

The whole night of the karaoke, they kept asking me to sing Filipino songs, but most Filipino songs i know are in english which they felt cheated about,haha. (it made me realise, for a Filipino, im so bad, not knowing Tagalog songs much. note to self: learn more tagalog songs).


History of the Pamela Wan song: when my sister Ana visited last time, they also invited us to a karaoke party. (their karaoke machine was a gift from adrian and I from the Phils,haha). As we have turns to sing, their daughter Yentl chose to sing the Pamela Wan song to all the South African guests delight..Ana and i laughed because the daughter couldn't sing it properly,and it was weird why she was singing a filipino song.

When Ana helped her/Yentl to sing it, they asked to repeat the song for Ana to sing properly. Ana became the hero in their eyes at that instant, as they all wanted to learn the song, because everytime their whole family are together, they try to sing the song, but they dont know how.


So Ana taught them the tune, and how to pronounce the words.

How easy to make these people happy.


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Last night they kept wishing Ana was there to sing it properly for them..I wished that too,LOL.


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i tried singing it last night, they all loved it..even if i half guessed the tune as when that song came out in the Philippines, i was already living in the UK. i only (barely) learned the tune from Ana.


i wanted to post the video of them singing the song as a goodbye, but im so embarassed as my voice was trying to coach in the background as well. its a sound for distress i must say,haha.



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In exchange, these South African friends of ours are also happy that we love the song we heard played on Pam's ipod one barbeque evening we attended at their house.


we loved it too much that we decided to learn the lyrics from them, and sing and dance to it.

their faces laughing but beaming with happiness that we love a SA song.

its a song called "Los Lappie"

here's the clip..






Ana and i loved it..but obviously, they were laughing because apparently it has a rude meaning. it means loose women/men,hahaha..


who knew South African-Filipino music exchange will be between rude, or crappy music, yet end up satisfying to both parties?

world peace.


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Good night my dearest los lappies..xxx

from: Pamela Wan