Jeremy's baptism last Jan. 21

Here's an overdue post about Jeremy's baptism that was held last January 21, 2007 at Santuario de San Antonio Church. It was a very busy day. I fixed Tito Ralf's laptop from early afternoon til around 3PM. Then my desktop's monitor suddenly conked out on me. ~_~ I was very pissed and sad... But it got replaced right away when my mom called one of our tenants (who sell antique and other old goods) if we could borrow the monitor of the pc set they're selling. They said yeah and they eventually agreed on selling just the monitor to us. I'm finally using a 17" monitor. It's still CRT. I'll buy a flat screen next time. I ain't planning on buying one soon because, first, I have to wait til this semi-new monitor breaks and, second, I'm okay with the widescreen laptop I use. ^_~

I thought my troubles that day would end there. I had to continuously fix the position of this heavy monitor as well as check the reformatting-then-installation-of-WindowsXP in Tito Ralf's laptop. I got to start fixing myself by 4PM when we were supposed to leave by 4:30PM. My dad got mad because we got stuck in traffic here in our barangay due to the fiesta. They blocked the streets because of the events. Whatever they were. I only watched one or two events before and that was way, way years ago. We got to the church 30 minutes late. At first, we went to the wrong church. It was actually a chapel. There was a funeral even. My brother and I were like, "What the-" We went back to the car. We told our parents that we were in the wrong place. ~_~

They already started when we got there. I didn't get to take videos using Tita Christine's videocam, but with my digicam. I got some good vids like when the water was placed on Jeremy's forehead. He didn't even cry. ^_^ Having been to other baptisms (of infants) before, Jeremy is the most behaved of them all. He only cries when you let him lie down or sit. He likes to be carried. But, damn, he's heavy. He's a BIG baby. ^^;;;

There were two choices for the main course. Fish and a 6oz Australian beef. I had the latter. ^^

These were taken during the ceremony. Most of the godmothers and godfathers are friends of Tita Christine.

In the third picture, there's this woman in between Lola and Tita Christine (third one from the left) who we don't know. I'm guessing this is the reason why Tita Christine doesn't look too happy in this picture. ^^;;; Lola invited her. That woman then brought someone along. Tito Christine and Tito Ralf weren't pleased with that. Lola also requested Tita Christine if she could make her guest/s to be godmother/s of Jeremy. If she did then they will bring gifts -- I don't know if this true though. This is what I heard. Selfish, don't you think? I look uber fat in the last two pics above. XD; If I didn't pose that way and if I didn't block out my boobies, I would have looked better. Somehow. Haha~ XD




We then headed to Red, an expensive restaurant in Shangri-La Hotel, Makati. That's where they held the reception. It's rather expensive for just a baptism, but I heard it's because when Tita Christine couldn't get her church wedding to push through and this where the wedding reception is supposed to be held, they decided to have the baptismal reception here.

Maru and I sat with Tita Sandra and her bestfriend, Eileen/Tita Eileen, while our 'rents are with Tito Tomo and Gregory.

I was surprised when they served Evian water. I imagined how much a bottle would cost. -_- I barely drank a bit of it because I had 2 iced teas and a glass of wine. The iced teas were already too much to make me full.

My mom and dad with Jeremy (the first two with Gregory too) ^_^ The shots are blurry because they seem to have set the digicam to macro. XP