Esther's Birthday

It's Esther's birthday, and some counterparties of the International Markets Group sent some food as gifts.

Usually, counterparties send pritchon, or fried suckling pig, (Pritong Biik) to IMG birthday celebrants:

Since Esther's religion forbids her to eat pork, the counterparty sent turkey instead.

Called Pritchopabo, and available from Charlie's Pritchon, the turkey is deep fried, then sliced and wrapped in pita wedges. The sauces available are mushroom gravy, curry, cranberry and Mexican salsa. A lot of people in the dealing room liked the cranberry sauce.

Around 3pm, another counterparty sent pancit, and another sent pizza.

With all that food, I was full and felt no need to eat dinner. I was fine with the free popcorn and soda that came with the tickets for the Indiana Jones screening at Rockwell cinema.

The screening at Rockwell is around 7:25pm, which is an hour earlier than at Greenbelt, so Rey joked to Jan that he'll be texting her the plot to ruin her movie experience.

Left the office around 6pm with Rey, we picked up his wife and kid at Ayala Ave and then picked up Jon along Makati Ave before proceeding to Rockwell.

Saw someone from FID in the cinema restroom after the movie. Got a little lost in leaving Rockwell and ended up at the Bel-Air village gate where the security guards stopped us and pointed us the other way. Ha ha ha. The way they stopped us made me think the Bel-Air folk are paranoid with security. Couldn't blame them. This part of Makati is a bit scary at night.