june 17, 2009: hypermarket

ever since i got married, i was so worried how we will survive. to tell you the truth, i was a bad daughter, i didn't help much around the house. my mom pampered us so much, we grew up to be tamad. hehe. excuses, excuses, but i am very thankful i have such wonderful parents. anyway, because of my katamaran, one of the skills i never learned is to cook. you see, again, it's my mom's fault! how can i learn cooking when she does it all the time? it's her passion, and she's really good at it, so why the heck would i want to intervene?

i also never learned to buy fresh produce. and i'm afraid of going to the wet market, up to now. :( if ever i plan to go to a wet market, i would need my mom! she will do all the talking and haggling and checking for freshness and all that. so until now, i do my fresh produce shopping at sm hypermarket. mom says it's more expensive there, but when i told her the prices, she said that the difference is negligible because we only buy just for the two of us. this was taken during one of our shopping trips there.

the first time i was buying beef, i remember how clueless i was. uhm, where the heck is the "sirloin"? the recipe said it needed "sirloin", but i couldn't find any at the monterey rack. hmmm... i didn't want to ask if it was called by another name, because i might sound stupid. haha. i really had a hard time, because i also wanted some beef for my nilaga but i didn't know what to get. a while ago, i had to call my mom to ask what "kalitiran" was, and if it was okay to buy it for the chili. sheesh.

anyway, i'm thankful there's sm hypermarket, because almost everything i need is there. fresh produce, dry goods, even clothes, furniture, home furnishings, its all there! not to mention the other stores like a bookstore, cd-r king (yay!), california nails and day spa, lto (yes! quite fast application here), barber, photo shop (can't remember name), express spa, watsons, office warehouse, ace hardware, ophthalmix, etc. of course, the food establishments are a plus too like a veneto (yum!), savory chicken (yum!), kitaro, icings, etc. when you get bored with the food here, you can just cross the street to tiendesitas! parking at a fixed rate of P25 is also a plus. even when hun and i didn't have a car, it was really easy getting a cab to this place and back to our place, so its really accessible. also, it's open till 11pm! woohoo! i'm very happy there's sm hypermarket 'coz i sure wouldn't survive shopping at sm supermarket in megamall. ugh.