Counting

it was tonee who gave me the idea of collecting the starbucks city and country mugs. quite challenging yet interesting on how i will get these from the different cities around the world. as of today, i have 18! not bad.. i will keep counting :-)

may 2008. my trip with tonee and jen to macau and hongkong

may 2008. overnight stay in hongkong

august 2008. tonee's indonesia tour

september 2008. pilita's trip to sg

october 2008. from joni's 2-week vacation in london

november 2008. from my analysis and controls teammates' first south korea tour

november 2008. birthday gift from lirio, kuya archie and asaph

december 2008. i received from our exchange gift plus a tumbler!

december 2008. from deanna (yearly, her family is spending christmas and new year in tagaytay)

last year, my family had the christmas and new year brekky using the city mugs. our own little way of saying "cheers to the past year and to the upcoming new year!!"

june 2009. from cesar's first out of town trip in aussie

august 2009. from auntie tita (kuya celebrated his birthday in vegas)

august 2009. pasalubong from auntie tina

september 2009. gift from kuya milo and ate mary

september 2009. overnight stay at manor hotel, camp john hay

september 2009. cesar's comeback trip to melb

september 2009. gift from gian, also a city mug collector (exchanged kami! i gave him the manila and phil little mugs)

october 2009. from tonee's second visit to south korea

i'm expecting three more mugs this december. lirio promised to give me the new manila city mug as a birthday and christmas gift. yey! then i will ask again jen to buy me the new tagaytay mug. lately i was told that there's already a city mug in pampanga. i know nanette, my college barkada, will spend the holidays with her family in magalang. papabili ako of course!

excited na ko for more city mugs next year! anu ano kaya madadagdag?? let's see :-)