How I lost my...

... neice and nephew at G4 the other day.

After shopping with the kids at SM, we were en route to Patient's First to rejoin my sis, bro-in-law and Ciscoboo to grab a quick snack and more shopping. I was supposed to buy Ciscoboo's doctor a box of cinnamon rolls at St. Cinnamon.

Before turning left to St. Cinnamon, Nino let go of my hand and I asked Aina to go after him, it was only a matter of seconds and I was standing at the St. Cinnamon counter, then I looked back and horror of all horrors the 2 kids were not behind me.

It was just my unlucky day that Ayala Center extended their Midnight Madness (or should I say midday madness) sale so there was a throng of people everywhere. I decided to stay put outside St. Cinnamon in case the kids backtracked. Fortunately no one else was with me to take my picture, for sure I must have looked foolish.. like a chicken with its head cut off, pacing the hallways and trying to look for 2 kids in the crowd.

What made matters worse was I left my cellphone at the car, my bro-in-law was driving and I don't even know where he parked. There goes Murphy's Law again!!! I wanted to hurl myself from the 2nd floor to the G4 fountain to save their mother and their grandparents the task of killing me for losing not 1 but 2 frigging kids!

Fortunately, this was the 3rd time that Aina got lost, she knew better and approached a guard. Funny when you realize that there are hardly any guards in sight when you need them.

Fast forward 15-20 mins later, we were reunited at the customer service desk at the ground floor. I was so relieved! Ainah was ashen and silent, I was terrified that she was traumatized by the experience. Nino who's only 3 years old was simply oblivious of the situation and declared he was hungry. To usuage my guilt and conscience and lower my blood pressure we had snacks at St. Cinnamon. Boy will I ever forget St. Cinnamon now??? Nevah!

Finally we trooped back to Patient's First to await my other sister's wrath for not answering her text messages, calls and worrying her into thinking of bleak and unfortunate scenarios of what happened to us from hold-up, kidnapping and what not. To make matters worse, my parents who are in the middle of nowhere in India are up to date of the sitution, within a few minutes my dad was yelling at me long distance.

Now... if only I can keep this incident from the kids' parents.

My first...

... post! Yay! I wonder if it's high maintenance? Hope not, else it'll be kaput, nada, pfft.

Well don't hold your breath waiting for the next... it will come... I hope... not a long time coming.

Better get back to "Scrubs" season 3 marathon.

Ciao!