Last Minute Preparations for Media Noche - Dec 29 and 30 , 2007

My mother does not practice gathering 13 fruits for media noche. But she does believe in having round fruits and some sweets every new year. I was able to watch TV patrol for the past few days and there was a feng shui expert who said that some shrimps, squid, and steamed fish must be included in the media noche meal for good luck and good health. My mother was only able to buy shrimp when she went to bankerohan wet market since the squid and fish were very expensive.

So on that Saturday afternoon, we went to SM to buy ingredients for spaghetti, and some fruits. We used the gift check of my sister. We prefer to buy grapes at SM coz you are free to taste. Unlimited taste test! hahahaha! It was shocking to see how the fruits were prized. Imagine a dole pineapple (a very small one) priced at P54 pesos! whoooaaa!! of course we did not purchase that pineapple and preferred to buy one at Agdao public market the following day. At least we found a good priced squid at SM. The fish we also had to buy at the wet market the following day.

Early sunday morning my mom and I went to Agdao public market to buy fish which we will steam for New year. We had to settle for the Lapu2x which costs a whooping P250/kl. I told my mom its ok its New year anyway and we only eat Lapu2x once in a blue moon. hehehehe... and i volunteered to shoulder the expenses for the squid and fish anyway.