Dinner with Dad

Nothing much happened today for the morning and afternoon. Worked passed by all the same again today.

For the evening, though, it was our time to have dinner with Dad at Wolfgang's Steakhouse in BGC High Street. My sister and I booked a Grab ride there and I slept while we were on the way. I even had a dream of talking to her while on the Grab ride, which shocked me awake once I realized it. But we got there and we tried to find some seats nearby. Since the Starbucks there was just newly opened, we went inside and ordered only juice drinks since coffee in the evening isn't conducive to sleep. We waited inside for a while, then went out when Dad said that they were close by. We saw this new bench and my sister pointed out that it had Bluetooth. Apparently, it had a Bluetooth speaker and you could play music on it, so I connected to it and it was apparently called a Kuube. I searched for it and it was apparently a bench from Hungary, which seemed fancy and it's something the Europeans would definitely come up with. Eventually, we see Dad and meet him and he also brings along his firstborn son, Zachary, with his wife after Mom.

We then just walked into Wolfgang's Steakhouse and we had no choice other than al fresco dining since the tables inside were already booked. We made a few orders, primarily a "porterhouse steak for four" and it wasn't that expensive! It was """only""" around 6,200 Pesos. It shocked me because the meat I ordered at Melos 2 years ago cost me 15,000 Pesos, and it wasn't even that big. (Although, to be fair, I had stormed out of the restaurant before even seeing it.) I also added in some oysters since it's been a while since I ate oysters.

To pass the time, we mostly talked about life stuff, I mainly showed off my work history and found out that I had a longer "short tenure" at work compared to my dad's. The shortest he's ever worked at was for 1 morning and 1 lunch period, while my shortest was for 1 year and 1 month at KVH. I was initially impressed because I had already reached far and seemed to have a good record despite dropping out, which Dad also pointed out. And eventually, our porterhouse steak arrived and it was HUGE. It was so many. I don't even think we could finish it because the meat would probably taste bland after the first few bites. We had so much of the same beef cut, we got full of it so quickly. I guess not having any side dishes also made it worse, but thankfully we were able to have our leftovers for take-out. Dad gave the waiter a 1,000 Peso tip and I saw the waiter take the bill and slam it against the restaurant's window to show off to his other coworkers. For me, he deserved it because he was eccentric but also attentive, and also funny. The other people around me didn't notice it but I did, and it made me laugh. I also tried to feed this stray cat some of the beef and it seemed that they liked it. Zachary had also been into cats the entire evening.

We went to Market! Market! so that Dad and Zachary could commute back to Laguna. It really baffled us how they didn't take a car with them here, but that's okay. Dad and I talked about future job opportunities in Australia and I told him I would be seriously considering it. He gave me a few pointers and I really thought about the opportunity. In the past, one point holding me anchored here was that I was still with someone. I was actually stupid enough to let a situationship hold me back from pursuing a career abroad, and it's something that bothered me a lot last year.

Now that I'm untethered and I'm free to make my own future, I'm seriously considering pursuing a career abroad and seeing the lengths I take myself. Zachary and Ailysh talk about their own thing which was about heartbreak or Zachary's love life. After that, we bid goodbye to them and they went back to their house in Laguna. My sister and I tried to book a ride at SM Aura, but we couldn't so we went to that Kuube bench again only to find out that it had turned itself off for the night. So we went back again inside the Starbucks and ordered some chocolate drinks because it was really late. Somehow, our same seat from earlier was still free and we sat there until the baristas had to ask us to leave since the store closes at 12 a.m. We just waited to book a ride and we eventually got a Joyride car home. We chatted with the driver and they said that they were on their way home, too, as well and our house was luckily on the same route to their house. We just chilled and talked the whole ride home and my sister gave them an additional 100 Pesos or so as a tip, which was nice. After that, we got home really late but we really enjoyed the day.