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A day in the Market

It is the 2nd day of September. I was awakened by the loud music from our neighbor. Jose Mari Chan's music and Mariah Carey's can be heard from everywhere, lol! Christmas is in the air. We can also feel the cold breeze of Christmas, or am I just imagining things, lol! I have nothing much to do, seems like each day is always the same since the pandemic started. Same old, same old, that's what I always say. After doing my morning routines, my husband and I decided to go to the market for our food for today and for our pets as well. Having many pets is no joke. Oh my gosh, their expenses are much larger than ours. But there's nothing we can do since no one wants to adopt them. And I cannot just throw them away, no, I can never do that. They are my babies. Going to the market stresses me out. I mean, "people social distancing please!". Some of them are not even wearing face masks, tsk. And then they will blame the government for not doing everything to eradicate the Covid19 virus. I went first to the fish section because I am planning to cook "**ginataang tulingan**". But if ever there is no Tulingan, we will have chicken instead but luckily found one. I bought 1 ⅓ kg for 250 pesos or $5. Enough viand for us 'til dinner. I saw shrimps and prawns everywhere. This is a normal sight here in our market actually, after all our city is the Seafood Capital of the Philippines. I asked the vendors if I could take a photo of it and they said yes, so let me flaunt some of what I have captured.

`See how huge these prawns are? Perfect for tempura and buttered shrimp, right? I forgot to ask how much was it. But normally, the price would range from 600 pesos per kilo.`

These smaller shrimps are more affordable than prawns. The price would start from 100 pesos to 300 pesos.

Here come the seashells! To be honest I seldom cook seashells so I don't know their names specifically. The only shell that I know from these groups is the mussels. The price starts from 50 pesos per pile. Then, I went to my favorite bakeshop because my daughter is bugging me to buy her favorite bread. The super cheesy ensaymada and the binangkal.

I miss this "binangkal, the last time that I had this was ages ago so I immediately buy this. Then the lady gave me a Loyalty Card because I am a regular customer. She said that I'll have free bread worth 100 pesos after 10 consecutive purchases worth 50 pesos from their bakeshop. Free bread, yay!

After getting all we need, we went home and I prepare our viand. 5 pieces of medium-sized Tulingan is enough until dinner. I cooked it with coconut milk and put some pechay or bok choy, and here it is,

`My diet was ruined because of this, lol!` After writing this article, I will do my laundry and later on, we will go to the cemetery to visit my late mother-in-law's tomb because it is her birthday today. And then on September 15 is her death anniversary, so we will have a simple celebration on that day. **That's how my day so far. How's yours?** `I don't think that a plagiarism checker is needed in this article because this is how my day so far. Unless, someone did the same thing as me, LOL!` Date Published : September 2, 2021

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