Forgive me for my lack of posts. I've been nursing a sore tongue—no, not from too much gossiping, but from too much Golden Spoon.

When I like something I tend to eat it everyday until I get sawa.
Like I ate KFC for four years straight everyday in the '80s. And then for years I couldn't eat that anymore.
So after the fifth day of Golden Spoon I felt a sore spot on the left side of my tongue. That was my signal to stop, because apparently
too much sugar causes yeast infection on the tongue and makes it sore.
The solution is to take Vitamin B and stay away from sugar for a while.
So while I'm having this annoying painful tongue, I've been in a bad mood.
Bad mood = no posts.
Ben didn't want me to go to Hong Kong with Cedric.
I tried all sorts of bribes, including the biggest Playmobil, but no dice. Finally on Sunday he agreed on the bribe of a hedgehog, just like his cousin Yogi has.
After lunch we drove to Cartimar to look at the selection. The hedgehogs really grossed me out, tell you frankly.
Markus wanted a monkey, which also grossed me out. They look so kawawa.
Ben pointed to some chicks, which we've raised before until they some of them started laying eggs and some became roosters and started waking up the neighbors at 4 AM.
We received a memo from the Village asking us to get rid of the farm animals.
I convinced Ben to settle for a couple of hamsters by showing him the lovely hamsters homes they were selling.
We got two hamsters, a house, food supply, two small sacks of "hay" and a spare water bottle for the nice price of Php 900.

That night I had dinner with some cousins who had just come back from Palawan.
My niece Amanda, 8, picked out 16 hermit crabs from the beach and brought them home in a Cup o' Noodle.
Over dinner I convinced Amanda to give me eight hermit crabs for my boys, in exchange for eight Hello Kitties from Hong Kong (another bribe).

The boys were ecstatic. They now had two hamsters and eight crabs, plus one fighting fish from a children's party.
Problem was, the hermit crabs had no food. Today we went to Megamall to look, after pigging out at Mann Hann.
The pet shop on the basement had none. I was about to give up, but on the way to the department store, we happened to pass by a glass cabinet vendor selling funny dry aquariums, and I was thinking, how odd, right next to the pet shop.

I asked the girl behind the cabinet quite randomly, would you happen to have hermit crab food?
Why, yes.
What the??
I am never this lucky. What do you know, it turned out to be a store called Lucky Hermits, right in front of Comic Quest at Basement A.

They sell hermit crabs from Php 150 up. The biggest one was bigger than my hand, I almost vomited my Mann Hann.

The boys took home one hermit crab each, whose shells were painted like Spiderman and Pokemon, plus food pellets.
We bought extra shells at the Filipiniana section of SM department store to decorate the aquarium. Some of the shells serve as food and water containers, while some can be extra homes for the crabs, in case they grow and want to move.
As of this evening, the Pokemon crab moved into a more traditional brown and white striped shell.
While I'm normally grossed out by any creepy crawler, this one was quite fascinating to watch.