Time with Joel

• Joel invited me to watch Despicable Me 2 with him at SM Calamba. Since he was on his way home from Quezon City this afternoon, we agreed to meet at SM Calamba. Joel arrived there first (about 5pm) and bought our movie tickets straightaway. When I arrived some forty minutes later, we walked around while filling each other in on our latest undertakings, among others (how he's "single" again at work, my studies, the latest in mobile technology, that I should get a bone scan, etc.) before settling to eat dinner at Pizza Hut. 
• We caught the 8:15 showing.  The movie was not as despicable as the first but was definitely much more hilarious! (I now wonder what Roger Eber would have thought of it.)  While we were not too keen on watching it in 3D, it turned out that an animated movie in 3D was a much better experience than a live action film in 3D.
• Today was also my first time to drive by myself to SM Calamba! The drive was as expected: smooth sailing until Pansol where traffic slowed down but at least was moving. What I didn't expect was that it would take forty minutes to get through unusually heavy traffic for the remaining kilometer to kilometer. (Joel was the one who drove home afterwards.)