As mentioned on my other blog, tomorrow is my sister's most awaited graduation ball. Though as much as I wanted to, I can't accompany her inside the school ground, I'd probably just do my thing with taking photos of her and her friends outside, before they enter the venue... I hope the guys will have their bow ties fixed already for the photo op and the ladies on their wonderful gowns! Can't really wait to see the final touches my sister's make up artist will do to her... can you feel my giddiness?! of course you can! I've been blogging for the nth time her graduation and our preparation for the big day, you know! This is in fact one of my parents greatest achievement, to witness their youngest daughter receive her College diploma and all :D
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
mongkok dining

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
cakes and pastries
One of my favorite subject to photograph are sugary based cakes pastries. I also got surprised to found out that there are number of those on my photo archive! Now that's literally sweet right? Anyways, as I was doing my hunt/research on affordable senior life insurance rates, I found a site that offers no sugar desserts that is made specially for the oldies and the ones who can't have too much sugar. Something I can take note of for my grand parents to try :D
Going back to cakes and pastries, let me share with you some of my favorite snaps of those! honestly, this post makes me crave for one! gotta hit the convenience store near us and see if they have a cake or anything like that available for sale! :D




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my goshness!
This can't be! my watermark action in my photoshop is not functioning! what the hell happened?! for one, I was able to use it like three days ago and was able to mark my photos so well, and two, no one is touching that program, not that the husband is not allow to use it but he opt not to click any program and softwares install on this laptop, he only uses mozilla browser. Great right? now who to run when things like these happens? no one! argh... oh God, I need my wrinkle crème now or else I'll look ten years older!
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fab vacay
My friends are already brainstorming on where to go this summer vacation. They wanted to do something unique, not the usual beach bumming thing and all. Something historic I suppose? as if time travel to the place where history was made of or something. I'll let them do all the suggesting but will for sure tell them about this fantastic Outer Banks vacation rentals that for sure they would love to try! Now that's the real example of unique and really fabulous vacation right?! Right!
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Monday, March 1, 2010
summer time!
It's summer time! And it officially starts today! well, for us it'll start on Saturday, my cousins started planning for our family get together/outing and we decided to set it on a weekday. It'll sure be a fun experience for us especially the kids, but first we need to get a bunch of joint pain supplements for the elders to take in order for them to enjoy and have fun too! you see a lot of swimming and running is up for us all so they gotta be prepared!
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Foods and Friends
How would you love to spend some good quality time with your friends over a hefty amount of delicious dishes?! Sounds great right?! Well, that's what we just had last weekend over at the latest spot craze in town for seafood feasting! it was a great and yummy experience for us who were able to stay until dinner and just lucky enough to witness the beautiful sunset of the Manila bay and a lot of side attractions too! Anyways, we made sure to take a lot of photos ( we dearly love the afternoon sun ) since the natural lighting was spectacular, we were able to strut a lot of pose with our sunnies on too! thus made us not too worried about our deark circles under eyes to be seen in the photo!
And by the way, the seafood feast was great! we were able to bring home a lot of leftovers too after :D
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Labels: food talks, friends
beach food!
Oh my goodness, can you believe it?! today is already the first day of March! how time flies isn't?! And today marks the start of months long summer time here in the country! men, expect the beaches to be filled with booties and sexy bodies! how I wish to have the guts and will power to strut a skimpy bikini on the beach, if only I wasn't thinking about my flabby tummy. Crap, need to do some real deal work out as soon as possible! well, aside from my human growth hormone treatment that I'm thinking of getting to - read: hair fall problem.
Anyways, speaking of beach and summer getaways, let me just share with you dishes that often serve and enjoyed by the bay... (photo taken during our seafood dinner last weekend)
Sauteed garlic shrimp
garlic spicy crabs
stuffed grilled squid
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Labels: sea food talks
Friday, February 19, 2010
Pasta all you can! at PenPen!

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Labels: restaurants
Saturday, February 13, 2010
our Tuesday and Wednesday
Last Tuesday and Wednesday, my friends and I had a grand time eating out, literally. We had so much food in a span of almost 38 hours! We started our meet up with coffee and ended up with another huge dose of joe - to practically keep us alive and energized.
Anyways, will post our whole lot of food trips, that of course I took snaps of! as in every dish that we had? photo shoot it was! of course, aside from all our topics that we discussed, from preparing our wedding, to reception, to photographers and how they charge now, to bpi training and other stuff that matters to us! ;D
We really had a grand time together, sans the no sleep and time to time downfall of our energy! :D
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Friday, February 5, 2010
the queen has arrived!
Hooray! today is such a happy day for us twitter friends, why? because our friend Glo has arrived from Boston (wonder if she even had to get a service from cross country movers or something)! That only means one thing... meet ups!!! woohoo! can't hardly wait for our grand get together on the 19th and 20th consecutively. But aside from that dates -Aggie, Glo and I are also set to meet on the 9th and 10th of this month also, this time a girl bonding dates it'll be, from lunch to coffee date, dinner and a girly night out at nearby comedy bar to cap off the night. And then morning after, we'll go straight to our place and have brunch and a little chitchat too. Then we'll head to Tagaytay with kids for dinner! whew. Jam packed schedules eh?! you bet! :D
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Olin's 3rd Bday Foods
Mom prepared spaghetti, grilled chicken, spring rolls, hotdogs with mallows and fruit salad. While I bought mini cakes and ice cream for the kids and the young at hearts!
So here is our table set up right before her party started... see the balloons? I made those too! pure labor of love for our little one :D

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Philippine Official Holidays
To be honest, I need to keep a holiday list of dates for the whole year so that I wouldn't forget.. and these holidays are must be remembered since it is during those times that we get to see everyone in the family... or have their ski vacations scheduled or something!
Anyways.. here are 2010 official Philippine Identified Holiday ... it'll be the dates when we will be preparing special dishes that everyone will surely enjoy!
Jan 01 - New Year’s Day
Feb 22 - People Power Revolution Anniv (Mon nearest Feb 25) **
Apr 01 - Maundy Thursday (Holy Week)
Apr 02 - Good Friday
Apr 09 - Araw ng Kagitingan
May 01 - Labor Day
Jun 14 - Independence Day (Monday nearest June 12)
Jul 27 - Iglesia ni Cristo Founding anniversary ***
Aug 23 - Ninoy Aquino Day *
Aug 30 - National Heroes Day (last Monday of August)
Nov 01 - All Saints Day (Monday) *
Nov 29 - Bonifacio Day (Monday nearest November 30)
Dec 24 - Special Non-Working Day *
Dec 25 - Christmas Day (Saturday)
Dec 27 - Rizal Day (Monday nearest December 30).
Dec 31 - Special Non-Working Day *
All are regular holidays; marked appropriately otherwise
* special non-working days are:
** a special holiday for all schools.
***special national “working holiday”
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Monday, February 1, 2010
smoothies recipes
It's the second month of the year already! how time flies so fast! I wonder how my jobs will be for this month.. hope it's gonna be good and great!
Anyways, I'm doing so much blog renovation (if that's what you call it), trying to post juicy entries so blog hoppers can learn.
Anyways, let me just share with you this smoothies recipes I found online.. pretty good for the kids and the young at hearts too!
Banilla Shake:
1 ½ cups skim or 1% milk
1 peeled and sliced medium banana, frozen (Wrap sliced banana in plastic wrap or place in a freezer storage bag. Freeze several hours or overnight.)
½ tsp. vanilla extract, optional
¼ tsp. almond extract, optional
In a blender combine all ingredients, except cinnamon. Blend until smooth, about 20 seconds. Pour into glasses and garnish with a sprinkle of ground cinnamon, if desired. Yield: approximately 2 ¼ cups.
Blueberry-Orange Whirl:
1 12-ounce package frozen blueberries, unthawed, or 2 1/2 cups fresh
8 ounce low-fat vanilla yogurt
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
In an electric blender, blend all ingredients until smooth. Yield: approximately 3 ½ cups.
Very Berry Smoothie
1/4 cup berries (your choice!)
4 ounces skim milk
6 ounces calcium-fortified orange juice
Blend together all three ingredients until smooth. Yield: approximately 1 serving.
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Tyler Florence's Cook book

Anyways, aside from this coveted book, I also got most of my kitchen loots like hand mixer, pyrex bowls, dinnerware sets and some more items like humidifier filter, towels and tools set for dad.
So there, actually, I just wanted to brag this cookbook thus I made this post :D ... gotta go now!
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
food for thought

Breakfast
Who was your childhood hero?
Lunch
In your opinion what is the world's greatest invention so far?
Dinner
What time do you typically get up in the morning and what time do you usually go to bed?
Midnight Snack
What was your last thought?
Recipe for the Week
(instead of your recipe for life, what is it just for this week?)
>>>be true to yourself
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four foods
I definitely missed answering meme's and tags.. was too busy doing other things online (reading and researching about web directories and it's uses) and offline.. anyways,
Here are this week’s four questions.
#1. What kind of pretzels are your favorite?
>> the soft and chewy one with cinnamon and sugar!
#2. What’s your favorite way to eat pancakes?
>> hot with lots of syrup!
#3. Do you make garlic bread from scratch or buy frozen?
>> We buy from the bakeshop
#4. Share a recipe that calls for mozzarella cheese.
>> spaghetti and pizza
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Friday, January 22, 2010
thanks for the coffee! :D
My system is full of caffeine, I should be worried as hell, but then again, I am not. In fact, (thanks to my dad who came home for his two months vacation) my sister and I were able to hoard starbucks bottled coffee! a way lot cheaper from the supermarkets and gasoline convenience stops too. So there, been so sosyal and all for a few days now (lol) - and yesterday was able to drowned myself with a grande (or was it venti) sized iced macchiato! that made me at my happiest you know :D
Anyways, I gotta start picking up from where I stopped reading about this book on healthy livign, and shall continue wonder if or does nutrisystem really work and all...
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Labels: faves
Saturday, January 16, 2010
blabbing and cuppies
Just finished eating another bunch of chocolate cupcakes that I bought earlier today at the mall. The thing is, my daughter just had her fix of the butter icing and left the cuppies untouched. Now what to do?! eat them all so it wouldn't have to be here until tomorrow! men, this is major sugar overload! Oh well, that's what mommies are here for right?! alright then, gotta read this acne medicine article first while finishing my tall glass of iced tea and will hit the sack after.
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