When in Cebu, have a taste of Cebuano barbecue of all kinds at The Original AA BBQ! They have the food and atmosphere of a resto yet their prices are streetwise. Sanitary is 100% guaranteed so there’s no need to worry about salmonella nor E. coli. Branches are just everywhere in the city so may […]
The famous landmark in India, Taj Mahal was built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan as the final resting place of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal in 1632. ( Wikipedia ) In the same way, The Ruins in Bacolod was built by the sugar baron Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson in memory of his beautiful Portuguese wife, […]
I love love love teas as I’ve been reiterating every now and then here in my blog! Teas of all kinds, from different roots, in all flavors, hot or cold. I am just so overly addicted to tea! If there is a good addiction in this world, it would definitely be my penchant for teas. […]
It has been a week since my birthday so pardon me for posting this late. Busyness at the store is really eating up all my time and drains me so much that I get tired feet every time I arrive at home and just want to lay down my aching body from the standing and rolling and […]
Blew 3 cakes for my 33rd birthday. Yes, double three! It’s funny how people always argue with me for that especially my students ‘coz some of them already look older than me. Hehe…. Well, this is just me. Young in mind and young at heart. But looks can be deceiving ‘coz I’ve become fiercer inside. […]
And here’s the wine shop where Oak and Beans of Ozamiz got its concept from, La Vie Parisienne or “The Paris Life”. This is just adjacent to The Pink House where it functions as a French bakery, deli, and wine library. Oh, the smell of freshly-baked French pastries wafts in the air the moment you […]
As promised yesterday, let me now take you to the pretty garden of La Maison Rose! Before opening La Vie Parisienne (which I’ll be blogging about tomorrow) in 2013, La Maison Rose’s garden was a vast lawn of greens dotted with flowers of vibrant colors. As guests started to flock into the place, the pink […]
La Maison Rose is famous in Cebu as “The Pink House” which was the former ancestral house of one of the city’s most prominent family, the Velez’s. Completed in 1939, the house held a number of lavish banquets until 2006 when the family didn’t live in the place anymore. The house became unoccupied for 6 years until Louis Thevenin, […]
Location: a certain hospital somewhere in Manila Year: 1988 (I was 6 years old) Scenario: me talking to the doctor after getting my X-ray Dockie: So, nakakain ka na ng lunch? Me: Yes po. Dockie: Ano’ng kinain mo? Me: Bilog po. Dockie: Ha? Hehe…. Sa’n kayo kumain? Me: Sa tapat lang po paglabas ng hospital. […]
I’ve been wanting to write a book since I started reading Sweet Valley of Francine Pascal. In fact, I had attempted to write a story in Filipino language when I was in high school but I left it undone. The draft is still in my notebook hidden inside my closet, untouched for many years now. […]