Getting an Award and a Family Lunch Date

I got a plaque of appreciation from my company this morning for rendering 10 years of service now.  I got also a little monetary funds as an appreciation to my valuable service to the company I have worked for.  I  brought with me Keona and hubby during the ceremony then we went to the mall for a lunch.  

Keona's choice for restaurant is Chowking so it's there that we had our lunch.  I had fish fillet lauriat while hubby had a chicken lauriat.  Keona had her fave beef wanton noodles soup.  After eating, Keona had a blast at the kid's play area riding anything she wants.  

Have a great weekend friends:).

Free Lunch Buffet

I am the oldest left in my area of work. One colleague got married and had to resign. Another one was transferred due to qualification issue. The newly hired companion of mine got her first salary last week and promised us to treat with a lunch buffet so we had it yesterday. We headed to Tita D's, one of the cheapest buffet in town and so far, has the most number of yummy foods. We arrived there at around 11:30 in the morning and there were already few diners. We right away looked into the food display and they're indeed yummy.

There were fried shrimps, chicken which I did not get to prevent having my allergy. They has also pork adobo, shells, chop seuy , lumpia shanghai and appetizers like kinilaw, eggplant salad and seaweeds salad.

Although we were already very full, we still tasted the sweet desserts like cassava cake, buko pandan cake and maja blanca. I brought with me a point and shoot camera but to my dismay, I can't preview it when I took photos so I didn't take photos anymore. Too bad. When I reached home, I complained hubby about the camera and he just laughed at me because I did not press the display button so I can preview the object I want to take photos of. Well, I admit, I'm really not techie and that's the result of being too dependent to hubby when it comes to gadgets and new technology:(.

Loving that spicy soup

Hubby and I love spicy foods. We love that hot and spicy chicken from KFC and Jollibee, we like our pizza from Greenwhich filled with hot sauce, we love to put on hot chili on our sauce. And yes, whenever me and hubby go to our house in Mintal, we are usually busy and our schedule is full packed with cleaning, dusting, repairing so we don't have anymore time to cook food for ourselves. And our fave food? Hot spicy beef soup which just a text away and our order will arrived to us after 15 minutes together with 4 cups of rice.

Happy Mother's Day

Here's a warm greetings to all the mother's out there! Motherhood is one of the best things that happen to a woman's life. Not all wives are blessed to become a mother.

To celebrate mother's day, hubby bought a cake for me from Goldilocks. For a simple celebration, we have roasted chicken and pork liempo for dinner. Have a beautiful Sunday evening friends and continue to be a blessing to everyone:).

Weekend stroll in the neigborhood

Saturday afternoon are usually spent at the mall or walking around the neighborhood. Aside from being able to bond with each other little girl learns also because she's able to see real life animals like pigs, cows, chicken, goats and dogs. It's a great learning experience for Keona and also an opportunity for us to sweat out and get fit. Happy Weekend everyone.

Baby Mica's Christening Reception

After the baptismal ceremony at the Sta. Ana church, we went to their house and had a lunch. They had the food catered for the celebration of Mica's Christening. The foods were yummy. There were four main dishes - beef afritada, pork adobo, pancit, and chicken lenchon. There's also the indispensable roasted pig ( lechon). Desserts consist of rice cake, melon fruit, durian tart and fruit salad. We also brought with us chocolate rebel bars that Mom baked for Mica.

Mica's baptismal Christening tarpaulin

Sleeping, tired after entertaining her guests:)

Keona, eating time

Mica's Christening cake from Goldilocks

Yummy desserts

Pancit

Lechon

Beef afritada

Pork adobo

Here is Mica, table hopping with visitors who are mostly relatives and friends of her parents

One of the caterer's personnel, chopping the lechon

My childhood memories on All Saints Day and All Souls Day

When I was young, I have lots of memories on All Saints Day which happens every 1st of November. This is a time of the year, that we, as young children would have lots of fun because our cousins and relatives from other places would go home. There would be lots of foods cooked, usually native delicacies- suman(made of rice wrapped in banana leaf), bebingka (rice cake), biko, boiled native chicken. In the evening, my Pappa and Momma would prepare food and put it in the altar. These traditions are influences from my grandma during that time. Being a young child and curious that I was, I would ask questions to my father...

Me: Pappa, why would we place foods in the altar?

Pappa:(looking hard up in answering my question) The souls of our departed loved ones will eat food during this time...

Me: Oh, how would they eat foods when they are already dead?

Pappa: My child, they have souls, they will not eat the food, like we do, but they will smell the aroma of the food that we are offering in the altar.

These are traditions the we have lost as time goes by. When my grandma died when I was 14 years old, traditional practices that we got from her gradually died a natural death.

When the All Souls Day come, lots of people visit to our place because our house in the province is just a stone's throw away from the cemetery. This is the day when people would flock and visit their dead loved ones, light a candle on their tombs and offer prayer.

October birthdays!

A lot of the people close to me are celebrating their birthday on the month of October. Yesterday, my office mate Ate Ping celebrated her birthday with us. She ordered chicken from Goldie's, a family feast consist of 12 pieces regular size fried chicken. Then pancit guisado at Shanghai Restaurant. Pancit is for "long life".hehe. We also had durian ice cream from Allegro. I was very full yesterday. No expense for lunch and afternoon snacks courtesy of ate Ping:). Happy birthday Ate Ping! More birthdays to come...more blessings to receive!