Overnight Swimming (Among Others!) in Los Banos

The Way - weekend this week was spent at a private pool of Uray's cousin in Los Banos, Laguna. we found ourselves on our way to LB early Saturday afternoon.

The Place - the place was awesome.... it's like an oasis among lots of commercial and ordinary private pools in the area...

The Activities - our primary activity was of course swimming. however, we also indulged in others such as scrabble, picture-taking, book reading, etc.....

The Non-activities - when not doing any activity, we were busy relaxing, sleeping, resting, etc!!!

The Food - any outing of ours is not complete without the food....

Health Alerts.....

after bringing Daddy and Mommy home to Quezon City last night, jon & i didn't go directly home but instead proceeded to Makati Medical Center to visit Nini. she was brought to the hospital suffering from an acute amoeba infection.

while there, i told them about how i experienced a sudden high blood pressure attack yesterday morning. nini & roberta urged me to see our cardiologist this morning and seek advice. and so, after jon came home from work, we saw Dr. Lapitan at MMC and he added a diuretic to my usual hypertension drugs.

after seeing the cardiologist. we went back to nini's room and stayed their until she was discharged from the hospital.

Shop Visit...

from our graduation banquet in paranaque city, we went to pasig city and visited the meatshop site. for the most of the family members (present & future), this was the first time for them to see the place.... and their reaction about it.... the place, the surroundings, the size, the appearance, etc.... were all positive!!!

A Milestone in the Family!!!

The Graduate: Gail Monique, the youngest of two daughters of my Kuya, was graduated today from the University of the Philippines in Manila.



The Gift: Being the "Blog Queen" and a self-confessed computer geek, what better gift to give her than a router which will make their home in Quezon City a wifi facility???

The Marketing: To celebrate this event, Kuya and Ate Liz (together with jon & i) went marketing for the food that we'll share with the rest of the family.

The Graduation Banquet: We brought the raw food we bought to a nearby restaurant to be cooked. We then had a grand time partaking of them. Even Daddy and Mommy enjoyed the feast!

Sunday Post

late morning today was spent by nini, cora, jon, and i attending the baptism of a friend's baby girl (their 4th child) at the Don Bosco church in Makati. the privately catered reception was held in time for lunch at a hall attached to the church.

from there, my craving for pancakes drove us to go to Rockwell where we had post-lunch meals at the Pancake House. it was a hot afternoon and the Pancake House's single working air conditioner didn't help alleviate the heat at all. to make ourselves more comfortable and relaxed, we proceeded to the UCC Park Cafe where we had some more things to eat!!!

btw, all these eatings today were not done for no reason. there is a reason for all these seemingly senseless binge eating!!! right now however, i won't tell the reason.... hehehehehehe!

Old Place, New Place

late afternoon of April 19, thursday, we went to makati glorietta to buy gifts for jon's brother-in-law, niece, and Metrobank friend. we then met up with nini, cora, and miguel - who were also at glorietta together with nini's switzerland-based friend and her two children. after nini's friend left for their dinner appointment in quezon city, the rest of us went to Tony Roma's for some old-fashioned steak dinners.

we topped off the evening by trying the new UCC Park Cafe at the open space just outside Glorietta. as usual, i had the Sumiyaki Coffee Jelly concoction.... my UCC favorite (in much the same way as the Mocha Frapuccino is my Starbucks favorite!!!)

last wednesday, april 18, after coming from the nms retailing training at Legend Villas, we visited the shop site to inspect the progress of construction and to give to our contractor the 2nd 30% down payment. from there, we proceeded to cafe juanita for dinner. cafe juanita is just a few meters away from the shop and we're eyeing it to be one of our institutional clients!

NMS Update

April 20, 2007 construction progress photos

April 18, 2007 construction progress pics

April 16 to 18, our staff at the neighborhood meatshop (nms) and i attended the last 3 days of lectures for the meat retailing training conducted by Monterey. while waiting for our own nms to open, we continue to do store immersion training at Monterey nms's in Katipunan & Marcelo.

A piece of paradise in Matabungkay beach.......

Food...Food....Food!!!

Some Creatures Found in Matabungkay During the Past Holy Week!!!

Meatshop Update.....

(just to update everybody on the progress of our Monterey Meatshop business. the latest in the series of photos shown here were taken yesterday afternoon.)

march 30, 2007 - we were informed by the Monterey guy that our application for a franchise has been approved. he contacted the winning bidder (contractor) to inform him that they could start construction as soon as possible.



april 2, 2007 - the construction gang began arriving at the site and started working in earnest.



april 3, 2007 - the meatshop staff and i met with ms. armi at the monterey head office for orientation. after the orientation, we proceeded to the katipunan meatshop for store immersion. they come back to this store at opening time until 3:00 pm on april 4, 7, 9, and 10, 2007.



april 11, 2007 - we met at the boni mrt station at 8:00 am and proceeded to the legend villas hotel where we attended hands-on seminar on inventory & stock management and different computations made in the meatshop.



april 12, 2007 - seminar at legend villas continued with more computations, etc. from april 13 until 15, 2007 the staff continued it's store immersion activities at the katipunan avenue store.

Someone Seems to be Lost.....

where am I? I can't see!!! anybody there???

bwahahahahahaha!!!

Flower Burst Wallpaper....

last night, i downloaded this photo of a makahiya plant... that looks like a fresh burst of color coming from a lowly plant. i made it my lap top's screensaver and this morning, i found it a beautiful foreground as i took pictures of everybody. see for yourself!!! (i downloaded the picture of the flower from a blog called "Woodman's Secret Garden".)

Palm Sunday Lunch.....

lunch for today came almost as if when we had just had breakfast!!! (for bebs & rob, in fact, it was!!! hehehehe).

Palm Sunday Breakfast....

today is Palm Sunday, the official start of the Holy Week here in the Philippines. as in the past several weekends, we're spending today at nini's place. she and miguel haven't arrived yet from their despedida overnight affair at Tara Farm.... but we're sure they'll be joining us soon.

breakfast was the usual "-silog" variety... consisting of: