Special Day!

today is a very, very special day..... it's Gino's birthday!!! yipeeeeeeeeee!!!

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY GINO!!!

A lucky Birthday?.....

it's 07-07-07...... and it's Mommy's birthday today!!!

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!!!

The Mandaluyong City Hall Gardens.....

for the longest time, ever since i started exercising at the Mandluyong City Hall rotunda, i've seen the transformation of the immediate surroundings of the old and new City Hall buildings into one continuous garden. when planning and contruction of the meatshop started in late april 2007, i stopped going to the rotunda for my daily exercise.

so you can just imagine my surprise and my delight when i returned last week and experienced the gardens for the first time!!!

every available vacant space between the old and new buildings of the city hall was converted into foot paths, beutifully landscaped corners, manicured lawns, a raised pavilion, several smaller gazebos, garden trellis, comfort rooms, etc.

in one corner of the gardens, there's even an enclosed butterfly garden that you can enter and spend some time in.

all in all, i'm glad i've rediscovered this oasis of beauty, life, and health in the urban jungle that is Mandaluyong City!!!

Commercial Model (?)

in search of a light...... to drink or not to drink....

(havana hat and shades c/o boyce, shirt by bossini, coca-cola by three sisters restaurant)

Barangay Kapitolyo Garden Update.....

in one of my previous posts, i mentioned that relatively near our meatshop are two gradens which one can visit - for rel;axation or for exercise. i have featured one of them before..... and now, here is the other one.

this garden has foot paths as well as a large open are for aerobics exercise, for tai chi, or for badminton. it's located right beside the Kapitolyo barangay hall and next to the Kapitolyo covered amphitheater. on mondays,wednesdays and fridays a group does aerobics here, while on tuesdays and thursdays another group does movement exercise akin to tai chi.

Meatshop Update....

wow! i've been so obsessed with the grand opening of our meatshop, i didn't realize it's been more than a week since i last made a post here! anyway, i've since given up on hoping that we'll have our GO soon..... my philosophy now is... it'll come when it comes!!!

many things have happened at the shop.... some subtle..... some more pronounced. for instance, do you notice the difference between the two photos above?

well, they've changed our delivery number from our actual phone number at the shop to the Meto Manila-wide single call center number. their reason: they said that with the former, we have a distinct advantage over the other Monterey neighborhood Meatshops in Metro Manila who use the latter..... the 633-meat number.

nonetheless, it was interesting to see how they changed the numbers, and so, i documented it in pics: