Feb Post......Blasts from the Recent Past

hehehehe.....here's for february.....

before i continue posting here, let me show first some interesting photos of last year that i recently downloaded to my computer from my cell phone....

dinner with two college classmates and barkada, alice and josie, at kulinarya restaurant at the powerplant mall at rockwell center

jonlounging on a chair by a post at the lobby of shangri-la hotel, makati, while we wait for his family for a buffet lunch at the hotel's circles restaurant

processing fifty (50) pork carcasses in 3-hours' time at the meatshop for a special client one day in late november and another day in early december

buying and partaking of fresh, delicious, sumptous, and cheap seafoods from the seafoods market in baclaran, after a disappointing and expensive seafoods dinner at red crab at the fort

jon getting a tattoo of himself at cartimar's bodyworkz

with cora at the monterey foods corp franchisees convention at the hyatt hotel and casino in manila

flower arrangement from rob's pleasantries flower shop as a birthday gift to me from jon

complementary birthday cake from the gourmet restaurant at the fort where we had dinner with nini, rob, miguel, and cora

opening a special birthday gift from my two nieces, gwen and gail

christmas party of the management and staff and guests of monterey meatshop kapitolyo

by the christmas tree at the lobby of shangri-la hotel makati

Happy New Year!!!

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Happy Birthday to a Fellow December-born.....

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JC!!!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!

Happy Birthday to a Fellow Sagittarian....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEN!!!

Pepsi anyone??? I guess not!!!....

what do these photos have in common??? you're right......i'm in every one of them!!! bwahahahahaha!!!

when one is in the store every single day, there comes a spot in the store that becomes one's favorite....for me, i guess it's anywhere as long as the coca-cola cooler is in the background!!!

after all, i'm not a self-confessed coke (light) addict for nothing!!!

No to diesel fumes!!!

ever since I quit smoking last December, I’ve gained approximately an additional 30 lbs. in weight. because of this (plus the fact that I was diagnosed with hypertension also last December), I’ve been very eager to work out more regularly than before….in the hope of getting rid of them unwanted pounds.

i still work out in the mornings….except that now I don’t do it together with the aerobics group at the mandaluyong city hall park….



nor with the aerobics group at the barangay kapitolyo park.

i now do it at the gym at slimmer’s world international at SM megamall!!!

the reason for the change in venue? It’s this article in the New England Journal of Medicine on increased risks of diesel fumes on heart patients. “They found that inhaling diesel fumes while exercising changes the electrical behaviour of the heart, implying that air pollution reduces the amount of oxygen reaching the heart during exercise.”

Remember, both the parks where I used to do morning exercises are surrounded by roads frequented by diesel-powered jeepneys (more so the former than the latter)….and the air around metro manila itself is polluted by diesel fumes….hence it’s not wise anymore to exercise outdoors!!!

Of course, I still get to use my aerobics t-shirts in the gym!!! Hehehehehe

Herbed Pork Medley

another delicious recipe from monterey.....

Meatshop Grand Opening.....The Giveaways

one of the giveaways that we gave to our customers (and still continue to give....while supply lasts!) to celebrate our store's Grand Opening is a set of recipes that come in postcard-like form. the front of each card shows the name and picture of the finished foodstuff, while the back shows the recipe.

in order for me to share with this blog's readers this giveaway, i scanned each of the cards and i'm posting them starting with today's entry......enjoy!

Happy bday bez......

now you are as old as the rest of us (most of our classmates and i) are!!! enjoy the start of a new decade in your life!!!

Crocs and escalators.......

first it was static electricity affecting medical equipment......now, it's escalators that are proving to be dangerous when crocs footwear and these escalators meet!!!

the home page of our pc at the meatshop's office is Yahoo.com. when i turned on the pc this morning and clicked the internet explorer icon, this was the first thing i saw on the monitor click here , complete with the accompanying picture!

naturally, i googled the words crocs and escalators together......and a list of articles, as far back as august 2006, about the dangers of wearing crocs footwear in escalators appeared. there was even an account that happened close to home entitled Killer Crocs and Escalators .

how come its only now that i'm being made aware of all these??? why is it that when i finally found something i enjoy having and wearing, they're turning out to be "killers"??? why??? waaaaaaaaaaa!!!

looking on the bright side though.....maybe all of these bad publicity about crocs would result in decreased popularity of the footwear.......which means fewer people would buy them.....which in turn means they'd have to lower the price......which means i can then afford to have all of them styles in all colors!!! bwahahahahahahaha!!!

Our crocs & static electricity

these are just some of the 10 pairs of crocs that jon and i own....(technically, jon will say he owns only 1 pair and i own the rest!).....but that doesn't matter.....they're soooo light and comfortable, i wouldn't deny that nowadays they're the only footwear i use......(except for a pair of nike sneakers i use when i go out and exercise).....especially when i stay at the meatshop the whole day!!!

there's one thing that i observed though ever since i started wearing them.....i seem to generate or be hit by static electricity everytime i go near large metallic objects or equipment housed in metallic casings......which are practically what we have all over the shop......like stainless steel tables, upright and chest freezers and chillers, metal display racks, even hanging metal display racks for products in sachets!!! i've told jon and the people in the shop about this but they wouldn't believe me.....they thought i was kidding around whenever i'd suddenly jump in surprise and a little pain....i swear, i could hear and see the static whenever it hits me!!!

curious, i googled the words crocs and static electricity together.....and lo and behold, the phenomenon seems to be happening in some parts of the world as well.....more significantly, it has been observed in hospital settings where nurses wearing crocs footwear were observed to have generated static electricity which were powerful enough to have affected medical equipment. in fact, in some hospitals wearing them has been banned!!! so that means, i have not been dreaming of being so "statically" powered after all!!!

should i ban myself from wearing crocs at the shop? no way jose(lito)! what's a little bit of temporary stinging pain compared to countless hours of rest and comfort??? besides, the people at the shop seem to enjoy whenever they see me suddenly jerk my hand or jump in surprise whenever i get hit!!!

if only i can amass, harvest and use this to power the shop.....we would've saved a lot in electricity costs!!! hahahahahaha

This one gave me the creeps.......

jon googled the term "aswang" and the search came up with a picture purportedly showing a flying aswang caught on camera. i traced where the pic came from and i saw another shot and close ups of both shots showing the aswang more vividly.

these pics gave me the creeps because they are very much similar to what boyce and i and another friend saw one early january morning (before sunrise) in 1975 at boyce's province of antique!!!

Don't turn the cubes.....

lynn in a Rubik's cube.....

Clowning around the store....

it was close to closing time.... no customers in the store.... we were just waiting for the clock to strike 8:00 PM so we can call it a "business" day....