Happy birthday, Luigi!

Happy (lockdown) celebration!

Your birthday would have been happier, if we were eating in an all-you-can restaurant or spending it in a beach or resort.

Anyway, MECQ or not, the celebration, albeit so simple, must go on.  Let's go to a park in the north for our lunch:

More birthdays to come!
 

Merry Christmas!

Wishing you a Merry Christmas!

It's Christmas day! And, I'm still blogging with yummy Macaroni Salad and a garlic coffee on the side. The salad was prepared by my wifey; and I just put half head of lettuce around it.

I'm also greeting my sister, Cristina, in Sydney, Australia a Happy Birthday!

Grande Island Resort - a dream becomes a reality

Everytime we go to Subic Freeport Zone, we dream of going to Grande Island Resort. We heard it's a good and nice getaway place but very expensive. Now, the dream became a reality.

A relative from San Diego invited us to join him and his wife - our niece for a belated three-day celebration of his 70th birthday at the island. His guests were not relatives and friends from the Philippines but from United States and Sweden. His other guests from other parts of the globe, for one reason or another, were not able to come.

Last Monday morning, the guests rendezvoused at the ferry terminal adjacent to the SBMA Administration Building Subic for the 30-minute boat ride to the island.

All the 29 guests were housed on chalets with their back verandas facing the bay and the mainland.

Unfortunately, it's raining on our first two days. We had not run out of luck, though, as the weather on our last day was very good. Despite the rainy weather, we really had fun, enjoyed our stay, the food, the drinks, and meeting new friends - foreign and local. The food were great - buffet breakfasts, and lauriat style lunches and dinners. The planned barbecue party on our second night was spoiled by the rains. The drinks were aplenty - red wine, whisky, vodka, tequila, rum, liquer and beer.

We thanked Matt (the celebrator) and his wife - Raquel for this once in a lifetime opportunity. And, nice meeting you - Herbie, Kristel, Rita, Bob, George, Solvig, Bob, Sonia, Vicky and Jun.

Please read my other posts and view the pictures:

• Grande Island, here we come
• Rain, rain, go away
• Eat, drink and be merry . . .
• No more rains

And, here are some photos of the resort:

Luigi's birthday celebration

We simply and extemporaneously celebrated my son's birthday in Teriyaki Boy in Trinoma. The only guest is her Tita Elvie. These are the food that we ordered.

California Maki. It’s good there’s one left and I was able to capture it.

House tea. It’s the best; because, it’s free.

The classic Ebi Tempura

Kani Salad

Asparagus wrapped in bacon(I forgot the Japanese term)

Yaki Udon (or is it Yaki Soba?)

Unagi Teriyaki - my favorite among my favorites

Salmon Teriyaki - another favorite

Beng's birthday lunch and dinner

As I've posted in my Think Of Me! blog, we celebrated Beng's birthday yesterday in two restaurants - at the Emerald Garden and Marina Restaurant. And, here were the food that we ordered, in the order that they were served.

Lunch - Emerald Garden


Steamed Suahe


Pancit Canton


Yang Chow Fried Rice


Seaweeds with Century Egg


Vegetable Soup


Fried Chicken


Sweet and Sour Fish


Shrimp Salad


Dinner at Marina - TriNoMa


Baked Oysters


Crispy Spare Ribs


Grilled Squid

Grilled Fish (Managat)

My birthday celebration

I just celebrated my birthday yesterday and today at the Sun Moon Beach Resort in Bagac, Bataan. We were supposed to celebrate the birthday of Jon, our nephew, here; but, typhoon Cosme spoiled the plan. I've posted some pictures in my personal blog, "Think Of Me!". And, here are more pictures:

And my very special guest:

Potpot

June 2008

It’s already the third day of June in the year of our Lord 2008. The month of June is considered as the weeding wedding month.

It is also my birth month. My relatives who will also celebrate their birthdays are:

• June 5 – Maggie - my cousin in Penablanca, Cagayan
• June 8 - 6th Wedding Anniversary of Ryan, our nephew, and Pie
  
• June 26 – Elaine – my niece in Quezon, Isabela
• June 27 – Matthew – my nephew in Sydney, Australia
• June 29 – Peter – my cousin in Murphy, Quezon City

Advance HAPPY BIRTHDAY to us!

June is also the start of the school season. Other events that shall happen this month are:

• June 10 – Opening of the 28th Chamber of Mines Annual Bowling Tournament
• June 12 – Philippine Independence Day Celebration
• June 15 – Father’s Day – second week of June – June 15
• June 15 – Car Mania ‘08 at the SM City Fairview
  
• June 19 – Date of birth of Gat. Jose P Rizal (the National Hero of the Philippines)
• June 24 – Manila Day and St. John the Baptist Day.

The phases of the moon shall occur on:

• June 4 at 3:23 AM – New Moon
• June 10 at 11:04 PM – First Quarter
• June 19 at 1:31 AM – Full Moon
• June 26 at 8:10 PM – Last Quarter.

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Jon's birthday celebration

Last Saturday, we celebrated the birthday of our nephew – Jon in a nearer resort in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. It is a pool resort called the “Grotto Vista Resort”. The original plan was to celebrate it in a beach resort in Bagac, Bataan. But, because Bataan was being battered by Typhoon “Cosme” and it was under signal number one, the original plan was called off.

Nonetheless, everybody enjoyed the birthday celebration.

Here are some views of Grotto Vista Resort:

Typhoon "Cosme" ruins our trip

We were supposed to go to a beach resort in Bagac, Bataan to celebrate the birthday of our nephew, Jon. This has been planned and prepared a month ago. But, because of typhoon "Cosme", which is expected to land fall by tomorrow, we postponed the trip but not the celebration. Typhoon "Cosme" has been bringing rains to the metropolis, particularly in the afternoon and evening. Signal no. 1 has been raised in the place where we are going.

We are still looking for an alternative pool resort in the metropolis or in nearby province - Bulacan to celebrate his birthday.

Please check PAGASA for more details and information on typhoon "Cosme".