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January 31, 2013

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Thien Duong Vietnamese Cuisine Dusit Thani Hotel Bangkok

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This is a recommendation of Tito Baby, Dad’s brother 🙂 Again I wish we were having Thai food, but I am not complaining, I enjoyed this meal 🙂

Centerpieces in the table which you will use for your fresh spring roll 🙂

Coconut juice in Thailand is so so good!!! Must have at every opportunity

Fresh spring roll – prawn

Crispy Soft Shell crab in Fresh Spring rolls

Thien Duong Kai

Fried Spring roll stuffed with crab meat

Crispy Soft Shell crab salad with herb dressing- YUM!

Rice noodle soup

Deep fried river prawn with sesame seed

Pan fried Foie Gras with Tamarind sauce and black pepper – YUM! This was my order – first time to have foie this way

Steamed Vietnamese ravioli

Grilled Australian Wagyu Beef

Crispy Duck serve with coffee sauce! YUM!!!

Coconut ice cream

Banana Fritter

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January 31, 2013

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From Laura and Juampi

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Thank you Laura and Juampi for this!!!

Laura and Juampi are my bootcamp classmates

Previous entry: Bootcamp November 7, 2011

and here they are going to class in their vintage car! 🙂

Laura is the owner, CEO and Creative director while Juampi is the Chief Operating Officer of

Laura told me that they are also the official guinea pigs of VMV 🙂 Hope to see more of you guys here at Heart2Heart

Here’s my gift! It is a collection of all their best products – I am so happy I get to try all. And I need them because most of them are for moisturizing

I saw this cute Father’s day ad with Juampi in it

Another ad with their daughter Madison

Everything is made locally. And they are already available in many other countries outside the Philippines! Click below to see their store locations

They also have a magazine which comes out every season, you can view them online in their website, click below

Oops!! Who’s that pretty lady?? 🙂 Nicole Olbes Fandiño! I breezed through the online magazines and you will see her in the pages of many of the issues, so do click below to view more

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And Luis de Terry!

According to Laura, this is one of the most popular shots they have. I can see why! 🙂

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January 30, 2013

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Zanotti Bangkok

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When I am in bangkok, I like to eat Thai. But Mom likes eating here for Italian food, so we need to follow the boss 🙂

There was this sign hanging on the olive oil holder – but we were all taking photos and they were not stopping us

Fritto Misto

Pizza 4 Stagioni

This I liked, the Bolognese

This was very good, but your teeth and lips get really black 😉 But they give you a disposable wet towel to wipe your mouth 🙂

Vongole

Costoleta Milanese

Filettini D’Agnello

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January 30, 2013

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Bangkok Market

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As soon as we arrived in Bangkok, Mom and I went to Chatuchak Market. We arrived Sunday noon time so we did not want to miss the weekend market. I was feeling bad I missed the Chiang Mai Saturday market and felt I could have bought more things there than here and at more reasonable prices. Here are some shots I took

I love these lights 🙂

for my dad, I know he likes these things

Mom and I were wondering if this was the real saffron- it was very cheap so maybe not 🙂

In the art section- cute these miniature paintings

Mom and I had not eaten lunch since we arrived and we were getting dizzy at around 3pm so we went to one of the stalls and we had Thai iced tea, Pad thai and Mango sticky rice! Very good!!!!

There is a new place called Asiatique and it had just opened – Just take the MTS to Sathorn- then you will see free boat rides going to Asiatique- It opens at 5pm til midnight

The place is so alive with so many people, many shops and many restaurants! They had similar shopping stalls as Chatuchak though I liked the ambience here better

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January 30, 2013

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Starbucks Signature Hot Chocolate

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January 29, 2013

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Celadon at the Sukhothai Hotel Bangkok

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When we arrived in Bangkok, we were happy to have been hosted by my Mom’s sister, Tita Merl and her family who were also there! They invited us to have Thai food at Celadon

Thank you Tito Eddie and Tita Merl Pineda for hosting such a wonderful dinner.

This was one of our best meals in Bangkok! It was nice to be together outside our country 🙂

Thank you to Marivic for choosing the menu! Dinner was really really good!!

I love a little of everything! Loved this appetizer sampler plate! Wiped out for me!

Super yum!

Super yum as well!

Look at those gigantic prawns with the pad thai!

I love it that they gave extra sugar and nuts!!

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January 29, 2013

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Preparing for the Sta Elena Cup 2013

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Heart2Heart loves this video by Marty Ilagan!! Congratulations to the Sta Elena team – headed by my Tito Rico Tantoco and my cousin Gippy Tantoco! As my cousin, Donnie Tantoco described it – EXCELLENCE IN ACTION!

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January 29, 2013

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Repost: My Other Mother

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This was one of my first posts in my website in January 2007. I am reposting here again – as we remember her today and always. It has been 6 years. We love you Mom, thank you for watching all of us from Heaven. I gave this plaque to Mom Carmeling one Mothers Day occasion, I bought it in Rustan’s and I think it’s a beautiful one

Carmelita Osmeña de Jesus
July 3, 1933 – January 28, 2007

Mom has lived a full and gracious life. She made sure she prepared herself and accepted God’s will for her.

Though we prayed and wished we could still spend more time with her, we also prayed to stop Mom’s pain and not to let her suffer. God has truly blessed Mom.

When I started going out with James in 1986, Mom immediately treated me as part of the family.

Nana took very good care of Jaime and Javier. We all love her very much and we will miss her! But we are happy that she is now in a better place.

January 28, 2013

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The Four Seasons Bangkok

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Heart2Heart was so happy to be back in Bangkok after a long time. From Chiang Mai, we stayed a few days in Bangkok. The Four Seasons hotel is centrally located – you can walk to the malls- Paragon, Central World and Siam Discovery – for a few blocks or for just a short walk you have access already to the MTR