Monthly Archives: August 2014

Celebrate With Chloe as She Turns 7 with her Littlest Pet Shop Party

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 What a cute party for Chloe!!  Thank you Noel and Ginggay for sharing this special day with Heart2Heart 

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Adorable and pretty Chloe, The birthday celebrant, came as Blythe from the Littlest Pet Shop

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interpreted by Rajito by Rajo Laurel

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Love the theme!! Kelly, the party organiser, told me that she made it a mixture of Littlest Pet Shop and Cath Kidston ( Previous entry:  Cath Kidston June 19, 2014 ) 

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 Activities which were very popular with the kids! Video games and Rainbow Loom!

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There was a Rainbow Loom activity corner so you can imagine all the little girls busy looming 🙂 

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 Ninang Kelly organised the party with LOVE for Chloe 🙂  Spark + Twinkle Events by Kathleen 0917-895-0017

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How’s this for a positive Mutt

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This dog was born in the year 2002. He was born with 2 legs – He of course could not walk when he was born. Even his mother did not want him.

His first owner also did not think that he could survive and he was thinking of ‘putting him to sleep’.

But them, his present owner, Jude Stringfellow, met him and wanted to take care of him.

She became determined to teach and train this little dog walk by himself. She named him ‘Faith’.

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In the beginning, she put Faith on a surfboard to let him feel the movement. Later she used peanut butter on a spoon as a lure and reward for him for standing up and jumping around.

Even the other dog at home encouraged him to walk..

Amazingly, only after 6 months, like a miracle.

Faith learned to balance on his hind legs and to jump to  move forward.

After further training in the snow, he could now walk like a human being..

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Faith loves to walk around now.

No matter where he goes, attracts people to him.

He is fast becoming famous on the international scene and has appeared on various newspaper and TV shows.

There is now bool entitled ‘With a Little Faith’ being published about him.

He was even considered to appear in one of Harry Potter movies.

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His present owner Jude Stringfellow has given up her teaching post and plans to take him around the world to preach that even without a perfect body, one can have a perfect soul.

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In life there are always undesirable things, so in order to feel better you just need to look at life from another direction.

I hope this message will bring fresh new ways of thinking to everyone and that everyone will appreciate and be thankful for each beautiful day.

Faith is the continual demonstration of the strength and wonder of life.

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The Biggest Bangus and Tilapia

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My friend Bambi is always so thoughtful!  She always shares and sends me her favourite foods and finds 🙂  On her birthday, she even went to the house to drop off some fresh bangus and tilapia which she received as a birthday gift!!  She even shared with me her birthday gift!

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And look how gigantic the bangus and tilapia are!!! I have never ever seen a bangus or tilapia as big as this big in my life!bangus-tilapia-2.jpeg

And here it is- I wanted to show how big the bangus was so I included Rissy in the photo 🙂 It’s even wider than her body 🙂  I just followed Bambi’s instructions and we marinated it as daing na bangus with vinegar, black pepper and garlic then fried it.  It’s the frying that is challenging because you need a really big frying pan to fry this gigantic creature 🙂

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I shared one with my good friend Janet and this is how she did hers

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How nice!!!! As usual!

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This time the tilapiabangus-tilapia-6.jpgMarinated in Patis, calamansi and pepper then before steaming put butter in the head and in the inside of the fish

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Suharto and Rina got one too and this is what they did with it.  They said they put brandy, black pepper and olives

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Dad and Mom got one too and this is what the cook made 🙂  Sweet and Sour bangus 🙂

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Keep Calm and Love Heart2Heart

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Heart2Heart is back online!  The website was down last August 22, Friday, when the host temporarily suspended the website because there was some internal problem.  While that happened, we decided to upgrade the website in wordpress.  I started Heart2Heart 7 years ago and from that time I never upgraded it – so we had to do it slowly step by step from version 2.2 to 3.9 which I think was almost 10 upgrades which we did not do.  So I can breath a little now that we are updated in terms of wordpress.  We were able to restore it last August 27 10377013_10152336209196872_1452162808278454773_n

Though it is online, please bear with us since there may be some interruptions or some glitches while we are working on  it slowly.

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Meantime 🙂 I would like to thank all of you who read and who have supported Heart2Heart from the beginning and of course for those that continue to read and visit Heart2Heart! 🙂keep calm and read my blog

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Ramen Nagi Now in Robinson’s Magnolia

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Congratulations once again to Ramen Nagi, they are now on their fourth branch!!!  Now open in Robinson’s Magnolia!!!  Mike Kho, Carissa Coscolluela, James Chua and Enti Coscolluela

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Ramen Master Ikuta Satoshi, the founder of the Ramen Nagi chain of restaurants is here in Manila to open the newest branch of Ramen Nagi located at the Upper ground Floor of Robinson’s Magnolia, Aurora boulevard corner Doña Hemady street, Quezon City

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Even Slippers can be personalised!!!  I now have Ramen Nagi slippers with my initials 🙂

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John Hardy

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John Hardy now in the Philippines at Rustan’s Silver Vault Makati.  

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Jonas Zagury, Sales Director for International Market and my Tita Tess, the gemologist in the family.  John Hardy, a Canadian, was founded in the mis 70’s in the USA.  Neiman Marcus was the first department store to carry the line.  In 2003, the company was bought by the head designer, Guy Bedarida ( French Italian ) who used to design for Boucheron and Van Cleef & Arpels.  John Hard is now designed and manufactured in Bali, Indonesia

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They have a nice Village in Ubud, Bali where they manufacture the jewellery.  Watch here for a sneak peek

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Click below to read more about what they do here.  I hope I can visit this place one day

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 They even have an organic kitchen that serves food for the 650 people in the village!

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Modern Sichuan

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We discovered a Chinese restaurant through our friend, Sonny and Natalie!!  The exterior may not tell much about the place so don’t be deceived 

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We came to celebrate Sonny’s birthday.  We love this couple – Sonny and Natalie

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We stayed in a private room since we were 14

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The peanuts were so good!!!

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While waiting I looked at the codigo of the waiter to see what we were having.  Apparently almost everything is not in the menu except for the Taro Duck.  We super duper enjoyed this meal!!!!

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 Everything was good but this was my personal favourite – the Fried Crab salted egg 

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 We met Benedick.  I suggest you call him in advance to tell him your requirements so he can make something for you- to your budget and to your preference.  He really did a good job with our dinner!!!

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