Yearly Archives: 2012

CISV

By | Education, For kids, Travel | 9 Comments

My friend, Barbee, sent her son, Enrique to join the CISV camp last year!  Looks like the kids enjoy at CISV, aside from representing our country, they get to meet different people from all over the world, they experience traveling and being with other children their age and a sense of independence living away from home.  They are so lucky to have this opportunity to experience this kind of camp.  

Thanks Barbee for sharing this with everyone at Heart2Heart!

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Some info about Enrique’s camp and delegation:

 

 

Children’s International Summer Village, QC Chapter

July 1 to 28, 2011 in Fredericksburg, Denmark (30 minutes from Copenhagen)

His village was called “Our World Village”

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Philippine Delegation:  Enrique Chuidian, Luis Trota (son of Rica Tamesis & Robert Trota), Isabel Puno (daughter of Bea Lopez & Eric Puno), Katrina Villonco  (daughter of Hazel Perez & Martoni Villonco)

with Adult Leader:  Anielle Banson

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CISV summer camps are called “Villages” and each village consists of child delegates (all 11-year olds); Junior Counselors (JCs); Adult Leaders and the Camp Director

In Enrique’s Village, there were child delegates from 12 countries (each country sends 2 boys and 2 girls, plus one adult leader)

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Delegations from the following countries participated in his Village:

o Jordan, Belgium, USA, Costa Rica, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Poland, and Philippines

o Junior Counselors and Camp Staff were also from all over the world

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The next round of CISV camps will be in July/ August 2012.  But, in early 2013, the delegates will start getting together for the Saturday playdays where they will all get to learn about CISV and its traditions; learn Filipino songs, games and dances to share when they go away to camp; make some great friendships and in early March, a lottery will take place to determine where these 11-year olds will go to attend camp.  Next summer,  I think the CISV QC chapter will be sending at least 5 delegations (20 kids) to Denmark, Sweden, Mexico, USA, Portugal.

For more information click below to go to their website:

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Happy Dragon New Year from Burberry

By | Celebrations, What's New at Rustan's | No Comments

“I just want to wish you a very, very happy Dragon New Year from everyone here at Burberry.  Thank you for all your support for joining us on this journey. I wish you very, very good health, all the prosperity in the world and I look forward to seeing you soon.”  Christopher Bailey, Burberry Chief Creative Officer

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You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown

By | Entertainment, Giving Back | No Comments

From Liza Concepcion Santos

On Feb 11, Saturday 3:30pm at RCBC’s Carlos P. Romulo Theater;  Assumption Batch ’89 is sponsoring the Tony award Broadway musical, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. The musical is based on the Charles Shultz comic strip “Peanuts”. Its the Musical where Kristin Chenoweth (of Glee and Wicked) won her Tony award as Best Actress in a Musical.

Attached is a seating map & prices. For tickets and inquiries please call/ text 09174586317.

Hope you can support us in this event. 

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Christmas Gift Bows

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I really appreciate creative works by friends.  I know for sure that creativity is inborn and that no matter how hard one tries, it just doesn’t come out as nice as what people with creative talents do.  I know because I am a frustrated artist 🙂  I took note of a few packages for Christmas, but when they started all coming in, I just lost track.  So, here are some of the attractive bows last Christmas.

This is the ultimate bow that I received for Christmas!  It is made by my Tita Nena who is super creative!  I could not even figure out how she tied all of them together and she adds so many other ornaments and accessories and even puts a nice quote rolled into a scroll

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A nice Filipiniana type of bow from Fannie Guanzon of Herb’s Best.  She also sold these christmas gift baskets at Rustan’s with all her healthy products inside.  Sold like hotcakes

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This is a simple bow from Jones and Dad, but I like the way it matched the gift card which was so cute and it combined well with the gift bag. CUTE!

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Another cute one from Toddy and Mel

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From Randy and Pia – Again the combination of everything was attractive to me

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From Gary and Alexie!! Love it!  The wrapping paper combined with the ribbon and with a real candy cane

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I’m sorry but I forgot who this was from, but its a nice bow 🙂 Next Christmas I will try to capture more!

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Foie Gras Festival At Masseto January 16 to 21, 2012

By | Yummy! | No Comments

We received an invitation last week from Masseto!  We immediately booked for the first day! 🙂  We were at Masseto also last year for the Foie Gras Feast

Previous entry:  Foie Gras Feast at Masseto February 11, 2011 

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So happy to see Chef Tippi

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We just followed her recommendation.  Both dishes had a generous portion of foie gras

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So we had the Foie Gras, Unagi

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Paired with this wine

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Foie Gras Veal Sweetbreads with Mushrooms Red Wine Jus – First time for us to try Veal sweetbreads

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We can’t eat in Masseto without asking for the Bar Menu!

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Onion strings!! Yummy with catsup!

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Masseto Pizza!!! Super thin and crispy and yummy!!

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Buffalo wings!!! The most “sosyal” buffalo wings 🙂  and super yummy!  It’s crispy and so easy to eat!  LOVE!!!!

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Thanks Tippi for introducing us to Masseto’s Cheese Souffle!!!!!!!!  Really really good!!!

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And the Tagliolini Bottarga! with black truffle sauce!!!  All my favorites- foie gras, cheese and truffle!!!

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Roasted Pork Belly ordered by James for his main

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We were so full already but will always have space for dessert!!!

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My usual pavlova

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and James loves the homemade salted caramel ice cream!!

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10 Corso Como, Seoul

By | Fashion, Travel | No Comments

Our fashion stylists – Quito and Pam, took us to 10 Corso Como!  So we went to see the place and we had lunch as well in the area.  On the way we saw the Galleria which is supposed to be their high end department store in Seoul.  We just saw it from the outside

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After window shopping 🙂  we had lunch at the Cafe which was a nice change from all the Korean food.  This was our second Italian meal in Korea, it was okay but for some reason, it seemed to be lacking the authentic Italian taste.  Maybe they adapted the taste to the Koreans, I do not know.

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Fresh Burrata Cheese with Olive and Tomato paste with Toasted ciabatta

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Sweet Pumpkin Soup with Foie Gras and Truffle Oil – Yum! My only order 🙂

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Beef Tenderloin Carpaccio with black truffle oil, artichoke and arugula

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Penne with bacon, tomato, onion and chili Pepper

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Spaghetti with assorted seafood

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Spaghetti with Anchovy, Arugula, Fresh Tomato and Capers

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Tagliatelle with Truffle Cream and Oyster Mushrooms

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Capellini with Bottarga, Squid and Capers

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Black Truffle Risotto

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Tagliatelle with Zuchini, Sea Scallop and Saffron

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My favorite were the deserts!!!

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Gelato for the kids

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YUMMY Tiramisu!

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Creme Brûlée

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Frozen yogurt!!!!  YUMMY!!

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Not Italian but maybe more Japanese – my choice!  Green Tea ice cream with Shaved ice! SUPER YUMMY!  The ice was like snow!!!

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Love the gift shop!!! They stopped me from taking photos!!

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Click to go to their website for more information

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