I started documenting this a bit late but I am glad I captured some of them. Heart2Heart just loves the outfits of the hotel and restaurant staff in India. They all look so proud to wear their very own
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Yearly Archives: 2012
TWG Tea, the finest luxury tea brand in the world, reveals a Christmas collection designed around the rarest silver needle white tea. TWG Tea has sprinkled white tea throughout its festive products, resembling snowy drifts in the teacup during a white Christmas. Combining tea expertise with jolly wishes and the bright colours of the holiday season, tea lovers are sure to find the perfect Christmas gift at TWG Tea.
Flooded with the warmth and glimmering lights of the fire place, Noel! Noel! Tea’s merry shades and golden caviar tin will surely inspire sparkling celebrations. This black tea blend with a scattering of Yin Zhen white tea glows with fragrant spices and tones of clementine and rich Tahitian vanilla. The perfect gift to introduce your loved ones to the world of tea, the Noel! Noel! Tea Set is composed of a tin of Noel! Noel! Tea, a Design Teapot, conceived to keep tea warm for a whole hour, a silver tea scoop and 100% cotton tea filters enclosed in an elegant box and sleeve. This magnificent Noel! Noel! Tea Set reunites all the essentials for a perfect cup of tea.
For privileged connoisseurs, White Christmas Tea is a Yin Zhen white tea melded with an exquisite blend of fruits and spices, creating an enchanting mix of flavours. Embracing this season’s tea trends which focus on white and red teas, the Winterland Tea Set reunites the White Christmas Tea and Red Christmas Tea into a magical pair of 50 gram tins encased in a TWG Tea gift box and sleeve.
As night falls on the hours leading up to the New Year’s countdown, TWG Tea has conjured up Midnight Hour Haute Couture Tea, a magical infusion of decaffeinated black tea encircled by a constellation of fragrant tropical fruits that will unfurl in a display of fireworks on the palate, igniting passion and anticipation as the clock chimes midnight.
TWG Tea is delighted to offer gifts of every shape and size this season: Noel! Noel! Tea contains 100g of loose tea priced at Php1595; the Silver Noel! Noel! Tea Set (with a stainless steel Design Teapot) is priced at Php9195, whereas the Gold Noel! Noel! Tea Set (with a gold Design Teapot) is retailing at Php20395. The White Christmas Tea in a 100g Haute Couture tin is priced at Php2995, and the Winterland Tea Set is priced at Php3395. Midnight Hour Haute Couture Tea contains 100g of loose tea priced at Php2595; all items are available in TWG Tea Salon & Boutique Manila. (Level 1, Greenbelt 5, Ayala Centre, Makati City)
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A few days before we arrived in India, Starbucks opened their first store in Mumbai! And a month later, they have three stores already in India
Before Starbucks, India had Cafe Coffee Day. It’s the biggest coffee chain with around 2,000 stores! We were able to see a few and stop by at one on one of the road trips 🙂 This one is by the Taj Mahal in Agra
On one of the road trips
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On our last evening in Udaipur, Mom booked dinner at the resort. It was also a celebration for her birthday which would happen in two days. I am including here an excerpt from the diary of Tito Joe who writes very well and could not describe it better than any of us. Thank you Mom for a wonderful dinner, it was the best meal we had in our whole stay in India.
Mom’s prayer before the meal – she really takes it seriously and even writes it down 🙂
A clearer version of the menu
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Our last day and our last Palace visit 🙂
Narrow hallways in the palace
We were lucky our tour guide had a relative inside so even if there were a lot of people ( due to the holiday ), we were able to get access quickly and get out quicker without having to wait for everybody else
The Crystal gallery which was so beautiful, no photos allowed so nothing to share here
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Marks & Spencer will donate up to Php 1,000,000 from its in-store Christmas campaign to help children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in
According to the latest statistics from the Food and Nutrition Research Institute, the prevalence of underweight children below five years old is at 20.2 per cent while 7.3 per cent of children below five have acute malnutrition. The situation in three regions (
UNICEF is working with government and partners to combat severe acute malnutrition through a Community based management for Severe Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programme, which has been running in
“Without any intervention, a child suffering from severe acute malnutrition has at least a 30% chance of dying. With this programme, which is based on UNICEF’s global experience with CMAM, and through the government, we are recording up to a 90% survival rate,’ said Dr. Paul Zambrano, UNICEF’s Nutrition Officer.
The programme involves community screening of children for acute malnutrition and a “therapeutic feeding” programme that is administered by community health workers and volunteers in health centres and hospitals. Mothers bring their children each week, on a specific day to be weighed and measured. Those children detected with severe acute malnutrition undergo an appetite test of a special peanut based RUTF (Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food) to eat whilst in the clinic. As long as the child has appetite and is able to eat more than 70% of the RUTF, the mother is given enough RUTF packs for a week, and strict instructions on how to administer it. Any child that cannot eat or has other complications is treated in the hospital temporarily until he or she is able to resume the programme in health centres closer to their homes.
Mothers are also counselled on breastfeeding, adequate, safe and nutritious complementary foods as well as other best childcare practices including hand washing before preparing and feeding a child and after visiting the toilet. It is estimated that globally, undernutrition is an underlying condition in more than a third of deaths of children under five years. Severely malnourished children have a high likelihood of dying if they don’t receive appropriate treatment. The long-term effects of malnutrition are impaired learning and development and reduced income earning potential as adults. It is even estimated that up to 3% of a country’s gross domestic product (GDP) is lost due to undernutrition.
UNICEF continues to support the CMAM program in municipalities like Maguindanao and North Cotabato with plans to include the program into regular local government services in its partner municipalities (four in
Dr. Zambrano adds, “This generous donation from Marks & Spencer will go towards expanding the CMAM program to reach more children and families with high prevalence of malnutrition especially in
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There is outdoor seating 🙂
With a beautiful view
But we choose to stay inside 🙂
Love the tea warmer 🙂
Of course my lassi 🙂
James and I do not order the same so we can try more dishes
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As soon as we arrived in Udaipur, we checked in, then went to have dinner. We took a boat to go across
Beautiful! Udaipur – the Venice of the East. It was cold in Udaipur and even more since we were in an open boat
Fateh Prakash Palace
Tito Joe and Tita Mary Ann arranged for this dinner
Lumpia 🙂
We did not want to have Filipino because we were in India! 🙂
Pork adobo 🙂
Tito Joe serving everyone wine 🙂
We were all happy to be in Udaipur, a beautiful city surrounded by water. Thank you Tito Joe and Tita Mary Ann for a lovely dinner
Raita to help lessen the spice
Tempura
Thai Green Curry
French Fries
The boys!
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The Oberoi had a beautiful spa, but as usual, I was not able to take advantage! I wish we had more time…we shall return 🙂
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