Monthly Archives: December 2013

Christmas at Gourmet Garage

By | Christmas, Foodie, Travel | One Comment

We celebrated Mom’s birthday and Thanksgiving.  It was so nice to see Tito Ralph there and Tita Winny and Tito Christian Monsod who are regulars at Gourmet Garage! 

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And Mom officially started Christmas at Gourmet Garage by giving the staff their Christmas gear! 🙂

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My favorite dish for the moment that replaced raclette 🙂 Baked Goat Cheese with Sundried tomatoes, roasted garlic and fresh rosemary

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Another cheese dish, Baked Brie

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Trader Joe’s pizzas!!
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And so many new arrivals!!!
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Look for the Pink Himalayan Salt Plate 

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Ground Floor, Bldg. 1143, Rizal cor. Argonaut Highway, Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Olongapo City

Telephone number (047) 2502672

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Pepe’s Secret Christmas by Steps Dance Project

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We were so happy to be in Subic at the time, our niece, Nikki was going to dance at Harbor Point Mall

The cousins were so excited to watch too!  Nicola eventually woke up when the show started 🙂

It was a beautiful show! The costumes were so colorful and vibrant.  

 The Alitaptaps 🙂

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How to Plan for a Batch Christmas Get Together

By | Christmas, Velada 2012 | One Comment

Tomorrow, our highschool batch will be having our Christmas get together.  We had planned this months ago and after deliberation, we decided to push through with it.  We toned it down and made it a simple get together so that we could meet up with the batch.

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I found our last year photo when we conceived the Christmas party committee and we are back again

Previous entry:  AC Batch 87 Christmas Party 2012 December 28, 2012 

Hopefully another team can take care of it to give others a chance to organize for the batch

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We had our first meeting in Lills house

Previous entry:  From the Kitchen of Lills November 9 , 2013

And then we had a second meeting in my place.   

Here is how we planned for the party.  

1.) Think Happy Thoughts

We started the meeting with HAPPY THOUGHTS to make my committee be in a HAPPY MOOD because they are always getting mad at me for being strict and bossy! 🙂

Here are their happy thoughts 🙂

 2.)  Get into the mood of the theme of the party

This was a prelude to our pink christmas party so everything was pink 🙂 We had a pink tea party to get them in the mood  

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3.)  Always have an agenda because when you are friends, you tend to stray and talk about other things that are not Christmas Party related 🙂  

Each one is a head of a committee or a particular responsibility – so Lills is in charge of the food.  She got quotes and proposals from different caterers and she presented it to the committee

To keep costs low so that everyone in the batch can afford, we get a basic menu and then we ask generous and willing batchmates to donate additional food and drinks 🙂 Though this was scrapped already since we decided to cut down on expenses after typhoon Yolanda

Our host for this year 🙂  I asked her to make a layout 🙂

4.)  Take care of your committee

Feed them so they will be good and just follow !BRIBE! 🙂

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Give them giveaways to take home after the meeting 🙂

Pink giveaways to the committee members who works so hard and still give so much more even after all that they do

Bye girls! Till our next meeting! I love you all! 🙂

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La Mer Tea Party

By | Beauty, What's New at Rustan's | One Comment

 My friend, Grace, hosted a tea party last August to share one of her beauty secrets, La Mer 🙂  

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There were 2 rooms where you could have a skin care treatment by La Mer

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High tea by the Peninsula Hotel

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And of course other beautiful women to complete the event

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Our giveaways from La Mer

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And for those of you who still do not know Grace, she is the Spoiled Mummy 🙂  And she celebrated her First Year Anniversary

Read this:  The Spoiled Mummy is One 

 Which explains the tote giveaways on that day too 🙂  I got one too.  Congratulations to The Spoiled Mummy!

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La Mer is available at Rustan’s department store

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Bridal Shower for Das and Bea

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In a few days, this lovely couple will be getting married!! We are so happy for Bea that she finally met her match.  I met Das early this year and was happy to find out the good news! 🙂  Das told me they were childhood friends, then he left for the States and they had reconnected again when he got back.    

The three ninangs hosted a bridal shower for the couple at TWG in Resorts World twg-beas-shower-2.jpgtwg-beas-shower-3.jpg

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