Category Archives: Events and Launches

June Mothers Club

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My Sister in law, Dina Campos, has been inviting me to Mothers Club since forever, and finally I was able to attend. Mimie de Ocampo is the host & I admire her for keeping the club going for many years. Because of Mimie, many mothers continously learn so much and develop their skills. She had Milet Lorenzo then Bettina Benitez then Stella Aguila as her partners but now she does it on her own as they have either migrated or moved to a farther subdivision. Mothers Club is held every 3rd or 4th thursday of the month.

We were around 20 mothers. I was surprised to see my preschool teacher in Early Learning Child ( ELC ), Maricar de Ocampo. She was the guest speaker for the day. I learned a lot and enjoyed her talk as i could relate to everything she was saying. No one can be more credible than a mother who is experienced with children and she had many stories to share. I could go on and on listening to her talk about children because these are valuable inputs that will help me as a mother.

After her talk was cooking lessons by Pia Lim-Castillo on South East Asian Cooking. Cooking lessons is a regular activity and attendees share in the expenses for the ingredients. Past chefs were Gaita Fores, Beth Romualdez, Malu Fores and many more. The best part…..the eating part! We got to taste everything Pia taught us. Delicious!!!

All these 3 women – Mimie, Maricar and Pia – I admire because whenever they do what they do – they provide value and make a difference in someone else’s life. Thank you for taking time out for all of us.

I think i will be a regular attendee of Mother’s Club from now on. Thanks to Dina for introducing me to a wonderful experience.

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One Sensational Sale

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I enjoyed the Rustan’s supermarket sale over the weekend.  I made sure I was the first in the store, so i was there at 8:30 am for the 9 am opening.
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I bumped into a friend, Noel dela Merced who normally does his grocery also every Saturday morning. So this is the second time we bumped into each other.   We were both thrilled doing our shopping since it was a SALE!  I asked permission if I could take his photo because I am so amazed at the fact that he does the grocery.  It is so rare that I bump into a guy doing the grocery and it made me smile.
Almost all the grocery items were 5% off and all imported items were up to 20% discount.  So I bought the basics for a whole month supply to take advantage of the discounts.  It is very rare to get discounts on basic grocery items so I thought this was a good deal.  My favorite buy was of course the junk food section.  I could not believe Kettle Chips was on sale normally around P 131.75 to P 133.75 but now on sale at P 107.00.  And I got so excited when I saw 2 new flavors which were CHEESE flavors ( YUMMY! ) : Tuscan Three Cheese ( Asiago, Romano and goat cheeses with sweet roasted red peppers ) and Crinkle cut Chips Buffalo Bleu.

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Children’s Day

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Children’s Day was organized by Tita Rose Lopez in celebration of the Feast of St. Anthony last June 10, Sunday at the San Antonio Parish Church. My kids normally do not like going to birthday parties anymore but for some reason they did not mind going to this when I told them about it. They did not join the games as the other kids were smaller than they were, but they certainly enjoyed the food and the activities like Henna tattoo and the kiddie salon. Thanks to Tita Rose for always helping out in the parish. It was a fun celebration.

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Shop & Spa with Culte Femme and USwim

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As a show of gratitude (and a good excuse to party!), the brand celebrates a Shop & Spa Summer party every year before Holy Week, wherein its VIP clients get to have first dibs at the latest collections while enjoying free spa treatments, cocktails and other treats by partner-sponsors like Essenses, Clarins, Ralphs Wines, Island Spa, Nail Tropics, Brazilian Bare and Haagen-Dazs. It was held in Gippy and Hindy’s residence. I could not help but insert a few photos since I really liked the interiors which Hindy artistically designed herself. I stayed the whole afternoon and shopped, did the whole spa thing and ate coffee flavored Haagen Dazs ice cream, my favorite 🙂

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Shopwise Sucat

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Shopwise opened it’s 7th branch today at Sucat, Paranaque. This for me is one of the best Shopwise stores I have been to and I particularly like the facade of the building as it reminds me of the first Rustan’s department store in Makati. I did some shopping and all the store staff were friendly and gave excellent service. Some of my best buys were Buy 1 Take 1 China Ya pears ( 6’s X 2 ) for only P 59.95 and China Fuji apples ( 6’s X 2 ) for only P 54.00. I wish I had more time as it was getting late, so I guess I will just have to go back for more. Congratulations to my cousins Donnie and Crickette for another successful venture. MORE POWER!

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