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A Victorian Home By Rocco and Ria

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Of course, I invited myself over to Ria’s home 🙂  I am glad she said yes!

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She has a saying ” No more arte arte”  Which is also applicable to me too which I will adapt 🙂  Hope others will do too.  

I love the location of her house because it’s isolated and you will only pass here if you live in this street 

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And my dream is to live in a Victorian home!!  She is living my dream!!! 🙂  She is so lucky!  She is renting this home and she is also very lucky her landlord renovated the house before they moved in!!  It’s beautiful!! It’s a 144 year old house!  

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As you enter 🙂  Someone loves to bike 🙂  Victorian homes are very narrow and they go up several floors – so it is a vertical home 🙂  

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WOW!! The living room!  Ria told me that she moved all her furniture and things from Singapore where she lived for 13 years!  Jonathan Matti was her Interior designer in Singapore.  This time, she just fixed this herself! 

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Antique pottery

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She has a mixture of Asian Art

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The living room is connected to the dining room which is nice because it becomes more spacious and not too enclosed compared to the other Victorian homes I have seen

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Love the dining room!!!!  Table by Kenneth Cobonpue and dining chairs by Roland Laurena 

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Ang Kiukok paintings

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Bencab

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Ria has been living in London for a year already and she told me that ever since she moved from Singapore, she had to learn how to cook! And I heard she cooks very well!  

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The kitchen leads to a patio! Love! 🙂

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View of bikes again moving towards the stairs going up

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First level – guest bathroom

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Master Bedroom

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More artwork!  Manansala nude!

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John Santos!!!

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It’s really hard to find renovated Victorian homes.  So having a bathroom like this is precious 🙂  

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Second Floor – Kids room 🙂

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Third floor should be another bedroom but Ria turned it into the study/play room of the kids!! 

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Ronald Ventura!!!

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Fourth level is an attic type room which she made into the guest room! Lucky houseguest 🙂

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Oops another bike 🙂

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Ria and Rocco’s home featured in a magazine in Singapore while they were still living there

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Alessandra’s Angels

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Heart2Heart through the request of a friend, Ned,  is helping spread the word to help the family of two month old Alessandra raise money for her needed heart surgery.  

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They need to raise  P 1m for this.  A Facebook page was set up for this initiative ( Click below to go to the page )  

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They will be doing many fund raisers and one of them is you can simply make a donation in cash and deposit it to BPI Account of James H. Deakin 3779 0574 44 

Another way is this very interesting offer from James Deakin.  

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The boys will probably know more about this so for the lady readers out there you might want to inform your husbands of this offer or maybe bid for them 🙂 Read below for more information or click on the photo to go to the website  

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Another generous friend, Elbert Cuenca, threw in a free steak dinner for two at Elbert’s Steak Room, A premium bottle of champagne and an overnight stay in Resorts World.  Please click below to post your bid for this package

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Under Bridge Spicy Crab

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 We love this restaurant which Tito Manny and Tita Ina chose!!!!  YUM!!!  There are 3 restaurants side by side and they are literally under the bridge 🙂  

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Outside the restaurant was a guy with styrofoam coolers filled with fresh crabs!!

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This was the restaurant we went to

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Anthony Bourdain was here! 🙂

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YUMMY fried tofu with garlic!!!  

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Pigeon

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I forgot what this was called but it was not diwal

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And what they are known for!!  We told them NOT SPICY!  Yes we are funny 🙂

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I love the garlic!!

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And make it garlic rice 🙂

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Mantis with garlic 🙂

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click below to go to their website

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Lionair Inc

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I should never have ridden that heli, I am enjoying it too much! 🙂  A friend, Archi Po, owner of Lionair, offered us a round trip ride, so we took the opportunity to take it to Subic!

Previous entry:  My First Helicopter Ride April 11, 2013 

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They escort you from the gate to the hangar

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Oh my gosh! It’s smaller than Tito Rob’s!

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WOW!

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There were many of this.  James told me that this helicopter is easy to maintain just like a car which explains why it is popular

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Boarding

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Archi arrives to greet us 

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Thank you Archi!

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Goodbye

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We took off similar to a plane

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Fits only 4

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For more information, click below to go to their website:

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Danville Concours d’Elegance

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James asked me to accompany him to a car show in Danville.  We drove about an hour away from San Mateo.  I love the small town of Danville!

Just in the parking lot, there were already many nice cars parked

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Entrance to the show, they closed the street for the event

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How nice! It was a fund raiser for Team Fox!  

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It’s nice because in the street are nice coffee shops and quaint vintage stores!  I was so worried I would get bored, but I enjoyed it and wished we had more time to hang around

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STARBUCKS!!! 🙂

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Cute dogs dressed up for the event 🙂

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Jack’s Audio and Video Room and other Hobbies

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Margie took me to their den!  WOW!!!!

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That screen came down from the ceiling

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She closed all the curtains!  We watched clippings from the movie AVATAR!  🙂  AMAZING with all the sounds and with the room vibrating!  LOVE IT!!!  Reminds me of my daddy who loves these things!!!

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All the controls

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After that, we went down to the basement,

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I was already having many thoughts as to what was behind that door!!

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MY GOSH!! My Dad will even love this more!!!  And you thought Jack just loved to cook!  🙂

Previous entry:  Jack’s Kitchen August 11, 2012 

 This is his other hobby!

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 Jack’s speakers are Von Schweikert VR9s, Lamm amplifiers, Valvet phono and line stages, Von Schweikert cables, TW Acoustic and Townsend turntables.  And all these, Jack is a distributor of in the Philippines!!    

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See this video I took, of course the sounds will never justify the actual audio features when you are in the room

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Jack’s chair! 🙂 The BEST SEAT IN THE HOUSE!

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WOW!  A turntable!  Hard to see this anymore nowadays!

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Bar

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More from Jack – his wine ref 

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And all around the house you will see speakers in almost all the corners of the house!! 

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A DJ booth in the guestroom 

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More speakers in the master bedroom 

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Dining room 

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Living room 

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 Oops!  Don’t forget Jack’s golf clubs

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And the view of his mini golf course from above the Master bedroom 

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 Details to contact Jack!

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HPE H19 Phoenix and the HP Envy Spectre

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 Redefining the meaning of style and performance: The HP Envy14 Spectre and HPE H9 Phoenix

 MANILA, Philippines—In the digital age, computers have gone beyond being workhorse tools to becoming innovations that enable and enrich lifestyles. Catering to two different needs of users is HP, the world’s largest technology company. With its newest duo of mobile and desktop computers, the HP Envy 14 Spectre and HPE h9 Phoenix, mobile professionals and hardcore gamers alike will get their dose of pure technological bliss. 

HP Envy14Spectre: A class of its own

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As a premium Ultrabook, The HP Envy14 Spectre is HP’s testament to elegance and performance blended into one. Designed to be an astonishing device for style-savvy power-users, the Spectre features a magnificent Gorilla® glass finish in various surfaces of the notebook, such as the display panel, the palmrest and outer cover. It also comes equipped with a 14-inchhigh-definition LED screen for viewing movies, presentations, and stunning visuals for personal or business needs. 

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With its streamlined look and lightweight aluminum build, the Spectre exudes an air of style and readiness to perform anytime, anywhere.

 

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The sexy tech sensation is enhanced further with its premium Beats® by Dr. Dre sound system for an immersive sonic experience.

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With its own jogger dial for seamless volume control and hi-fidelity built-in speakers, it’s a guaranteed audio phenomenon.

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Built for the entrepreneur on-the-move, the Spectre lasts up to 9 hours with its high-capacity 4-cell battery1.Bringing a suave touch to business computing, it also boasts of a chic backlit keyboard, a smooth, highly responsive track pad, and a host of powerful features like an Intel i7 processor, Intel HD graphics, a 256GB Solid-State Drive (SSD), and up to 4GB of DDR3 memory for optimum performance.

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The gaming passion burns brighter with the HPE h9 Phoenix

Function and form blend into an extremely powerful combination with the HP HPEh9 Phoenix. Representing the pinnacle of powerhouse gaming, the HP h9 Phoenix is a true contender to earn the respect of champions. Built for the hardcore gamer, every piece of the h9 Phoenix is tailor-made to bring maximum performance and comfort.

 

At the very heart of the metal-and-fire inspired chassis is an Intel Z75 (Panther Point) chipset with a blazing third-generation Intel® Core™ i5-3570K “unlocked” Processor that can satisfy the needs of every gamer looking for uncompromised game action. Keeping the Phoenix at its optimum operating temperatures at all times is a state-of-the-art liquid cooling system to ensure maximum processing performance. Packed with impressive expansion capability via PCI Express Gen 3 which is twice as fast as Gen 2, and two USB 3.0 ports, the Phoenix guarantees ultra-fast data transfer. Stacked with a maximum capacity of up to 16GB DDR3-1600 memory, a 1TB SATA 3G hard drive, and the venerated Radeon™ HD 7770 graphics card with 2GB GDDR5 dedicated memory, the HPE-h9 Phoenix truly fires-up the gaming battlefield. Along with the HP 2311gt 3D HD LED monitor coupled with two passive 3D glasses and high-definition Beats® audio technology, it brings the gaming experience to a whole new level of reality. With all of its impressive features, the HPE h9 Phoenix will surely gear gamers up for victory.

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With the HP Envy14 Spectre and HPE h9 Phoenix, HP fulfills the needs and wants of today’s most discerning users, whether for fashion or passion.

 

Availability and pricing

The HP Envy 14 Spectre and HPE h9 Phoenix are now available at all HP partner stores and resellers nationwide. SRP are as follows:

HP Envy14 Spectre: Php116,990

HPE h9 Phoenix: Php74,990

 

About HP

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

 

(1)                 Battery life will vary depending on product, model configuration, loaded applications, features and power management settings. The maximum capacity of the battery will decrease with time and usage.

 

© 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein

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Mr. Gadgets

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This is a tribute to my Dad for Father’s Day! haha!! I am featuring all the gadgets he has because he loves gadgets!  And I love him for being him, for being gadgety, for being UNIQUE, for liking weird things 🙂

Previous entry:  Creatures October 30, 2009 

HAPPY FATHER’s DAY TO THE BEST DADDY IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!

Daddy has an electronic toilet which works by these controls 

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Take note of the holders for toilet paper, Dad always likes to have a back up for everything and a back up for the back up of the back up! Huh? 🙂  Like his aircon has a back up in case one is not enough or one breaks down, same with his generator

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Here is the electronic toilet from Japan

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 Which he changed when I visited him again.  Dad is an interior designer also, he designs his areas in the house 🙂  this is his shrine haha!!

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The control panel

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gadgets by the shrine

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Dad’s work station 

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he has three computer monitors so he can multitask and do many things all at once 🙂

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Oh my, i cannot beginning to take inventory of what is here

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this one too – it has watches, batteries, tapes, other small devices

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Soap dispensers

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Oh my gosh, this looks ancient.  I remember this when we were kids!!

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Dad’s bathroom cabinet!

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Aircon in the bathroom?

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Another aircon looking thing

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Exhaust fan or speakers? i do not know

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Shower

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Labelled switches 🙂

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Plenty of these around his area

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Thermometer

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Digital scale with a back up again 🙂

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Collection of hats

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DUSTER!  to remove dust on all his gadgets

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A very religious dad 🙂

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More religious articles in the bathroom

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More temperature gadgets and a calendar gadget

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Electronic switches and an old phone 🙂

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I told you my dad likes gadgets and creatures!  This came in a few months ago!

Previous entry:  Creatures October 30, 2009 

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Oh my gosh, he put it in front of the house beside the buddha, My Mom is going crazy haha!!

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Starbucks App

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There is a Starbuck App wherein you can just pay through your iPhone!  As usual my husband downloaded it ASAP! and used it while in the States

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On the road, we stopped by the gas station and got some Starbucks for breakfast

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He makes sure he has enough load!

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Then they just scan this when you get to the counter to pay!  HIGH TECH!! 

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