Nearby our hotel is a small arcade with a few eating places like Starbucks, Subway and they had this very interesting place called Super Suppers. It is a food place offering food to go or Grab N’ Go food for people who have no time to cook or are in a hurry. Just choose from the wide variety of prepared foods in the freezer…..
Inside are preparation tables where you can also prepare dishes that you would like to take home. They will also help you assemble the food….
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We stayed at The Fairfield Inn by Marriott. I liked it because it was very cozy, not a busy hotel. Our room came with breakfast which I liked since it was simple and had quite a variety. Everything is “Do It Yourself” 🙂
There is news on TV while having breakfast
Various reading materials
This is the breakfast spread we had every morning:-) It is like a home kitchen. It was the same everyday but there was a lot to choose from
This was actually good and all you had to do was put it in the microwave 🙂
Mini Waffles which you can just make yourself as well. The Americans think of everything 🙂
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The next evening, we were invited for dinner again by some friends in Laguna beach. This time, we were lucky to get a beautiful view of the beach and had a wonderful dinner
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A month ago, we went to OC on a business trip. Thanks to Tito Joey for picking us up in the airport. He immediately toured us and took us near our area and drove us around Laguna Beach and had dinner there. Immediately we had a good impression of the place. Laguna Beach is beautiful!!!!!!!! I wish I had more photos. I was at the back seat so it was a bit difficult to take photos when riding the car, plus my SLR camera was still in our luggage.
It is a small quaint area with nice small shops and restaurants with of course a beautiful beach
Tito Joey took us to 5′ Restaurant. He said it was called that because the chef and owner, Michael Kang, is five feet 🙂
It was Chinese fusion and we enjoyed it!!
Sampler platter of Chef’s favorite appetizers
Hoisin BBQ Prime Boneless Beef Spareribs with Garlic Mashed potatoes and Maui Onion rings
Crispy Mississipi Delta Pride Catfish with Mildly spiced tomato ginger sauce – Tito Joey’s favorite in the restaurant which he shared with us
Website: Five Feet Restaurant
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Cafe By The Ruins SOUP KITCHEN
FROM DENISE CELDRAN:
We have another truck leaving tonight at 5 pm if you have any goods. Anything is most welcome of course but today we are hoping to fill it with shovels, heavy gloves, rubber boots, rope, cooking utensils, kawali’s, burners, first aid kits. This mission is going to the landslide areas. Send the donations to Marta Lovina’s house at #1 Caimito Place, Mckinley road. Make a right on the road right after polo club.
Please ask them to put a name or a note with the goods they dropped so we can thank them.
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From the Cafe By The Ruins Soup Kitchen
Baguio and the mountain provinces are a disaster. We’ve set up a soup kitchen at the cafe by the Ruins and our kids are delivering the cooked meals to the villages in far flung areas where govt. has not reached whose homes are under landslides. We are accepting monetary donations in the Ruins, Inc bank account which would be easiest. Relief goods are not sure to get to the right people (you know na how things go). We have been cooking more than a thousand packed meals (3x a day) and delivering them to the people. Our kids and their friends are workforce! We use the money to buy blankets, slippers (so many clothes being donated already),sweaters, basic necessities for cold weather and now coffins too as so many dead bodies with no relief for their families either. Soon we will provide basic cooking utensils for when these families go back to their homes or wherever. Here are the details of our bank account. At least you know if it goes to us you can be sure that your money will be used FOR the people directly. Thanks and God bless.
Name: Ruins Inc. Account #940060574 Banco de Oro, Legarda branch, Yandoc St. Baguio City. For international send : SWIFT code BNORPHMM ROUTING# 0210-0001-8
Thank you from our hearts to yours. MIL GRACIAS!
Thank you so much for extending your love for us to the families that we are now helping! We anticipate that this work will continue beyond this week.
The Cafe is currently distributing relief goods and churning out hot meals 2X daily for Tublay, Itogon, and some groups of volunteers working at ground zero. The families we are serving are mostly farmer families who have lost not only their crops but also their land and homes in massive mudslides. Imagine entire mountainsides turning into muddy rivers. It’s awful! Our team is overwhelmed by the question of how we might help them to start all over again.
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Tublay has three evac centers:
Paoad Elem School 18 families or 76 individuals
Agid 90 individuals (no stats for families yet)
Cosente 25 families, 139 individuals
TOTAL PERSONS WE ARE SERVING, INCL. VOLUNTEERS: 300
In Tublay we are working with the Sangguniang Kabataan chair (a supergirl, 17-years old, who has been staying in Paoad with the evacuees, even if her own home was spared) and the municipal officials
directly in charge of the evacuation centers.
Itogon has three evac centers:
Itogon Training Center 45 families, 174 individuals
Dalicno Day Care 12 families
Kias Day Care 2 families
TOTAL PERSONS WE ARE SERVING, INCL. VOLUNTEERS: 275
In Itogon we are working with the MSWD, coursed through the mayor’s daughter.
We are also serving daily a total of 250 snacks for volunteers working on the ground in Puguis, Lamtang, and Tublay. There are many still missing and the volunteers continue the search.
Please find attached a wish list we’ve collated based on requests from displaced families, social workers, and volunteers who are still digging for the missing or who are hauling relief goods on foot across
landslides. The funds that you have donated will go towards serving more hot meals and fulfilling as many wishes as possible on this list.
Again, thank you from the bottom of our Baguio hearts 🙂
Love,
Padma
WISH LIST:
Medicines and vitamins, especially for children
First aid kits and other medical supplies
Bigas
Monggo and/or black beans… Read More
Dried fish
Vegetables
Baby food
Raincoats
Boots
Shovels
Flashlights with batteries
Candles
Gaseras
Solar chargers for cellphones (so that people in areas cut-off by landslides and without electricity can text)
3 sets static ropes, harness, carabiners, eight-ring (for volunteers
digging and hauling goods across landslides)
Bolos
New underwear (for kids and grownups)
Sanitary napkins
Diapers
Slippers
Socks
Blankets
Clothes
Soap
Shampoo
Toothpaste
Dishwashing soap
Detergent
Balde
Tabo
Towels
T-shirts for volunteers doing retrieval work
Cooking pots and ladles for households starting over
Plates
Utensils
Notebooks
Padpaper
Pencils
Ballpens
Crayons
Gas stove
For monetary donations, please send to (Cafe by the) RUINS INC. savings account #940060574, BANCO DE ORO, Baguio Legarda branch, Yandoc Street,
Baguio City. SWIFT CODE: BNORPHMM, ROUTING #: 0210-0001-8.
Cafe by the Ruins is Mitos Benitez Yniguez and Baboo Mondonedo, hereis the cellphone of Mitos….sister of JoseFil Benitez of the CasaMario’s fame……its +639178155060
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From Marie Concepcion- Young
GK has 3 sites (Zambales, Subic and Manila) These are their collection and repacking points. For those in Manila, they can drop off their relief goods at the RFM Company Store next to the gym (Pioneer st. cor sheridan) We have kept this open to accept donations from Manila and these are distributed in the different areas in the North. On Monday, they have another trip going to Baguio with relief.
For those who also would like to help rebuild, i am also helping a classmate of mine. Kimi Shultz Cojuangco who is the mayor of Sison, Pangasinan. 983 hectares of rice land were destroyed when the dike broke and the landslides from Baguio. they are located in the eastern most side of pangasinan. We are trying to help her raise money to buy certified seeds. P1,200 will provide 1 sack of seed for 1 hectare of rice land. Not only are we going to help give hope to a farmer, we will also provide rice (a basic staple of many filipinos) They only have the window of Oct. and November to replant.
Having the central location of White Cross (White cross is located at 276 Santolan Rd. San Juan Metro Manila telephone number 724-2415) be the area where people can drop off calderos, plates (preferably the melamie), spoons and forks, cooking utensils is a good idea. Once we have we can pack them in bulk and find a way to send them to Benguet c/o the Cafe by the ruins group or GK. This could also be the drop off for blankets, bonnets, banigs which they could use.
I am sure there are many others helping and wanting to help. These are just a few of the ways. My number is 908 8810583 and i can make sure that their donations go to the people who need it and without any political color.
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From Stephanie Villaraza and Chary Mercado
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On the way up to Balayan for Paolo and Trina’s wedding, We wanted to leave early and drive leisurely and pass by Antonio’s for lunch 🙂 but then we were worried we would not make it on time for the wedding. Newts and Michelle had another suggestion which was an Italian restaurant suggested by their Dad. They were not sure what the name was…only that it began with the letter “A” 🙂 Only to find out it was Amoroma. We had a quick lunch and then continued on to make it to the wedding. Thanks Newts and Michelle for the treat! 🙂
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Heart2Heart could not resist publishing the beautiful photos taken by our friend, Noel dela Merced
( Noel Dela Merced Photography July 30, 2008 ) during the wedding. He took plenty but I chose a few to blow up and show here.
Thanks Noel for letting me use your beautiful photos… If you will notice, I saved the BEST FOR LAST!
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Muñoz-Yupangco Wedding Pictorial Part 3 October 13, 2009
Muñoz-Yupangco Wedding Reception Venue Part 4 October 14, 2009
Muñoz-Yupangco Wedding Reception Part 5 October 14, 2009
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What a perfect couple!! Even if we have spent time with them on many occassions, it was during the wedding that we realized even more how perfect they are for each other and how much we admire them for being who they are and for being so simple. Then witnessing their whole family and how lucky they are to have the love and support of such wonderful friends, parents and siblings which is very important in a marriage! James and I are very proud and very lucky to have Paolo and Trina as our friends! We love you guys and we wish you all the love and happiness in the world!
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Muñoz-Yupangco Wedding Bridal Shower for Trina Part 1 October 12, 2009
Muñoz-Yupangco Wedding Pictorial Part 3 October 13, 2009
Muñoz-Yupangco Wedding Reception Venue Part 4 October 14, 2009
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