Birthday Prayer

Dear God,

I praise you and glorify  your Name! My mouth shall praise you with joy.


God, I want to thank you for the wonderful life you give me. It's worth celebrating!
Thank you for the beautiful and thoughtful friends you put into my life. They are worth-keeping!
Thank you for my loving family. You first taught me how to trust God. You're always in my prayers!
Thank you to my ever supportive and cool office mates! You're always a joy to have despite the haggard moments!
Thank you fir my ever kulit and beautiful dog, Logan. You're one great dog!
Thank you to Irving, for taking a leave on a Friday and Saturday to celebrate my birthday (despite the insistent calls from work, hehe).
Thank  you Lord for Britney, for the sweetest card I got on my birthday.
Thank you Lord for the food we stuffed in our tummies, the food that we eat and share together.
Thank  you Lord for guiding me through the highest highs and lowest lows of my life. I'm grateful even things are too difficult.
I thank you for everything you put into my life. I've always felt Your love because of them.

Amen.

Wishful thinking for my Birthday

Who says wish lists are for Christmas only when we can have it on our birthdays? Yeah, when your birthday is just around the corner, we can’t help but run through our wants and fancies. Someone might take in the Santa Claus character on my birthday!


So dear friends, here are the wishes I have for my big day. Pretty please take a heed.


Ipad3/tab – This is my attempt to have a handy technology unlike laptop (which is not so handy anymore). So far, I’ve never been ahead of everyone as to the latest trends. Can’t help being envious on someone who has a tab.


Shoes – I’m size 7 and it isn’t challenging a shoe of this sort. Must-have shoes is from . . .


Bag - I'm a certified bag-o-holic!


Nice pair of Pants/Trousers – I Love soft and comfy trousers. 


Weighing Scale to help me scale down – Ooops, I know this comes cheap! Help me monitor my gains/loses! Haha


Sunnies – I never went out the house without my sunnies. Keeps my migraine away aside from it’s making me look fab!


Oven  - I want to explore the world of baking. This is a must-have!


Baking Paraphernalia – My oven is utterly useless without those utensils.


DSLR – Aside baking, I love to explore photography. I have always dream of doing photojournalism or a photoblog.


Thank you in advance! *wink*

Gorging at Asian Tongue

Sometimes we are jaded with same old food we eat from restaurants. And I thought I have already checked out all good restos here in GenSan. And I never knew I was missing this incredible resto along Roxas Street. 

While deciding where to stuff ourselves after our Sun Life session, our officemate randomly suggests Asian Tongue. Since we’d like to try another brand of food, we all agreed. 

Take a sneak peek at their menu. There is so much to try!

Meet the bunch who loves good food.

And tadaah, the stars of the night…

Hoy Chiz Sticks. This one is my much-loved for only P50.

An Asian Tongue Specialty – Sinugbang Baboy. This literally is a pig out! It’s not your typical sinugba. 

Really tasty food to match its name…Grabeng Tokwa’t Baboy. Weirdly named.

The extra-ordinary chopsuey, you’ll keep asking for more!

thumbs up for their Tuna curry. Nicely done.

We also tried a Singaporean cuisine, the Bacuteh. Well, it tastes peculiar. The herbs and the aroma are really strong. 

All spell YUMMY. Plus we get 20% discount. Thanks to the VIP card!. I’m sure we’ll be using this the whole year round. We’ll keep coming back!

That Pacquiao craze

It’s when you are totally fine reading about him on news paper, seeing him on the net or root him on his every game. It’s also when you never fail to catch a glimpse of his mansion every time you pass by it. I’m a fan but I won’t screech nor howl in admiration. Not until that historical April 3, 2012 when the great MANNY PACQUIAO first set foot on Dole. To my surprise, I appeared like a normal stalker-slash-fanatic that day. Well, all of us. We just can’t hide that eagerness and excitement to see PacMan. Yes, he was here to promote the wellness program of our company.

Brought here in Dole with his convoy and his Hummer which bring us in huge awe.

Manny entering Mezzanine. People just can’t help it, we’re all thrilled. Cameras keep flashing, we’d all want to have a keepsake of Manny. Up close.

That’s me shaking hands with him. Have to grab that opportunity! This is one in a million.

Here’s Manny giving his words of motivation on how to achieve physical wellness. “Mag-papawis muna kayo bago mag-sit ups…” he states. “Boxing ang pinaka-magandang exercise” he added. Manny, who is an advocate of wellness, generously shares some amount to his Pacquiao team member who loses the biggest. And since he’s here, he gave 200,000 pesos to Dolefil to be given to the biggest losers. That’s huge amount Dole employees look forward to. But first, we must be fit by meeting the should-be body mass index, waist line- hip ratio, sugar and cholesterol levels. That’s a lot of work but we would all benefit from this. By being healthy on top of the monetary rewards.

People are all ears to Manny, Sir Simon and Sir Mel. We’re looking forward to healthier employees.

Manny ends his visit with a song “Para sa ‘yo, ang laban na ‘to…di ako susuko”. He can’t resist the crowd shouting “Sample!”, “Sample!”. He gamely gives in.

Like any other fan, we stalked off, following him on his way to his ride. Can’t seem to get enough of him.

The cold cash Manny shared with Dole. Getting a feel so I’ll be inspired. Didn’t I say it’s not about the money, it’s being fit and healthy? Ha-ha You bet.

Now I must get busy and shed those pounds. Who knows I might be P100,000 richer by year end?