{gastronomic delight or dismay} buffet at Spiral, Sofitel Philippine Plaza

When I got the news that I passed the September 2008 Licensure Examination for Teachers (more about this later) and that oath taking ceremony would be December 16th, I immediately scouted for a place where I could celebrate this event. I knew I wanted a buffet lunch and that Cuneta Astrodome is my reference point since the oath would be held there. I was prepared to shell out more than the usual since I was in a celebratory mood.

Food blog hopping for about a week or two, I finally decided to try Spiral at Sofitel Philippine Plaza. Despite the mixed reviews here, I was convinced that I should try this. And of course, the hubby was as excited as I was!

The attendant led us to a private and comfortable wooden booth. It was exactly where I would have chosen had I been given a choice. The table set up was complete and the waiter immediately took our drinks soon after the the receptionist got hubby’s name and contact number. As always, it’s bottomless iced tea whereas hubby had his coke zero. And so the adventure begins.

I was at loss! I didn’t know where to start. The spread was loooonnngg! But not necessarily ALL good.

For my first full plate, I had sukiyaki, hot potato salad, spicy shrimp, some kind of rice and a slice of prime ribs. Hmmm…

By our table was mostly Asian cuisine which after a quick look, I decided I could skip most of them except for the peking duck, sweet and sour shrimp and a piece of some korean beef and ground pork.

Of course, hubby was on attack-mode! a collection of Jap food and mussels. Huh? I find it “interesting.”

The Wounded by Love Agreement by Paolo Coelho

A Rainy Thursday Morning 14 Days Before Christmas

 Bea wants to play outside but she can’t.

Chelle’s in school… I wonder if she’ll get herself wet in the rain… I hope not!

It’s a gloomy day outside but sometimes, I love the rain. Like today.

a bit like this today! 

just what is madre e hijas?

In trying to come up with a theme for this pent-up dream, I just know that it requires 100% honesty and 100% comfortability for it to be truly meaningful to me and hopefully, for the future contributors to this cyber niche

thus, I cannot go beyond what is not me. that I know much.

my pent up dream shaped up as I was feeling so excited for our day tour on December 20 to Corregidor Island via Sun Cruises - just Chelle and I will be together, this time. It’s my Christmas 2008 gift for her. At this time, I know it doesn’t sound much for her but I’m hoping that later on, no matter how much later, she will see the wisdom and importance of this trip.

It’s within this excitement to be going on this tour with her that I came up with the idea that my  dream “blog” will be something I share with her and Bea. It’s a dream project. I felt that I will be embarking on an impossible task of sharing with her my love for words - reading and writing as well as my fascination with internet technology and computers. It’s a gigantic task, no doubt, but I know I just gotta start this somehow.

Begin with the end in mind, eh?

All the more inspired I became when sharing this idea with hubby Tim, he concluded without much prodding, that yes, it’s a good idea. Err, I think it’s a brilliant idea! teehee!

So now just what is it? Well, madre e hijas in simple English translation is “mother and daughters.”

This is my cyber niche which I’m hoping to share with my daughters. It will feature our past and future travels, events, books, current interests, raves, rants and everything under the sun, even the sun itself - the catch is that I will not only be the one blogging about these things but slowly and painstakingly, let Chelle and Bea have their say on them.

Their two cents worth.

I would love to know their thoughts, points of view and the teacher in me hopes to develop in them a deep love for words. It’s a pseudo-portfolio of our life together from this day henceforth - BUT definitely, reminiscences of turned pages of our lives will also have their special nooks here then and now.

Welcome to our world.

Genesis

This is My Genesis.

A Genesis of  a pent up dream.

I have been wanting to throw my two cents worth out into the cyberspace but an inspiration was never in sight EXCEPT today.

I’ve been rounding up different blogs and I am so amazed just how multicultural and multigenerational the blogs out there are. So secretly (which isn’t a secret anymore the moment I post this!), I desired to come up with my own.

Throwing all hesitations and inferiority complex  out into the “vast abyss of space and time” here I am… and later on, here we are, coming clean.