tara na!

I hardly see my sister nowadays. She now stays with my grandma and rarely goes home because of school. Last Wednesday, my sister and I met. I went to her school to give her something she needs for their presentation in class. It’s great that she was also feeling generous that day and so she treated her broke sister to dinner.

Eversince R. Ma Mon Luk Restaurant was featured in Rated K a couple of months ago, we wanted to try their Special Mami and Special Siopao. Sure I’ve been hearing Mamonluk before but I’ve no idea what Mamonluk was until I saw that episode.

It turns out that Ma Mon Luk was the person who brought Mami and Siopao to the Philippines from mainland China. Hardworking Ma Mon Luk came to the Philippines in search for greener pastures and sold siopao and mami to college students. Before, mami was called “gupit” because Ma Mon Luk would have to cut chicken strips into the miki noodles and soup when someone buys from him. Mami came from Ma and Mi. Ma was taken from Ma Mon Luk and Mi means “his recipe”. So Mami actually means Ma Mon Luk’s recipe!

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Thank goodness I checked e-mail yesterday morning!

If you are going to WordCamp2010 like me, I suppose you already know that we are suppose to set our schedule for the breakaway talks in the morning. Like what I’ve mentioned from my previous post about WordCamp we get to choose talks that suits our WordPress skill level and blogging needs. The WordCamp PH 2010 organizers have set up a microsite for the registered attendees. In central.wordcampphilippines.com, the attendees can set their breakaway talks schedule, choose shirt size, set food restriction, edit their WordCamp profile and the most important part (i guess), print their tickets for the event! Oh, and the microsite has a wall too where the attendees could check out who else would be there. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday, we went tree planting in Indang, Cavite. This tree planting activity is a part of the Green for Life: One Million Trees…and beyond Project (OMT) of the Lasallian family in the Philippines through the Lasallian Institute for Environment. The tree planting sites are all over the Philippines and it aims to plant one million trees by 2011 which started back in 2006. As of now, there are a total of 743,939 seedlings planted across the country. Once the goal of one million is reached, the counting would stop but the planting would continue as the project title suggests, “One Million Trees…and beyond”.

De La Salle University’s Professional Organizations of Business and Economics (PrOBE) took part in this project yesterday. OMT participated in Bringing Kaong Back 4: Isang Sama-Samang Pagtatanim in Brgy. Tambo Malaki, Indang, Cavite. I was one of the representatives for our organization, Young Entrepreneurs’ Society – DLSU (YES). We planted Kaong seedlings in the area, some were assigned in the forest and we were assigned in a pomelo plantation. Kaong (Sugar Palm) tree, locally known as Irok, is indigenous in Indang, Cavite. According to the speaker, Kaong is good watershed tree plus like the coconut tree, all of its parts has uses. Kaong is in fact Indang’s crop for the One Town, One Project of the Department of Trade and Industry. Read the rest of this entry »

Last July 26, I had adventures walking from Taft Ave. till Robinson’s Otis in Paco, Manila. I was looking for Acer Service Center and the people from TCA said “konting lakad nalang mula sa Taft makikita mo na yun”. And so I thought it was just like 3-5 buildings away from Taft Ave. So much for trusting them, I ended up walking for what seemed like a eternity with a laptop killing my shoulder. I found it infront of Robinson’s Otis and then I went there after.

Robinson’s Otis made me so happy! I am so delighted to have found a copy of Chronicles of Narnia: Book 2 ,which is the ever popular The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, at National Book Store in Robinson’s Otis. Every bookstore I have checked does not have a copy of that book. So I was really happy cause I have already completed the 7 books. Yey! I’m trying to revive my love for reading now

The first thing I saw after I came out of National Book Store was The Old Spaghetti House. It’s as if angels came out and sang all together when I saw it. “Aaaah!”, they sang in a glorious voice. You may think that I am so OA, but I am not. HAHA. All my life (now this is OA), I’ve been longing to dine in this restaurant. Mom says that their spaghetti is the best! And maybe by now you have figured out already that I am such a pasta freak. Hehehe. But yeah, because of few branches that are located on places we really don’t go to, I ‘d just have to wait and drool. It’s really awesome that it was a Monday, and my allowance was just been given to me. So yeah…The Old Spaghetti House here I come!! Yey! (It would be really sad and frustrating if I had no money with me at that time )

I stared at the menu for so long. I couldn’t make up my mind. What to eat? What to eat? Oh, What to eat?? Read the rest of this entry »