Ransacking Subic Bay Yacht Club

My niece is in town with her hubby, who’s gonna have a 3 day Grande Island birthday celebration next week. I am excited for that. Last Thursday, Niece and I, together with her mom drove to SBYC at Subic, Zambales. I picked her up and her mom early Thursday after dropping off my Hubby in his office. We had a stopped over at Shell, Nlex for a coffee at Starbucks. When we got back to the car, I took the front passenger seat leaving Niece on the wheel. This lady couldn't complain coz she knows, she's a much better driver than I am. While on the road, we thought of surprising my big sis in Bataan. And how she was! Sis drove us to Subic in her Avanza.

Every year, niece and her hubby come home from U.S. and treat us to a night or two at SBYC. This year, however, they won’t avail of their SBYC’s accomodation privileges so they chose to exchange it for bottles of wines, Angus beef and whatever the 42,000 pesos annual fees can consume. We had an excellent steak lunch, a good drink and mouth watering dessert. Niece had a difficult time finishing the said amount so we helped her by ordering on more food for our own take out. (Lol). We realized it isn’t easy to spend 42,000.- only on food and wine. Our thanks to her hubby, for sharing his membership privileges to us. I love my box of cheese cake! No other cheese cake tasted like it.

Went back home late after we took the car from sis’ place. Niece and I drove alternately. Reached Makati at around 8:30pm. Hubby went home with me after some bottles of beer with my niece's hubby in their place while they waited for us to return. As expected, I was the driver of a drunk passenger. But I didn’t mind coz I have seen SBYC again, indulged in good food and enjoyed the whole day with the ladies I truly cared for.

Here's sharing some photos:

Freebies from BPI Credit Card

For many months now, BPI Credit Card has been giving away food items from popular food chains. The latest fastfood chain that is linked for the promo is Greenwich. The BPICC user can avail of certain food items for every 1000pesos worth of purchases using BPI Credit Card. I caught up with the last few days remaining of the promo. It is to end October 31^st so I made use of my saved credit card receipts.

Here are two of the free food items from Greenwich.

Item 1. Baked macaroni and regular size coke

Item 2. Pepperoni pizza and regular size coke

A Day At La Mesa Ecopark

We went on picnic last Thursday. We're with my deceased Kuya’s (Big Brother) family in La Mesa Ecopark. It wasn’t a holiday nor was somebody celebrating something. It so happened that we had long wanted to get together but had never done so due to conflicting schedules. So when my nephew, Jon decided he’d get a vacation leave, Hubby followed suit and a custom made holiday was observed. Hubby picked them up on his way home and the evening was a happy prelude to a whole day of fun and joy of being with my next significant kin. We had a picnic at the nearest ecopark in our place. La Mesa Ecopark is a forests like environs in the bustling hub of the premier metropolis of the country but it also was developed for some sort of tourist attraction. It is Metropolitan Manila's primary source of water supply. Its best attraction was an old swimming pool which was very popular in the 50’s. It was revived to its sparkling freshness it has today. The kids especially my grandnephew, obviously had a grand time on it. The tourism designed electric jeepney utilized for hauling the picnic-kers heavy stuff is another hit with the visitors.

At the end of the day, it was me who enjoyed so much the time with my sis-in-law, niece, nephew, niece-in-law, grand kids and my very own family. It was indeed one wonderful ordinary day turned extraordinary.

The photos here were snatched from Hubby’s file since I didn’t have time to photo shoot.

Note: Didn't have the opportunity to take photo of the swimming pool coz non-swimmers are not allowed to enter pool area.

Pink Kitchen's First Day - A Blast

I woke up a little early yesterday coz I volunteered to lend a hand at the Pink Kitchen ’08. Hubby drove me to the event together with another Icanserve member. We reached the place at the time when all the crews, chefs, and all the food vendors’ supplies were coming in. It was yet a long while before the Rockwell Tent opened to the public but foodies and supporters were already queuing in for admission tickets and were hanging around the entrance, all wanting to be at the outset. I, along with other volunteers was detailed on selling Entrance Tickets. I felt lucky to be assigned here coz I got to see all the people coming in especially the movie/ TV personalities, politicians and all the other rich and famous citizens of the land. I've seen this food festival being patronized mostly by society’s class A & B. I would have wanted to stay till evening when famous singers and entertainers are lined up to do a show, but I wouldn’t want to commute going home coz Hubby wouldn’t wait till evening ( he stayed in his office while waiting for me).

I left my post at 4:00pm and turned over my sales. The total tickets entrusted to me were worth 250,000 pesos. I was quite anxious if I made some errors on doing my job. I didn’t have the chance to count and compute. What if I fell short of a big amount? I prayed and hoped positively! And the acting treasurer started counting the remaining tickets, compute, then counts the money, then counts again and again... “Looks like we have a problem… it doesn’t tally”. Yes, I did see it. The total money was over by 1000 pesos. “What shall we do with this?” He asked. Someone from the other table suggested receiving the money, indicating and acknowledging the excess amount on my endorsement slip. Oh well, that gave me the feeling of relief.

I entered the Tent and looked around. The ambiance was bright and lively. Patrons were crowding food booths. I have taken only few photos when my cam went pfft! The culprit? Discharged battery. Sigh!! Anyway, I've witnessed the success of the Pink Kitchen's first day and Im' sure, the second and final day would be an uncontrollable explosion. The biggest blast ever!














Maritoni Fernandez with daughter

Bagac's Hidden Treasure

We were back in Bagac, Bataan, on the same resort where we celebrated hubby’s birthday. But this time we hired a boat and explored the vicinity. The shorelines we passed along are facing South China Sea. If you are a beach lover like me, you would certainly adore this one place we have discovered. I was surprised to find out that there is such a nice place like this in Bataan Peninsula. It is a secluded place where the sand is so fine sprawled at the foot of a rich forested mountain. Gentle waves touch the powdery sand that leads to a rocky assemblage. I could hardly believe there's this place so beautiful merely lying there totally unnoticed. The serene place is so relaxing, a real soul soother!

Here are some of the pictures I took.

The rising moon was telling us that it's time to say goodbye to a very lovely day amidst the sand, sea and rocky mountain side. So we bade adieu to Bagac's hidden treasure and had to leave it to its usual undisturbed, peaceful slumber!