dinuguan success, duguan sa bingo

It's fun fun fun, bingo time. I think this is going to be a regular saturday fun time for us..... for now. Well, everybody is into it because it's really fun. Not much much money to spare on it anyway. Last Saturday we were at Ate Mavic's condo at Meru again. Her place is really nice and spacious. I love the kitchen, actually every detail of the house. Everybody cooked Filipino dish, we were like in Kamayan restaurant.

Mine is dinuguan, i cooked not much of it as i was scared it will not be successful. But, they have loved it, i guess as they have said so. They are asking for a repeat performance.. LOL. I will post the recipe here I got it from the internet, but as usual, i changed something from it. Actually, my husband was requesting the night before to make it something like the tuguegarao's dinuguan. It's dry, and i don't know how to do it that way. Besides, some prefers and so do i to have a little bit of sauce in it. What I did half is dry and the other half with sauce. The one with the sauce was the portion i brought to our saturday gathering.

My day was as dark as my dinuguan, as i have not won a single round to our bingo session. Yeah, not a single one. Better luck next time......... Still had fun anyway!

bingo galore!

We were at RV's humble condo at Meru Valley last Sunday. It all started with kantyawan to see his unit and we have never been to Meru. We set it at lunch potluck na lang. I thought it would only be beth and family, ana and emong and us since we were the ones who made pasimuno. Meru is really a very very nice place to "look at". Tingin lang kasi to the max ang lalaki ng mga bahay, mansyon! Kyle has even said his heart is beating too fast as he cannot believe what he is seeing.

Anyway, most of the IR guys were there. Ate Erly and family - JR, Russel's, Emong's, Jeddah's, Ate Mavic and Ate Alice, well....... everything turned out "fine" with her. Sarap ng mechado ni Ate Erly, sauce pa lang ulam na, kasi nawala talaga ung main putahe... he he. Jeddah brought pininyahan manok, same as mine. Ate Alice sopas, which is supposedly for meryenda hindi na nakapaghintay. The famous pandesal of Ana, of course hindi mawawala. I didn't know that they usually gather every week for bingo. So after lunch they set the table and played the game. I joined in, of course... for fun. Jong, surprisingly joined in as well. I enjoyed myself, i felt relaxed and actually, we will have another session tomorrow at Ate Mavic's house.

Hopefully win ulet kami....

sarap buhay!

I picked up Ethan from school today, then my husband from work para mag lunch sa house then take the car this afternoon. My bunso usually don't eat lunch, he will just have his "dede" then eat everything later. After eating lunch I have the chocolate cookies as dessert, I asked Ethan to join me eating the cookies in our terrace. While eating and watching the birds around us and enjoying the sound of the water at the pool, hmmmmmm serenity... then my bunso said, "sarap buhay". I said what????? Then I was really laughing so loud. Then I became more aware of what surrounds us at that moment, overlooking the mountain, the trees, green grass, the pool, fountain, blue skies, birds, fresh air, then I looked at him really enjoying his cookies, I think that is what he meant by it. Whatever it is, with all these things, he is right. Ang sarap ng buhay!

Tinamad ulet

It's really been a while since i sat down with my blogger. Got really so tied up with everything at home. Well, a lot has happened, Nadal got the title in French Open and now the Wimbledon has already started. I am really hooked with tennis now, just watching though. I don't think i am capable of playing it.

We watched the kids production last Sunday, 23 June. In the morning show, we just waited for Ethan's number then we went home. He was really not feeling well the day before that. Inspite of that, he had done his part and danced so well along with his classmates, parang walang sakit, katuwa! The kids begged of to finish the night show, so we stayed. I should say, the show was better than last year's one. The kids were so great, the costumes, as usual were all amazing.

piniñahan ni tita Joy

Kuya went to Jeru's house this afternoon to play with him. I guess he is already getting bored and already getting impatient trying to relate with my youngest son, Ethan. I let him go upstairs as he will not stop asking until i say yes. Around 6pm he came back with a plastic container inside is the pinañahang manok ni tita joy. As one of my kids' fave dish, they cannot wait any longer for the rice to be cooked. They settled for the leftover from our lunch. Hmmm yummy! Very rich ang taste ng sauce niya. All you can hear from our dinner table is hhhm yummy, hmmm yummy. Everybody was happy, thank goodness the rice was just enough. I will try to get her own recipe for this as this is entirely different from the way i cooked my piniñahan. The best piniñahan i ever tasted, guaranteed!

Pinoy - new lead singer of Journey

Wow! I just read from http://pep.ph/ other than my youtube favorite Charice Pempengco there is one more Filipino making his way to Hollywood. His name is Arnel Pineda the new lead singer of one of my fave bands Journey. He really sounds like Steve Perry. I watched his videos on http://youtube.com/e.com/ , talagang super nakaka proud. Here is one of his youtube video http://youtube.com/watch?v=xUWJ8bf09BU

Journey welcomes Arnel Pineda with "Open Arms" to their family as the bands new lead singer.