Vanilla Cupcake Bakery

I just need to post these cute jars of sweet treats brought home by Ate from Vanilla Cupcake Bakery before we indulge in it. Just a cute and creative way of packing!

flaky bread is love!

I always have a soft spot for baked goodies. And while I drool over these Eric Kayser's baked goodies..Aya is having the time of her life teasing me! Lol Thanks for these baked-goodness sister. This is why I love you! You know what weakens my knees and you're so good at hardening it with your endless teasing. HA-HA

Gosh! And did I just went to some happy place with every bite of these. I think the sweet tooth monster inside me was so happy with Aya right now and not minding her merciless teasing at all. =P Really worth the every count of extra calories. ♥

Birthday ni Bibian

It's mom's birthday and of course it's a must that we dine together. This time we opted to check out Mom and Tina's Bakery Café located in Makati. This was decided because mother needs to check out the Holiday Inn located in Makati for some errand.

The place was cute and the staff were really nice. We had a great time to ourselves since there were only a few of us dining at the time. Personally, I am not really impressed but it wasn't so bad. We had a yummy selection of food and it was good and relatively affordable.

For starters, we tried their queso de bola spread and salad. And being the picky one in the family and the only one that don't do dressings and mayonnaise, we had requested the dressing to be separated on the side, which the staff happily accommodated.

Queso de Bola spread

mango kani salad

Then.. it's the fish and chips that is usually loved! lol

We also tried their steaks.

And this... Mom loved their Callos A LOT! That she decided to cook her own version of it the next day. *see how impulsive my Mother is?*

And finally, my favorite part. Desserts!

chocolate cake

mousse

strawberry cheesecake

apple streusel

blueberry cheesecake

banoffee pie

All in all, it was a pretty good dining experience. We had fun taking pictures and we had a delightful meal shared together. 

Happy ~th birthday Mother!! 

lots of love... ~♥A

marvellous!

This is one of the few things that can change my mind about moving to Australia! It's just the sweet things that I can't really resist.. ughhh~~~~

French tip + Choceur

Ate's Birthday

Still a whirlwind month, losing two people in the family, attending a wedding in between, Lolo's death anniversary and now Big sistah's birthday. Lifting our spirits a bit, we spent a night celebrating with food. What's a birthday without good food, eh?

Mom's dying to check out Maginhawa St. for a time now and so after arguing where to dine for a couple of minutes now we agreed on a unanimous decision. We looked over the whole street and can't seem to choose which restaurant to eat and that's when I suggested Don Day, not exactly in Maginhawa St. but just around the corner from it. It is where I with my KCC girls frequented our dates from my previews posts. It is affordable, not really fancy and worth it. There were a few changes from when I last visited. They have expanded the place and offered an air-conditioned area. Also, they're unlimited meat options also offers variety now. They have unlimited pork only, unlimited beef only and unlimited pork and beef as well. They're buffet consisted of spread of Korean food still and two soup choices.

We were lead to our table on the other side of the room. We settled and then started checking out the buffet. As all of the times I've been there, the food is satisfactory. You don't get fancy Korean dishes but you get familiar dishes you might have seen in some Korean dramas. I still find Happy 6 days Korean Restaurant more authentic than Don Day. But if you're finding affordable unlimited samgyupsal with a nice spread of Korean buffet come and visit Don day, you won't be disappointed. *wink wink*

After supper, we are now in the hunt for desserts. Initially we opted to cross the street to Pino to check out their dessert offerings. Unfortunately, the spot was already closing that night so we ended up looking out some other place. And it's the wonders of google and GPS once more. I searched this cupcake place named Frosted along Maginhawa St. and prayed that it's still up for grabs at that time. And because I am so great with directions and maps *pun intended* we were sort of lost our way to Frosted. hah! certainly not my fault if they trusted me to read the directions to it! *defensive* XP

We found the place after a little back and forth and turns. It was unnoticeable really and I wouldn't be blamed for having lost our way since they too did not notice it as well. It's a small part of a house and having said so it must have been a converted shop, mostly likely.

They have selections of teas and coffees and varieties of cupcakes, which I must say looks so yummy. They also offer cakes for pets! Props at that! They make custom made cakes for pets is so awesome to think and cute tooo. We saw the brochure and was tempted to buy one for our dear Prince and Princess.

Coffee is nice. *bias judgement of a coffee-lover* because I'll drink any coffee that's strong and smelling nice. The cupcake... hmm.. nothing special I think. It tastes nice but it's too sweet for my buds I guess. oh! I remember I have a bland tongue, don't blame me for an inaccurate taste description please. We enjoyed the place though. Like any recently popping cupcake place, it is cute as well. It's simple to look at yet so girly, which is a good thing I think. It appeals to most of the girls.

Snapshots of the birthday gal

And this wrapped our night.. bonne nuit!

with love,
♥A

at night...

and before going home from such a great meal at TWG, we sneaked up a bottle of wine.

Well, aside from drinking... I love the 'un-corking' part just because I'm good at it. I mean, it's one of the things I can really do myself without breaking anything. HA-HA

Now I'm ready for bed. Ciao!


♥A

candies

I am guilty of loving candies and sugary stuffs! And this one is a good one. Wish we had one back here... this is one of the things I love about Australia. okay, too much blabbing.

A real bliss! gummy candy with berry fillings. I can eat a bag or two without feeling guilty! Maybe the third one will make me feel guilty. =P

sparkly nails

This was supposed to be a photo of the chocolate but I like how my nails look here. Talk about *vanity*!

Cadburry Dark Chocolate - Old Gold with my nails pretty in Pink! lol

redoing family dinner 2 years ago..

I took a day off from work for the family dinner. We do this sort of dinner whenever a family is soon to be leaving off to somewhere, sorta send off dinner or so it seems. But really we do this to bond, catch up and share stories and make tattle-telling, just to be in the company of each other. It keeps the family tight!

This time since Tita Julie is nearing the end of her short holidays at home we decided to treat her out again like we did two years ago before she left for work too.

I took a nap after playing with Princess and at around noon, Aya and I left off first to meet a friend of mine and coffee back at Caffé Bene in Eastwood City.

We spent a couple of hours talking there and taking time into drinking our coffee because it's too early for supper and we are to meet the family at around 7 in the evening. We were supposed to dine in Bonoyaki like two years ago but it was only then we found out that it has ended the business for quite some time now. Now we opted for another buffet restaurant near the area Sambo kojin (Eat All You Can).

Since Aya and I was just around the corner, we arrived pretty early and have to wait for the opening time for dinner. We were walked in our designated table after a bit and waited for Dad, Mom and Ate with Tita Julie. Aside from good food, I love the staff. My sister and I were taken cared of really well. Every staff who passes by our table would ask what we need and even offer us variety of soup, etc. And since they were persistent we settled for a sukiyaki soup while we wait. Sambo kojin has arrays of food variety that'll give you a headache to choose from or maybe not I'm just exaggerating! But it was for me! =D

In truth, Aya and I is currently undergoing some cleansing and this dinner was a huge break! It is more than a cheat day or an exceptional day or whatever it is called because we ate more than a lot. I feasted on varieties of maki rolls, sushi and sashimi and Aya more than what I took. She has an awesome tummy I'm jealous that she can eat as much as she wants. =P

After dinner was dessert! My favorite part of a meal. My sweet tooth is twitching with excitement.

We head to UCC for coffee and dessert. UCC is always love.♥

And we were seated on the same spot from two years ago.

UCC 2011 | UCC 2013 

Cool huh?! Seems like it's not only me who's not changing. =P

andddd my photos suck! how unlucky I did not even check. too late now! :(

i think this was cheesecake. I can't even remember =(

Japanese cheesecake

flour-less Chocolate cake

Tita is so sneaky she paid it on her way back from the restroom. It was supposed to be our treat this whole time and we were caught off guard. Anyhow, we really enjoyed our time together and sure to continue doing this whenever she'll be home for the holidays.

Bon voyage Tita! see you in a few! with love~ ♥A

Minions

A little surprise from Aya! hihihi

Peek preview while I was asleep posted in my Facebook wall.

Thank you Aya!! New additions to my babies! Tata~ ♥

Heart's day by Aya

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. - C. Schulz

Happy ♥s day!!!!

Today, we received chocolates from Aya!

"I appreciate you day"

Today is all about expressing gratitude and appreciation.

Thank you lovely people at work!♥♥♥

Time for gifts!

I am on a tight budget since I’m booked for Seoul on February. And so, I have only a handful of people to give gifts. Teammates in the office, KCC classmates and good friends.. My idea was just a sort of mug/glass with cover in it. And then it became bag of sweets. And then when I dropped by Japan Home Center I saw these whisky glasses and thought of another idea. Why not put the sweets in it making the glass the gift wrapper? And there it goes. Bought a dozen of whisky glasses, Ferrero Rocher’s, Marks & Spencer’s candies and chocolates, and voila! This was how it looked like. J

Glad they liked it! Happy holidays!♥