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for sweetsakes!: December 2012

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A Merry Pinoy Christmas To You! No room, no room in the tummy! That pretty much sums up our very Pinoy. Christmas table. By our standards, a simple spread but still a spread (groan). This winky face -a trio of kakanin. Bought last week and the mom-made ube. Kicked cake making out the door. Actually, the oven decided to retire. So sad. I have a small electric oven so I can bake small cakes and brownies but it wouldn't do for big batches and cookies. When God closed the oven door (via Habagat. It is not to...

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for sweetsakes!: April 2013

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This is kind of how I feel in this heat: drianed, lethargic and all dried up! This was at UP. Just when my poor little toe is beginning to heal and walking gingerly is a thing of the past, my UP Sundays (walk days) are threatened by a burning hot and humid summer. BTW I wonder what ginger has to do with this word, doesn’t all plant hood grow by the inch (even less)? Why is ginger singled out? Walking on the streets is like being roasted alive. 35 degrees and it will get worse. You could say I’m alw...

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for sweetsakes!: My Last Day of Summer

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My Last Day of Summer. Oh they got a professional photographer but didn't feel comfortable. They were asked to bring clothes for this or that look -sporty casual, elegant dinner duds and some sunset beach promenading. Right! By these. Props and the right accessories are must haves. Awesome. Use of scenery is best! We (photographers et al) had to go around Anvaya Cove Beach and Nature Club. A members only resort) setting up for the photo shoot and chasing the light. Because right then, walking barefoot on...

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for sweetsakes!: Mountain High!

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I'm playing catch up! Last post I stayed on a hillside home then prayed to high heaven on another (hill). Coming down from Regina RICA. Our party ate lunch in one more. Someone got on Google to search for a nice place to eat at, one that allows in ". Packed food) as long as you order from the menu too. From the road it didn't look like much, just a low bungalow with a sign for the restaurant. A couple of dogs are there too, keeping a respectful distance until you throw them scraps. There's a golden girl ...

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for sweetsakes!: January 2014

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A very belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all! New Year's resolution: post more (sigh). Let's see me do it! Distractions, technical difficulties, mood swings, work, baking time, poor internet connection and disastrous weather lurks forever it seems. So really, let's see if I make good or just resolve to resolve hehe. I'd rather bake snowballs! Well, they look like snowballs anyway. Baking with a friend is fun! I must have made a hundred snowballs! Ps Uncharacteristically short post, I know...

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for sweetsakes!: September 2013

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When I was younger I wasn't really into toys. I like them but it's not like I would always be playing with them. My hands are forever holding a book. I would even read under the covers with a flashlight! I'm sure some of you have done that. I had a few dolls (mostly Dolls of Nations and souvenir dolls dad brings home from trips). It's one of the reasons why I didn't watch The Conjuring. I used to lock Grace in my closet just to be sure. I swear I'm not making this up. You can go ask my mother. I and the ...

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for sweetsakes!: May 2013

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Decades after my Sesame Street primary education,. Is still current. That blue shag lump with the guttural voice - probably from eating too many cookies without pausing for water introduced me to non-words I love. He presumably loves milk but the glass rarely shared screen time with flying bits of cookie. So nice to have Nomnomnom stick around, like kapow. My other favorite is boing.boing, boing. Bouncing) : ). I am known for speaking in sound effects to make a point. 8221; (just letting her know). At Pa...

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for sweetsakes!: February 2014

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I'm a sheep (cake pop pic borrowed from Bakerella. In any weather but chill in my bones? Not good. To all my friends in wintry countries, I commiserate. We don't have winter but even the low 20s is enough to make me take out silk and down comforters and heavy quilts from storage. Yep, we have strange bed linens, in a country where summer is a misnomer. No sir, we haven't got any wool though. Tropical weather only has two seasons - wet and dry or rainy and sizzling! As for pollen, well that's really why m...

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for sweetsakes!: November 2013

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My Joys with Joy. I got busy. And when I get busy I get sick. Conceptualizing takes a lot out of me. I have work induced OCD. Working on a project basis do have its’ perks- like I can crash after. The downside is I get more stressed out when the work is few and far between. Anyway, I can’t complain. My body does :p. My pick-upper were morning pancakes, weekend binges with my friend Joy and work weeknight dining. I met Joy when I was still working a regular job at an airline. She was born here but was...

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for sweetsakes!: Virgin on the Hill

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Virgin on the Hill. Always the way - when you don't make plans, it's more likely to push through. There's also the old nudge to do something for my spiritual health. Solution? Go on a pilgrimage the weekend before Holy Week. My friend's mom decided to bring us all to Regina RICA. In Tanay, Rizal. There seems to be a trend for massive, gigantic religious symbols. I assume it's because people tend to forget and to see these looming over Creation brings to mind the existence of a higher power. No, I didn't ...