Manlapaz Reunion

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Arlene's Day

the group celebrates arlene's last birthday in the philippines with a tasty feast at 8 Spices... too bad arlene can't be with us today...

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Two Front Teeth =)

Barkada Christmas Party

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Kindergarten Scuba

many many thanks to dr. eric punzalan for the free lessons, to kevin for the coral reef tour and to reggie for a great time in tagaytay!!!

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Chemistry Department Christmas Party

a fun night of bowling, eating, singing and making people cry...

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Back at Portulano

went to san luis with Dr. Eric for an ocular inspection of resorts to be used for the intro dive for friends later this week. it was a relaxing day of snorkeling and relaxing...

Putanesca

down with fever for the past 3 days... glad to have comfort food at napoli

Chocolatier

Unit 2A No. 28 Jupiter St. cor Astra St. Bel-Air

(8978559,8962529)
right beside Whistlestop and Starbucks

DLSU FA Christmas Party

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Mile-Hi Diner

if you have a thing for crappy, pricey food...

A Weekend at Casa Noel

had an excellent weekend in tacloban, leyte at the Noel's resthouse. Many many thanks to the Noel's for the great food, great place and great company!

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Steph Goes Korean

Zark's Buffalo Sandwich

because charlie's is just too far for an office lunch break

Wings and Chips

perfect snack after 4 hours of badminton...

Dr. Saucy Noel

if evil had a face... (and a PhD, and a charismatic smirk, and a first class resort in leyte, and is a brilliant biochemist) ...then this is it!

CHED Visits the Chemistry Department

m4/3

i really, really, really should stop checking out micro 4/3 system reviews... :c

At Fat Michael's

had lunch at Fat Michael's Place with some church friends

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Tatay's Day!

Happy Birthday!!!

and welcome home to Teng as well!!!

The Primer Sale

got tipped by steph about a great sale happening just a few hundred meters from where we were...

Columbia, Tough, Salad, Kickers , Sledgers, DC at ridiculously low prices =)

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Done Deal

finally finished all the paperwork for tatay's welcome home surprise for teng... a brand new toyota vios!

teng doesn't know about it yet... he's still in davao and will be flying in tonight -he's about to get a great weekend!

When Things Fall into Place

got a pleasant message over facebook this morning from Ma'am Linda Choy:

"Dear friends of PAVIC,

I will like to give you an update of PAVIC calendar sales.

It was only complete (waited for envelope) last Nov. 8, less than a weeks time. & the responses are overwhelming.

Thank you Canon & SM for your offer to help us sell/give us more copies. It does seem we will very soon need these additional copies.

A hotel in Cebu, was one of the first to respond. They just wanted to help. Then, their marketing manager asked to include their telephone & website in the stickers we offered to put on the cover for them.

There are 4 more sponsors, each got 50 pcs. 2 of them are doctors.

Today, I was totally surprised - got a message on fb - Judith Lesner, an american based in LA. a long time PAVIC supporter, she wants INITIAL order of 100pcs, said this is the perfect gift for her sponsors whom she always asks for gifts for PAVIC children every christmas. Our calendars are going international!

Jenifer Tsai of Aperture offered their offices as pick up points. & later said, she would write us a check. Bahala na daw sila i-dispose. What a kind act.

Dr. Alexis Reyes, said she will bring our calendars to Singapore, where she will attend an international conference. Dr. Reyes is the sister of Aly Reyes.

We showed it to one bigtime neuro surgeon our calendar, told him that the children featured are visually impaired, he went over it carefully & got up & shook our hands (Francis & I), & said, looking at the pictures "give me goosebumps".

I facebooked Ivy Mendoza & said I will send her a copy, she replied & said she would ask her staff writer to do a write up to "create more buzz".

There must be something in these wonderful captures that reach out & get the message of love & compassion across. Bravo!

Thank you for those of you who messaged me for orders of 5, 10 & 25s, & also to those for considering to use our calendar as your Christmas giveaways. Your generosity warm our hearts. Keep your orders coming before they run out of supply. (CALLING CALLING CANON PHILIPPINES!)

As our small token of appreciation, may we humbly offer to give each of you 2 copies of calendar as a souvenir. Please let us know where you will like to have them picked up.

I believe doing message on fbook is the easiet way of reaching you, but i just found out to my dismay that I have not befriended all our photographers, so pls help me forward this message of thanks & amazement.

Again, thank you every one!"

Becky's Blueberry Cheesecake

was craving for this for 2 weeks...

blueberry cheesecake from becky's

Lem and Nia

while nia and lem were going around manila making wedding preparations, we took the chance to take some "test" prenup photos... in preparation for the actual prenup sometime soon... congratulations!

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The Magkaribal Final Episode Diner

spent a hilarious night with heidee, reggie and sushi at chili's... sushi desperately wanted to watch the final episode of "Magkaribal" but had no luck with her cellphone TV (was really funny how she moved it around looking for a decent signal). She ended up asking the people at chili's to switch the channel of the tv at the bar... she got her wish

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Wah Ying

play sports for 4 hours... then load up more than what you just burned in just 20 glorious, delicious minutes...

Balkan Express

tried out that curious little shop at san juan...

Frank's and Mario's

spent the night cooking and eating chicken flavored with anj's stash of frank's sauce... (with mika's adobo as bonus)

and then capping off the night with some pampering at ahavia...

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Skyline

Puttanesca

i absolutely love this... puttanesca at ristorante napoli

Late Night Diner

almost too late...

She's Back...

anj is back after a month and a half in singapore... and this is the first thing she does in manila...

Angono Liempo Party Part 2

spent the day eating at Kinamat with the usual people... then went back to manila to eat some more...

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Yey!!!

fun in a bottle!!!

Glenn's Day

debbie shows up at DLSU to surprise glenn on his birthday...

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Not Exactly Healthy...

...but we love it!

Pulled Pork BBQ Plate

Going Micro

Gospel Meeting

CHY61... Almost at Banchetto

sushi was craving isaw so we went to banchetto with some CHY-61 people... unfortunately it was the first weekend of the semestral break and everyone seems to have decided to go to banchetto as well... so we decided to skip banchetto and just had coffee instead

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Zark's Philly Cheese Steak

tried out Zark's newest item on the menu... The Philly Cheese Steak Burger

Enzo Santo

watched a play by Cocoy's brother today. Thanks to the tanadas' and the davids' for the invitation!

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Charlie's Oriental

celebrating with the orientals who just recently passed the chem boards! COngratulations!!!

Banchetto with the Orientals

went to banchetto with the chemistry department orientals...

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Great day...

watched a movie, met hanna at the airport, ended the day at charlie's...

Fondue

fondue fun at Heavenly Chocolates with the usual suspects...

Kim and the iPT4

tried to convince kim to take the plunge... no go though hehe!

After John...

the davids' and ngos' called up after watching a john mayer concert in heavy rain... 20 minutes later everyone was at souzhou playing menu charades with the waitress

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KICKOFF - The DLSU "We Have Nothing Better to Do Celebration"

the DLSU community says goodbye to its beloved football field...

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