Category: Personal

[Flavors of La Salle] Mama V Resto

By Anton Diaz
Topics: #Restaurants, Beat Ateneo, ANIMO Lasalle!

Beef tapa (in 12 special flavors), tocino, pork chop, corned beef, sisig, 9 pork variations (afritada, binagoongan, caldereta, kare kare, menudo, patatim, pochero, sinigang, sweet and sour), macaroni salad, spaghetti tomato, adobo, pork/chicken barbecue (in 12 special flavors) and chicharon.
…I miss the college days where you hang out in a karaoke to celebrate someone’s birthday and the more squeezed you are inside the room– the better it is (if you know what I mean 🙂
… They have a 24 hour convenience store in front of the restaurant and caters to the night people or during holidays when all the establishments are closed.

[Flavors of La Salle] Do you remember Garaje?

By Anton Diaz
Topics: #Restaurants, Beat Ateneo, ANIMO Lasalle!

Fast forward to 2000, it already moved to a nearby location where there are no signs and you can only see a small door beside a sari sari store. … This place gave us an idea to do a series on restaurants/ food places around the La Salle area that is worth blogging about.
…I think this is Aidan’s first taste of a turo turo place and we asked him to order for us.

Rogin E Blogger’s Physique Challenge

By Anton Diaz
Topics: My Marathon Story

This is my second attempt to lose weight (the first one was during the marathon last year.) Thanks to Rogin E for putting up this physique/ weight loss challenge for 3 fat bloggers (hehe) which includes Carlos Celdran and Paul Santos . I’m also starting to experiment with Vblogging and the video above is my first attempt .

One Night in Manila

By Anton Diaz
Topics: Our Family Posts

I’m excited that my short contribution for Lara Day’s One Night in Manila article in Time Magazine was published already. Lara asked three people about their recommendation to people if they only have one night in Manila. I was interviewed together with Jake Macapagal, 40, theater and independent-film actor and JLizette Claudio, 26, head of artist and media relations, MTV Philippines.

Kiong Hee Huat Tsai is Happy New Year in Binondo

By Anton Diaz
Topics: Our Family Posts

Kiong Hee Huat Tsai!! In Binondo and with most tsinoys that I met, Kiong Hee Huat Tsai is the proper way to greet Happy New Year! Kung Hei Fat Choi is a more commercialized greeting (I guess). Personally, I am starting to get the hang of celebrating Chinese New Year after 5 years of being … Continue reading Kiong Hee Huat Tsai is Happy New Year in Binondo

70 KM Banaue – Sagada Trail Run to support Kythe’s children with cancer.

By Anton Diaz
Topics: My Marathon Story

Last year, Ben of Photographer on the Run , Jaymie- The Bullrunner and Our Awesome Planet (all proud members of Happy Feet ) joined the Pinoy Ultra runners to raise funds for Kythe. … The parents will bring their kids to the AFP V Luna children’s hospital because they would rely on volunteer donation support to fund the chemotheraphy treatments. Ben and I with Tita Aida and Ninin of Kythe during the turnover of the P60,000 donation to Kythe. (see: a mOrninG with Kythe ) Kythe provides one volunteer who would supervise this Kiddie Corner in the AFP children’s hospital.

Random Thoughts on Branding the Philippines

By Anton Diaz
Topics: Our Family Posts

Download BrandingthePhilippines.pdf (975.8K) I just want to share with you an interesting article on Branding the Philippines by Junie del Mundo and Robert de Quelen. … Some practical tips for the new generation of Filipinos: — We literally stopped watching TV already because media is a bad influence to our kids. … Some practical tips for the new generation of Filipinos: — Let’s continue to export nurses, doctors, musicians, IT people, to showcase to the world what Filipinos are made of.

Reedley International School

By Anton Diaz
Topics: Our Family Posts

Reedley boast dozens of case studies on turnaround cases where a happy-go-lucky student became enthusiastic about school and a bullied student and pressured by peers in the big schools transforms into being assertive, confident and knowing all about conflict resolution. … Ong, founder of Reedley, shared her beliefs during the December orientation: ” I believe that with an international education, our kids are given lots of opportunities and seemingly more unique ways of learning, inside and outside of the classroom, less structured but more participatory discussions on: Global issues, economics and polities, 21st century technology, society’s ills, and other relevant and worldly concerns. … Since they are an IS school, they don’t have a focus on Christian formation which is one of the criteria I was looking for in a school.

Happy New Year to All!

By Anton Diaz
Topics: Our Family Posts

Thanks for continuing to read our adventures. 2008 will be an exciting time for our family because we are hoping to publish our blook on The Best of Our Awesome Planet.
…May you continue to live an awesome life in 2008!
…From Syoti Josh in behalf of Anton, Mommy Rache and Aidan.

Merry Christmas To You!

By Anton Diaz
Topics: Our Family Posts

When Aidan woke up, he saw a lot of gifts but it did not occur to him that all of the gifts were for him. … We don’t want to hype up Santa Claus but rather emphasize that it is the birthday of Jesus and we should spend Christmas together as a family.
… Our Christmas gift to Momma Rache is this paper clay caricature art from JNBM Art Shop at Mall of Asia.