It's COOKING Time!

Hi Friends,

It's Sunday and I think it will be best if we will learn new stuff. I'm thinking of sharing you a recipe which most Filipinos know how to cook. Its a meal that everyone people of any ages would surely love.

Click on the link below for more details:

COOKING SESSION No. 1

Let me know what you wanted me to add on our Sunday digest so I can create them for you. For any recipe request, you can subscribe to my blog and/or leave your comment for me to give you feed.

Have a Blessed Sunday and Happy COOKING!

Angelina Jolie as Bida-Kontra Bida

Maleficent

Opening across the Philippines this coming May 30, 2014 is the movie Angelina Jolie lead – Maleficent. Check the trailer below and let’s see if this gives you the liking to watch the movie:

Maleficent in the movie Maleficent is portrayed by Angelina Jolie. Directed by Robert Stromberg an Academy award winner for Best Art Direction (oh by the way, it’s his debut directorial movie) and he is a well-known special effects artist and designer in the industry. His extensive credits include James Cameron’s Avatar, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland and most recently, Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great.

Run Time: 97 mins

Release Dates: May 28, 2014 (UK)

                           May 29, 2014 (Brazil)

                           May 30, 2014 (US and Philippines)

Budget:  $180M 

Trivia:

Do you know that Maleficent is one of the most sinister villains in Disney? Maleficent who is the Disney’s version of the wicked fairy god mother from the original French fairy tale, La Belle au bois dormant by Charles Perrault and Little Briar Rose by The Brother Grimm. She appeared first in Sleeping Beauty  in 1959. She also appeared on Kingdom Hearts, Disney’s House of Mouse, Fantasmic!, Kingdom Keepers, Dream Along With Mickey, Mickey Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, Walt Disney’s World on Ice, Disney Divas, Mickey Mousecapade, Timon and Pumbaa, World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, Once Upon a Time, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, and Disney Descendants.

She is also known as Mistress of all Evil or Embodiment of Evil.

Her father was Lysander and her mother was Hermia and a god mother to Princess Aurora.

Have blessed Sunday! See you at the Cinema!

Enjoying MongKok's Noodles

Lissa and I just got back to our hotel. We enjoyed strolling along Mong Kok's busy street. We watched some performances and those amazing photographers. 

Lissa watching 2 singers (a male and a female duet a Chinese song) under G2000 sign in Mong Kok, Hong Kong

A photographer directing his subjects or customers for a photo shoot!

After a long walk and buying (it's more of haggling) stuff for our colleagues. Lissa and I decided to have our dinner at New Forrest where we ate the following dishes:

Dinner's READY! DIG IN!

Lissa:

Lissa's first Mong Kok meal... Yum!

She had a baked creamy and cheesy pork rice with a cold authentic lemon ice tea on the side.

Mine:

I said spicy and it was really spicy! Yey! Yummy as well, the soup is really good!

I had a spicy Hong Kong noodles with breaded pork chop and an Iced Coffee.

Our meals totaled 100HKD. We are trying to save as much we are under budget... :)

I'll keep you posted guys!

What's Coming this June 26th...?

Paramount released their payoff trailer for their next coming film - TRANSFORMER IV (based on Hasbro) even there has been negative comments from the previous Transformers: Dark of the Moon, it was announced last February 13, 2012:

If you're an avid fan of Transformer from it's old cartoon series to the HD cinematography and animation or visual effect - film, above trailer video is for you. The payoff trailer is for the upcoming TRANSFORMERS: Age of Extinction movie of Paramount which will be shown in Cinemas this coming June 26th.

TRANSFORMERS: Age of Extinction movie will premiere in Indonesia/Philippines this coming June 25, 2014 and will be shown in the US on the 26th of June. The movie is again directed by Michael Bay and executive produced by Stephen Spielberg with a budget of $165M.

Before watching this movie with your movie-buddy or your girlfriend/boyfriend, friends, and/or family you might want to look back at the previous Transformer movies:

The first Transformers was premiered in Sydney last June 12, 2007 which runs for about 144 minutes hitting box office of $709M. It was aired in US on the 3rd of July on the same year.

The second Transformers movie (TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen) was released in United Kingdom last June 19, 2009 which running 149 minutes and was released in US on the 24th of June, 2009. It earned about $836M from its budget of $200M.

The third and most controversial Transformers movie has premiered in Moscow, Russia last 23rd of June, 2011 with the length of 154 mins. It was shown in US six (6) days after. TRANSFORMERS: Dark of the Moon was the highest grosser as of all Transformers movie earning $1.123B as of this time.

Let us see if Transformer 3 will be topped by this coming Transformers: Age of the Extinct.


Happy watching and reading! Enjoy your Saturday!

Message From an Old Friend... (Sagada?!?)

An old friend message me in Facebook saying how he enjoyed reading my blog post. I thank him for that and then he asked me if I have any idea about Sagada! Well bro you got me there and this article will hopefully help you out. "Iyayi na co no maco camo sa Sagada! hehehe"

My Sagada trip started when Ikhay and Jonathan asked me to join their tour. It was a tour with GAFA and to tell you guys Kuya Frederick our driver is really fun to be with even he always stays in the van to take a nap (hahaha... laglag). So like anybody who will be going to Sagada for the first time and does not want to take any hassle of commuting and have everything scheduled for you, I would suggest you get this a tour like this one we've got. (I'm not promoting GAFA guys, it's just they are the one who served as our host).

The tour costs around Php 5,000.00+ per head for 13 pax inclusive of the fare, food, and tour package. This might have changed as we had our tour last year of February. So James if you are thinking of going to Sagada, try to consider this (a friendly reminder... lolz)

Pick up point is at Trinoma, I don't know if there's another pick up point and we drove 10 hours to Benguet and about 11-12 hours to Sagada. In Benguet you'll be stop for a short time to have breakfast, photo shoot with the en famous Banawe Rice Terraces as your background, check out some Bulul, and feel the breeze of the Mountain Province then you will be led to uphill-downhill-zigzag drive to Sagada.

Following were included in the package:

• Drive along Sagada
• Extreme or Basic Spelunking (I will tell you about this on the next post)
• Hike at the rice terraces back and forth to Bumud-ok Falls
• See some locals and their tradition
• Eat at Salt & Pepper
• Taste a delectable yogurt (put some strawberries in or wild mountain berries! mangoes too)
•  Enjoy rebound of sounds in the Echo Valley
• See the hanging coffins
• See the only museum in the town
• Enjoy eating Lemon Pie and Egg Pie too
• Get frozen while watching Sunrise at Katilpan
• Enjoy the scenic view Mountain Province can showcase

Hope this gives you a little idea pare koy about Sagada. I will be writing a different article of the whole Sagada feel with photos too.