Adobo antigo?

Adobo antigo?

We start February with a feature on food. The Clairvoyant was thinking about coming up with something new for lunch dinner last Sunday. She usually makes excellent (for me) pasta dishes so that was what we usually had for lunches. Last Saturday evening, the wife made pesto from scratch and cooked up [...]

Mondia automatic watch

Mondia automatic watch

I conclude January with another watch feature. Mondia was a Swiss brand and currently an Italian company that sources movements from Switzerland as well as Japan. I got this from my favorite Visayan seller of vintage watches. I'm not sure what year this was produced as internet research has not revealed [...]

On hotel breakfasts again

On hotel breakfasts again

Traveling to Tacloban again last week, we were fortunate to be able to stay at a decent hotel that served breakfast buffets. I took a photo of the relatively good variety of viands we had for breakfasts so you can have a good one before going out to work. In our case, work required a lot of walking [...]

Liv Rebel-A automatic watch

Liv Rebel-A automatic watch

I am not one of those who are overly apprehensive of purchasing things online. In fact, I have done so for a long time via Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and more recently the likes of Ebay, Lazada and even Facebook.I got this one via Kickstarter. I learned about the watch from an ad that appeared on [...]

Like a shepherd tending to the flock

Like a shepherd tending to the flock

The past few Sundays that we heard Mass at the Parish of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (PIHM) in Antipolo City, we have been fortunate to have the Bishop of Antipolo presiding the service. These were the Sunday of December 24 and December 31, the eve of Christmas and New Year's. Here are a couple of [...]

Coming home at last

Coming home at last

After a week at the hospital, my mother is finally coming home. Mama had a stroke last Friday and it was a good thing my brother was still home to rightly identify her losing her balance and fall as a stroke. This we confirmed after a battery of tests including an MRI that revealed she had other 'small' [...]

Pasqualino's Ristorante Italiano

Pasqualino's Ristorante Italiano

A highlight of my recent travel to Tacloban is going to this Italian restaurant located on top of a hill not in Tacloban but in the town of Sta. Rita in the nearby island of Samar. It wasn't difficult to go there as Samar and Leyte are connected by the San Juanico Bridge, and it was just minutes away [...]

Grand Seiko quartz watch strap change

Grand Seiko quartz watch strap change

I wrote about my Grand Seiko last month and mentioned my desire to change the blue leather strap it came with when I got it. I got the leather strap I wanted from the Hirsch store at Estancia Mall, Capitol Commons. They have a very nice selection of straps there and it was tough to choose one for this [...]

Another look at the San Juanico Bridge

Another look at the San Juanico Bridge

I was back in Tacloban last week and was able to try out a new restaurant but in the nearby island of Samar. I will post about this dining experience in a future post. Meanwhile, here is a photo of the San Juanico Bridge from the restaurant, which is located at the top of a hill with a great view of [...]

Rodania Manual Wind Incabloc

Rodania Manual Wind Incabloc

Here's something old for the New Year. Another watch in my collection is this manual wind Rodania that I also got online. This is also a Swiss watch and a brand that almost lost it out also during the 1970s with the onslaught of inexpensive but reliable quartz watches. It survived and still produces [...]

Chocolate review: Complementary chocolate at the hotel

Chocolate review: Complementary chocolate at the hotel

It's nice to start the year with some chocolates. We did enjoy a new one on New Year's Eve that I will write about soon. Meanwhile, here is a quick one on some complementary chocolates from a recent trip. My wife traveled to London recently via Singapore and on her way back, she stayed overnight in [...]