First Family Bowling Event in the Philippines

This is my family's first time to playing bowling in the Philippines after more than four years of stay.

This also our three children's first time playing bowling experience.

This sport is not new to them. When were in Thailand, every week, all of them were always with me and my wife watching us playing this sport.

I joined the Filipino community who are members of a Diplomatic Bowling League (DBL) wherein I also became member and then later on, about three years later, became its President.

DBL is one of the prestigious bowling clubs in Thailand in which apart from its weekly bowling tournament, it also conducts two major bowling marathons (24 games each time) for all its members wherein lots and huge prices are at stake.

It's composed of expatriates coming from different countries around the world, most of them working at the United Nations, foreign and local companies. Lots of its members are from the Association of Filipinos in Thailand (AFT).

This is also the first time that I heard from our children saying, " Daddy, one more game, we still like to play."

In short, each of them had played three games in that first bowling session with them and with our friends in the BCBP community.

God willing, there would be more bowling games to play, since our brothers and sisters in the BCBP community like it very much also.

Our Children keep on asking me when are we going to play bowling again.

After Lunch at Bon Chon

After taking our lunch at Bon Chon restaurant, we proceeded to the National Book Store to buy school supplies for our children.

While on the way walking to the store, we took some photos, but posted here only two: one is for our children walking with my wife, and the second photo is for me and our children under the heart structure with the plants over it.

After taking several photo shots under the heart structure, our children asked their Mom to join them, but she declined maybe because of the hot temperature.

It was a very cloudy day, but the heat of the sun still penetrates and got through it and hot temperature could be felt all over the area.

After the photo shots we hurried up to the National Book Store to cool down our bodies and to buy all the items in the list for our children school supplies.

After about an hour of searching all the items in the list, only about 80% were found. We then proceeded to another store about 10 km away after payment, to buy the other items.

We regretted when we found that all the things we had bought at the National Book Store could also be found at the Centro Mall at a much cheaper price.

Lunch after Today's Sunday Mass at a New Found Church in Sta. Rosa

Today, we went to another church (St. John Bosco Parish Church) which we had been searching for more than four years already.

In Thailand, we used to attend Sunday masses in an air conditioned church and when we arrived in the Philippines, we're searching for this kind of church, but we're not able to find it until one of our friends (brother) in our community mentioned it just recently.

As we're already late today for the other church scheduled mass, we then decided to explore the new church hoping that we could make it.

We praised and thanked our Lord God that we had made it - we arrived in the church about an hour before the mass had started.

After the mass, we then went straight to Paseo de Sta. Rosa to take our lunch in a Korean Restaurant there called "Bon Chon".

It's our first time in four years to eat at this restaurant. Each time I saw this restaurant, I just ignored it thinking that it's just new and I hadn't heard anything positive about it.

But when I tasted its foods, I never thought that its very delicious and the price is very reasonable.

Looking forward to eat there again the next time we're in the area.

Today's Sunday Mass and Mother's Day Celebration for My Wife's Mother

Today's Sunday mass with my mother-in-law and my family.

It's the first time of my wife's mother to join us in this church.

As usual, after the mass, a cup of a homemade ice cream for everyone to cold down our bodies before going back home.

As our way honoring my wife's mother for a late Mother's Day celebration, we treat her a special lunch today at the same restaurant we had last Sunday before going back home.

We're so glad to see her happy with our simple way of giving her a late Mother's Day celebration through simple, and yet delicious lunch.

It's our first meeting with her after our last family reunion on the first week of January, 2017.

We're looking forward to have more Mother's Day to celebrate with her and with my family.

Wishing her and my family a good health, more wealth and blissful life with God in our center.

At Pink Sisters Church - Tagaytay, Philippines

It's one of the several photos we had taken at the Pink Sisters Church in Tagaytay Philippines.

At first, we're curious why the church is called Pink Sisters. We just assumed that the sisters there are wearing pink dresses.

Yes, when we're inside the church, we saw them sitting in front of the altar and wearing the traditional style of uniform for nuns, but this time, it's color pink.

We're amazed to see them in this color for we usually see white uniform for nuns in another churches.

Lunch at Nuvali, Sta. Rosa, Laguna

On the way to Nuvali Sta Rosa after a Sunday Mass.

Actually, this picture was taken during Mother's Day last Sunday. We normally ate delicious homemade ice cream after every Sunday Mass.

While on our way to home, our children just thought of the best place to celebrate Mother's Day. But before they said anything, I was already planning to bring them at Nuvali, but I don't know which of the restaurants there.

Anyhow, we ended up at the same restaurant. It was our third time to eat there.

After spending happy bonding moments with my family while enjoying our foods, we then go around taking some photos including this one.

Then all went around farther to see some dresses to buy at the nearby small market for cloths and other items.

We returned home few minutes later and arrived at around 2:30 P.M. We praise and thank the Lord for that another beautiful, wonderful and blissful day.

Celebrating Happy Mother's Day, May 14, 2017 at the Nuvali

We praise and thank the Lord our God for this beautiful and blissful day for the whole family.

We started the day with a Sunday Holy Mass and then a cup of home made ice cream bought just outside the door of the church and a rose flower for my wife immediately after the Holy Mass.

We then proceed to Nuvali, Sta. Rosa for a simple Mother's Day Celebration - lunch at the Uncle Cheffy Restaurant.

After an hour of enjoying our lunch, we then go around to take some photos with the school of fish in the background.

We then proceed to the small market where we bought some dresses for my wife and for our two daughters.

Our eldest daughter didn't buy anything thinking that we will buy her perfume today. We just promised her that we will buy it next time we come visit the place again.

We then returned home and arrived at around 2:30 P.M.