Lunch Date

Since there's power interruption again in our place, we decided to eat out.. outside our house, 😃 in our carport. We have crabs and tortang relyeno.

The Kebab Factory - SM Megamall Atrium

For today, my wife and I try out the Persian food at The Kebab Factory - SM Megamall Atrium. Honestly, what invited us is their menu stating as low as Php 180. And since the place is not yet crowded, we go in and dine.

Initially, our orders are Chello Beef Kebab and Chello Lamb Kebab at Php 180 and Php 200 respectively. Unfortunately, we are provided with Chello Chicken Mast Kebab worth Php 180 instead of the lamb. We failed to realize it initially, so we just let it go.

Two kinds of sauce were served to us, the onion (white) and the spicy (uber spicy red). It is a nice gesture for them to look unto each table and refill our sauce if necessary. *thumbs up*

My wife had the chicken, but she is not that satisfied. She like the beef more. Nonetheless, we emptied our plates with just a snap.

The only thing I did not like is that they do not have free WiFi. Good thing though, the nearby resto has one without passwords.

Gladly, I was able to take a picture of our food before it's gone :)

Thunderbird Resorts - Rizal

Last March 15-16, 2012, we held our Annual Planning Session and team building activities at Thunderbird Resorts - Binangonan, Rizal. We leave our office (Quezon Avenue) at around 7:30 in the morning and arrived safely at around 9:00am. 

Since we arrive early, we decided to deposit our baggage at hotel lobby and headed directly to the function room where we conduct our planning session. At lunch, we headed to the KOI restaurant located at the 3rd floor of Fiesta Casino. Buffet lunch was good and offered wide variety of menu to choose from.  I really cannot pick one outstanding food choice, as all of them are really worth eating.  (Or is it just me?)

Right after lunch, we headed to our room assignments and take some quick rest before the afternoon session in the function hall.  It can probably hold 100pax.  Our group is around 60pax, and the hall is still spacious.

Next day, team building activity, the resort offered a vast space matted with fine grass. Overlooking Laguna de bay gives more attraction to enjoy the place.

To give some review of the hotel amenities and features, here’s my ten cents:

Rooms: The rooms are spacious, designed with veranda facing the Laguna de Bay.  I am just alone in my room, but it is good for 2pax with 2 queen-size beds.  The bath is considerably large, and a bath tub is available as well.  The hotel rooms and lobby are Wi-Fi hotspots.

Pool: Thunderbird offers an infinity pool and I like its location, providing a paronamic view of the Laguna de Bay even while swimming.

Food: During my stay, I happen to eat in their 3 different dining venues - 1^st is the KOI Restaurant during our lunch on our first day that serves Asian fusion cuisine; Pool bar during dinner and lunch on the 2^nd day gives more view of the place (it’s a plus for billiard fanatics); and in Cabana Bar which serves buffet breakfast from American to Filipino dishes.

Fiesta Casino: I am not into game of chances, so just a quick look of the casino gives me the impression that it is small in size compare to that of Resorts World Manila’s.

Location: Its location is in the mountain side of Binangonan, Rizal, a perfect place for some adventure like mountain biking, hiking, and a tour in a cave across the resort.

For more information and details on their rates and reservation, you can visit their website http://www.thunderbirdresortrizal.com/ppc/index.php and be ready for the adventure in Binangonan, Rizal.

If I will rate this, I’d give it a 7/10.  I hope next time; I can visit ThunderBird Resort Poro Point at La Union extensively.  I just happen to have a quick day tour at that place, and I am feeling that I could probably give it a higher rating J

To give you some idea on the place, here are some of my pictures during my stay.

Infinity Pool

Entrance

Thunderbird Resorts at night

During our team building activity

Overlooking Laguna de Bay

Fiesta Casinos

Main Road leading to the resort

Do It Yourself: Computer Table

After five (5) months of working from home, especially during night time, my wife suffered from backache using our dining table-turned-computer table.

So, after saving enough money to buy one, we finally purchased a computer table at Home Plus, Walter Mart-Plaridel at Php 1,398.00. We preferred to assemble it ourselves.

Upon arriving at home, we excitedly open the box and start to assemble it right away with our niece.

After 2 hours of reading the plans and trying to figure out on how to assemble it, we finally finish our Do-It-Yourself computer table.

Hopefully my wife will no longer be bothered with backache.

Chicken Coop

Finally, we already set-up the chicken coop for our native chickens. It is an 8' long x 8' wide x 6' high coop made of 10mm deformed steel bars and dressed with green net. Roughly we spent around Php 4,000.00. It maybe expensive, but I believed its worth it because our hen already laid 8 eggs.

It is a dream come true for me. I really love to go into green farming since I was in gradeschool. Soon, I hope to buy a farm and raise some more chicken and plant high-valued crops.

Dinner @ Burger King

After a very tiring day, we have Whopper and Whopper Jr. meal for our dinner here at Burger King SM North Edsa. We also enjoyed free wi-fi, just ask the crew for their password.

It's More Fun in the Philippines - LEGO

I'm here at SM The Block. They have an exhibit showing a number of Philippine tourist spots resemblance made of LEGO. They even have the Philippine flag! It is definitely more fun in the Philippines :)