There is no way you can celebrate Valentine’s Day without chocolate! This February, troop to the Maya Kitchen and watch how the pros add that unmistakable touch to your favorite chocolate Valentine desserts. You can bake it from scratch and decorate like a pro – this is what Nikko Buendia will teach in her Valentine Designer Cupcake class on February 4, Saturday, 9am-2pm. On the same day, 1-6pm, Roxanne Arcilla Kangleon will demonstrate Chocolate Candy Making for Fun and Profit with actual hands on in the preparation and moulding of lollipop, black and white bark, choco flakes, chocolate dipped...

Been asking friends from the City Hall of Makati City for Caracol Festival dates and thank God I receive the Festival date! Makati’s Caracol Festival will held on February 26 2012, Sunday! Reserve that date! I’ll update you guys for further details of the Festival. See you there!!! Oh by the way! here are my photos during Makati’s Caracol...

When to check and clean padlocks When padlock are kinda hard to open, most people would use WD40. But here’s a do-it-yourself tip you can do at home. Just a quick advise, check and clean your padlocks at least once a year to avoid rust and other metal residue. It’s for your own safety. How to open rusted padlucks Most often, rusty padlocks are very hard to open. All you need to have is your key to the padlock, any oil will do, vice grip or pliers and a hammer if ever. First, you must try to open the padlock using your key. If you successfully opened the padlock, then its time to clean...

Its very easy to tell what your New Year resolution for this year but, most of us forget and vanish and ends up a broken promise. So how can we fulfill it? Now here’s a simple and easy way on how can we fulfill our promise… All you have to do is write them first on a piece of paper, review them if its realistic or not, erase the promise that you can not or impossible for you to do then re write them again on a 3M Post It! and stick them up on your work area. easy right? Why do we need to stick it? We need to stick them up for us to remember it! Study shows that making marks makes you...

It’s going to be Christmas soon and we are now all busy with preparing our Noche Buena menu. I love the holiday season because it allows me to decorate the house with ornaments. Just look at my Christmas tree this year at the side. Anyway, I love Christmas because it also allows me to plan what food to serve for Noche Buena. Some of the traditional Noche Buena food which my family serves are: Hamon – a Filipino favorite is of course the Christmas ham. Too hard to make on your own so just buy one at the grocery. Hehe. Queso de Bola – the partner of the Christmas ham, but also, a great...

Until now, I’m still speechless. I was not expecting this! I was unprepared. Promise. The fact that it was the first category awarded that night didn’t help. And the winner is … Bongga Ba! I then proceeded to the stage to get the award. It was unexpected. I had no clue and no acceptance speech prepared! Just a plain “Thank you” was all I got to say because I was really surprised. It was my first time to accept an award and was too shy and nervous to talk in front of a huge audience. I was literally speechless during the awards night so I’ll say my acceptance speech...