I give full credit to my father-in-law for this delicious discovery. See, he loves going around Binondo during his spare time. Lan Zhou La Mien is a small, no, tiny Chinese eatery on Benavidez St. which specializes in authentic hand-pulled noodles. Their #1 bestseller is the Beef La Mien (P90, pictured above), which was what…
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2009 in retrospect… a year-ender post from Animetric
I was a writer before I was a blogger. I got published for the first time back in 2006, when I won The Philippine Star and National Bookstore’s My Favorite Book Contest. After that, Philippine Star Entertainment Editor Ricky Lo published my review for the film The Devil Wears Prada. The Philippine Star pretty much…
An early Christmas with Working Mom Magazine
Finally got a copy of Working Mom Magazine’s November 2009 issue today. It’s special to me because after approximately one year of writing for WM, I finally got a spot in the contributors’ page entitled “Our Family”. For a readable version of the page, click HERE. For this issue I was assigned to feature things…
Coping with a lazy eye — my little girl’s story in Health Today Magazine
A few months ago, my 5-year old daughter was diagnosed with amblyopia or lazy eye. While the news was disheartening, we wasted no time doing what was necessary in order to ensure her recovery. I believe we are under the care of one of the best pediatric ophthalmologists in the country — Dr. Alvina Pauline…
The 2009 Philippine Blog Awards Night
It was quite a shock to me when I found out that this blog of mine was named as one of the finalists in the 2009 Philippine Blog Awards’ Family and Living category. I just started blogging for real here on blogspot last February 2009. I used to post everything on Multiply. I didn’t even…