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Nutella

I was able to have a first taste of this hazelnut spread courtesy of my sister’s sponsors from Italy. Ok, let me clarify that. Back then, our parish takes care of some of their parishioners’ kids through sponsorship. They find families in Italy, the home of their congregation, who are willing to sponsor kids in their studies and in general. My sister and brother were on of the fortunate kids who were sponsored by the parish but only my sister has a family sponsor. There.

A package would arrive for her twice every year and its contents varies. As soon as we get home from the parish where we pick up her package, we would gather around and open her box altogether. That’s how excited we are for her. Then in one of the packages comes this Nutella. That’s the first time we heard of it as we’re used to peanut butter and other local spreads. After that first taste, the more we looked forward to every package my sister receives from her family in Italy.

There was one time when she was sent this really huge jar of Nutella. The jar is a glass one. Somebody mistakenly placed the newly opened jar at the top of our ref. I think it was my mom who opened the ref and the Nutella fell. The jar broke into pieces and the spread is all over our floor. We were so sad and regretful because we just opened it. But we didn’t want to gamble so we just threw everything to the bin. Sad.

Then sister graduated and no longer needs support from her Italian family. This is also when we stopped eating Nutella. Little did we know that it is actually being sold in the local supermarket. And since we receive this yummy goody for free, we didn’t know how much it costs until we saw it in the grocery. My eyes got big when I saw the tag price of the smallest jar! PhP250+ or $5 for a 375g jar, I think. Eh yung biggest jar kaya magkano?!

But my friend Therese taught me something. If you go to duty free in Subic, you’ll be able to get the large jar for a price of the small jar. And that’s what exactly I did, thus the picture above. When she went to Subic, I asked her to buy me one. A few hours ago, while eating merienda, I told her that I should have asked her to buy 2 so I could have given the other jar to my sisters. I’m sure they’ll appreciate it even if I ask them to pay me PhP380 or $7.6 because they’ll not be able to buy this large jar at that amount if they go to the nearest grocery.

Hay, Nutella is addicting! I can eat it with or without bread. I still have to try it with banana though, which I read is a fantastic combination.

How about you, what spreads do you swear by?

The Record Breaker Experience

As I have posted before, we bought 4 Patron tickets to Sarah Geronimo’s Record Breaker concert. I’m so glad I did, all the stress (I will explain later) and the waiting was all worth it.

Why stress? Saturday was a pretty busy day in our household. My mom was already there when I arrived Friday night. Saturday morning, we brought Ayex to the pedia for her following up check-up (she had been coughing for two weeks now – allergy). In the afternoon, just after we had lunch, we went to the grocery. Pretty busy, huh?

Our original plan was to leave our place in QC at 5PM because we’ll take care of some business related errand in Cubao. My mom also said that it’s our chance to have our rare bonding time – girls night-out. Unfortunately, I had to put Ayex to sleep because she’s been awake the whole day and it was 4:30PM. We were able to left the house at 6PM. The stress should have stopped there because we’ll take the MRT. From our place, the whole travel should be just an hour. But lo and behold, it took us an hour or so in the MRT ride for just 4 stations! It was crazy and super stressing! My sister who will come from the other end station was also super stressed because their train has no air conditioning! Booooo, MRT!

Anyway, we were buzzer beaters. We were inside Araneta a few minutes before 8PM, the printed start of the concert. We were able to grab some food and drinks before we went inside and find our seat. I was pretty impressed with myself because the seats I got really belong to the nice spot. Talk about a clear view of everything. When we were already seated, we all began to relax and wait for the show to start, which happened around 9PM, I think.

Sarah is great and so is everyone else who made the concert possible. She sang a medley which lasted for about eleven minutes and that was not yet her last song. The surprised guests include Christian Bautista, Charlie Green and The Kanto Boys minus JLC. Toni was so kilig seeing Vhong Navarro on stage. It was definitely worth the money and the time.

Now, let me share with you one of the many videos I took. Pardon the text at the top as I used a trial software to merge two videos of the same song. I’m sharing this one because this is my current favorite song.

PhotoHunt #7: Bags

This week’s PhotoHunt theme is Bags. It should not be too hard for me because I have a few but none of them suits my taste today.

So here, I’m sharing you something that Mother Earth will be proud of.

The bag my little girl is carrying here is a recycled one. It is made from empty juice tetra packs. It is hand-woven by Ate Dilen, Mon’s cousin. When we go to Lusiana, Laguna, they never fail to send us some of their woven bags, which we really appreciate. It make us use less plastic. And oh, did you know that in Lusiana, everyone is encouraged to use these woven stuff? They have a law that penalizes anyone who is caught using a plastic bag. Isn’t that thoughtful for Mother Earth?

How about you, how are contributing to saving our one and only Earth? Share your tips in the comments box. After that, be sure to check the other entries.