My homemade cake for my cousin

One of my passion is baking a cake. And one of my frustrations is making a nice and yummy looking cake with icing. Well as you can see in the picture its still my frustration hehe.... This is just my sample cake, a simple kiddie birthday cake, trying to bake one for my little cousin.... I'm still practicing how to perfect the icing and decorating it.... I'm glad they liked it, and they said its yummy... This is a vanilla cake with mocha icing. If anyone wants my recipe (well I hope someone would love my recipe hehe...) just buzz me and I'm glad to email you my recipe.

A music to my eyes and fire to my soul

My tiger just gave me a nice poems that he really wrote it for me, he told me that he really meant what he said in his poems.... how sweet..... i feel like i'm melting hehe..... I just want to share it with you so here are the poems from my baby.....

If I could have just one wish,

I would wish to wake up everyday

to the sound of your breath on my neck,

the warmth of your lips on my cheek,

the touch of your fingers on my skin,

and the feel of your heart beating with mine...

Knowing that I could never find that feeling

with anyone other than you.

When I close my eyes I dream of you.

Can't sleep at night 'cause I wanna be with you.

Don't want to live, don't want to cry

Without you by my side.

When I go to sleep at night

I ask God to make my days bright.

I know he will do it - I know it is true.

Because he knows I only want to be with you.

I hear your voice inside my head.

I can imagine us together again.

I know it will happen - I know it is true;

Because I asked God if I can be with you.

I see you and I together again;

Holding hands and feeling the pain.

What a beautiful feeling - I wish it were true.

But I am only dreaming - dreaming of you.

If you could see inside my soul

see inside my heart

you would know how I long for you

whenever we're apart

Though with each new day, each sunrise

we can't know what's in store

there is one thing I know for sure

each day I love you more

I could search the whole world over

and this I know is true

I would never find another love

like the love I found with you

You are my heart, my soul, my treasure,

My today, my tomorrow, my forever,

My everything!

Homemade Puto Cheese

I'm back with my favorite things to do which is cooking and baking.... I made this puto cheese this morning and I sell it in our sari-sari store for P2.00 pesos each. I'm glad our boarders and students in SPAMAST school love it...bottom's up at the end of the day!

Just wanna share this recipe to you guys, i'm sure you will love it, the texture is soft and tastier....here's how to do it:

Ingredients:
3 cups cake flour
1 cup white sugar (divide sugar, 1/2 c. for dry ings., 1/2 c. for egg whites)
1 1/2 cups water (instead of water i use sprite cola or lime cola, to make it tastier)
6-8 eggs
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbsps. milk evaporated
1 1/2 tsps. baking powder
1/4 tsp. Cream of tartar
cheese (grated)

Procedure:
1. Separate eggyolks from white.
2. Beat thoroughly egg whites with 1/4 tsp. cream of tartar, add slowly 1/2 sugar. set aside.
3. Mix all dry ingredients, blend well
4. Add liquid ingredients, mix
5. Pour-in the beaten egg whites, mix well, dont beat just cut and fold
6. Pour into muffin cups laden with cut cellopahane or pre-cut puto cheese paper greased with a little oil or butter, half full
spread cheese
7. Steam for 15-20 minutes.

HAPPY COOKING!!

Shocking Gasoline price!

Have you noticed how high the gasoline prices now? I cant believe it reaches to P61+ pesos now. This afternoon I was shocked when my sister and I refilled my motorbike in the gasoline station for 100.00 pesos, usually a hundred pesos before for special gasoline is a full tank already but now.. that money is equivalent to 1.8 liters only. So shocking....Here in the Philippines when gasoline gets high everything is high too. Basic commodities here like foods are so high. So I'll expect again that the price specially rice will be getting higher for the next few days. I imagine those people that barely afford for 1 meal a day, can they still survive with the crisis now? Well.. God only knows.... I do hope that one day, everything will be back to normal again just like before.

I'm on the Hot Seat

I got this tag from my dearest cuz. Gina thanks for everything....


Are you deeply in love with your spouse or boyfriend/Girlfriend? If you do, let’s try how well you remember the moment of your life with him. But before you put yourself in the hot seat please read the rules of this tag first.

RULES:

1. This tag should be pass on to your closest friends.

2. Visit the blog of the person you’ve got this tag.

3. Leave a comment on her/his tag post. Be sure to thank her/him for this tag.

4. Highlight and link all the list of people who accepted this tag by visiting their blog site.

1. Sojourn 2. Pinay Mom in Czech Republic 3. See Me for what You Will 4. LAINY’S MUSINGS 5 OUR JOURNEY TO FOREVER 6. Twerlermz 7. Gamay and Dako Adventures 8.Technotrend 9. Ness 10. Chez Francine 11. Le bric à brac de Cherie 12. La Place de Cherie 13. Pampered 14. HappyHeart

Here’s your questions: Be Honest and True!
1. How did you meet your husband/wife or boyfriend/girlfriend?
Answer: we were introduced by my brother in law and my sister Dina. my boyfriend and my sister's husband are best friends.

2. Where did you go in your first date?
Answer: In Coco Beach, Mindoro, Philippines

3. When was your first intimate kiss?

Answer: April 14, 2007

4. How many girlfriends/boyfriends he/she had in the past? Do you honestly know?

Answer: just 1 girl, not a nice woman to him.

5. What is his/her ethnicity?

Answer: Croatian

6. What is his/her favorite food?

Answer : Lasagna, Cabbage rolls, sushi and a lot more...

7. What is he/she like if he/she is mad?

Answer: quiet, sometimes whiny hehe.....but i never saw him get really mad yet...

8. What are the things he/she did you thought is the most romantic thing he’d/she’d ever done?Answer: giving me surprises and composing poems for me.

9. Describe how he/you proposed to you.

Answer: not yet... hopefully 1 day but not sooner i guess hehe...

10. What is the most expensive gift you ever to your boyfriend?
Answer: hmm.... none yet but when he comes back here on September i plan to give him something valuable gift for our first year anniversary as boyfriend and girlfriend.

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Friendship…What does it mean?

I once read a winning definition of friendship, it says:

"A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out."

Friendship for me is the inexpressible feeling of comfort to the person who are there to laughed and cries with you, no matter what. For me, a friend is the person that will tells me whenever I do wrong and lead me and be with me whenever I am down….in return, I will be a good friend that will fight for her/him till the end. Me, I don’t mind if she’s good or not, as long as I am your friend, I will fight for you, I am a type of person that you can trust and share secrets with…as much as possible I will be your mirror, I will tell you if you are wrong and compliment you if you did something good…..hmmm sounds perfect huh?

Life is full of surprises, just in an instant, for some reason, my friendship has been tested to the person I used to know as my “best friend”. For me, there are certain rules in life, honesty, respect and most of all don’t judge others…if one is lost, then everything will be damaged….doubts, angers will arise…..

I don’t wanna fight back because I don’t want to pressure and add more wound in our friendship…they said silence and time will heal everything…within me, I still wanted to patch up things, our friendship been through trials and survived before…..i don’t know now……it so happened that our partners in life (her bf and my bf and my sister’s husband) had misunderstandings with each other, its supposed to be not our fights…..ah well, its her right to believe whatever she thinks is right…..if she thinks judging others is good, then count me out, I don’t like that…..talking just for once is not enough to know a person well, and then judging them (my bf and my sister’s hubby) based on a joke conversation? hmmmm…wow! Amazing!....its just so unfair…really unfair! for just a lame misunderstandings, our friendship is lost, might be or might not be fix again....

To think that she and my bf and my sister’s husband been friends for 3 years, still she never known them yet…..they have treated her as a good friend and treated her as extended family….hmmmm…what a shame!

I just hope you know how to lower your pride once in awhile……Me? Oh I did, I always did since before……..i hope you and your chosen partner will be happy.

Me and my big Tiger

Talking about my favorite topic, hmmm I guess one whole page is not enough…I can talk all day long hehehhe…as you know, when you are in love, you love to talk about him or her….i guess you wont be out of words describing how to terrific he is……so I guess I will have to forget the appearance as it will take whole day describing him, but one thing I can say….he is gorgeous hehehe…

Hmmmm..where did we start? It started when my twin sis married a Canadian, he and my brother-in-law are best of friends, my brother-in-law always told me during the first year of marriage with my twin sister that he wished I can find a good guy as I am a good person, and that if he can only wish, me and his best friend would end up together as he is a good guy..at that time, dario (my big tiger) was about to get away with a complicated life from his past relationship and me on the other hand, still involve with a complicated guy…., Dario and my twin sis chat once in awhile before as they are friends too of course, me and him just say hello once in awhile too, never serious or never think we will be boyfriend and girlfriend….2 years past, Dario was just got out from his relationship and for me, about to start a new life and trying to forget the bad relationship that I had…..Terry my brother-in-law, when he knew that we were free at that time, he then act as our cupid pulling his arrows in each other’s heart….hmmmm…in other words, bro set us up. He knows that Dario and I love to play game, so what he did? He lead me and Dario to play a domino game on the internet… smart huh? Hehe….and so for quite awhile we’ve been a constant opponent of a certain game as we love to beat each other hehehe….

From that on, we became chat mate and really good friends. So he decided to come here with bro last April 2007. I still remember the first time I saw him at the airport he was so gwapo even if he looks exhausted and weak from the 13 hours travel. It was so unlucky he has colds that time when he came here. He stayed here for 3 weeks. We get along so fast on the first day we talked, we just cant get away with each other, I remember that time that we love to talk each other all night long hehe… and so we knew from that moment that we like each other. Last April 14 was our first anniversary. So far we are going stronger and love each other more deeply.

Long distance relationship is not easy, but if you two have faith, love and respect each other, everything will be going smoothly. For me and my tiger, our love with each other became stronger because of the foundations that we have and constant communications with each other. I wanna thank my bro in law and my sis for leading me to the real man who loves me for who and what I am. To my tiger (Dario)) I want to thank you for loving me and accepting me for who I am. I will always support and trust you. And I will love you with all my heart. I hope we will last for a long time.