MISS PHILIPPINES PIA WURTZBACH IS MISS UNIVERSE 2015

Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach is Miss Universe 2015. After 42 long years, the most coveted crown in Philippine pageantry has finally gotten its way back to the Philippines. Pia surely had won many many hearts of the Filipino people and many other pageant enthusiast in the world.

Personally, I have watched the live streaming and rooted for Miss Philippines, Colombia, Indonesia, Japan, Venezuela, Malaysia, Australia, USA, Italy, Puerto Rico as my Top Ten based on their performances during the preliminary.

However, during the coronation night particularly on the question and answer I thought it would be between Miss USA and Miss Philippines as both girls has very appealing answer to me and thought Miss Colombia would have landed third place.

THE CONTROVERSIAL CROWNING MOMENT

When Miss Colombia was announced as the winner, I was so disappointed and even regarded that the show would have been a "cooking show". However, when Steve came back stage and appologised of course the house went wild.

It was a good thing Steve went back up and rectified and announced the real winner on the spot as he learned his mistake. It was a mistake and just everyone of us, we commit mistake. No perfect human was ever born. What matters most is the way we react on those mistake eventhough it means humilating ourselves. Steve owned the mistake and corrected it right at the moment when he learned about it.

SHARED CROWN?

NO! Those ladies has worked so hard and sacrificed so much just for them to be at their best and with high hopes in winning the most prized crown.

I strongly disagree with Trump for his comment of having two ladies winning the pageant. It was a mistake and the person committed the mistake has asked appology. I think that should be the end of it. We dont go to as far as having a shared crown. Let the true winner have what she deserves.

Should this happen the other way around I will still stand that there will only be one winner.

BITTER CANDIDATE?

Sorry you didnt win better luck next time!

CONGRATULATION PIA! The confidence and the attitude you have displayed made you the winner!

(NOTE: PHOTOS HERE AND OWNED BY MISS UNIVERSE POSTED IN THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE)

Night Market in Cavite

A newly opened mall in Cavite finaly took the courage to have its own version of a night market where food is simply everywhere. Food Porn at its finest in a Molino Cavite as a food addict like me can simply pick and dine.

All Home, a newly openned mall along Daang Hari going to Alabang welcome the idea of "Bancheto" just like the one you find in Taguig where food enthusiast can finally find a place of good food in one place at night.

WHAT ARE THE PROS?

1. Convenient for owls like me as I am most of the time asleep during the day time and wide awake at night (due to the nature of my job).

2. The management is very particular to its cleanliness which is a good thing.

3. Stall owners that I have spoken to are really friendly and accomodating which is a plus for them since they are in food and hospitality business.

WHAT ARE THE NOT SO GOOD SIDE?

1. Centralized CASHIERING POLICY is really inconvenient. A customer would need to go around the stalls which is a little lengthy pick the food they want and then get a reciept and then go all the way to the entrance to pay only to find out that the line is terrible long. After paying a customer would need to go back to a stall to surrender the food stab and claim the food. I think the organizers would have to make sure that the stalls owner will pay their dues thats why they'd have to do it. It is time consuming. Let the stall owners pay a rent instead of having a centralized cashier.

2. Scarcity of tables is also a problem. After paying for the food and waiting for it to be cooked you'd have to wait for a table or just go at a sidewalk to eat.

3. Cashiers and the rest of the staff need to be trained in handling customer. The cashiers dont smile and really snobbish. They are not also very helpful.

4. Price. Most stalls there doesnt fit the price. Only the stalls mentioned below fits the price. The rest I would suggest you buy somewhere else.

5. Overall I give them a 2 stars.

WHO WINS MY TASTE BUDS?

1. BRIBS (BABY BACK RIBS IN BBQ SAUCE) is a must try! I love the tenderness of the meat. I also love the Barbecue Sauce. The meat is subtle easy to chew and restaurant quality. The price is definitely friendly considering the quality of the meat they serve. The saleslady is also very much accomodating and really friendly and very much accomodating. She has the understanding of what good customer service is. They have restaurants located at A. Bonifacio, Prinza, Gen. Trias, 4107 Cavite.

2. VICTORIA'S specializes in Burgers and Sausages. I tried their Bacon Cheese Burgers and I must say I am at AWE. I simply just love thier burgers. The burger patty definitely is a win for me. Also their mayo is deliciously awesome! I love it. I hate mayo but they are able to blend well in the burger patty. Its juicy and definitely mind blowing. I just wish though that they'd have a thicker patty. The price is also very much friendly.

So far this are the only food stalls that passed my taste buds... I will update more if if there's more stalls that passes my taste buds.

Tips on what not to buy? All Mexican type of food, cakes, and some of the barbecue stalls. They are terrible. The taste doesnt match the price.

Its Christmas

Here we go again! The holiday season! The Season of Thanksgiving and the Season of Joy.

Though it is already December and we just had two typhoons that struck the Philippines my home country and devastated some provinces. It is pretty unusual to have typhoons at this time of the year and so this is pretty much an evidence that the world is indeed changing dramatically.

Looking back to my 2015, I found this year a whirlwind of life events. A magnificient reminder of me to take things slow.

When typhoon Nona is caressing the beautiful islands of Visayas and great mountains of Norther and Central Luzon, I happen to stumble upon a facebook post from a friend that she shared in her facebook wall. I have decided to share it myself as it looks like an epitome of what I really wanted to accomplish in the years to come.

I am not fun of writing a new years resolution so I have decided to simple share this facebook post that I shared as it is my inspiration for the years to come.

I must agree it is a challenge but still I wanted to meditate this to be better for myself and become a better leader.

Expectation can end almost everything. A good relationship gone soar if either of the parties envolved expects too much. Expectations should only be an inspiration to help the recipient and not to discredit and manipulate his/her situation. As a leader, this will be my mantra, to use the expectations I have to slowly guide people to become better of what they have and not to overwhelm and over throw them.

Sometimes, in the midst of a chaotic situation and emotional malfunction, the hardest thing to do is smile. Unknowingly, the only solution amidst all these is a smile. I have heard that the best thing to do the moment you open your eyes is to smile beautifully by thinking some happy thoughts occured in the past. I know it will be challenging to smile despite grave circumstances but there's nothing to loose when you smile.

Thinking, very basic and yet sometimes is neglected. It is true, let this be my mantra to always think but not over think before openning my mouth and before writing.

One good thing for me though is I am not a quiter. So the last part of the picture is easy as eating chocolate for me. I seldom quit. I only quit if I have exhausted everything that I have.

So... lets see if I am able to live by this mantra before my end of the road.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE AND HAVE A JOYOUS HOLIDAY SEASON AND A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!

The Dreamer

They say that dream big so when you fall at least it may not be the highest you'd fall on the next one. This for sure has been my inspiration everyday. I keep trying to reach for the galactic stars, I dream the seemingly imposible.

When I was in college, knowing the fact that I am a country boy very naive of the ins and outs of the bigger city like Metro Manila and yet I dreamed that one day I will become one of the CEO of some of the biggest corparation worldwide.

Somehow, it seemd unreachable. I crawled up from working on the countryside upto the big city. Oppurtunities are countless. But I keep aiming for the corporate world. I am still trying the hardest to climb up the ladder of the corporate setting.

For me, life is about dreaming and achieving. Life is like a billiard game. One sets and the other starts the break sets. Once the ball is hit, everything is scathered bouncing and some making it into the hole. Once a set break is in place, theres nothing else we could do but to watch how it ends.

A dreamer decides how it ends. Slowly each ball will make it into the hole. Those are the achievements of the dreamer. A dreamer can simply make its way to either end it right away or slowly shooting each ball into the hole.

However, a dreamer achieves more and learn more if he chooses all nine ball one at a time. Life is a matter of dreaming and achieving.

Be a dreamer! Be an achiever! Merry Christmas everyone!