Sweet Deals: 1837 TWG Tea Salon & Boutique Promo: 50% off on French Macaron

It's almost tea time. If you love pairing pastry with your tea, try the tea infused French Macarons in 1837 TWG Tea Salon & Boutique that some foodies has been raving about. So delish with a good amount of warm "Weekend in Shanghai" tea. Good news is they are selling it at 50% off, instead of P 60.00 per piece get your choice of Macaron at P 30.00 only. The bad news is the promo has been running for several days now and it ends today. They offer new flavors that are exclusive for this particular promo. I got some tea infused goodies last night, box of 12 for only P 360.00 instead of P 720.00 . Good buy, eh?

12 pieces of happiness in a box

Singapore Surprise-Promo Exclusive

Bain de Roses

Hazelnut Macaron

Sakura Macaron

TWG Tea Salon & Boutique
Shangri-La Plaza East Wing, Unit 2340
Mid-level 02-03, EDSA corner Shaw Boulevard,
Mandaluyong City, Philippines
Tel: +632 654 1421, +632 654 2557

Opening Hours:
Monday to Sunday 10am - 12am

TWG Tea Salon & Boutique
R2, 2nd Floor, Archaeology Gallery
Power Plant Mall, Rockwell Center,
Makati City, 1200 Philippines
Tel: +632 478 6136, +632 478 2782

Opening Hours:
Monday to Thursday 11am to 9pm
Friday and Saturday 11am to 10pm
Sunday 10am to 9pm

TWG Tea Salon & Boutique
Greenbelt 5 Mall, Level 1-049, Level 1
Legaspi Village, Makati City 1226
Philippines
Tel: +632 720 8665, +632 720 8667

Operating Hours:
Monday to Thursday 11am - 9pm
Friday and Saturday 11am - 10pm
Sunday 10 am - 9pm

TWG Tea Salon & Boutique
Century City Mall, L119B1-L119B2 & L127,
Kalayaan Avenue, Barangay Poblacion
Makati City, Philippines
Tel: +63 2 403 7776 (Salon) or
+63 2 403 9821 (Boutique)

Opening Hours:
Monday to Sunday: 10am - 9pm

TWG Tea Salon & Boutique
Resorts World Manila,
Ground Floor, Shop 17B Newport Mall, 100 Andrews Avenue, Newport Cyber Tourism Zone,
Pasay City, Philippines
Tel: +632 551 0696, +632 551 0925

Operating Hours:
Monday to Thursday 11am to 12am
Friday to Sunday 11am to 1am

 Source: http://www.twgtea.com/ourlocations.html

Today, I Celebrate..

LOVE. ❤

Love and dessert go really well together, so I must celebrate with Coco Lime Cupcake. Oozing.

Ours is not the most ideal kind. As most of my closest friends know, we have been apart for more than three years now. Both of us could not believe how far we have come from day 1. Just like normal relationships, we fight on silly things, we disagree at times, we get angry with each other, but the difference is, the emotional battle between keeping and going becomes harder when we fight. We are not exactly in the situation where he can just step into my home anytime of the day (or the other way around) and make up, plus having different time zones suck. It becomes even more harder when all your friends incidentally happen to be unavailable. 

I always say "Sometimes, Love is not enough" (don't sing it!) when we fight, and I was right every single time. Love needs commitment as a driving force for it to go a long way. And I must be a lucky girl for having found a man who fully commits himself to what we have just as I do. It got us by some real trying times in the past and I would not want to go through them any other way. We treat every day apart as a blessing, we can grow individually as a person and get stronger together. Because we both know that when it passes, we are a day closer to the time that we can finally be together again. 

Happy 6th Anniversary Sweetie! ❤

Jogging Tayo!

Have you ever felt that your body has yet to move on from the unwanted inches brought about by the holidays? My childhood friend, Mae thinks these extra figures are taking its toll on her. My mom and her mom are both health conscious housewives and are always active in fitness activities like badminton, gym exercises, zumba, yoga, you name it. With their kids, it's a different story. I can only love Yoga. I love it because it focuses more on meditation and channeling inner zen, but most of all the effort it requires is far less tedious and in a slow, calm pace. I jog with friends but not in a regular basis like most fitness enthusiasts do. And we often reward ourselves with good breakfast food after having what we thought was a good, stinking, calorie-burning sweat. (how convincing huh?)

With Arel and Cathy (high school chums) at UP Oval

When we finish jogging like a veteran, we eat like it's the end of the most sacred meal (yes, yes, to me), breakfast.

Reward

My friend Mae exerted effort more than me. She ran marathons and did fun runs too with her mom back when she cared less for sleep. But now that she's gotten so busy with school work (she's a Multimedia Arts student and is soon graduating) and stuff, sleep and some other things (ehem!) are a notch higher in priority. And so in the middle of our dessert on one fine cheat day in Bizu Patisserie, Greenhills she said:

Mae: Gusto ko na pumayat.

*while munching on a slice of Bizu Strawberry Shortcake. She continued..

Mae: Tols! Gusto ko na ulit magjogging.

Me: Oh, eh bakit di ka sumama sa jog nila Ninang Odette tuwing umaga? (Pertaining to her mom, as I sip on a cup of hot Cherry Fireworks tea)

Mae: E di ako nagigising. Tayo na lang kasi magjog sa Park sa likod ng SM.

Me: Sige!

We plotted dates and we compromised. As the conversation rolled up until we head home, she finally said:

Mae: Naku, kailangan ko maghanap ng maraming Jogging Pants nito.

Me: Huh? Bakit? 'Di ba nagshoshorts ka naman pag nagjojog?

Mae: Eh kasi nangangati ako pag nakashort.

Me: Pano? Bakit?

Mae: Ewan ko, nagrarashes, para bang allergic yung legs ko sa jogging.

We both laughed. You tell yourself one thing, a moment later your body will betray you just like that. Well, I say prove your body wrong, tols! :D Mehe. Let's see how these attempts will turn out. 

Mi Amiga at Bizu Patisserie, Greenhills (Cellphone shot)

Valentine's Day!

I kind of envisioned my Valentine's day to be something like this..

Engaging in a solemn tranquility and enjoying a premature summer beach view with someone very dear to me..

Feeling the fine white sea salt underneath our subtle skin.. (sabe?)

Noticing how the skimpy clothing distort our deep dark secret flabs and all would burst into laughter..

*Sigh. It was a wonderful thought I pondered and day dreamed while at work.

But I did not worry. Few weeks before Valentines I received a date invite in my work mail.

The subject reads: Date with C&T Team: A date to remember.

Haaa! I.am.saved! Saved from doomsday! XD I wasn't really planning on spending it somewhere else if not with friends or Kevin. Valentine's day fell on a Friday so I thought to myself, 'why not?'. After work on February 14, C&T team (of more than 50 heads normally) shared a feast of sweet meals/desserts: Sweet Style Spaghetti, Putchinta (Puto and Cuchinta in one), Jco Donuts, Egg Pie, Buko Pandan, Sorbetes and the not too sweet Beef Tacos. The program included a team activity wherein the guys must deliver a rose and pick-up line to the girls they drew in random.

Instead of the beach vibe Valentine's Day on my mind, I got numb from finishing a full plate (my guess it's glucose shock) and a pick-up line from one of the guys from C&T Night Team, Christopher Bungubung:

CB: May Facebook ka ba?

Me: Bakit? (Gusto ko talagang sumagot ng tama, Meron. But just for team cooperation lol.)

CB: Kasi gusto kitang i-add sa puso ko.

Winning Pick-up line of the night is from our team, Day 1. Delivered by Richard Barizo to Hazel Sarmiento:

RB: Chicharon ka ba?

HS: Bakit?

RB: Ang laki mo kasing bara sa puso ko.

HAHAHA! Thank goodness I have these uber kaduper funny colleagues. Happy Valentine's Day! <3

PS: The photos above were taken on Valentine's Day last year, 2013 in Panglao Island Nature Resort and Spa, Bohol.
PPS: I wanted to post pictures to highlight last night's event, but due to Data Privacy issues of my company, we were not allowed to take one. Boo.

Cake of Opportunity: Cake2go!

It's my sister's birthday! (the eldest: Ate Ann) Went out for lunch and she's paying! But mom and I decided we can't just go empty handed so a newly opened branch of Cake2Go in Pearl Drive, North Fairview (in the internet it says Don Antonio branch for whatever reason) saved us. I have heard about the pastry shop, their mini cakes, delivery services and how they are expanding but I have not tried it once. Their branches before were far and I have so many pastry shops in mind to explore. But hey, it's a cake of opportunity!

Few cake selections but I was not surprised. The space in the shop is a little narrow and manned by a single courteous employee. They could have been more artistic with the cake but they have sugar-free selections (bottom row), that's a big YES!

I might try their cookies next time. Partially empty humongous jars convinced me! 

In search for the cake of opportunity for my thoughtful sister, I drooled over these:

But their featured cake won us over, the Mango Meringue Cake. The taste quite frankly, reminds me of Mango Bravo of Conti's in a homey and petite style. 

My sister and the folks seemed to enjoy it after a sumptuous meal. Happy birthday ate Ann!

Cake2Go is gradually expanding, going big on delivery services as their road to the market, a certain factor that consumers in this generation consider and some pastry shops oftentimes ignore. Way to go!

Sucky camera settings. Sorry. Not sorry. :) Toodles!