Apple Crumble ala Chinadoll

(sorry guys, I left this post in my drafts for 4 days now..so it's a bit late hihihi)

◘ Apple Crumble topped with Vanilla Ice Cream ◘ yummy dessert for a beautiful Sunday  with the family and it's my advance monthsary treat for Sweets. Actually we do not celebrate monthsaries but we do greet each other...so there...I want to make it different this time so I decided to make an Apple Crumble.

I called this ◘ Apple Crumble ala Chinadoll ◘ because I tweaked the recipe a lil' bit. In case you haven't noticed the topping is crumblier  because I added a few cups of oatmeal. In every bite you can taste the sweetness of the apple and cinnamon while the topping gives you the perfect crisp that would keep you asking for more. For those who love oatmeal cookies this is perfect for you. :) 
How bout you guys, what do you enjoy most during weekends with your loved ones?  
Have a great weekend everyone!

Sweet Day to you All!
♥Pink Chinadoll♥

The Perfect Chocolates for Heart's Day

Valentine's Day is fast approaching and a lot of people out there are already thinking of how they will spend their Happy Heart's Day with their special someone or perhaps family (who said that valentines is only for couples?). As for me, I prefer celebrating it before or after Valentines for one main reason....I don't like crowded places. When dining out, I prefer quiet and cozy place where I could relax, enjoy the food and have a good time with my man. Going out on Vday is a little bit stressful for me...I know I'm such a bore...boo hoo! But I do enjoy one thing though...Flowers and Chocolates of course, it just brings out the "kilig and super mega huge smile" in me. For the past three years that Sweets and I have been together, I always feel nervous and excited every Valentine's day whenever I hear the doorbell ring, I get pretty excited and nervous at the same time..he never fails to send me flowers or chocolates. It's an old tradition but hey, it always works...no matter how "dry and boring" the person can be.


For those who are busy and have no time to go to shops to buy chocolates, why not try to shop online and have it delivered. I found a shop that offers the same service - Chocolates by Benoit. They offer freshly made, Belgian chocolates made by a Belgian chocolatier - Benoit Nicolay. And they deliver anywhere in the Philippines. Easy right?

How bout you guys, what are your plans this coming Valentines day?

Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home.
Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor.--Mother Teresa




Sweet Day to you All!

♥Pink Chinadoll♥

Santa Sweets

Finally! Its about time to update my blog. I've missed all of you guys and sorry I've been really busy last quarter specially last December. It's still January right? so I guess its better late than never and January ain't over yet and we're just 2 weeks early for Chinese New Year hehehe.... So here's a huge huge Hug and Kisses for you and I would like to greet all of you a Happy Happy New Year!


Do you remember my previous post? the one with "Letter to Santa"? If yes, then here's an update for you guys...Santa granted my wish and his helper  Santa Sweets did not just give me what I was asking for...he gave me a better one. I wished for an iPod Nano Multi Touch but he actually gave me iPod Touch 4th Gen. And the best part is I got this on my Birthday. Super Sweeeet right?! I guess it really pays if you're a goody good girl =)


I took a snapshot of my chic and kikay itouch...I'm still thinking of a cute name for this baby! =) Any suggestion?

Oh and of course it should be Pink! 

2010 has been a good year and I'm praying that this 2011 it will be much much much better. This is gonna be a great year for us! And as for you my readers, I wish you Love, Joy, Peace, Hope and that we may live each day with zest, be the best that we can be and be a Blessing to others.

Sweet Day to you All!

♥Pink Chinadoll♥

HongKong Adventure

Before anything else, I would like to greet you...yes you, all of you my beautiful readers  a happy day! I missed you all and missed my blog too! It has been two months since my last update. Sorry guys, I've been a little busy and VERY lazy for the past two months...I guess I needed a break. Oh wait, I just had my vacation last August but it was just a short one, I guess it's better than no vacation at all. 

Last August Sweets, Toots and yours truly went to Hong Kong for a short vacation. We've been preparing for our trip for weeks and we even drafted a sample Itinerary just to make sure we manage our time wisely while roaming around the city, you see...we have a very limited time we only have 2 days to roam the city and on our 3rd day, we have an early flight going home.  

We arrived at the airport at 10 in the morning, The airport is very big and when I say big I mean HUGE! You even have to ride a train just to go to Immigration.  It was already 11:30 when we finished all the requirements and things we needed to do first before going to the hotel to check-in, that is,  (money changer, octopus cards etc.).   On our first day, we went to The Peak, HK Museum, Avenue of Stars, Harbour City and Night Market. Oh and our timing was perfect because almost all stores are on sale and most outlet stores are on 70% off! Perfect isn't it? As for the next day, we've decided to to go Ngong Ping 360 and DisneyLand. I will just post another entry about the different places we've been to since there's so much story to tell and one blog post is not enough =)

Before the trip, most of my friends and officemates who have been to HK, warned us that most people there do not speak english and most of them are rude.  Well, I have to agree that not all can speak English but about the rude part--I am sorry but I have to disagree. Maybe some people are rude but, you can also see a lot of rude people here in the Philippines right? These kind of people are everywhere and too bad we can't get rid of them right? So, it's just the same in HK. In fact, we even met 3 kind hearted people who helped us out.  The first person who helped us  was an old lady and she's a HK national,  we asked her for direction on how to go to Jordan exit and the old lady can hardly speak English but she was kind enough to help and answer our questions even if she is having a hard time explaining, and what made her an angel is that she even walked with us and showed us the way to the Hotel. The second person is an OFW, when she found out that we were from PI, she was very helpful in giving us direction and which elevator to take. And lastly, the third person was a young guy and he's a HK national too. He gave us the direction on how to go to harbour city mall and he told us that since he was too early to meet up with his wife at the mall, he can help us and get us a taxi to go to harbour city since our legs and feet can no longer walk due to exhaustion.  These people are very kind and we really do appreciate all the help!

It was my first time to travel outside the country so it was really fun and memorable. I definitely am going back to HK and when I do, I wish to take my Mom, Sis and Sweets. And if anyone of you is generous enough to send me free roundtrip tickets, I will greatly appreciate it! hahaha!

Thank god it's Friday and have a sweeeet day to you all!

♥ Chinadoll ♥ 

May Celebration

May is a very busy month with a lot of birthday Celebration. To start off, last May 3 was my Sweet's special day. And of course, one of the best way to celebrate his birthday is to eat out and shopping =).  Good thing, labor day was moved to this day since I don't have to report to work. Yay for the uber long weekend! So there, we just ate lunch at Pepper Steak House @ Marquee Mall, then after we've satisfied our cravings, we went to 3rd floor to check out the cellphone shops. I even got confused on which phone I should get, my first choice was the Blackberry Bold 9700, then Nokia E72 and lastly Samsung Omnia i910HD. In the end we left the mall empty handed...still thinking which one would be perfect for me. Then we've decided to go to SM Clark to check out the cellshopes there, the price range of the stores are basically the same with the stores @ Marquee except in INBOX, their gadgets are soooo expensive! I don't know why their items are very costly when in fact the items they are selling are just the same with the other stores, even the warranty package, they're all the same. Anyway, I was able to finally buy the perfect phone for me -- Nokia N900.

♥Sweets♥

Mango and Watermelon Fruit shakes, Bay calamari for appetizer and 3 of Pepper Steak's famous signature sauces.

Finally the main course =)

Stuffed and Bloated!

Another special day that we celebrated was last May 5, this time it was my Mom's birthday. We had a nice late family dinner at Maranao Grill (yes it was late because it was almost 9 pm alread). Just like what we usually do during dinner, aside from eating, we share stories, we have never ending stories to tell each other...and while we are enjoying our chitchat, my sister's and mom's phone is also busy, she's been getting a lot of phone calls from my cousins abroad. And when we finally came home, we had a little pictorial at our house.

The Birthday girl - my ♥Mom♥

Me and Mommy

♫ Tres Marias ♫

Last May 18, it was my Daddy's turn, it was his birthday. If he is still with us, he would be 60 years old by now. For further details, you can check out my previous post and it is all about him. =)

And lastly, Sweets and I celebrated our 3rd year Sweetsarry last May 22. Instead of saying anniversary I always say sweetsary, wanna know why? thats because it's unique and cute! At first, we have no idea on how we are going to celebrate it this year. For the past two years we always celebrated it by having a nice fine dinner @ Maranao Grill, but this time we want it differently. Sweet's plan was to have dinner at around 6 at C' Italian and after our dinner we can go to SM Clark to watch either Iron Man 2 or Shrek. I told Sweets that it will be much better if we skip the dinner part and just watch the two movies since we have a very limited time and I really want to watch the two movies :) So there, after work, he went to SM Clark to just wait for me there since he is just a few minutes away to the mall. And I of course am always late, I arrived around 6:30, we were supposed to watch the first movie (Shrek) at 6:10 pm hahahaha and because of that we have to wait for another hour for the next show time.  While waiting, we went to the department store to do some shopping. And when I say shopping it means Make Up shopping. Woohooo! Finally, I was able to buy Maybelline's Lasting Drama Gel Liner in Black, it has been out of stock for quite some time now, I also bought Clear Smooth Mineral Liquid Foundation in Rose white and Angelfit's 2 way foundation refill in Very Light Ochre, too bad their BB creams are currently out of stock, I only have 2-3 drops left so I really need to get a new one. BB creams are always out of stock, I hope they could restock immediately. In case you haven't notice all of the products are I use are all from Maybelline, I really love their products they're really affordarble and works well with my super sensitive skin. Oh, before I forgot, I also bought 1 eyeshadow brush and 1 blending brush from Marinaud, their brushes are really cheap but they're really soft. Its better than those Elf brushes. Okay, so after shopping we bought some foodies at KFC then headed to the movie house.   Good thing we already bought the tickets for both movies, it saves time rather than falling in line again to buy ticket for the next movie. So there, the first movie ended  around 8:45, then off to the next cinema to watch Iron Man 2 which was about to start in 15 minutes.  At the end of the day it was all perfect! We enjoyed the day not because of the food we ate, the things we--I'd rather say I (because all the stuff we bought are all mine hahaha) and the movies we watched. What made it special is because we spent the whole day together.

 

Till next time SweetHearts!

♥Sweet Day to ya'll♥

~Miss PinkChinadoll

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Ok, I admit I'm not yet over with the all that Twilight Edward Cullen craze...I'm still so into Edward..but just Edward Cullen the character...so for all the Rpattz fans out there you can rejoice hahaha...Okay, so I was diagnosed with OCD and I'm sure most of the ladies out there have it too. Believe me! For those who are not aware of this disorder...it is the Obsessive Cullen Disorder. So now you agree with me right?


Anyway, it was a little disappointing knowing that Rpattz will only have two scenes in the upcoming sequel of Twilight which is New Moon. Too bad it will all be about Jacob, Jacob and Jacob. ***sigh*** I think I'm already going through depression...do you know how hard to be depressed?! ***sigh again*** But then, thanks to my dearie lovely bouncy friend Nancy (hahaha I always call her Nancy Bouncy) she sent me a very wonderful gift - my medication...and I call it my Edward Therapy.


This is my Twilight: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion by Mark Cotta Vaz I so love love this...it contains a lot of scenes from the movie, never-before-seen images, interviews and a lot more.


If I am Bella, meet my real life Edward.


















Sweet day to all!


Pink Princess