Friday and Saturday were full of blog events for me. You can click that -> Spot Pass Trinoma Bloggers Food Trip for more details about the blog event where we went to 18, yes, 18 restaurants from 2pm-8pm I am so thankful that I was with Cookie (and Wenchie too though she went home earlier) because she is a perfect companion for this kind of event.

Here is 343rd photo I took from that event:

GreenBucks at Five Cows Resto and Ice Cream Bar.

IBlog4 Summit at the Malcolm Theater in UP Diliman. I went with hubby, my son Julian and Jazz with Kevin who made the worksheets I brought for him.

I saw Dine, Jane, Noemi, Alice, Joni, AJ, Benj, Dexter, Joy, and a lot more other bloggers who look familiar to me and some who also participated in the Friday’s affair.

See another entry here. View more Weekend Snapshots here.

Have a great week everyone.

Here are some entries about iBlog4:

• iBlog 4 and The 88db.com Blogger’s Night: Because I Felt The Need To Embarrass Myself More
• iBlog4 ramblings
• Snippets from the iBlog4 and 88db.com Bloggers Party
• Lost Money But Was Happy
• Being Offline is Fun
• iBlog4 and Morphxchange
• Avi Siwa at iBlog4
• iBlog4 experience
• Morph at iBlog4
• iBlog4 Summit
• iBlog4 Summit bloggers party with 88db.com
• iblog4 Summit
• iblog4 Blogging Summit and Meet Up
• Anger always come from frustrated expectations
• Umleo23.com at iBlog4 Summit???
• Unofficial Philippine Blogger Day
• So wassup?
• iBlog4, Altar Boyz Mosh Pit Party, Nick Weekend Carnival, & 88DB Bloggers Party
• iBlog4
• FilipinaImages.com in iBlog4 Summit
• iblog4 (old friends, new friends)
• Jester-in-Exile Goes to iBlog 4 and the 88DB.com Bloggers’ Party (or, the floppy hat has gone out of style boohoohoo)
• iBlog 4 and The 88db.com Blogger’s Night: Because I Felt The Need To Embarass Myself More
• iblog4 Philippine Blogging Summit
• Of a very long week
• iblog4: the day after
• iBlog4 Summit
• Chickens invade iBlog4
• iBlog4 summit and 88db.com party
• Blog events
• The 4th Philippine Blogging Summit iBlog4
• iBlog4 Experience

I was one of the participants in Spot.Ph Trinoma Bloggers Food Trip last Friday, April 25, 2008.

The first restaurant we went to was The Madison Grill located on the 3rd level. I can say that this was one of the better places that we went to.

Pizza table preparation accents.

Some of the pizza toppings to choose from for the make your own pizza preparation.

View more photos here.

Sa dami ng mga larawan kong may hugis ng pahaba, ito sa ibaba ang napili ko, ang karatula ng kalye. Ito ay pa(ri)haba na tamang-tama sa tema. Wala na kasi ako maisip. Naisip ko sana maglagay ng larawan ng aking mga estudyante na gamit ang mga bagay na may hugis pahaba kaya lang baka idemanda ako ng kanilang mga magulang. Sila na may tinatawag na otismo, mga batang tila ba nakakahon (parang parisukat/parihaba) ang kalahatan ng kilos, pati kanilang saloobin. Pero wag na sila pag-usapan dito kasi marami meron na akong mga naisulat dito sa TitserJulie.com blag ko.

With all the photos I have depicting something rectangular/long, the photo below was the one I chose to feature since the street sign’s shape is rectangular, perfect for this week’s theme. I can’t think of anything more to feature. I planned to show my students’ photos using things that are rectangular in shape but their parents might sue me (harhar!). Most of them are different, or rather special, several having the condition we call autism. They behave in a box-like (square? rectangular? one way?) way since almost all their responses and feelings are being taught to them. But I don’t want to talk about them since I have written posts about them in my TeacherJulie.com blog.

~o0o~

Dewey Avenue? Hindi, hindi yan sa America. Iyan ang pangalan ng kalye sa SBMA sa pahabang poste na may pa(ri)habang anyo, kung saan kami dumadaan papunta sa aming munting tahanan sa lalawigan.

Dewey Avenue? No, that is not in America. That is the name of the street in SBMA where the sign on a post, that we always pass by on our way to my parents’ house in the province.

Pero teka muna, sandali lamang po… Malabo kasi, hindi na kaya ng point and shoot na kamera ko, malabo pa ang mga mata ko. Tignan ko nga ulit sandali…

But wait…The photo is blurred, my point and shoot camera had difficulties, my eyes are also blurred. I would just like to take a look again…

Ay! Bakit ganun? Me sulat, sulat Intsik ba yan? Bakit? Nabili na ba nila ang Pilipinas, este ang Subic Bay area pala, at me subtitle na kakaibang sulat ang mga karatula dito. Baka pagdating ng araw eh tayong mga Pilipino na ang mga dayuhan sa lupang sinilangan natin. Huwag naman sana.

Oh my! Why is it like this? There are some strange writing, is it Korean, Chinese Taiwanese calligraphy? Why? Have they bought our country already, I mean the Subic Bay area, that’s why all the street signs as well as the tourist spots have these translations. Would it be possible that the day would come that we Filipinos will be considered as foreigners in this land of our birth? I hope not.

View more Litratong Pinoy participants here.

There is an ongoing contest for The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. It is called What’s Your Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Story and you can read the mechanics by clicking the link.

Here is the invite:

The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf invites you to share your most memorable experiences while enjoying a soul-warming cup of Chai Latte or chilling out with friends over original Ice Blended drinks by joining My Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf Story.

If your story is our cup of tea, you might just become the winner of a trip to Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA for 4 days and 3 nights, with accommodations and pocket money.

What is the grand prize?

Grand Prize – a trip to Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA for 4 days/3 nights, with accommodations and pocket money around June - August 2008

Here is a condition: Only those with a US Visa may avail of a grand prize.

Thanks for the link, Noemi

Lance Feliciano is a driver. He is a drift driver. Lance Feliciano is a Formula D driver. Lance Feliciano is the only Filipino to be issued a professional competition license, one of the 38 drivers who can compete in the US Formula D competitions.

He is only 20 years old.

Catch him live as he performs his drifts at the Philippine Race Wars at Clark Expo in Pampanga on April 26, 2008.

Read more about him here.

My son Julian loves drift driving back in 2006, when he was younger, he used to watch, and he still does, Initial D, a Japanese anime about drift driving. He even has toys from the show

We could go there but Dang! there’s the iBlog 4 Summit that day which we signed up to go. Hmm…