24-Hour Sports Club and Bar

Mayweather and Pacquiao event

I was lucky to have been invited last Sunday, May 3, at Sparks Club Sports bar, located at the 2nd floor of Guilly’s Island restaurant in Tomas Morato, Quezon City to watch the live Pay Per View of Mayweather and Pacquiao Battle for Greatness fight, and not only that, it comes with a free buffet breakfast. Who wouldn’t refuse such an offer? It’s a rare opportunity so I grabbed the chance immediately when they sent me an invite. Although I had to wake up early last Sunday to make it to the call time, an extra effort for me is a gesture to reciprocate their generosity.


It was my first time to visit the place, but I did not have a hard time locating their establishment near the intersection of Tomas Morato and Eugenio Lopez Drive. I was greeted by Ms. Mikaela at the entrance door and led me to the second floor with some other invitees who were already seated at the high bar chairs reserved exclusively for invited guests.

Dining

The room was dimly lighted and cool which makes cozy ambiance, a perfect atmosphere while sipping the cup of coffee offered to me by their crew. The room is equipped with 5 large televisions mounted on the wall strategically located so that a guest can have a view of the show on TV. The sound system is good also. Aside from high bar chairs they also have high back dining sofa, so if you wanted your conversation to be a little bit private you can opt to be seated there. I tried sitting on both and I prefer the high back sofa because I can slouch or lean to relax my back on the padded backrest.

heavy breakfast 

The breakfast buffet was offered when almost all the seats are occupied by invitees and guests. We lined up at the bar area where the sumptuous Filipino breakfast menu was being served. First on the array of food is an option of plain or fried rice, seconded by different egg menu – omelet and sunny side up egg, thirdly meat menu – Tocino, Longaniza, Beef Tapa, and Arozcaldo with hard boiled egg. Also included is the Pandesal.

Snapshots of my 2014 getaways, events and reviews

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2014 has ended and I must say that last year for me was lesser adventure and I didn’t focus much on updating my blog, that is because I was pressed to attend to my regular work and family matters, plus I got pregnant again for the fourth time which also limits me to travel far and often as we had to set aside some expenses for my pregnancy.

Although I had less travel in 2014 I wouldn’t say that I had less fun because I explored other areas of blogging world by attending blogger events and exploring new and great restaurants which I have not thought of visiting when I was not pregnant.  

    

I would like to share with you the highlights of my 2014 wanderings, events and bondings with my family, old friends and new friends.

Taco Bell's newest menu: Meaty Grillers

Taco Bell Gateway Mall Express Outlet

After the two events that I had attended, this time I tried attending a food tasting event, and it was a foodie meet-up organized by Zomato and Taco Bell wherein I am one of the lucky thirty bloggers who got invited to taste and review Taco Bell’s newest addition to their famous burritos – TACO BELL MEATY GRILLERS, it has layers of meat and other flavorful ingredients all wrapped in a tortilla and grilled which is good enough for lunch or dinner as it is heavy in the stomach.

A night to remember - Metro Blogger First Night Out!

It was a night of fun and excitement last October 22^nd, 2014 at the Gramercy Skypark, Century City Makati during the first Metro Blogger night out attended by few selected invited Bloggers in the Metro, Metro Blogger organizers and Sponsors from different companies in Southeast Asia.

The event started at 6:00 p.m. with meet and greet and introduction of Metro Blogger organizers headed by Mr. Jess C, Ana Regala and Choi Suarez.  After that, each sponsor had their chance to introduce their company and what could clients expect from them in the business in the next years to come. 

A contract signing of two sponsors was also held that night, and we were all witness to their start of business partnership – Rapid Cloud Singapore and iTWorks Global Solutions.

My first Blogger event experience – Blogapalooza 2014

Blogapalooza 2014

I have been blogging for two years and haven’t attended any blogger event or meet-up, but this year I was lucky enough to attend the biggest bloggers event in the Philippines hosted by Blogapalooza.When-in-Manila.com.  It is a blogger event spearheaded by the two renowned and influential bloggers behind WheninManila.com and OurAwesomeplanet.com namely Vince Golangco and Anton Diaz respectively.

Baliuag Bulacan procession on Holy Week

Betrayal of Jesus 

     Every Holy week, in the observance of Catholic religious activities in the Philippines, some churches are holding a Lenten procession which starts at 7:00 in the evening of Good Friday from the Church and ends at the Church.   The procession has carriages with statues of Jesus Christ and other biblical icons which depicts the story of Jesus’ crucifixion.  The number of carriages varies in every Church because it depends on its community on how many families or organization has their own and who has enlisted to join the procession. 

Countdown to 2013 at Eastwood Mall

Eastwood mall

          We celebrated New Year at Eastwood to witness the countdown to 2013 fireworks, and we are all excited because it was our first time as family to celebrate New Year not in our house.  Every year we have fireworks and fire crackers at our house minutes before the eve of New Year, but this year we decided not to buy one and instead go to Eastwood to celebrate and watch fireworks.