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This is Crispy Dinuguan from Kanin Club (UP-AyalaTechnoHub)

Quite unique because we are used to eating Pork Dinuguan with soft meat. The pork in this Crispy Dinuguan have been cooked with a crunchy texture (yes, ginawang chicharon!). When you order this for takeout, they crispy pork bits are in a different container separated from the sauce.

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Tomorrow, June 19, 2011, is Father’s Day and I’m sure most people are going to celebrate this special day honoring their fathers.

This particular father’s day coincidentally falls on the 150th birth anniversary of Jose Rizal, this nation’s national hero. In a way, Jose Rizal is like a father to the Filipino Youth.

Like our fathers who, along with their own individuality and unique traits like picking the vegetables out of a meat stew, or re-reading books that have long been read or maybe even doing a weekly dusting old sports trophies they’ve won during their prime, Jose Rizal is not just an exceptional young man but a patriot, a true citizen and one who tries to excel in everything he does.

Just like our fathers.

Just like our fathers who work hard to provide for the families needs, Rizal worked hard to achieve freedom for the country.

Just like our fathers who patiently teach their children how to be good citizens, Rizal taught us, through his work how to love our country and fight for what is right.

Our fathers and Jose Rizal are all different from one another but looking at their traits, we will find similarities.

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Got half a kilo of siniguelas when we bought several bags of Vienna Bakery Hopia last Sunday. There’s a bag of those hopia beside the water in the photo.

I wished I bought more siniguelas though. Those in the photo are not everything in the batch of the half-kilo I got. Hubby said that half a kilo we bought seemed few. In other words, madaya ang kilohan.

Naku, alam nyo naman sa Quiapo, kahit nasa harap ng simbahan eh… yun na yun.

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Paranoid. Yes we are like that about home security.

We lock all doors at all times even if we are all at home. We lock the gates from inside when we are home. We look out when the dog is barking.

In fact we have been talking about getting home security systems since one of hubby’s clients is installing cctv in different public places. If it’s possible to get these services that has monitoring services and smoke detectors too at an affordable budget, we’d be investing in it.

Why would we not be paranoid about securing the home when we see people around who don’t look like they can be trusted. In fact some of these people used to hang out and drink (hard liquor) under the trees beside our home and thank God they haven’t been doing that for a while now.

There are gangs in the neighborhood, people who live a block away, beside the river where they’re not supposed to live. Why, just last month, the NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) did a raid on the house across ours because the ones renting apparently are doing some kind of counterfeiting of bottled drinks. Sigh…

I know it sounds like I’m a judgmental person when it comes to these matters, I’d like to think I’m just concerned with the security of my love ones.

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Am starting to de-clutter because the kids are not yet home from their vacation with my parents. Today I’m going to sort their toys. To make me work on it, I decided to have these toys in the living room, seeing them, seeing the mess and making me sit down finally and finish the task.

When I had a major de-cluttering in the library, I “unearthed’ a lot of documents, mostly from my graduate study files. There I re-read my paper about women’s rights, special education, other photocopied materials about children, playing, oxycontin detox and even insurance proposals that somehow found their way in the files.

I really need to finish these today especially since hubby and I are going to watch The Proposal in a BlueWater Day Spa cinema later. Woot!

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The children are vacationing with my parents and today, they are beach bound with their cousins. I’m envious, hehe.

Am spending the Holy Week (it’s now Maundy Thursday) with the hubby here at home, in the city that feels empty and quiet, (yey! no noisy neighborhood children playing outside since this morning).

I wish I could go with them. I just spoke to them a while ago and my mom said she’s been peeling green mangoes for them to bring as part of their food stash. Older cousins will be bringing fish to grill. I’d rather man the outdoor fire pit than spend time holed in the house.

Holy Week is really different these days. Back in the day, we just stay at home or stay with my relatives and help prepare for the Catholic rituals that need prepping up like the procession and listening to the old folks sing the Pasyon.

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