tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63320478725609990432024-03-29T00:10:36.935+08:00Garden Chef's Needle and PenGarden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.comBlogger261125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-70792865011945656572024-03-28T10:23:00.010+08:002024-03-28T20:04:54.415+08:00Stamps and Letters | The Eras Postal Tour: The Search for Hawker Cuisine<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjun9DSufWhJnHg5H0k70XDGBxk3GcmK0snLrdiwjCg67NGJTEl36xZPSAmjfmV9AfxLTCVjpZOhQ8gK62jMgssyL5RW3KJ2RPEzZO-mcbZA1twhh9mZNtslPLT_3a1uz92hRW5PDkJVAz2gFPHKBUqHa6JbUeSBQ4YjlDNnHaKf9Lmf2wG21QHtJ22eQEw/s4032/IMG_0289.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjun9DSufWhJnHg5H0k70XDGBxk3GcmK0snLrdiwjCg67NGJTEl36xZPSAmjfmV9AfxLTCVjpZOhQ8gK62jMgssyL5RW3KJ2RPEzZO-mcbZA1twhh9mZNtslPLT_3a1uz92hRW5PDkJVAz2gFPHKBUqHa6JbUeSBQ4YjlDNnHaKf9Lmf2wG21QHtJ22eQEw/w200-h150/IMG_0289.jpeg" width="200" /></a></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Hello there! Day 3 - a journey to Bugis Street and Chinatown awaits! Prior to our trip, hubby reminded the kids to include Hawker food centers in our itinerary, and today is the day!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuO8AQnDDWwNF_-2dGFr_H9AZLC9wyuHSyTE4H62zxAvF8LTDP10u4znPY1uEvVYrxKa5O0nbfEkHDtWGbfEwFcPUFa30EVjLSgTYYwFuX188836Wh9WttVkKNB19Ne-ILdyh1Z581y-VUM2lUOYPgF5Ohh31paW5OXCeyEz8RC6NBc-aTn2SyORAcysPG/s2402/IMG_0291.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2402" data-original-width="2402" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuO8AQnDDWwNF_-2dGFr_H9AZLC9wyuHSyTE4H62zxAvF8LTDP10u4znPY1uEvVYrxKa5O0nbfEkHDtWGbfEwFcPUFa30EVjLSgTYYwFuX188836Wh9WttVkKNB19Ne-ILdyh1Z581y-VUM2lUOYPgF5Ohh31paW5OXCeyEz8RC6NBc-aTn2SyORAcysPG/w400-h400/IMG_0291.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Bugis Street, a bustling street-shopping district in Singapore, is renowned for its affordability and variety of souvenirs, accessories, clothes, electronics, houseware, and cosmetics, drawing locals and tourists alike. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxFx_zhn2rX21sO3tAzh-P2_cbWs_3JhUo5yMAex4UbQajMf3ZnVAC0RZxy4vLORViDrp7R6_xdbVV3zWAuGg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">As we explored Bugis Street, the vibrant Candy Staircases at Bugis Village caught hubby's eyes, their whimsical designs resembling giant unwrapped candies, adding a touch of charm to the area.</span></div><div><div style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg9DfaZVvI54cQ3uJTZyycTyANAjKlSyTUgyzkA5o7X2a68CJe0tY8ueWOHntaPYt9jmirYrzGeMmsqLzsmvp0qSRgKSWudY3v40aP3flBFVHKzc9U-B0IKz4Q09tC070f9ANzfIb8PD3OK1Moh79IvIxQe5_kj7KBFsL1gsBcXL0s5VvWl8d4d06T_hfP/s642/IMG_9300.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="538" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg9DfaZVvI54cQ3uJTZyycTyANAjKlSyTUgyzkA5o7X2a68CJe0tY8ueWOHntaPYt9jmirYrzGeMmsqLzsmvp0qSRgKSWudY3v40aP3flBFVHKzc9U-B0IKz4Q09tC070f9ANzfIb8PD3OK1Moh79IvIxQe5_kj7KBFsL1gsBcXL0s5VvWl8d4d06T_hfP/w335-h400/IMG_9300.jpeg" width="335" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz5RTaSR7xoqMMCDHBEdVKwAGrIUNv3sA9Aco-pNIlLX2WuWo6i7p_czm2NRuhrUmn1J_gGpMbDon3MACVc7g' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Then we encountered this mural that prompted me to reach for my hawker stamps and tongs from my bag. I had to yield to the irresistible call for extreme philately! </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDcsVHNvSwzBtCcaKo_XFongMiQlDScEOzg1PxOZWaQ8dLx2muRb4z_Us_cfYrpYld_oXUfoi8WKObB1Me3YNEO91ZJat1phZIZ0cK2X9OVbvPsCCtYBs43c2UbTvifAWiygQRJqlH7j5-9WJR6gdb2hcRO9TceVNq4ekixy5KQt-5OPjVZRRWAVhUKinV/s4032/IMG_0289.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDcsVHNvSwzBtCcaKo_XFongMiQlDScEOzg1PxOZWaQ8dLx2muRb4z_Us_cfYrpYld_oXUfoi8WKObB1Me3YNEO91ZJat1phZIZ0cK2X9OVbvPsCCtYBs43c2UbTvifAWiygQRJqlH7j5-9WJR6gdb2hcRO9TceVNq4ekixy5KQt-5OPjVZRRWAVhUKinV/w400-h300/IMG_0289.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Right then on, the photo ops </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">began!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit_jVe41p0JO3tc_14Mf2axY1RqnMU3wX6FeMbtxQlmLOBtH6-lObYdqzXJnhJT7t5Li0Ld59gLECZknUmAbub35dkCNk3tFJUENYv8Yfb44n2d5x1BiZmZzq1dcGdE2YWoTl1aZUDlksrhSmLNMtcHx6Ueqfj030sRK80m6pS32Q9jOIwurJH53xSJIXx/s3465/IMG_8082.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3465" data-original-width="2776" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit_jVe41p0JO3tc_14Mf2axY1RqnMU3wX6FeMbtxQlmLOBtH6-lObYdqzXJnhJT7t5Li0Ld59gLECZknUmAbub35dkCNk3tFJUENYv8Yfb44n2d5x1BiZmZzq1dcGdE2YWoTl1aZUDlksrhSmLNMtcHx6Ueqfj030sRK80m6pS32Q9jOIwurJH53xSJIXx/w320-h400/IMG_8082.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7gIgGHyzwBDur4WmikF8BTsvxNfS15hvebDBjMocLoMfB2yaC1qjIYxDuqmkD51RykJaM_fQnsww3P0oiOeay7oQb1dy3gKluhegnmzC8osPckUJwrZjGTsT7Pbv7Twe_CW_-klChDpZkXdO0cn-frfkdMNuGZe7A3tc2RnO9TYkgzzvwCJ7VcGhtKdpU/s4032/IMG_8081.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7gIgGHyzwBDur4WmikF8BTsvxNfS15hvebDBjMocLoMfB2yaC1qjIYxDuqmkD51RykJaM_fQnsww3P0oiOeay7oQb1dy3gKluhegnmzC8osPckUJwrZjGTsT7Pbv7Twe_CW_-klChDpZkXdO0cn-frfkdMNuGZe7A3tc2RnO9TYkgzzvwCJ7VcGhtKdpU/w339-h400/IMG_8081.jpeg" width="339" /></a></div></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">In hindsight, my choice to bring along these stamps proved to be a wise decision.</span></div></div><div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">This Hawker Culture stamp set was i</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">ssued on March 26, 2021 in order to commemorate the successful inscription of Hawker Culture in Singapore on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on December 16, 2020. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">1st Local</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG2MYXTP67aoWYBRQ6QGRLrJMMxSfyQSkfUnwfGav7djRX24QAoPVuKnKFNjUsnarmu6FwPQrsDA8H91-7_y9J4NIMUGYMJLW8IZas402hyphenhyphenqm3We8y73NwQ_nfNoHl5sianart09Z406AqEKO7EPvi5ITvqBm3wQHxaPayeC3I-bJs0u_TWuLRnE-DT8O4/s803/IMG_9311.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="590" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG2MYXTP67aoWYBRQ6QGRLrJMMxSfyQSkfUnwfGav7djRX24QAoPVuKnKFNjUsnarmu6FwPQrsDA8H91-7_y9J4NIMUGYMJLW8IZas402hyphenhyphenqm3We8y73NwQ_nfNoHl5sianart09Z406AqEKO7EPvi5ITvqBm3wQHxaPayeC3I-bJs0u_TWuLRnE-DT8O4/w294-h400/IMG_9311.jpeg" width="294" /></a></div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></div><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div style="text-align: center;">70c</div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrWIoKnxXg5cJjIVT7vsNs0iRSrrKOV9vec3kHNfNk7uGmBHHM7Y91Y9dPxM0vZEbUhQumBMGr2PonLztnJ7lSB_pkFij_tZ44k_nypztst-On5DDwmrduSt0NUSsM37oXd4Cv-HcpcYzL3NwHJY19_ELouGcvmvy5HZLgFGDPcnRTCAs_FXtzgxb0fJAN/s785/IMG_9311.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="587" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrWIoKnxXg5cJjIVT7vsNs0iRSrrKOV9vec3kHNfNk7uGmBHHM7Y91Y9dPxM0vZEbUhQumBMGr2PonLztnJ7lSB_pkFij_tZ44k_nypztst-On5DDwmrduSt0NUSsM37oXd4Cv-HcpcYzL3NwHJY19_ELouGcvmvy5HZLgFGDPcnRTCAs_FXtzgxb0fJAN/w299-h400/IMG_9311.jpeg" width="299" /></a></div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></div><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div style="text-align: center;">90c</div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb_cIXJa70LUh1e0jv2Li3cED-s4yEq9ir0CUkAKIzF5GK0lE8CgyNc5cJFsrSJ0mDMsxXtwKR9H423L9aYWW-1Y3gTD4FeUaYmqXI3OG0KgjI6F42Stg9rklqU-Wp7XFBa4_UyGoC_WzGeIOkMF6vCliqiqcD9EXddJ-UiFJo7zsObd2Df2aLfrcfxRen/s774/IMG_9311.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="774" data-original-width="607" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb_cIXJa70LUh1e0jv2Li3cED-s4yEq9ir0CUkAKIzF5GK0lE8CgyNc5cJFsrSJ0mDMsxXtwKR9H423L9aYWW-1Y3gTD4FeUaYmqXI3OG0KgjI6F42Stg9rklqU-Wp7XFBa4_UyGoC_WzGeIOkMF6vCliqiqcD9EXddJ-UiFJo7zsObd2Df2aLfrcfxRen/w314-h400/IMG_9311.jpeg" width="314" /></a></div></div><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">$1.40</div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg32zhjoy7O2kZPqgiS_-31nCxVFFxoagoarcjep4RqfN8ktVz0dzq-Qtp7_in9jyVgssUPj5lKMNkuMKU4dqrlTavwEUVspT-wpJ8mTz3o2-9lQF5w8LOqNnzdfLEtpkmylfaQk3ErQjWs91ANQwPNgjLoVTpb0xNIZ0gnRiE8lO3rImWddSCkecy9OI53/s783/IMG_9311.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="598" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg32zhjoy7O2kZPqgiS_-31nCxVFFxoagoarcjep4RqfN8ktVz0dzq-Qtp7_in9jyVgssUPj5lKMNkuMKU4dqrlTavwEUVspT-wpJ8mTz3o2-9lQF5w8LOqNnzdfLEtpkmylfaQk3ErQjWs91ANQwPNgjLoVTpb0xNIZ0gnRiE8lO3rImWddSCkecy9OI53/w305-h400/IMG_9311.jpeg" width="305" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></div><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">More of these stamping opportunities in China Town where we searched for some hawker foodie - the coveted must-try dish -Hainanese Chicken Rice, a quintessential Singaporean delicacy that tantalizes taste buds with its succulent chicken and fragrant rice. </span></div></span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yey, we're here! Our quest was not in vain! We found this hawker place via google maps, the Chinatown Complex Market and Food Centre where the 169 Hainanese Chicken Rice stall was located! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr9qiPYiV9RAioaIjp6OcQIH_tw5wEhmybNYW-FMuDagMeQ5qnqsUhiYgVCN7cek6uCA_NGxoVouZFr6RirUv-sbbal8i4YCcWI8lpqpY07CGg9qemZyC0gPOCBhEnTjSCCAWjB7wccRv3Udipj86XkNRCAkHtRCFAhdNXDw1FKY7UzpqYTtuJJLxZHIZW/s2290/IMG_8093.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="2290" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr9qiPYiV9RAioaIjp6OcQIH_tw5wEhmybNYW-FMuDagMeQ5qnqsUhiYgVCN7cek6uCA_NGxoVouZFr6RirUv-sbbal8i4YCcWI8lpqpY07CGg9qemZyC0gPOCBhEnTjSCCAWjB7wccRv3Udipj86XkNRCAkHtRCFAhdNXDw1FKY7UzpqYTtuJJLxZHIZW/s320/IMG_8093.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Our excitement soared as we joined the queue waiting to be served, only to be greeted by the 'SOLD OUT' sign. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQNwrb7JxzosjsnPWXLFWggc_4ntv0cfhS9nQ7zmpnZuwxMER-gEhpo3YQOuZPTPPaO-Vqbz_EM9iaCeAlUp_mJkdsUVwHMFeDOTxxFYMVB8VWfaVvqLxieJxsebhYzCgLySdX14k6NBwYh50_dL_OKTxOUZzXAC887dPVFLIXVHWhfWq3J-n94PAvAHJO/s1988/IMG_8093.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1664" data-original-width="1988" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQNwrb7JxzosjsnPWXLFWggc_4ntv0cfhS9nQ7zmpnZuwxMER-gEhpo3YQOuZPTPPaO-Vqbz_EM9iaCeAlUp_mJkdsUVwHMFeDOTxxFYMVB8VWfaVvqLxieJxsebhYzCgLySdX14k6NBwYh50_dL_OKTxOUZzXAC887dPVFLIXVHWhfWq3J-n94PAvAHJO/s320/IMG_8093.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Oh, no! We came a bit late. All the sought-after Hainanese Chicken had been claimed by other food enthusiasts earlier.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We then settled with an alternative dish, duck rice, which we enjoyed. Hmmmm… yummy!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifmEnibVceKJ1MM9REBNhiS_HHNlA7tgSMPT1L0vabs0nfkmsurCZ5Yx4s-i81yaBVo4hpuir5PGSUvXdFeIqGq1lfVLO8a0UDrOy5I8Y_tTZ5dPLvrNOHn5un16zM3e3zJHzpM0DXjOGoOkaSaWSMvet82fLhWn-W2iyFJeAtvaf7HXKx5hC6V8eEEP1F/s3790/IMG_8096.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2842" data-original-width="3790" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifmEnibVceKJ1MM9REBNhiS_HHNlA7tgSMPT1L0vabs0nfkmsurCZ5Yx4s-i81yaBVo4hpuir5PGSUvXdFeIqGq1lfVLO8a0UDrOy5I8Y_tTZ5dPLvrNOHn5un16zM3e3zJHzpM0DXjOGoOkaSaWSMvet82fLhWn-W2iyFJeAtvaf7HXKx5hC6V8eEEP1F/s320/IMG_8096.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">To complement our meal, we treated ourselves to a refreshing durian shake, a daring choice for hubby, who surprisingly was delighted to the taste he had previously disliked.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM8__gX611TP1itzmxkNK3ae1Z9_NCQiw1HrTownskIKymk22OjXUrmMVPATBogvgCcoNhQUUdxHj2N6md0D8YD8xuXIFirWUo_rDIH_wVOFWLF-0bhzhknqmH_hMN6yRuOlXZ6h9ubhtR7bEYOuxhGbCRanPfzjcqEQD9C3TP8jmDuF_hiaLNenjCf7j1/s3836/IMG_8098.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3836" data-original-width="2773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM8__gX611TP1itzmxkNK3ae1Z9_NCQiw1HrTownskIKymk22OjXUrmMVPATBogvgCcoNhQUUdxHj2N6md0D8YD8xuXIFirWUo_rDIH_wVOFWLF-0bhzhknqmH_hMN6yRuOlXZ6h9ubhtR7bEYOuxhGbCRanPfzjcqEQD9C3TP8jmDuF_hiaLNenjCf7j1/w289-h400/IMG_8098.jpeg" width="289" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The meal wouldn’t have been complete without these photos from various angles...</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After savoring our flavorful duck rice and indulging in the durian shake, we went on a leisurely stroll, seeking instagrammable scenes to capture through our lenses. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwRoeXRPhSIRTa8b8eNu_FuwOArnhBIaIHhKR0JJqNBGuUmI0N1_6vichS5QjdycbGqy2-RTo8aMgB2S7h2rw9W3uYbXbiTwvMjp6-EX-aD42gb6xh8YPRGR08hfNwFLlHL-jyMIc_8PMOomRRej7V4czmw1aNVGykMH9F2N0WKQ9NuO4s8oDUoRfBlOIY/s3024/15B29CFA-886B-4EB8-86A4-F3899BF6C6CE.jpeg" style="font-size: 23px; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2921" data-original-width="2921" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmigBQKOTzW_GqQ3fKJOUYIdB_zzvfySwL4U5AIVd5l3DC3A6P9xUWZgpNjZOo0XQkOJ3StiAfWaK0CqWh5rvualeOTPO1CCljcfNIbph8AXG12r4hkFSuF8jiKOdWY8zzre71Xx8W-XcAVE2ulq3T5hyphenhyphenH_clfLZ1AJz8NylEKZbg9KS-NvZeFnTRR6lNM/w400-h400/969893AF-9EF0-4413-A742-58EAF08AA3B9.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;">We chanced upon the attractive facade of the Yellow Chair Chinatown Seafood Restaurant. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN1R9XTWX39YUtK57fcDaQPVXgR2YBdwQnbntDisT1XHZghe1lvmJ1JI_vQXr_kGmZP7G1YXl4AZnvzlSuNHNcd3m65ZacaE86K4wXeKaId1R7yT74bCs4ZMpmbYWlcak7y1Iqf4etaFgcBGUFEmLyKT7YPFkCatmTA4k2MfPkf7Sxcaucx5DlEG1fX5cN/s4032/IMG_8142.jpeg" style="font-size: 23px; 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margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2189" data-original-width="2537" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-JNXZPEjSw9wPNPOZK9SBRmsnaH8kNqlRcFSxWxMfAvRTucbiW3QTSTguTABxhoWbDvXkmapu6LgpTw2qSk9E7lMBM0hMSpW59rSiStRFw_or5FmRwQ5xbfCQz1jsrp52ZmKTm8cmCavYt0scWmYSSjlAosX5bwlVilyBtbq6hNNvimgA0H3MZ_Z2Cmwn/w400-h345/IMG_8150.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">I loved the hawker design of this mural in the Yellow Chair Restaurant. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioMbbzDhoy5jm821FUxAfV4aPAu51hzSquMjpW1GWcfIGU4DcGH5Na9mgeC9xACJRoV_mnolFXuboCsLPdR6_c6r6LO0VzrnQS0q_dwRCcT9RbfwhqBkn_zQ2dawENYtzx6bS4xBE9A6Va-2W05W0iiOW9n3fp_OnMSHssPI08JgxNGX3xvcQYmkbSF0Lv/s3259/IMG_8144.jpeg" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3259" data-original-width="2641" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioMbbzDhoy5jm821FUxAfV4aPAu51hzSquMjpW1GWcfIGU4DcGH5Na9mgeC9xACJRoV_mnolFXuboCsLPdR6_c6r6LO0VzrnQS0q_dwRCcT9RbfwhqBkn_zQ2dawENYtzx6bS4xBE9A6Va-2W05W0iiOW9n3fp_OnMSHssPI08JgxNGX3xvcQYmkbSF0Lv/w324-h400/IMG_8144.jpeg" width="324" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVsHNU2pDO_1GpWJ1TnvkpyExKKnzs5w8pD4P7DGkkgUt5IAiLmmzpq2aa2A-k388kBxlHxxD2jK8CTZOlbY8n7PKnZ6bsUXpOMqHzSgyvrhgvtj3280pl3qAKnu5wK2nlabHFNFmBu_MTIVMfBiSSGYBzC9fgMB2RUu_xXKw3jas-D2kkQvn4LlzDFi-V/s3814/IMG_8147.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3814" data-original-width="2436" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVsHNU2pDO_1GpWJ1TnvkpyExKKnzs5w8pD4P7DGkkgUt5IAiLmmzpq2aa2A-k388kBxlHxxD2jK8CTZOlbY8n7PKnZ6bsUXpOMqHzSgyvrhgvtj3280pl3qAKnu5wK2nlabHFNFmBu_MTIVMfBiSSGYBzC9fgMB2RUu_xXKw3jas-D2kkQvn4LlzDFi-V/w408-h640/IMG_8147.jpeg" width="408" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Hawker centers are communal dining spaces in Singapore, where diverse dishes crafted by talented hawkers reflect the rich tapestry of Singapore's multicultural food heritage. The amalgamation of flavors and culinary traditions serves as a testament to the evolving culinary landscape shaped by immigrant settlers.</span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">As we relished the hawker center's busy ambiance, with the aromatic symphony of sizzling woks and simmering broths from the food stalls, arousing our olfactory nerves, I was happy to find my stamps at home in this gastronomic escapade, bridging the world of philately with the flavors of Singapore's hawker culture, an </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">indispensable </span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">cornerstone of Singaporean daily life.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">'Til next episode! </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">- - - -</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Related Posts:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="color: #800180; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2024/03/stamps-and-letters-eras-postal-tour.html" target="_blank">Postal Eras Tour Preps</a><br /><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2024/03/stamps-and-letters-eras-postal-tour_21.html" target="_blank">BeJeweled</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1" style="color: #800180; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2024/03/stamps-and-letters-eras-postal-tour_24.html" target="_blank">Historic Fullerton</a></b></span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com0Chinatown, Singapore1.2814942 103.8448202-27.028739636178845 68.6885702 29.591728036178846 139.00107020000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-74708667133561027422024-03-24T18:37:00.014+08:002024-03-28T00:44:01.456+08:00Stamps and Letters | The Eras Postal Tour: Historic Fullerton<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwZBGNu6j1LBHEZgI2mAVs2O7-A4Z3HEILQPUDWAbT8ISvBP_KWZPSKiI9bmltf28SWO3yD5LMNteT0jkVm41vfDiA565l48dgvKxUSWEbbghxMaFIGkj1rLAVaCMgcvZnnC3pe_OxN9pxUN6jcl54Ljgbzpm3AKRQtDJi6Pq5BN1ydPFbf7KJ4PsK-nbU/s3703/IMG_8282.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2663" data-original-width="3703" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwZBGNu6j1LBHEZgI2mAVs2O7-A4Z3HEILQPUDWAbT8ISvBP_KWZPSKiI9bmltf28SWO3yD5LMNteT0jkVm41vfDiA565l48dgvKxUSWEbbghxMaFIGkj1rLAVaCMgcvZnnC3pe_OxN9pxUN6jcl54Ljgbzpm3AKRQtDJi6Pq5BN1ydPFbf7KJ4PsK-nbU/w400-h288/IMG_8282.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Day 5 greeted us with a clear, bright sky, setting the perfect backdrop for our adventure. As the kids prepared for the much-anticipated concert, I was thrilled at the thought of exploring the iconic Fullerton Hotel. </span><span style="font-size: 23px;"><span></span></span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">If you've been following our journey, you know we've had an exciting Day 1 at Jewel Changi Airport. If you missed that, catch up on them </span><b style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #800180;"><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2024/03/stamps-and-letters-eras-postal-tour_21.html" target="_blank">here</a></span></b><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">, so you won’t miss anything. </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">Today, our tour was made even more delightful by the company of Jeffrey Oro, a fellow stamp collector who share a similar passion for philately as I do. Thanks to his guidance, we ventured to the SingPost General Post Office in Paya Lebar, where I indulged in selecting postcards to send special messages. Our next stop was destined to be the Fullerton Postbox, where I eagerly dropped my chosen postcards for some friends and for the first time ever, to myself! </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dysFEOd3yB0BDl1ffkJlhihtF0FExmgHEeEw_nJfSbNfWu9ZZcD7untD8WvaTl7XxsRuUo2x8UpBPiKXZCHYA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoydBW5rQrg_l8srdutLysU7jRVUmR07LjcWpmrHP7Doqtav4BREFUaaZvylg_Y_SBMOCKtZkhSiIHxrliMVEGDK-wfqcyxevGMETzn01wgaSTMdU4B1RIeGwtgEfG5-v5l3hNivf8GxfeFFvPIk8dg1wgcctgNMMFzk808RYxkfTazh2YT1_bjRCiseXJ/s3824/IMG_8246.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2574" data-original-width="3824" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoydBW5rQrg_l8srdutLysU7jRVUmR07LjcWpmrHP7Doqtav4BREFUaaZvylg_Y_SBMOCKtZkhSiIHxrliMVEGDK-wfqcyxevGMETzn01wgaSTMdU4B1RIeGwtgEfG5-v5l3hNivf8GxfeFFvPIk8dg1wgcctgNMMFzk808RYxkfTazh2YT1_bjRCiseXJ/s320/IMG_8246.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJGKVxXGCJYMihBhFdL3Ul_dWK1oP010PNsy_qF42kILBUagWY574xhaKPaZx01lVJVSbE2mhAZEK1yvPylIjWq1lfU4EKUixc7AqiL8X7knTOyGbWP9Vb7hwzld-D8E_TcR8SBPvexnbfIXsIs4h-UnLPitvYwU4Kwn-XnNC8enJT5xUpp21leUu4Jzs/s2840/IMG_8247.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2840" data-original-width="2221" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPJGKVxXGCJYMihBhFdL3Ul_dWK1oP010PNsy_qF42kILBUagWY574xhaKPaZx01lVJVSbE2mhAZEK1yvPylIjWq1lfU4EKUixc7AqiL8X7knTOyGbWP9Vb7hwzld-D8E_TcR8SBPvexnbfIXsIs4h-UnLPitvYwU4Kwn-XnNC8enJT5xUpp21leUu4Jzs/s320/IMG_8247.jpeg" width="250" /></a></div></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">If you remember in my previous post, I mentioned about how videos we watched convinced the hubby to include Fullerton in our tour itinerary. Well, who wouldn’t be persuaded to see one of the Heritage Hotels of Singapore, the Fullerton Hotel.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">Watch these</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">👇👇👇</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YsRUGVr8z0o" width="320" youtube-src-id="YsRUGVr8z0o"></iframe></div><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: 23px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="303" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aTDYz9wsuG4" width="481" youtube-src-id="aTDYz9wsuG4"></iframe></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: 23px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">Magnificent! </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">Majestic! </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">I believe Fullerton deserves these adjectives!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">The Fullerton Building is a grand neoclassical landmark, declared in December 2015 as a National Monument.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">In commemorating Singapore's centennial anniversary, Sir Laurence Guillemard, the colonial governor, commissioned the construction of the Fullerton Building in 1924 with a design by Keys & Dowdeswell. Completed in 1928, this Neoclassical masterpiece housed various tenants, including the General Post Office, the Exchange, and government offices, serving as a hub for essential services and administrative functions, hosting offices for the Governor of Singapore and the High Commissioner for the Federation of Malay States, among others. </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The General Post Office, presided over by the Postmaster General, occupied much of the space, covering the two lowest floors of the structure.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhImFhtnZAFM5ZfcfRE4wy0xrmR3gUlCxu3HkBNakXBPlQD4USmF4_TGJXWD-XUWiDcr1kG4SaYPlTrkdvlQsg9bi5EEQ5pIA6ESTaCPdiZDs-tI9mOhkfGhNVyDko-kvCQRDfZhhMIEgxOswRBM9909OJiRwpOBtKMm06mYWNEwgAerTxlQbs-f8oWWRpG/s3095/IMG_8253.jpeg" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1726" data-original-width="3095" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhImFhtnZAFM5ZfcfRE4wy0xrmR3gUlCxu3HkBNakXBPlQD4USmF4_TGJXWD-XUWiDcr1kG4SaYPlTrkdvlQsg9bi5EEQ5pIA6ESTaCPdiZDs-tI9mOhkfGhNVyDko-kvCQRDfZhhMIEgxOswRBM9909OJiRwpOBtKMm06mYWNEwgAerTxlQbs-f8oWWRpG/w400-h223/IMG_8253.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: large;">Entrance to the hotel lobby</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: large;">where the Mile Zero is fixed. </span></p><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinZ1H2WnTNzLRQoQRzQCjK9YPouHDfPKtSfRyRmcHGkv4t5dStg2CPolgq9TqYv_vgQA5GlUuoD6kudWEafCtNzyxk0oRb2iRS6QRj1_pTSsyQCQj2E36b1dHzK-X-UQI8UrUOAB-4m3jbywmfoDmCamvHY1Ie29VyDvwbZPuGP0qBzLfWJ69tyQs1ra1h/s3226/IMG_8254.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3226" data-original-width="2906" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinZ1H2WnTNzLRQoQRzQCjK9YPouHDfPKtSfRyRmcHGkv4t5dStg2CPolgq9TqYv_vgQA5GlUuoD6kudWEafCtNzyxk0oRb2iRS6QRj1_pTSsyQCQj2E36b1dHzK-X-UQI8UrUOAB-4m3jbywmfoDmCamvHY1Ie29VyDvwbZPuGP0qBzLfWJ69tyQs1ra1h/w360-h400/IMG_8254.jpeg" width="360" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is exactly where everything started and where everything leads to in Singapore. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The mile zero mark is right here. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">👇👇👇</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKBUz4cxqUFSfqQboQc92s0-bevgS3qolJQ0_hL1mEyQX0HJ_PzD8bZuNal5U3nNANKGi2ydL1heY3YCHdFjr3CrYSNQ1uYhuWTfpDcJ3swtoQZgdw-0yBX5J16gdQwi2S5Oa0CLeZ05pLmuorJIv7pbVBx31YLsXsuWm7sFvS3CToaPpjhJXvzgOq6PZB/s2187/IMG_8252.jpeg" style="font-family: Times; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2187" data-original-width="1823" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKBUz4cxqUFSfqQboQc92s0-bevgS3qolJQ0_hL1mEyQX0HJ_PzD8bZuNal5U3nNANKGi2ydL1heY3YCHdFjr3CrYSNQ1uYhuWTfpDcJ3swtoQZgdw-0yBX5J16gdQwi2S5Oa0CLeZ05pLmuorJIv7pbVBx31YLsXsuWm7sFvS3CToaPpjhJXvzgOq6PZB/s320/IMG_8252.jpeg" width="267" /></a></div></span><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Wow, I stepped on Singapore’s </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Mile Zero mark! </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: large; text-align: left;">A milestone in my philatelic journey, this is! </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">I love how hubby was able to capture The Fullerton Building while we were on a river cruise. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzSH9aBTLiXM7GcNoKQpd9edRBXDXIt_3kGAI6xn0LUdlao_M_7Ba9Eu-g-4HatMddRZUVoUmOAm0ibxaMiRw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">View of the Fullerton Hotel with the Cavenagh Bridge. </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKt_O3EOlnYVlmxXTFQ4skTClW-VMNt59DfAQZtVbfKkkfXj0k1rM1VC58UpeLl0PmlrDCXIZ8ONe0p-G35U3qH0gYWI8cbZUGp3tSoqIByVmoM-FNfQHNXSKNZM0JBvIgvTVf-6uYCO3tcWI2L4zpNhlYWAIuRGOlU6_bzb6rJL7eUTdnvftjuGXrcDid/s2785/IMG_8287.jpeg" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2051" data-original-width="2785" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKt_O3EOlnYVlmxXTFQ4skTClW-VMNt59DfAQZtVbfKkkfXj0k1rM1VC58UpeLl0PmlrDCXIZ8ONe0p-G35U3qH0gYWI8cbZUGp3tSoqIByVmoM-FNfQHNXSKNZM0JBvIgvTVf-6uYCO3tcWI2L4zpNhlYWAIuRGOlU6_bzb6rJL7eUTdnvftjuGXrcDid/w400-h295/IMG_8287.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgijpW3wBAUkvi59lKAT5UGmMfRryylp_NGZg4QYQcfnh3OPPhmUIo6deD_MD1nLkHZClabD_VKwpb-EZC6f8VIqq2AqKO_iAhhcRXg98s9y5nL9RwhEA-kh50kNvm8GqdVY4k3YH4xciu1oTJ99RCe_m1JHLjHkkqacxGCsuxPeRtjOkwOln3CkhDnM-6H/s2743/IMG_8277.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2743" data-original-width="2590" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgijpW3wBAUkvi59lKAT5UGmMfRryylp_NGZg4QYQcfnh3OPPhmUIo6deD_MD1nLkHZClabD_VKwpb-EZC6f8VIqq2AqKO_iAhhcRXg98s9y5nL9RwhEA-kh50kNvm8GqdVY4k3YH4xciu1oTJ99RCe_m1JHLjHkkqacxGCsuxPeRtjOkwOln3CkhDnM-6H/w378-h400/IMG_8277.jpeg" width="378" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;">Text too small? Here's a larger version:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i>"National Monument</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i>Gazetted on 15 October 2019</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i>Cavenagh Bridge</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i>Completed in 1869, Cavenagh Bridge is the oldest and only iron cable-stayed </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i>bridge in Singapore. It was named after Sir Orfeur Cavenagh, the last Governor </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i>of the Straits Settlement under the government of British India (1859-1867). </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i>Manufactured by P & W MacLellan in Glasgow, it was shipped to Singapore</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i>for assembly. In 1910, Anderson Bridge was opened to ease the increasing</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i>traffic load at Cavenagh Bridge, and the latter was later redesignated as a</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i>pedestrian bridge.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i>Cavenagh Bridge is one of three Singapore River bridges collectively </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><i>gazetted as a National Monument."</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhorp2qMzONqWvNsey406pIErhV8QYaHn5PCFtUj2nQInsnMiMVfvfn7flN_oRMdjIHydB-Mfk9GAoKGZ7jCOPK7N0h-fKdgrK8Yg59To7DHSonlQ7NvSx0PIiwU1guDs-dE2s0K_XqPfSOZF2Bm7_C2QYGiMHxEYZmuRrRcvv4jDZ108T6az6ofQq99oZ0/s4162/IMG_8279.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2920" data-original-width="4162" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhorp2qMzONqWvNsey406pIErhV8QYaHn5PCFtUj2nQInsnMiMVfvfn7flN_oRMdjIHydB-Mfk9GAoKGZ7jCOPK7N0h-fKdgrK8Yg59To7DHSonlQ7NvSx0PIiwU1guDs-dE2s0K_XqPfSOZF2Bm7_C2QYGiMHxEYZmuRrRcvv4jDZ108T6az6ofQq99oZ0/w400-h281/IMG_8279.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It was right here where I did an extreme philately.</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> </span></span></div><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">Click </span><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #800180;"><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2024/03/stamps-and-letters-eras-postal-tour.html" target="_blank">here</a></span></b><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;"> to read my previous post where I introduced the extreme philately concept. </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvulc5g0EgSYmKwIpb3XP58URROq7tKgXwX1b4Z2i6EgJzFcS8RvgSkQu34OOFWgJww_D0QRmLeMQeXwZ7yuMKPXLKtwm74b1mfIpsnHM8m0GCeyVteqBngCVeS0eHQSSZ2Z-05yw6WmN-4mbjcvmWNDma3a_XJoz8oAqPqQT_PDqqA29CKWIYAVpybg7Q/s1968/IMG_9243.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="824" data-original-width="1968" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvulc5g0EgSYmKwIpb3XP58URROq7tKgXwX1b4Z2i6EgJzFcS8RvgSkQu34OOFWgJww_D0QRmLeMQeXwZ7yuMKPXLKtwm74b1mfIpsnHM8m0GCeyVteqBngCVeS0eHQSSZ2Z-05yw6WmN-4mbjcvmWNDma3a_XJoz8oAqPqQT_PDqqA29CKWIYAVpybg7Q/w400-h168/IMG_9243.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The 60c </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Fullerton Hotel stamp is one of the ten stamps from the </span><a href="https://colnect.com/en/stamps/list/country/192-Singapore/series/351812-Heritage_Hotels_2019">Heritage Hotels (2019</a>) <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">series i</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">ssued on March </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">22, 2019 celebrating Singapore's rich architectural heritage. </span>Measuring </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">60 mm x 30 mm, the stamp features ornate flourishes and typography reminiscent of the '20s and '30s, when the Fullerton Building was part of a great boom in neo-classical architecture in Singapore.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFG_KvMwM-JWq3c09-5zW0SWPPjIj3IXl5rEmBXlHTrT4WRPzaO7YO6lwi4g1DC_qzi4SLdO4C3t_nQr6aT1kBnPX6wYxcbM5W2p4ghAJrOO0A8KWs4DWPQLmLa0URBnGjWPRlYOgwzn22N8CWrU1-pV1X5yvBx-gdZpw0z7CSsKf8qGDwJZLAAfpam2-N/s3018/IMG_8266.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3018" data-original-width="2939" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFG_KvMwM-JWq3c09-5zW0SWPPjIj3IXl5rEmBXlHTrT4WRPzaO7YO6lwi4g1DC_qzi4SLdO4C3t_nQr6aT1kBnPX6wYxcbM5W2p4ghAJrOO0A8KWs4DWPQLmLa0URBnGjWPRlYOgwzn22N8CWrU1-pV1X5yvBx-gdZpw0z7CSsKf8qGDwJZLAAfpam2-N/w390-h400/IMG_8266.jpeg" width="390" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizxnIytR0_d0EL0zdHvKTwLbgHSscMWjNMNoVKjq9VWfyw-1ssuBTmno_u2HuMvpx-9E7HHfi52mnFShAZuGzMsyoYvGwOw7GuQAfAFG24bY9tPGykeKqsN0cHxxHZgb7edlq8z8eX1QWTkHzRR__vSD3PMG2Wm_4SIv7uXjiTW1U-pimuD-dPjwyWO2CH/s4032/IMG_8273.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizxnIytR0_d0EL0zdHvKTwLbgHSscMWjNMNoVKjq9VWfyw-1ssuBTmno_u2HuMvpx-9E7HHfi52mnFShAZuGzMsyoYvGwOw7GuQAfAFG24bY9tPGykeKqsN0cHxxHZgb7edlq8z8eX1QWTkHzRR__vSD3PMG2Wm_4SIv7uXjiTW1U-pimuD-dPjwyWO2CH/w300-h400/IMG_8273.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After my extreme philately experiment at the Fullerton Hotel, we proceeded to the opposite riverbank via the Cavenagh Bridge to capture the grandeur of the surrounding architecture. It truly was a day of exploration and discovery! A huge thanks to you, Jeffrey, for your invaluable time and unwavering patience. Your presence has left an indelible mark on my philatelic journey and will forever be cherished in my memories.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'Til next extreme philately episode.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">- - - - -</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2024/03/stamps-and-letters-eras-postal-tour.html" target="_blank">The Eras Postal Tour Preps</a></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2024/03/stamps-and-letters-eras-postal-tour_21.html" target="_blank">BeJeweled</a></b></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-14522722056982334432024-03-21T08:06:00.010+08:002024-03-28T00:38:34.109+08:00Stamps and Letters | The Eras Postal Tour: BeJeweled! <p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibE9tfJtzPjPAAZGzX-3SLpOboPHbNvob9Z28cxES7VxQverx3Jd60bvwMLeTaGof2GaeiHsMEAjxDpBjSyXWQ2HfZlKTwQRasy2Tfvcbqr9pIl2aXSlC0cnSu2lLDu3sxJzW__qG7-wFRPwvoP-e19LBKkFtItmIyUiOxqYRZyX8QE99hnSTOioDW6LHY/s1406/IMG_5496.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1406" data-original-width="1054" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibE9tfJtzPjPAAZGzX-3SLpOboPHbNvob9Z28cxES7VxQverx3Jd60bvwMLeTaGof2GaeiHsMEAjxDpBjSyXWQ2HfZlKTwQRasy2Tfvcbqr9pIl2aXSlC0cnSu2lLDu3sxJzW__qG7-wFRPwvoP-e19LBKkFtItmIyUiOxqYRZyX8QE99hnSTOioDW6LHY/s320/IMG_5496.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: 23px; text-align: justify;">Hey there, happy to have you here! Ready to embark on the Eras Postal Tour with me today? In case you missed the Preps post, click </span><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #800180; font-size: large;"><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2024/03/stamps-and-letters-eras-postal-tour.html" target="_blank">here</a></span></b><span style="font-size: 23px; text-align: justify;"> to catch up but make sure to come back!</span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;">Our first stop couldn't get any better than the enchanting Jewel Changi Airport! It tops our itinerary list for today. Connected to the Arrival Hall - Level 1 of Changi Airport Terminal 1, Jewel is a captivating nature-themed attraction. We missed to see this on our initial trip to Singapore in November 2013 as its construction commenced in December 2014, and finally debuted in October 2019 following a five-year development period. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbTlduTY1VNRbNZ-LtcVvX_0tWtLJf-qNkL-8lbOUmkf6HSA-HBLNjNglQ4uikjIPy80O8lAg5qFDoIls9lANoXu7-moalvY0l3Ee_vqGIsFTY_gGOXI5nDqahYq-TyIruYcjyL7kFpCw5Lqh_oZ8Nr3HjkbKlxxvw6HwEsPo6U6ybXtGcC1807MlFs3Gy/s3402/IMG_7838.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1382" data-original-width="3402" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbTlduTY1VNRbNZ-LtcVvX_0tWtLJf-qNkL-8lbOUmkf6HSA-HBLNjNglQ4uikjIPy80O8lAg5qFDoIls9lANoXu7-moalvY0l3Ee_vqGIsFTY_gGOXI5nDqahYq-TyIruYcjyL7kFpCw5Lqh_oZ8Nr3HjkbKlxxvw6HwEsPo6U6ybXtGcC1807MlFs3Gy/w400-h163/IMG_7838.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">After claiming our luggage, we just had a quick breakfast, then walked into a lush green terraced forest. </span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqxCVTvRlnjJrnBLEMV4iMUWRbCETA9pVj73ySdzZPTa4wXsl4210iqNmU81D529cFshJ3GdskdGE5q7_TXMtpZacPw-dOqMLJ6_hyphenhyphenBPNzmpxe5QC54XCghyphenhyphenqfDTFn9tYFh3edLTR1eVU9Gu0QK4J-MN_04m6cj987tx4-VPDniQ2l5bg8Y1f0UaIxSs2A/s2048/IMG_5493.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqxCVTvRlnjJrnBLEMV4iMUWRbCETA9pVj73ySdzZPTa4wXsl4210iqNmU81D529cFshJ3GdskdGE5q7_TXMtpZacPw-dOqMLJ6_hyphenhyphenBPNzmpxe5QC54XCghyphenhyphenqfDTFn9tYFh3edLTR1eVU9Gu0QK4J-MN_04m6cj987tx4-VPDniQ2l5bg8Y1f0UaIxSs2A/s320/IMG_5493.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyAaIrZR4qmkCJIiTDAomKoQaVTdr0I85ICOMaPCN5qmrrMISgLQTgLxmQmK60ASOFre2hk_zBh6wX3qJL9yQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Spanning 21,000sqm, this verdant oasis is home to over 2,000 trees, 10,000 shrubs, and the show-stopping Rain Vortex, the world's tallest indoor waterfall.</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy7q9tfboPKOv6CAmnxhfL5R1yoZ3w8RoNwIQSx2h-gZKOFGiRQfnAxUJ-aDtY7sieoAh6vtn4SGZFTlk915A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Perfect timing, we thought, as we patiently waited for the clock to strike 11:00 in the morning. All heads and eyes looked up from where the water would descend. </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">Everyone eagerly watched as the mist started to appear slowly from the top in several cycles. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxdaiptiKbK88bpjja1k8qtszW24W3TKKbqRMASXskZWE-tQNAviu_55K3L-MVW9hLKFSJtPxYrtfwGTZC3kQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">But not a single drop fell! Why, oh, why!?</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;"> <br /></span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzdTMHqN68rrI4rJlK_-6kIh6n7OqXQanRyl_Kwewz_kjgEHw6pYXhvDUKukL6nVwB7XAsgGbAHqhpdEa3v8A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;">Our excitement was momentarily dampened when we learned that the Rain Vortex would not be operating for the day, leaving us with wistful faces. </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">🙁😟😩😭😫😒😔😞</span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We waited, still hoping for a reversal of the previous announcement, but there was none. Despite the setback, we savored the tranquil ambiance of the lush garden while watching a band performance before venturing further into Singapore, the City in Nature. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzENSPvJRwiyuU8MCv7ws6eNxO1iTMrEi-a0AEW0xHRfLNeymWsC0czocHnPpPu64hJCL8SqKVLeozDwBiNEw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhirD1ugz_0GLxab8PyGdeiQQQ5OYJAgZCurs-lHF7g__Ln9OxrIKsBmwz8hWNo0YPbe1Vawe9giBxnVKOF4_HnQ7Mh6NXOZxQzxSrrqXvIRcMEgw91JVkEBbyucTLzAQLJb1SN-UMFvdt53bBfuT98IdzmVw7VV5Ctw4NakWLghg1H9hk2kqGo5X94l5Jv/s2048/IMG_9099.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhirD1ugz_0GLxab8PyGdeiQQQ5OYJAgZCurs-lHF7g__Ln9OxrIKsBmwz8hWNo0YPbe1Vawe9giBxnVKOF4_HnQ7Mh6NXOZxQzxSrrqXvIRcMEgw91JVkEBbyucTLzAQLJb1SN-UMFvdt53bBfuT98IdzmVw7VV5Ctw4NakWLghg1H9hk2kqGo5X94l5Jv/s320/IMG_9099.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinjkz2IAcMTurK8j76B0Ws6z2Ge8rsSkBq1XRemW0XTB0uuWVlTFZ7PaSwQP3GY5aRbhfIw3bB9r6f337bvb4jbTOXNCLmmtxBfgMb1FsVpfmsmogNF-grFqOSX2kMjq8RBNMiItldTeVvp3vN-Cqw8Hgsayz8MwSRW4JqCboNoKRr4eB402H0yU-oGZP_/s1806/IMG_7870.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1806" data-original-width="1354" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinjkz2IAcMTurK8j76B0Ws6z2Ge8rsSkBq1XRemW0XTB0uuWVlTFZ7PaSwQP3GY5aRbhfIw3bB9r6f337bvb4jbTOXNCLmmtxBfgMb1FsVpfmsmogNF-grFqOSX2kMjq8RBNMiItldTeVvp3vN-Cqw8Hgsayz8MwSRW4JqCboNoKRr4eB402H0yU-oGZP_/w300-h400/IMG_7870.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Team Bulaklak (Flower)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">While attempting an extreme philately shot with the 'Jewel Changi Airport' stamp didn't go as planned, we embraced the unexpected turn of events. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC69dDcu7ybfsehHdjnuUkMu9zSoxr1PjC5-s4c0Lk3jOt9MsCsZQ-EVsAp1CmNBVh81_7ZVg23PIH4fxnWGaIiHdEDGjD3wUwykdUKTB8VdjG-1fyKJjSSumQAxqmDzwxdwCUQue7ETfaAdbfP_49TgF5Ah8B3LpRihOYdZIszph5dfNAu2wUcMdl9d_o/s2771/IMG_9089.jpeg" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2771" data-original-width="1193" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC69dDcu7ybfsehHdjnuUkMu9zSoxr1PjC5-s4c0Lk3jOt9MsCsZQ-EVsAp1CmNBVh81_7ZVg23PIH4fxnWGaIiHdEDGjD3wUwykdUKTB8VdjG-1fyKJjSSumQAxqmDzwxdwCUQue7ETfaAdbfP_49TgF5Ah8B3LpRihOYdZIszph5dfNAu2wUcMdl9d_o/s320/IMG_9089.jpeg" width="138" /></a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">The stamp had to hide in its rightful place in my bag. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip3dywwOfVXd_CmDwtvT-254CZsGv-4cfIiqyM-_xNWRFugCZyVMVmwR2RRSTnDyJPuj4lhO_Wr9jz8g5heTAIEleuRTz-mt4w3oee_aSneASMs-P_sYtxMRncDMW-71M42lhspccA13Pl5_YgXm4Qe9W_rcRu1TxjmkFNr1Afss2r2OpREROVviLBrhT6/s2413/IMG_8732.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2002" data-original-width="2413" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip3dywwOfVXd_CmDwtvT-254CZsGv-4cfIiqyM-_xNWRFugCZyVMVmwR2RRSTnDyJPuj4lhO_Wr9jz8g5heTAIEleuRTz-mt4w3oee_aSneASMs-P_sYtxMRncDMW-71M42lhspccA13Pl5_YgXm4Qe9W_rcRu1TxjmkFNr1Afss2r2OpREROVviLBrhT6/s320/IMG_8732.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: justify;">Hubby gave the signal for us to move on so off we went. Just chillin’ on our way out. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYIjOmuVQKESLpyxRbhzMfJfo-sb-BzyZxlPI7Zpplsz_u9JTdL2tYBOtqrBJj5GGD2cG7-O8r4r3yOvafFYWaGsWWjh50NGd_2pqblyijpPBpenZErLgxofbvLdEWYdzUqftLMuOSXQFuaAZ9ZqKktPTbIv7a9hWu0U2MLMwLmwkOKax4u44epKKErta/s2448/IMG_9098.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="1834" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYIjOmuVQKESLpyxRbhzMfJfo-sb-BzyZxlPI7Zpplsz_u9JTdL2tYBOtqrBJj5GGD2cG7-O8r4r3yOvafFYWaGsWWjh50NGd_2pqblyijpPBpenZErLgxofbvLdEWYdzUqftLMuOSXQFuaAZ9ZqKktPTbIv7a9hWu0U2MLMwLmwkOKax4u44epKKErta/s320/IMG_9098.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: justify;">Our journey continued with awe-inspiring sights, including the captivating Wonderfall at T2's departure hall. The colossal 14-metre-tall digital waterfall display provided a picturesque backdrop for some memorable snapshots. </span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The Wonderfall</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwZxm3vMVzEErOB3VxqXq-4InHUuRSlXFwsKC8BzXqifL2I9XoVTI75B6dCwMb6aKJRm-j6siaosq1sqTZyIQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">This spectacle did not escape hubby’s cam and mine</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyiNo3UinIal3Cb0cjgYvhbP21TXDTo0m1WGPRZMi1506AO3uREosLUTIprbhZ6zHwVDOYCFNzhQbJclecoyw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Photographing the photographers… </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZxTmMbHiyRg8Nq_O0kZ1QXVSBz08HoyVGG0acgUEhJsRYkx5pvmQifMURQO5_w1YOVuIz78fyibJsbN8V3I07Lx4kZJgyDgZRW57AQQ0FFDyhN05BYSp6wt6mZXEa1xBrLQvhGRBrpAUTlpH73n7T9qwubTnmZeAU79QbiH6_0TmQdyCx5V9-L4mQuCiL/s3581/IMG_7839.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3581" data-original-width="2625" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZxTmMbHiyRg8Nq_O0kZ1QXVSBz08HoyVGG0acgUEhJsRYkx5pvmQifMURQO5_w1YOVuIz78fyibJsbN8V3I07Lx4kZJgyDgZRW57AQQ0FFDyhN05BYSp6wt6mZXEa1xBrLQvhGRBrpAUTlpH73n7T9qwubTnmZeAU79QbiH6_0TmQdyCx5V9-L4mQuCiL/w294-h400/IMG_7839.jpeg" width="294" /></a></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">Equipped </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">with our tourist passes from a vending machine for convenient bus and train transportation, we headed to the train station for our first ride to the hotel, eagerly anticipating more adventures in the vibrant city of Singapore.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">Our first train ride</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyrCPtgBL4IWub8h1jheATcdmcNL75Sehtfs8vltjmY9bhIilu5_qrtmHfL4LB2_kZWNwMZsD9zH8YzFPyzMD7OFu-PrsOXoqblBvP50NjO3S8f9sRSKC2mkA_GQXtapdJDygcuIHhGk0KVhzDgONL5q5Qj-Oyxi04LsgvzkMvqzE5-bVlVSyuRA69DT8/s1429/IMG_7842.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="1429" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyrCPtgBL4IWub8h1jheATcdmcNL75Sehtfs8vltjmY9bhIilu5_qrtmHfL4LB2_kZWNwMZsD9zH8YzFPyzMD7OFu-PrsOXoqblBvP50NjO3S8f9sRSKC2mkA_GQXtapdJDygcuIHhGk0KVhzDgONL5q5Qj-Oyxi04LsgvzkMvqzE5-bVlVSyuRA69DT8/s320/IMG_7842.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzykVUZ52pX_sr-c3o9fJEpXXHH0RBrj9wI9DWJSDt6dcBlaTzOpj-AB3x28gZ4bDNEqWvFnQ-_xk0ixLLPYg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">We called it a day after checking in our hotel and having our first dinner. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Meantime, stay tuned for more and the possibility of extreme philately in my upcoming posts. T</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">here’s still hope … not today though... just wait and see… </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Adventure still awaits, so keep exploring with me!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">See you in the next post!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">- - - - - </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #800180; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2024/03/stamps-and-letters-eras-postal-tour.html" target="_blank"><b>The Eras Postal Tour Preps</b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #800180; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><b><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2024/03/stamps-and-letters-eras-postal-tour_24.html" target="_blank">Historic Fullerton</a></b></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com0Singapore1.3602094 103.9897598-26.950024436178847 68.8335098 29.670443236178844 139.1460098tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-49278132306745869422024-03-18T18:14:00.013+08:002024-03-28T00:30:56.131+08:00Stamps and Letters | The Eras Postal Tour Preps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhplAxY3L_FfeXiLV3CcbdqF6B1Ud9VUAKuU8FYgzyWrODTF-vltvUJ6Ydyh13NwvjhhiIp0X5oIBRkWdVd_o1YIGgeUrD15M9Ha929bHs4SzzxmYxA4zSDzMgOT94O2pOg3E2gh3HkFYiy2X8yFsCtEIp8Rq9v6t5VXlJUC5wFdHhuQ1Mwx7BYvnFm5SbO/s1726/IMG_8977.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1726" data-original-width="1386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhplAxY3L_FfeXiLV3CcbdqF6B1Ud9VUAKuU8FYgzyWrODTF-vltvUJ6Ydyh13NwvjhhiIp0X5oIBRkWdVd_o1YIGgeUrD15M9Ha929bHs4SzzxmYxA4zSDzMgOT94O2pOg3E2gh3HkFYiy2X8yFsCtEIp8Rq9v6t5VXlJUC5wFdHhuQ1Mwx7BYvnFm5SbO/s320/IMG_8977.jpeg" width="257" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While I may not be a self-proclaimed Swiftie, I’ve witnessed my eldest daughter Ayana Grace bring Taylor Swift's piano melodies to life through her videos on social media over the years. Recently, she shared this- - - </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxE8dtifjkiz8CIFdvVdsyF45-btHywEKy6EIkzfph41UBnl1DKFhwGwjhViVTL2iFBLUIeEskDktb6HjCzNQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;">🎹 <span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;">CodenameAya</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;">A video clip of Ayana Grace’s recent piano rendition of Taylor Swift’s ‘Cruel Summer,’ </span></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">one of her early fave TS songs, with</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> a video of</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">TS singing the song live on her Eras Tour</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">performance in the same clip. </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtY1z2gc_gckeRjLRnJ4xSIgTAc1xRv60bx646HNI3QDdZVacmvS5KL8sh1A-JlG9we5uYp-mN58llhgFsjy6GGTxGx0vX1xY7uwREzzbYeycf26e9-Jg32eMjbK17xhnyn8_wSJMlK_XnrV3KMHBXkjzvlgIuqlJmPtErjTyrdUMsz7kmD7RHYML37yN/s2048/IMG_6170.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtY1z2gc_gckeRjLRnJ4xSIgTAc1xRv60bx646HNI3QDdZVacmvS5KL8sh1A-JlG9we5uYp-mN58llhgFsjy6GGTxGx0vX1xY7uwREzzbYeycf26e9-Jg32eMjbK17xhnyn8_wSJMlK_XnrV3KMHBXkjzvlgIuqlJmPtErjTyrdUMsz7kmD7RHYML37yN/w300-h400/IMG_6170.jpeg" width="300" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Passports to the Eras Tour Concert</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="770" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyUyXt03wrmUA-NZ4eYFJGDTFFdXmfdlXlrC_T7-rqlJr9c1tKxlXfvftNtngc3CtKkmX0f21K1HarSo5kt5wPJTE9IeOuuHYdhp8jvUsS-9IpL1MDEEYdSOmo6tJ9wdug_LWTEY-couA6MCNuRpkSMVPoYYt0BXhHIwUWuNi8HTInjopbRvZ6ycM32QJz/w517-h640/IMG_8740.jpeg" width="517" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEintrVS4NEC5de-vtEgd_uI01MlPDpcsjVAE98z1nS6CCEVpTQwvYtsfF4cZ03OCnKQzlnL3sZtOXlQ97INNST0BfrcSiAyqjXZTpko46DoOSXbhh2fYBYjhGDLLJf05IA6X6Jp7JtZUs4irx7CTRcJ8Yb5CWnqx90RqCjwYVyVpwC2AQumamGiqSAUD37Z/w240-h320/IMG_8976.jpeg" width="240" /></span><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="766" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU5P7oHAsCCRh3lawV-wf1xnH8EqU9vdhR1bZ3jiLoZFtSsO84zFj2XAXmGoPm-Z1tKp2Tptp1GhfMwsGzai5XqiHVbCd05PioJevVDm7gm_W7dvjqhN1aIlKkk4xxyfw2uYrMB0twiFvx7Iii0f2PjlWxfUl3Y3B3sZIAF5RpPJTJKOTHMcLAdzSd0L44/w254-h320/IMG_8739.jpeg" width="254" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyUyXt03wrmUA-NZ4eYFJGDTFFdXmfdlXlrC_T7-rqlJr9c1tKxlXfvftNtngc3CtKkmX0f21K1HarSo5kt5wPJTE9IeOuuHYdhp8jvUsS-9IpL1MDEEYdSOmo6tJ9wdug_LWTEY-couA6MCNuRpkSMVPoYYt0BXhHIwUWuNi8HTInjopbRvZ6ycM32QJz/s960/IMG_8740.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>My lovely daughters, Ana Cristina and Ayana Grace at the Singapore National Stadium</i></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU5P7oHAsCCRh3lawV-wf1xnH8EqU9vdhR1bZ3jiLoZFtSsO84zFj2XAXmGoPm-Z1tKp2Tptp1GhfMwsGzai5XqiHVbCd05PioJevVDm7gm_W7dvjqhN1aIlKkk4xxyfw2uYrMB0twiFvx7Iii0f2PjlWxfUl3Y3B3sZIAF5RpPJTJKOTHMcLAdzSd0L44/s960/IMG_8739.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm tempted to post more of their photos, sad to say, this post isn't about the spectacular Eras Tour Concert they attended with their friends. Neither is this about how we grabbed the rare opportunity to unwind as a family for the first time since the pandemic. </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj390Usrhyddou5Qjpen-KMixgnwqLFWHqxVuXn-EVO7s5YRFzg1MdZHMvjbVtR1mRpD1_AFnrSLdtBc5JLwny7PfqntEgDUeEGV-oxzJmQCO8cLjDkGFhAzx48IQmNb_LR51S2yOSLZI8VmFeuDS8FURbTUeECgzCBYo6VGf_W8Wka4SRTHDm0l4xkDRDK/s1436/IMG_0087.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1417" data-original-width="1436" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj390Usrhyddou5Qjpen-KMixgnwqLFWHqxVuXn-EVO7s5YRFzg1MdZHMvjbVtR1mRpD1_AFnrSLdtBc5JLwny7PfqntEgDUeEGV-oxzJmQCO8cLjDkGFhAzx48IQmNb_LR51S2yOSLZI8VmFeuDS8FURbTUeECgzCBYo6VGf_W8Wka4SRTHDm0l4xkDRDK/w400-h395/IMG_0087.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">True that after my retirement from hospital work in 2020, I have been juggling caregiving duties for my mother, hence, this was a much-needed escape, as our last adventure in Taipei was back in 2018. </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Well, the truth is, this post is a segment of my personal journey as a stamp collector since I returned to this hobby in June 2021. </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I was excited to delve into the world of Extreme Philately, for the first time (inspired by fellow stamp collector-enthusiasts, Byrone Barrinuevo, Lou Alcala, Gootzie Herrera, among others).</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">Extreme philately involves researching on stamps from one’s collection, traveling to their real-world locations, and capturing the stamp's essence alongside its physical counterpart. By doing such, one gets to observe the imagery featured on the stamp, find the aspect of the stamp in real life, and take a photo of both side by side.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">If done using postcards, it is called</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> Extreme D</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">eltiology (Thanks to you, Lou, for introducing the term to me!). While philately is the collection and study of postage stamps, d</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">eltiology is the hobby of collecting postcards. I am not a deltiologist but I've been receiving postcards from friends who are stamp and/or postcard collectors and I do treasure each postcard I receive.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">To give you an idea, take a look at how extreme philately and extreme deltiology work…</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiupOgfLMMk-_t0g2L7QFUBHtnPgWsifsnKJgN7wySikGsq1EgBeSdqXANAlURchqTt0_JzvEKank-92scBUykBKzwDjfkrJTwg2fZHrBNh0GEduB213qFtkwk1bOoz4yj9R6DmgDZVwfCJfkmF_SmYmPdJNUQ_N_SYwlCaLf8hbfxJfD02WURg3JBfOeEM/s960/IMG_9011.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiupOgfLMMk-_t0g2L7QFUBHtnPgWsifsnKJgN7wySikGsq1EgBeSdqXANAlURchqTt0_JzvEKank-92scBUykBKzwDjfkrJTwg2fZHrBNh0GEduB213qFtkwk1bOoz4yj9R6DmgDZVwfCJfkmF_SmYmPdJNUQ_N_SYwlCaLf8hbfxJfD02WURg3JBfOeEM/s960/IMG_9011.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiupOgfLMMk-_t0g2L7QFUBHtnPgWsifsnKJgN7wySikGsq1EgBeSdqXANAlURchqTt0_JzvEKank-92scBUykBKzwDjfkrJTwg2fZHrBNh0GEduB213qFtkwk1bOoz4yj9R6DmgDZVwfCJfkmF_SmYmPdJNUQ_N_SYwlCaLf8hbfxJfD02WURg3JBfOeEM/w200-h200/IMG_9011.jpeg" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcoAldyAOd8PpNfDfSZkr2Nsn345q5iQhho4qRCdNupWre2hxzrYWAwksfLEcFodq-81-iWPGKStTCJ9axh4VmAfLZFw1M2k5mY5HvpSQKkXv7f1oeejVRrXw4_imH_ZzHs-ULOuQvNtpM7nD519DmO4t19XoxmaFOBGXFh9SkFQx6pwLsc5bH_PcVMOEa/s960/IMG_9010.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcoAldyAOd8PpNfDfSZkr2Nsn345q5iQhho4qRCdNupWre2hxzrYWAwksfLEcFodq-81-iWPGKStTCJ9axh4VmAfLZFw1M2k5mY5HvpSQKkXv7f1oeejVRrXw4_imH_ZzHs-ULOuQvNtpM7nD519DmO4t19XoxmaFOBGXFh9SkFQx6pwLsc5bH_PcVMOEa/w200-h200/IMG_9010.jpeg" width="200" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The 10p Oblation stamp from the University of the Philippines Alumni Association (UPAA) Centennial series issued on April 2, 2013 was used by Byrone Barrinuevo for his extreme philately post taken alongside the real life Oblation of UP Diliman.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTOviR6JoCfRKX50bt-Mz57mtrSCRTbI-k_OjIgTtlXUN7nvvJAZ0Lu_WcGNmt7ztcgZJpDLZsCySLJ6FtaLyrzikUtp4DbC3QZp_jyG4Nt72kt89SDhyphenhyphenfCfFevXKPiJATqMhId7h7KRIwNhJQO7esZBlmqyN6JXGyNt1FUWv09H5XJPbMFBsx-lY2KZn9/s750/IMG_9015.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="750" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTOviR6JoCfRKX50bt-Mz57mtrSCRTbI-k_OjIgTtlXUN7nvvJAZ0Lu_WcGNmt7ztcgZJpDLZsCySLJ6FtaLyrzikUtp4DbC3QZp_jyG4Nt72kt89SDhyphenhyphenfCfFevXKPiJATqMhId7h7KRIwNhJQO7esZBlmqyN6JXGyNt1FUWv09H5XJPbMFBsx-lY2KZn9/w400-h214/IMG_9015.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Here's another example of extreme philately by Lou Alcala using the </i><i>60 German pfennig (Pf) denomination stamp,</i><i> commemorating the 50th birth anniversary of Anne Frank (1929-45), Nazi concentration camp victim and diary writer. The stamp was photographed together with Anne Franks's diary. </i><i>The stamp was issued in Germany on May 17, 1979.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAQPmWhor9Sd7ZX2H4wfdrXgTwE6u2kzaG-2hHco5KbX0X1FGIgNMcl-vD6NayKtiMSRHUpZjHSyV-aeFLb0rH9KIv8ypI2pTUorOcuSZv356LdROtT2DS9DOqjJomNHiGNgofR27twdqIB9Vxx23xy1YchlfzjASDhQMzK_YbrdR86FFR9mXqsl-CWkMX/s1053/IMG_9018.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1053" data-original-width="1053" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAQPmWhor9Sd7ZX2H4wfdrXgTwE6u2kzaG-2hHco5KbX0X1FGIgNMcl-vD6NayKtiMSRHUpZjHSyV-aeFLb0rH9KIv8ypI2pTUorOcuSZv356LdROtT2DS9DOqjJomNHiGNgofR27twdqIB9Vxx23xy1YchlfzjASDhQMzK_YbrdR86FFR9mXqsl-CWkMX/w400-h400/IMG_9018.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>This is Gootzie Herrera's extreme philately that features </i><i>'Columbus Monument, Barcelona', a</i><i> stamp from Spain issued on March 17, 1965. A photo of the stamp was taken with the 60-meter (197 ft) tall real-life Columbus Monument constructed in La Rambla, Barcelona in honor of Christopher Columbus' first voyage to the Americas. Thank you, Gootzie, for bringing this home to us from your tour!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3MuDQYqtpGPVUl5z1bPercx-8jYiXFVFSbc_tU5t34nPCmqARJ7BtlRxTg0akcZBmDj0KRq3DBCElgy5h87_Ng6XI8TK608nwIujQyS-dAEFM6YTKIxfrONAeplRnCAHmzJMnS3Ho0QRHsIv60sSBu7FVwK66hD6ya3fXtb3oErc0GhW-U4c211EOceq2/s960/IMG_9013.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3MuDQYqtpGPVUl5z1bPercx-8jYiXFVFSbc_tU5t34nPCmqARJ7BtlRxTg0akcZBmDj0KRq3DBCElgy5h87_Ng6XI8TK608nwIujQyS-dAEFM6YTKIxfrONAeplRnCAHmzJMnS3Ho0QRHsIv60sSBu7FVwK66hD6ya3fXtb3oErc0GhW-U4c211EOceq2/w240-h320/IMG_9013.jpeg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIF98gEjXz61pAf7Wnbc0qusxLEn5O4kMdUiKDnMl9XC4KEt0RoGKkg7B8cjkPNjgo3913CHPOhh1n3u991XB13H0f1j9IjjZaGJK0LoD2npxvrVcRGX459eRoxtnwZ1eJYJG3DNmohItVf-fD4YOIEePdCTvCRL-pL2zb2jKXcCizaWFDkpcT1pB2tn-R/s960/IMG_9012.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIF98gEjXz61pAf7Wnbc0qusxLEn5O4kMdUiKDnMl9XC4KEt0RoGKkg7B8cjkPNjgo3913CHPOhh1n3u991XB13H0f1j9IjjZaGJK0LoD2npxvrVcRGX459eRoxtnwZ1eJYJG3DNmohItVf-fD4YOIEePdCTvCRL-pL2zb2jKXcCizaWFDkpcT1pB2tn-R/w240-h320/IMG_9012.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>This is an example of Extreme Deltiology, where Lou Alcala took a photo of the Hanging Coffins of Sagada (left) and another photo (right) both with a postcard and the hanging coffins at the background. This has been a unique burial ritual of the Kankanaey (natives of Sagada) for over 2,000 years. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">Carefully selecting stamps from my collection, featuring Singapore's iconic landmarks and postcards capturing the city's charm, made the prospect of blending my hobbies with our tour itinerary truly exhilarating. It gave me an entirely different focus and challenging travel experience to look forward to this time. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have chosen these stamps to match our itinerary- - -</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiERYbWCde2iWFr9wwqLLC6vap9y-W-x9rp9IvqAJ8KDKBZb2ZEqb0uybjzKwFYwqZ86K5iezaCoteGF-A8rZSVcSQIqCQbDkggsk2HH3W_iVcqWgkIWzoEj8dJLVf5UVOwgFhmhTesGEh4L-Zut4hHrAWCLJfRtqUlKV-QlDPwARulruCuoWmzivOTwpPS/s3292/IMG_8750.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2272" data-original-width="3292" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiERYbWCde2iWFr9wwqLLC6vap9y-W-x9rp9IvqAJ8KDKBZb2ZEqb0uybjzKwFYwqZ86K5iezaCoteGF-A8rZSVcSQIqCQbDkggsk2HH3W_iVcqWgkIWzoEj8dJLVf5UVOwgFhmhTesGEh4L-Zut4hHrAWCLJfRtqUlKV-QlDPwARulruCuoWmzivOTwpPS/w400-h276/IMG_8750.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jewel Changi Airport from the Skyrise Greenery series</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gardens by the Bay</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Marina Bay Skyline</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">200 Years of Healthcare featuring Singapore General Hospital and</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Singapore Hawker Culture</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">Then these postcards for extreme deltiology…</span></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMcqvI68_nQ2XFyOcb6y4PvpLOncuSDDATnCIIDP9_Z6mqQWoZRepuyK7gz_RtUS2kWvyl-X3FlbbMjdJqrLdtltT-Jdd4RTI9SmhKfaiue7IHD35bvTyIm2z_oDW3PX4DCJ9KLo6R-C3FkHrs3XuYM_ljsdDRSMHz3yr6AlSgJOkPoSU1ZPxQiVMJiB_t/s2851/IMG_8751.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2374" data-original-width="2851" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMcqvI68_nQ2XFyOcb6y4PvpLOncuSDDATnCIIDP9_Z6mqQWoZRepuyK7gz_RtUS2kWvyl-X3FlbbMjdJqrLdtltT-Jdd4RTI9SmhKfaiue7IHD35bvTyIm2z_oDW3PX4DCJ9KLo6R-C3FkHrs3XuYM_ljsdDRSMHz3yr6AlSgJOkPoSU1ZPxQiVMJiB_t/w400-h333/IMG_8751.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;">Gardens by the Bay</p></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXOtKgaEBkLqIgpSN3Kg9xPnUo5U4f64K1t_2k5g_F-eysOyBZ6wjoDszWUTI_ifghxYcxvdSkxv4AGkEj5ZIzrJikkasnLpI0airacQpta6MHWr5MTcVNaSNR0tyrRJfsBJ6-wsevldCHWtNGIIxAhKSIe7USHlHseM94wyaQVcLR37fxuUrhrcWk3vCY/s2595/IMG_8752.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1952" data-original-width="2595" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXOtKgaEBkLqIgpSN3Kg9xPnUo5U4f64K1t_2k5g_F-eysOyBZ6wjoDszWUTI_ifghxYcxvdSkxv4AGkEj5ZIzrJikkasnLpI0airacQpta6MHWr5MTcVNaSNR0tyrRJfsBJ6-wsevldCHWtNGIIxAhKSIe7USHlHseM94wyaQVcLR37fxuUrhrcWk3vCY/w400-h301/IMG_8752.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Welcome to Singapore postcard featuring Merlion, Westin Stamford and Esplanade</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlWUgZgF_qeRIUJ0nhyphenhyphenUaqpiFxerBwc3V1jCrDkHHExkZVEubIA8sQ3HrykdGAF7kd1ZoG4mh2I3oQAImkB4srfyul0iuqvZk1X8e3OqYNv1w80kwhLfmGsXaZdIPxNoLrt_2HCsUVbqBkcxbejorEQO5Ih6m9bipvQd7YOxpinI3VdEa-MKhrhsthQn9/s2908/IMG_8753.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2181" data-original-width="2908" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTlWUgZgF_qeRIUJ0nhyphenhyphenUaqpiFxerBwc3V1jCrDkHHExkZVEubIA8sQ3HrykdGAF7kd1ZoG4mh2I3oQAImkB4srfyul0iuqvZk1X8e3OqYNv1w80kwhLfmGsXaZdIPxNoLrt_2HCsUVbqBkcxbejorEQO5Ih6m9bipvQd7YOxpinI3VdEa-MKhrhsthQn9/w400-h300/IMG_8753.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Merlion with Marina Bay Sands as backdrop</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi97xR9mMA7IgHH2r5Igqu_8aPGvxSCJ8YfQXe4R1oaetrjlf0kc23pcaYFliQrQjym7eWLFt9zuW4-JugZekTD2X-uppdgo6oTrpJ6ZF_c0SeAQlBfqNgs_0ZBEySavbDnxtJO3ubl_eZAmV5CgLcDh8IAB4Nh9tTSMA2rfDJSxIEwvWlmlvWtJKF93aHJ/s2569/IMG_8754.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2054" data-original-width="2569" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi97xR9mMA7IgHH2r5Igqu_8aPGvxSCJ8YfQXe4R1oaetrjlf0kc23pcaYFliQrQjym7eWLFt9zuW4-JugZekTD2X-uppdgo6oTrpJ6ZF_c0SeAQlBfqNgs_0ZBEySavbDnxtJO3ubl_eZAmV5CgLcDh8IAB4Nh9tTSMA2rfDJSxIEwvWlmlvWtJKF93aHJ/w400-h320/IMG_8754.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;">Clarke Quay</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;">Credits to Jeffrey Oro for the stamps and postcards featured here. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;">Here they all are… eagerly waiting to jump into my bag!😁</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYJEsW_R24Q9oLY-XSI3K5k-_T7rdVX7nyke65LHjEBbp8u62RdOzqa3NCGoR39I8iRCSyt6UJaQecbxfH6yqeeBXXoi2of79bqmIVepOLm27r74ChUEyGH31dnaS0wRZA1RMi_Ez8UWCdM5qeH2jxmTtjCUI_pOfoWpMNYztZSAOnkZmO-b1zk4R7ezYI/s3776/IMG_8737.jpeg" style="font-family: Times; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2870" data-original-width="3776" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYJEsW_R24Q9oLY-XSI3K5k-_T7rdVX7nyke65LHjEBbp8u62RdOzqa3NCGoR39I8iRCSyt6UJaQecbxfH6yqeeBXXoi2of79bqmIVepOLm27r74ChUEyGH31dnaS0wRZA1RMi_Ez8UWCdM5qeH2jxmTtjCUI_pOfoWpMNYztZSAOnkZmO-b1zk4R7ezYI/w400-h304/IMG_8737.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;">Excitement brewed as I shared my wishlist of places to explore in Singapore with the family. Thankfully, spots like Gardens by the Bay, the iconic Marina Bay Sands, Merlion, and the vibrant China Town Hawker Center were already on our tentative list. Before each trip, </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><strike>we</strike></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"> they 🤣… errr… our family would huddle together (I would always be in the kitchen, just listening to what’s going on 😁😆) to fine-tune our travel itinerary, often drawing inspiration from travel vlogs we watch together. A historical video of the Fullerton Hotel captivated hubby, earning it a well-deserved spot on our must-visit list. </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Watch this video 👇👇👇</span></div></span></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://youtu.be/aTDYz9wsuG4?si=I-CzAMTAtaLeYSV3"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://youtu.be/aTDYz9wsuG4?si=I-CzAMTAtaLeYSV3"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aTDYz9wsuG4" width="320" youtube-src-id="aTDYz9wsuG4"></iframe></a></div><a href="https://youtu.be/aTDYz9wsuG4?si=I-CzAMTAtaLeYSV3"><br /></a><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">A few days before the trip, I made sure the stamps wouldn’t fall off my stamp tongs if it’s windy. Ensuring the safety of all stamps and postcards I have taken out of my stock books, I secured the items by wrapping each stamp in protective Oriented Polypropylene (OPP) film with a stiffener. OPP plastics are strong and resistant to tearing and moisture, have a high resistance to heat, hence, are commonly used by stamp collectors in protecting stamps.</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">Here’s how I did it. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">👇👇👇</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dz0XVmpLE-g5jol5KUDvXJoF8u3Fyf1ifJy9gD0qDiDT_fwV_ACFqOmanZoI0r4RHZ7uMriGuz-dAusuutrig' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">Then, I placed all the stamps in a card holder (thanks to Angie Valdez for this gift… a souvenir from our Philippine Stamp Collectors’ Society (PSCS) Stamp Circuit Group). </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMi-rtskOS-Gfe84n2QOEiCegj_K_Ojv8LM4BsuQz5fmBw29cvC3ZUCD3xM6AIvT815D0Tx-LWBQ8LULllcgLujaM2jXy4RetD2xaI5hzDS29qL-63bWy5rMjAS31UQM0u9Hk6AUkwBhRBqcOKNWCyjzzlmBkSbzPMXP2hyphenhyphen8Vx4Nrx3qDzzIzO_3k1ukFU/s3510/IMG_8756.jpeg" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-size-adjust: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3510" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMi-rtskOS-Gfe84n2QOEiCegj_K_Ojv8LM4BsuQz5fmBw29cvC3ZUCD3xM6AIvT815D0Tx-LWBQ8LULllcgLujaM2jXy4RetD2xaI5hzDS29qL-63bWy5rMjAS31UQM0u9Hk6AUkwBhRBqcOKNWCyjzzlmBkSbzPMXP2hyphenhyphen8Vx4Nrx3qDzzIzO_3k1ukFU/w345-h400/IMG_8756.jpeg" width="345" /></a></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;"><i>Card holder for the stamps coming with me to Singapore</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgHWrV3JFdfoDqYc_sh9pM8vJRaydBsCcHFUHsFBknJIxB3K6y5IE6zyjeBetzbBF9xcuGAS6uBRl52gDgVLmuM_xghWVN0rRfrQUWVdWBOLkezLkAxOkinSkechg90lMESCtUtbOQGexi5Vxir9qtgvUqzS7TaVlxS8zLmD1PcSeT9Lr_hXpNa03FgGVG/s3209/IMG_8732.jpeg" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-size-adjust: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2871" data-original-width="3209" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgHWrV3JFdfoDqYc_sh9pM8vJRaydBsCcHFUHsFBknJIxB3K6y5IE6zyjeBetzbBF9xcuGAS6uBRl52gDgVLmuM_xghWVN0rRfrQUWVdWBOLkezLkAxOkinSkechg90lMESCtUtbOQGexi5Vxir9qtgvUqzS7TaVlxS8zLmD1PcSeT9Lr_hXpNa03FgGVG/w400-h358/IMG_8732.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;"><i>Stamps and postcards all set to go</i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Oh, the postcards, I just placed them in a 7.5 x 4.5-inch mount to safeguard against wrinkles during the flight and the tour.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy9XoMO4FE6vptdInZ8IGWMA2VxeCyN9pMCg5Q6ZPHg0i6xqSZwMp_y16lSGoNPosdqVmbM_RIVVWleyCV3Qd5kRI7vGpKkwC3vpox6UBSgxSYpmlJCH6j_BwtC2PpOtEfVmlPmMa_JVQxS4DK1d00evDhhTHWRi4L3_IG8uwnHsW2Yh_i-_MdTPBxLs5-/s3220/IMG_8993.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3220" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy9XoMO4FE6vptdInZ8IGWMA2VxeCyN9pMCg5Q6ZPHg0i6xqSZwMp_y16lSGoNPosdqVmbM_RIVVWleyCV3Qd5kRI7vGpKkwC3vpox6UBSgxSYpmlJCH6j_BwtC2PpOtEfVmlPmMa_JVQxS4DK1d00evDhhTHWRi4L3_IG8uwnHsW2Yh_i-_MdTPBxLs5-/w376-h400/IMG_8993.jpeg" width="376" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRtgu3sLzSx-PYuRtmDCJhT1D7iYyOgJyMBTyb3EU0MUG_bYlpiw_Kwp2j-nAvDa8eSjv-KIGcn2T0uzMKFCX2atUVMwicTow5wDHc1XzVjMzPESS4Z2wBb9KGBTzMQgS7db-txoDGD3UaXdb8ZNaxN93N4bBT1t7tU4pThFT3UqpmZkMbNFEQutucUZGd/s3436/IMG_8735.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2399" data-original-width="3436" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRtgu3sLzSx-PYuRtmDCJhT1D7iYyOgJyMBTyb3EU0MUG_bYlpiw_Kwp2j-nAvDa8eSjv-KIGcn2T0uzMKFCX2atUVMwicTow5wDHc1XzVjMzPESS4Z2wBb9KGBTzMQgS7db-txoDGD3UaXdb8ZNaxN93N4bBT1t7tU4pThFT3UqpmZkMbNFEQutucUZGd/s320/IMG_8735.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Stamps in card holder, all postcards together in the mount and stamp tongs ready</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I also covered the tip of the tongs so it wouldn’t appear as sharp object although I knew tongs and tweezers are allowed in carry-on bags. </span></span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyUab0yQQ_0-cs0AWFEs6Ag0BNPl4HwE0L6CeDbOApVpFo3yj_susalZVhTfXWJjkVGmsNH7ULbu3_wPdjoYg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Used washi tape to cover the tips of the stamp tongs</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">I had to practice using the tongs just to get a feel of it, making sure I made a good grasp, else the stamp would fall and I might lose any of them forever.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL33-NXTAHYvOpD3BiPoVCpM0NWsbPqUKuWqB9UWlcO7SrOYJ8FvFtJ07ozy28dwjdKxxpLQS55k4Kj924T2ErdIhvRP9YK1XXE1qavHwhqiz03e_h9q_VU4HnjGf8UnrZG0RbPeWOZUUV0xI603PZh7RS_bQs04Hx5zShHDw47SK5qdGzYRaa5m3yYF8e/s3287/IMG_8730.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3287" data-original-width="2897" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL33-NXTAHYvOpD3BiPoVCpM0NWsbPqUKuWqB9UWlcO7SrOYJ8FvFtJ07ozy28dwjdKxxpLQS55k4Kj924T2ErdIhvRP9YK1XXE1qavHwhqiz03e_h9q_VU4HnjGf8UnrZG0RbPeWOZUUV0xI603PZh7RS_bQs04Hx5zShHDw47SK5qdGzYRaa5m3yYF8e/w353-h400/IMG_8730.jpeg" width="353" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;">All my bags are packed, ready to go! </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim6lQvVDZXWkH0IS1CrMnVV1hKin4U0X6cETE9H-sDeSU4am2xfsGWwu1Ci9QAdROqcM0hDetGBavjTikZlPH0ybtfpGh9gXZaGGNPttFD90v5IffxRawCb_zl6qnSXq_PpvfBoBEEAxHM-ln9inc4I4dgBjL499rLKc3NDLAEJr5jWSEyXV2VGSDgvP76/s3776/IMG_8737.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2870" data-original-width="3776" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim6lQvVDZXWkH0IS1CrMnVV1hKin4U0X6cETE9H-sDeSU4am2xfsGWwu1Ci9QAdROqcM0hDetGBavjTikZlPH0ybtfpGh9gXZaGGNPttFD90v5IffxRawCb_zl6qnSXq_PpvfBoBEEAxHM-ln9inc4I4dgBjL499rLKc3NDLAEJr5jWSEyXV2VGSDgvP76/w400-h304/IMG_8737.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9iEqXx3A575KFZKUztSRZank7BiCi9kzAQuvWq9kHEbsF6D-vVltkrJDGx4w_MjffBUzggvKLjwEqne4SP_YBa0bBLQfj-2stzh2om5sKQ5DiWAhiRgNiUO-NKBSuTM0xMxCqxulfKhQ3FtNnTAskVPeGMgnOPLHE9IMyqDy1RDctM43oXMj5vTEwiHre/s2954/IMG_8729.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2317" data-original-width="2954" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9iEqXx3A575KFZKUztSRZank7BiCi9kzAQuvWq9kHEbsF6D-vVltkrJDGx4w_MjffBUzggvKLjwEqne4SP_YBa0bBLQfj-2stzh2om5sKQ5DiWAhiRgNiUO-NKBSuTM0xMxCqxulfKhQ3FtNnTAskVPeGMgnOPLHE9IMyqDy1RDctM43oXMj5vTEwiHre/w400-h314/IMG_8729.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">And now, let <b>The</b> <b>Eras Postal Tour</b> begin!</span></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com2Singapore1.352083 103.819836-26.958150836178845 68.663586 29.662316836178846 138.976086tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-88812993961153507122023-11-22T15:49:00.009+08:002023-11-22T23:08:02.757+08:00Crocheted Chair Socks <p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHPAhAPqqCscdbswKDk1RvTtw873U0xsS4H5BEcTAyCZM_DQK1EOE2WsMegkuMi8KsB1sb9RQXAG23F2FFwFeXAYXEXVqlJUdn_q2X-5H5ccPhQgSfPVyr92GcoN0_W16VVtDpcToF-2UrisH6hSA77hEtUe7BtCtj2qnfkt2tpC_8FyuPf_YcNBlwzjI2/s1735/IMG_7579.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1735" data-original-width="1718" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHPAhAPqqCscdbswKDk1RvTtw873U0xsS4H5BEcTAyCZM_DQK1EOE2WsMegkuMi8KsB1sb9RQXAG23F2FFwFeXAYXEXVqlJUdn_q2X-5H5ccPhQgSfPVyr92GcoN0_W16VVtDpcToF-2UrisH6hSA77hEtUe7BtCtj2qnfkt2tpC_8FyuPf_YcNBlwzjI2/w198-h200/IMG_7579.jpeg" width="198" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-size-adjust: auto;">It’s been more than a year since I crocheted. Oh, how I miss my yarn and crochet hooks! I gave away yarn from my stash to unload and declutter before we moved to our new residence last year.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Since my mother recovered from COVID-19 almost three years ago (she was 96 years old then), exactly the same time I retired from service, I became her caregiver 24/7. That has caused me to sleep on a foam mattress beside her bed to keep watch whenever she needs to get up to use the bedside commode especially at night. At my age, </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">getting up from a flat mattress has started to become a struggle. So</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> we bought a new sofa bed, convertible from bed (where I sleep at night) to couch during the day, to replace the flat mattress I’ve been using temporarily. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ykr8O9hUfwYzvYXUS0YlcvOwYNDd3KXwJ8su7sdAfXxzd3Lsiu4bLpn0fYj5UKBgxZPSqLueG6MpjCUCqyO0wtw0YxhELI6XMgm6K2xtmArtzn5m4uxOi4ppifqw9Lxh-mkikoCkEgFpQTDxRChNKC2Bo2vzMzrL0zT60gZMHoqPqP7MBNQX5P1WZg0c/s4032/IMG_7466.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5ykr8O9hUfwYzvYXUS0YlcvOwYNDd3KXwJ8su7sdAfXxzd3Lsiu4bLpn0fYj5UKBgxZPSqLueG6MpjCUCqyO0wtw0YxhELI6XMgm6K2xtmArtzn5m4uxOi4ppifqw9Lxh-mkikoCkEgFpQTDxRChNKC2Bo2vzMzrL0zT60gZMHoqPqP7MBNQX5P1WZg0c/w300-h400/IMG_7466.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The advantage of having a sofa bed is that I could move it from one part of the room to another, as necessary, usually in front of the TV or it serves as my work space during the day. However, f</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">requent moving of the furniture leaves unnecessary marks and scratches on the floor so as a come-back crochet project, I thought of making these chair socks. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I found a pattern from Pinterest that I followed with some modifications. Very easy! You can finish one in just a few minutes. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Using gray, the closest color to the sofa bed, here’s what I did: </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Make a magic circle (MC). </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Round 1: 8 SCs in MC. Join with a slip stitch (ss). </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Round 2: Chain 1. SC in first stitch (equivalent to a pair of SC). 2 SCs in the remaining 7 SCs of previous round. SS to join (16 sts in round). </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Round 3: Chain 1. SC in each SC of previous round. Do not join (16 sts in round). </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">Round 4: SC on all SCs of previous round continuously. Do not join.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinANDyEkNz8heCHAmGETGXYZJDsjW4r41gztuQru_4JDRUUBXx_lHq4WzLyjdYcjQTogCc1wZevruLDG8pWpMge7sKbB9VCg5Vtt-C3ICcfCIODeXdZDhGG6n2M2FUqJqUQb_qquO8OlJuwHVDroW-A3BW3eWNiVMF3wZS8_Z3WRW30vA5WVpSwMmL1gQ7/s2904/IMG_7457.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2904" data-original-width="2725" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinANDyEkNz8heCHAmGETGXYZJDsjW4r41gztuQru_4JDRUUBXx_lHq4WzLyjdYcjQTogCc1wZevruLDG8pWpMge7sKbB9VCg5Vtt-C3ICcfCIODeXdZDhGG6n2M2FUqJqUQb_qquO8OlJuwHVDroW-A3BW3eWNiVMF3wZS8_Z3WRW30vA5WVpSwMmL1gQ7/w301-h320/IMG_7457.jpeg" width="301" /></a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Rounds 5-16: Repeat Round four (4) until desired length is reached. SS on SC of previous round. Fasten off. <br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Then I glued a rubber sole for each sock.</span></p><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RDBzVA9t8K-URbS0aj0as2UbjZR_ytZynk4NaOcaZ-MUQOux06S5pGQe288YeH5ooyRQ3GMQAjJV50QvVISsirqujgNm5ibhEML9wJletrcwspNu6c_ZCdAJl5GQh9YbGtnJpMAFgCRmy54BBCWrkpmgNbgmLlY8-QWj51GtaS1xuwRCElXsSwFcYovf/s2630/IMG_7589.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2412" data-original-width="2630" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RDBzVA9t8K-URbS0aj0as2UbjZR_ytZynk4NaOcaZ-MUQOux06S5pGQe288YeH5ooyRQ3GMQAjJV50QvVISsirqujgNm5ibhEML9wJletrcwspNu6c_ZCdAJl5GQh9YbGtnJpMAFgCRmy54BBCWrkpmgNbgmLlY8-QWj51GtaS1xuwRCElXsSwFcYovf/s320/IMG_7589.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;">I made four pieces to complete the set for a four-legged sofa bed. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">Here they are - - - my crocheted chair </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">socks!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGxL94_JqHZ5i0wZRjbdoMXgslDeH-EJKQiRUwpUjy1Qb-7HOQRKaZi83o8okb2YBAlV-ImWPLZrndEau9Vrk808XK5Ipa8uLRY_fmTeT_W-7s2joQ9Jdb5oKl6aRnqyg238t_LM50d3vZ_50l3m1Qv97haijacrCSz9GpZcTJc9QTGAc09-xYS03iLW_3/s2290/IMG_7579.jpeg" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2290" data-original-width="1718" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGxL94_JqHZ5i0wZRjbdoMXgslDeH-EJKQiRUwpUjy1Qb-7HOQRKaZi83o8okb2YBAlV-ImWPLZrndEau9Vrk808XK5Ipa8uLRY_fmTeT_W-7s2joQ9Jdb5oKl6aRnqyg238t_LM50d3vZ_50l3m1Qv97haijacrCSz9GpZcTJc9QTGAc09-xYS03iLW_3/w240-h320/IMG_7579.jpeg" width="240" /></a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitT3Rrk5P-k0nxmv0Ppe6ISDz-VfPd9N3UecDqbcHZRaYcVshf4pNwC_fcw_1RXoEAmgPciEyJEkqDLjAYXqWTsl2cY6YN62K1KDuVb8wSue2SaHehZoaY-Fg7kIXKub28W0d4pN6qOijlaydxqX2N3Uo2eLRwkB8X3uAy_5lL02_HBkGSJrftx7Ox9a4w/s3110/IMG_7581.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3110" data-original-width="2585" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitT3Rrk5P-k0nxmv0Ppe6ISDz-VfPd9N3UecDqbcHZRaYcVshf4pNwC_fcw_1RXoEAmgPciEyJEkqDLjAYXqWTsl2cY6YN62K1KDuVb8wSue2SaHehZoaY-Fg7kIXKub28W0d4pN6qOijlaydxqX2N3Uo2eLRwkB8X3uAy_5lL02_HBkGSJrftx7Ox9a4w/w266-h320/IMG_7581.jpeg" width="266" /></a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;">Before</p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSXugWrX1nmsj9gAyfZbKk3Ip2Tin7G3nqZ-d81Xz1t1GZC4PbCi7eM1QyZH_2leY8Tmireup9sdE7heWkV0tgubZT1anXQCCzP8prk3Z2Z8pmco8uWf9Vk6x0T-bYVl5zaK_MyEyYkJoUFIU-FedH6v1Q7ZDzoGbVcSHZ0zYbeEPerOrwcPeaGoCcrP-/s4032/IMG_7585.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLSXugWrX1nmsj9gAyfZbKk3Ip2Tin7G3nqZ-d81Xz1t1GZC4PbCi7eM1QyZH_2leY8Tmireup9sdE7heWkV0tgubZT1anXQCCzP8prk3Z2Z8pmco8uWf9Vk6x0T-bYVl5zaK_MyEyYkJoUFIU-FedH6v1Q7ZDzoGbVcSHZ0zYbeEPerOrwcPeaGoCcrP-/s320/IMG_7585.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;">After</p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_7H_mDO1mKZvV-pJD9zHNknF7FPrZ5eaxW0lbbKqTBU22zsGbAl0AP54pz9Z-XbuJrAJ4X4z8_bNNu6_z1Bskeu3mZZ5jGAnJkZYpN6EQ3oy2dRIc1B-Jl8yr-ScsaQRpUDquf-d2aYJyHv5Cefrn2jPBDfjuGupxAA0Jb4qtXPxY2MTxbOm-abWz2Li/s3202/IMG_7595.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3202" data-original-width="2939" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8_7H_mDO1mKZvV-pJD9zHNknF7FPrZ5eaxW0lbbKqTBU22zsGbAl0AP54pz9Z-XbuJrAJ4X4z8_bNNu6_z1Bskeu3mZZ5jGAnJkZYpN6EQ3oy2dRIc1B-Jl8yr-ScsaQRpUDquf-d2aYJyHv5Cefrn2jPBDfjuGupxAA0Jb4qtXPxY2MTxbOm-abWz2Li/s320/IMG_7595.jpeg" width="294" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You can now dress up your dining table and chairs. You can use colorful yarns according to your preference. You can also make several sets of different colors. How about red and green for the coming holidays!?</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">If you do, please share in the comment box below what color you used. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-9369089321123246402023-09-12T18:02:00.020+08:002023-09-14T08:40:40.305+08:00Your Grace is Amazing<p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6S8_l-FLGrUsn1JwG3RJebfjbJSb_UY4ju3AGF4Un_Ouno9zYxd4PEvWY8b0eyYzwBvFt4yZlHuttvjzH7LZmRnlabOnkTu93-5nvLWysWjG-FLlQNAxRsGvoiiXC37QlcnJ3jWXUuJsvvC7f4P1BP8E1-7DZMUez6P2QIP3hn4ekIOaQUPXkSKiXldU/s1547/IMG_2503.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1547" data-original-width="1294" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge6S8_l-FLGrUsn1JwG3RJebfjbJSb_UY4ju3AGF4Un_Ouno9zYxd4PEvWY8b0eyYzwBvFt4yZlHuttvjzH7LZmRnlabOnkTu93-5nvLWysWjG-FLlQNAxRsGvoiiXC37QlcnJ3jWXUuJsvvC7f4P1BP8E1-7DZMUez6P2QIP3hn4ekIOaQUPXkSKiXldU/s320/IMG_2503.jpeg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;">Sunday morning. I was standing in the midst of the congregation, reflecting on the lyrics of the song flashed on the screen. My heart overflowed with praise and thanksgiving for how the Lord has been so gracious unto me and my family all these years. </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">And so from deep within my heart I sing (silently 🤫🤐) …</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">A Prayer of Praise and Thanksgiving</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Father God, oh, how I praise You</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Thank You for how You loved me<br />Truly, how wide, how deep, how great is Your love for me. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Everyday I fail You,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Everyday I fall, </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I allow my weakness to rule. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Moment by moment I sin against <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thee</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Yet Your amazing grace has never ceased to delight me. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Unworthy that I am,</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Your faithfulness I don’t deserve</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">You continue pouring Your blessings still. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">When once I dwelt in darkness and sin</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Forgiveness I sought</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">That I may enter Your gates</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">And behold Your Holy face. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Once again my lips declare Your goodness for the new life in Christ Thou gavest me. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Nothing in my hands I bring </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">On high I raise them up to honor Thee </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Because strong and mighty is the power of the blood that Christ shed for me. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Today I stand before Thee in awe </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">All thanks and praises to You I bestow. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Thank You for my family, loved ones and friends, </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Thank You for the bountiful blessings in my life You bring. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Thank You for filling our table with manna daily, </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">That physical strength be ours to serve you everyday. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I shout Your goodness!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I shout Your mercy!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I shout Your grace! </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I praise and thank You, Father, for these overflowing goodness, mercy and grace! </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">On my 63rd… </span></p><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-30141412532721202562023-09-03T07:56:00.008+08:002023-09-05T01:39:32.809+08:00Cornetto… for our 34th<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2nLqJMCpY23INfiUBWsGZCl6pq-PFBblQPgu9f2cZNa_0bX3ClO5flYc0zvtEIsJhyIJWkM9p3bgY1q2FnWLeCZFPcorx2ikLXAa2dnK-d1xRGWN7RQRyNs5ibJ7rEdi91YtJGKBeji2Ocn03kZp9GeclXqkaLClMr8KuxPQL9yVbjmynzKZ53JV4aUT/s2048/IMG_2299.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2nLqJMCpY23INfiUBWsGZCl6pq-PFBblQPgu9f2cZNa_0bX3ClO5flYc0zvtEIsJhyIJWkM9p3bgY1q2FnWLeCZFPcorx2ikLXAa2dnK-d1xRGWN7RQRyNs5ibJ7rEdi91YtJGKBeji2Ocn03kZp9GeclXqkaLClMr8KuxPQL9yVbjmynzKZ53JV4aUT/w300-h400/IMG_2299.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">I knew it! Somebody’s going to post this photo in his timeline before I could! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBP5fZZZ-JKuop5EpPHmRGpk628Ni5kGqHI2RrQKK3eNwvRLlFfzGlN5fgU8v8Tdy-3lxy7qY67ZghzdhZOV0ykFFQlvJqsSzfNdlwKQyFsoSWLjPhm3XXqxE-wkzvGMTSLn6p2LYEAQMPiN4zD4_3U-x4YVlSzFxyaEPg3TMnwXaWt8fnrAKbIueSoKn7/s2048/IMG_1858.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBP5fZZZ-JKuop5EpPHmRGpk628Ni5kGqHI2RrQKK3eNwvRLlFfzGlN5fgU8v8Tdy-3lxy7qY67ZghzdhZOV0ykFFQlvJqsSzfNdlwKQyFsoSWLjPhm3XXqxE-wkzvGMTSLn6p2LYEAQMPiN4zD4_3U-x4YVlSzFxyaEPg3TMnwXaWt8fnrAKbIueSoKn7/s320/IMG_1858.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Still I’m including it here because the truth is, we don’t have much photos together during the pandemic 😩 and</span><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I couldn’t decide which of our old photos to recycle for today’s celebration. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">So for a change, here are some Cornetto pick-up lines. Corny-two, promise!!! </span><span class="s2">🤣🤣🤣</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwniM3ou6Ffb4FYW6FxWzBVS5pa9COhdipP33caSpIvayyQ271WgwPU74jxsn2Qeo3eXTPBTdSoHj01EjNerkcNgMO_gSkEEGqrzD6Kal7vGA9gRMKwqPRDxzUhH1jDkGX_UI7aCTE3GXv-qB1unBOpudR-wJvibOSolbrNzS7gEnWy37SCr2E7VVOER0I/s3539/IMG_0906.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3539" data-original-width="2353" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwniM3ou6Ffb4FYW6FxWzBVS5pa9COhdipP33caSpIvayyQ271WgwPU74jxsn2Qeo3eXTPBTdSoHj01EjNerkcNgMO_gSkEEGqrzD6Kal7vGA9gRMKwqPRDxzUhH1jDkGX_UI7aCTE3GXv-qB1unBOpudR-wJvibOSolbrNzS7gEnWy37SCr2E7VVOER0I/w266-h400/IMG_0906.jpeg" width="266" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">September 17, 2022</span></div><br /><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbeBAWDFvNGoP7iqTXdABdUb-XzPghsgqB15i8QNOPjWO2jEQd5NvOEnn5LjoKNcn01Kmr9ZnKT0aJT8I1V6rAQfTSO8WzcH-405hnBPDl_16SuKhW38hAZs7fuoCS0RY0oKng7K3erxlloBNhYkVvuyU1Q69WMXsmnNlpwBF_jSXoJrCj-88YF2LkxN2h/s2588/IMG_1498.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2442" data-original-width="2588" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbeBAWDFvNGoP7iqTXdABdUb-XzPghsgqB15i8QNOPjWO2jEQd5NvOEnn5LjoKNcn01Kmr9ZnKT0aJT8I1V6rAQfTSO8WzcH-405hnBPDl_16SuKhW38hAZs7fuoCS0RY0oKng7K3erxlloBNhYkVvuyU1Q69WMXsmnNlpwBF_jSXoJrCj-88YF2LkxN2h/s320/IMG_1498.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">October 2, 2022</span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">No, you’re definitely not milktea, neither am I. You’re brewed coffee</span><span class="s2">☕️☕️☕️ </span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I’m simply Milo with milk </span><span class="s2">🍫🥛</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> sharing late morning breakfast everyday. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtL2MwKpBuysdxdSgz1dSsUyUcWy9VyQ07QgFtZDeY8f5wE0bR70-5LCrU87sBLByhr5y1pTzERE7Mujfim8RenbN58WBTkLdzLQIViuaoyuK0-AeVR_CTpfyhjy_cVCsVu3KYS2IhbQDpztxHMY5ecBol7VVdBXuKVoTFDhFbnzpVzha3DKj9OaeLB_eF/s2754/IMG_1496.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2754" data-original-width="2730" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtL2MwKpBuysdxdSgz1dSsUyUcWy9VyQ07QgFtZDeY8f5wE0bR70-5LCrU87sBLByhr5y1pTzERE7Mujfim8RenbN58WBTkLdzLQIViuaoyuK0-AeVR_CTpfyhjy_cVCsVu3KYS2IhbQDpztxHMY5ecBol7VVdBXuKVoTFDhFbnzpVzha3DKj9OaeLB_eF/s320/IMG_1496.jpeg" width="317" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">December 11, 2022</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Well, for the whole duration of the pandemic, you’ve been working from home. Then, when it was time for you to report for work physically, you were blessed to have favorable class schedules that allow you to be at home 5 days a week! That doesn’t make me THINK of you arrow-arrow because I actually SEE you almost arrow-arrow</span><span class="s2">🤣🤣🤣</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRzeZwarfAFcVH6bDwodP_OlYO7Km0K248m_QwbqW7BgepLBcpgrWEQwEcLFflMBjk3ZNshPzbJC-hxae5NW1NCVdvW9ruCjZTAEsvCxQv0KtNirwD5MtOe_wg-DegWt_uw-rXC7NWtoE2Y0Cx4FLxOkSvuMsztg4fg7MF6GJneByAr0ruHTVJPH2Oc_j9/s3043/IMG_1495.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3043" data-original-width="2936" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRzeZwarfAFcVH6bDwodP_OlYO7Km0K248m_QwbqW7BgepLBcpgrWEQwEcLFflMBjk3ZNshPzbJC-hxae5NW1NCVdvW9ruCjZTAEsvCxQv0KtNirwD5MtOe_wg-DegWt_uw-rXC7NWtoE2Y0Cx4FLxOkSvuMsztg4fg7MF6GJneByAr0ruHTVJPH2Oc_j9/s320/IMG_1495.jpeg" width="309" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">October 2, 2022</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Di ako solved kasi ‘4’ ako sa Math 11 😩 but you, as mathematician, act with so much precision based on your theorems and assumptions. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiILNE95Bxwmw1ifv6sTQuOaMgAP_R1eFARxSjFDrY9GfKFi3yFvD4_fY8wL9fQjvLX9aXlyjCN7mlHeHOMFkM9_CnHVFMOlhUXNzaceBrGIESd6aeo1hESF6Mz_ty59PGIUv1XxI1HeUQ928c2A6-LR1lD2hCq1ie9BCC7Vu2QeHNp5ik44eDHMYXrAIry/s2954/IMG_3647.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2954" data-original-width="2845" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiILNE95Bxwmw1ifv6sTQuOaMgAP_R1eFARxSjFDrY9GfKFi3yFvD4_fY8wL9fQjvLX9aXlyjCN7mlHeHOMFkM9_CnHVFMOlhUXNzaceBrGIESd6aeo1hESF6Mz_ty59PGIUv1XxI1HeUQ928c2A6-LR1lD2hCq1ie9BCC7Vu2QeHNp5ik44eDHMYXrAIry/s320/IMG_3647.jpeg" width="308" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">December 11, 2022</span></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">Well, not really. On the contrary, two-gether we continue to live our lives in the grace of the Lord. Together, we have come this far and partake of His undeserved blessings. Together, we praise and thank Him for the 34 years of goodness and faithfulness, and for all that He has given to us and has done for us and our family. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0lrGY2i30Jyhdz7wzzpAwrdOdlkNMnX6-LmUpamZG0hRwPK2v4iOaWoDsNGTeaGV0aAGirzzXILCQ-D-5-5_G61ba3WGI1eqqCFhH2pOM51i-Itb5JXCr33S32tckd9H4Vp4O_npS1CFfFVFDqGi9u6NOwcjg-2G0bwFgOWtFuK7-fMp7dxjbF1B6IBFN/s2683/IMG_0905.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2683" data-original-width="2653" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0lrGY2i30Jyhdz7wzzpAwrdOdlkNMnX6-LmUpamZG0hRwPK2v4iOaWoDsNGTeaGV0aAGirzzXILCQ-D-5-5_G61ba3WGI1eqqCFhH2pOM51i-Itb5JXCr33S32tckd9H4Vp4O_npS1CFfFVFDqGi9u6NOwcjg-2G0bwFgOWtFuK7-fMp7dxjbF1B6IBFN/s320/IMG_0905.jpeg" width="316" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">September 17, 2022</span></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">Bottomless (kunyari lang) Cornetto with our fave YouTube shows and Netflix movies. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglZHmopUKouv1r3hwMVsRf3ejd4mr7kIR0Dakm-F65enBzmI4MxHyUSEseFW2LuG4XVIapjXFrEWJ2D9uGLg-1VPpfW-rCbH_8a7BLn8w8vfU3ytsyEfxCpOkWWi1CE1NftJn6yaZOSIJRIRDtq0RHjTUToRzuKm7QsM-vvRiSP-JTRA0pGXG8Wa7zKvMC/s2874/IMG_0718.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2874" data-original-width="2824" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglZHmopUKouv1r3hwMVsRf3ejd4mr7kIR0Dakm-F65enBzmI4MxHyUSEseFW2LuG4XVIapjXFrEWJ2D9uGLg-1VPpfW-rCbH_8a7BLn8w8vfU3ytsyEfxCpOkWWi1CE1NftJn6yaZOSIJRIRDtq0RHjTUToRzuKm7QsM-vvRiSP-JTRA0pGXG8Wa7zKvMC/s320/IMG_0718.jpeg" width="314" /></a></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: left;">September 11, 2022</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> </span><span class="s2">🤔</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> 🤔🤔</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Corne-tto-gether…forever! </span><span class="s2">🤣🤣🤣</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s2"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyO9DKwhdCD8Vb68zJenSPI7v8nkYSQnoRsDQqb5EeWj767qzIH33CtOkBaStzaleofxTtWfLu90urv_SNAtw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5JAXTLJdQQBdQs9bzLSEgzGk_MvvL3V1aPv4_tY5pZtITz68bVUXGNPWt3E1az3WqPG3SLnH3zOl-RfHU3tlVEe9DMAvuoxox2AhsPyEuZb5sjS3lht59h9GFc1X0_MZJ22k5ph2eeXxPPajE2c2mVCSq9IWd0Zy6H6a_PgloBpeGpXGKbm2hI7uAs9G/s2048/IMG_2299.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5JAXTLJdQQBdQs9bzLSEgzGk_MvvL3V1aPv4_tY5pZtITz68bVUXGNPWt3E1az3WqPG3SLnH3zOl-RfHU3tlVEe9DMAvuoxox2AhsPyEuZb5sjS3lht59h9GFc1X0_MZJ22k5ph2eeXxPPajE2c2mVCSq9IWd0Zy6H6a_PgloBpeGpXGKbm2hI7uAs9G/s320/IMG_2299.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Happy 34th to us!!!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;">- - - - -<span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Related posts:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2021/09/celebrating-32-years-of-gods-grace-and.html" target="_blank">Celebrating 32 Years of God’s Grace and Love (2021)</a></span></p><p><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2020/09/a-blessed-31st-amid-covid-19-pandemic.html" style="background-color: #fff2cc;" target="_blank">A Blessed 31st amid the Pandemic</a><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #800180;"> (2020)</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #800180;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2019/09/trekking-thirty.html" target="_blank">Trekking Thirty (2019)</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-changing-colors-of-autumn.html" style="background-color: #fff2cc;" target="_blank">The Changing Colours of Autumn (2018)</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2016/09/thank-you-for-rejoicing-with-us-in-our.html" style="background-color: #fff2cc;" target="_blank">Thank You for Rejoicing with Us (2016)</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-best-of-billy-and-eve-at-25.html" target="_blank">The Best of Billy and Eve at 25 (2014)</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2013/09/lamour-24.html" style="background-color: #fff2cc;" target="_blank">L'amour @ 24 (2013)</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2012/09/happy-sunday-to-allwhats-so-special.html" style="background-color: #fff2cc;" target="_blank">Stories from the Cupboard: Vegetable Pastel (2012)</a></div></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-39117849104206866862023-09-01T11:49:00.004+08:002023-09-01T14:21:18.199+08:00Stamps and Letters | From Manohar<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px;">It’s World Letter Writing Day today (September 1). </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">In this post, I’m sharing a story about my very first Indian penfriend, Winston Manohar Karkada. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwEfGE1Hv-osk902abosM9S-TB7jULb4YNDDJNjDQd3pxCBmdRjXDjopSAwyUXmkV2mx1F3cI0WhAsR8Tq58l5BQqs3JNxpiMzEjfhbFjBjHnC6rrRBmR75pcX_aOr6VuoNEfKq_3ZUekm0WTQL9kmHq2v-DwH3RChMnE7TNB0JaldTo2kPxGNd23O29qp/s1217/IMG_4047.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="1217" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwEfGE1Hv-osk902abosM9S-TB7jULb4YNDDJNjDQd3pxCBmdRjXDjopSAwyUXmkV2mx1F3cI0WhAsR8Tq58l5BQqs3JNxpiMzEjfhbFjBjHnC6rrRBmR75pcX_aOr6VuoNEfKq_3ZUekm0WTQL9kmHq2v-DwH3RChMnE7TNB0JaldTo2kPxGNd23O29qp/s320/IMG_4047.jpeg" width="320" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 23px; text-align: justify;">In response to my mother’s encouragement for me to engage in letter writing, I sought opportunities through various means like buying magazines and song hits. I would browse through the Penpal Section and select names to write to. Who can relate?</span><span class="s2" style="font-size: 23px; text-align: justify;">😊</span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtSAJZKdle_FjJusbboU9gpFwz27bvLZuJq10kx81m8YxCdUL4p9WNzRK918bsZQQSt_az4g7uivzt9jQNMR3hRQhjdNko44sKdZDrnu5CJkhrvmZgEvHqktRmy8cZ_EOjxd9eS9k2s2cBVFkC-4w-nf0-W4ykZ0UzOr1a-2TRtQjfxZZISliNjr2h9AYi/s3264/IMG_2478.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2159" data-original-width="3264" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtSAJZKdle_FjJusbboU9gpFwz27bvLZuJq10kx81m8YxCdUL4p9WNzRK918bsZQQSt_az4g7uivzt9jQNMR3hRQhjdNko44sKdZDrnu5CJkhrvmZgEvHqktRmy8cZ_EOjxd9eS9k2s2cBVFkC-4w-nf0-W4ykZ0UzOr1a-2TRtQjfxZZISliNjr2h9AYi/s320/IMG_2478.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I couldn’t remember exactly where I got his name. I sent a letter </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">to Freddie R. Enriquez, requesting for pen pals.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNx0I4joddQ6rCFxBQHsZRavHRs59RUZPpH1JPKnHx_Gp3cCqVqNXDj6q-mzo13PmrA9ncGXeHO-WFfiL7mV_wtJWP4KMUYdoKkGCXGBSwwXBpD91uk9JhGZZ2qAar_24agRvsDm0ZNSPNDTU6fAnFuBV6N_okZSGC3xg2oipxVAmcQCe7ASUkJzaEW-OC/s2402/IMG_2246.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="2402" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNx0I4joddQ6rCFxBQHsZRavHRs59RUZPpH1JPKnHx_Gp3cCqVqNXDj6q-mzo13PmrA9ncGXeHO-WFfiL7mV_wtJWP4KMUYdoKkGCXGBSwwXBpD91uk9JhGZZ2qAar_24agRvsDm0ZNSPNDTU6fAnFuBV6N_okZSGC3xg2oipxVAmcQCe7ASUkJzaEW-OC/w400-h226/IMG_2246.jpeg" width="400" /></a><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;">I enclosed this self-addressed stamped envelope that he returned to me together with his reply. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRAuJq7SIxZ0tsveHK4gQCOG9RDaOqWv2IZls3mDOST2uoit9dQELeGytXzxdIt0FTaVx5xWCPLAAqvrfgrWuYr_2Xb_vaSR2Dme0cfPf4vJ1ohL2IhI-BQN8Aq3uTBJIG3b-OWpCjxOAOkR0y4rjoC6PPmzY_TlAnEUFmuhHMN1MERhXzKZnOIyQlcYqS/s2538/IMG_2243.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1473" data-original-width="2538" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRAuJq7SIxZ0tsveHK4gQCOG9RDaOqWv2IZls3mDOST2uoit9dQELeGytXzxdIt0FTaVx5xWCPLAAqvrfgrWuYr_2Xb_vaSR2Dme0cfPf4vJ1ohL2IhI-BQN8Aq3uTBJIG3b-OWpCjxOAOkR0y4rjoC6PPmzY_TlAnEUFmuhHMN1MERhXzKZnOIyQlcYqS/w400-h233/IMG_2243.jpeg" width="400" /></a></p><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">My heart fell… I couldn’t recall how deep, but had to pick up the pieces. There was a ray of hope! I just had to write one more time. This time to Operation Friendship. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIAqPF6TcIRGf7oylsZymK-K5DoWtjjb1lJJKifapBoDXEcROUtyU-bqR-4bto6Su655a_6zqfZyiiL0WNebmxAj4TTUmM_iB8xj2n6Rl9AO881Mvnhympg25As-Pow5PlGrEly1ro3c9EOBfDH5-wzyg_BIWHdxjM9hzdVREn_YXeKs5mdY2zrqVZ93F4/s2662/IMG_2245.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="2662" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIAqPF6TcIRGf7oylsZymK-K5DoWtjjb1lJJKifapBoDXEcROUtyU-bqR-4bto6Su655a_6zqfZyiiL0WNebmxAj4TTUmM_iB8xj2n6Rl9AO881Mvnhympg25As-Pow5PlGrEly1ro3c9EOBfDH5-wzyg_BIWHdxjM9hzdVREn_YXeKs5mdY2zrqVZ93F4/w640-h133/IMG_2245.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">After some months, this letter came. Not from Operation Friendship though. An aerogramme. The first I ever received… from my very first penfriend from India.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIKrShL0yCdIuJvzUxtqTjwask2d-cFFrIyP-eU1VI1Yv5myaMeVxOS7NG_YKMkZcNXNzJ9us-dy7hqjAyxNoIjjMXvxuN0TBaRw8dFdGJ9_Vvd3f7Nh5l7IUAqhJlaWAWWGeQPFgUvQy656fLl2ieXWmKpAkwMkL4jEwNjWya3TRHeKa97F6gl0BrsII/s261/IMG_2240.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="261" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQIKrShL0yCdIuJvzUxtqTjwask2d-cFFrIyP-eU1VI1Yv5myaMeVxOS7NG_YKMkZcNXNzJ9us-dy7hqjAyxNoIjjMXvxuN0TBaRw8dFdGJ9_Vvd3f7Nh5l7IUAqhJlaWAWWGeQPFgUvQy656fLl2ieXWmKpAkwMkL4jEwNjWya3TRHeKa97F6gl0BrsII/w320-h239/IMG_2240.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwEfGE1Hv-osk902abosM9S-TB7jULb4YNDDJNjDQd3pxCBmdRjXDjopSAwyUXmkV2mx1F3cI0WhAsR8Tq58l5BQqs3JNxpiMzEjfhbFjBjHnC6rrRBmR75pcX_aOr6VuoNEfKq_3ZUekm0WTQL9kmHq2v-DwH3RChMnE7TNB0JaldTo2kPxGNd23O29qp/s1217/IMG_4047.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="1217" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwEfGE1Hv-osk902abosM9S-TB7jULb4YNDDJNjDQd3pxCBmdRjXDjopSAwyUXmkV2mx1F3cI0WhAsR8Tq58l5BQqs3JNxpiMzEjfhbFjBjHnC6rrRBmR75pcX_aOr6VuoNEfKq_3ZUekm0WTQL9kmHq2v-DwH3RChMnE7TNB0JaldTo2kPxGNd23O29qp/s320/IMG_4047.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">My father, the town’s postman, brought home the letter. He himself couldn’t seem to believe how the letter arrived in its destination. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">As he wrote in his letter, Winston just heard my name announced by Far East Broadcasting Company radio station. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Amazing how the mail found its way to me when </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">other than my name and country, everything else in my address was misspelled!</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">I salute all the Bureau of Posts sorters in every processing center for that great job!</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Winston and I started exchanging letters and stamps in 1976. He was 28; I was 16.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was a senior high school student, he was a bank employee of Indian Overseas Bank in Mangalore, India. I was a Roman Catholic, he was a Christian, a Sunday School teacher. He played the violin in his church in Mangalore. He wanted to have a pen friend from another country. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjml4beZX0tS0SX5yjFg-cshUcUYc9UfrhnZDT4XNzE40nZlysMnOOHOxDYqvT5TvITCuuTiLN-f_gGzsWqQf69-_MJ7x0xCvxyZM8GS2yiI0ZNAgHdLFI99Q-tpJiq0J417TbtcenDsaLqbnWAzgy6uMd-m2aikmaVh1XZlCs8GZ_TWQMhKpATPvyBNYOC/s2010/IMG_4056.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2010" data-original-width="1645" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjml4beZX0tS0SX5yjFg-cshUcUYc9UfrhnZDT4XNzE40nZlysMnOOHOxDYqvT5TvITCuuTiLN-f_gGzsWqQf69-_MJ7x0xCvxyZM8GS2yiI0ZNAgHdLFI99Q-tpJiq0J417TbtcenDsaLqbnWAzgy6uMd-m2aikmaVh1XZlCs8GZ_TWQMhKpATPvyBNYOC/w328-h400/IMG_4056.jpeg" width="328" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The letter and stamp exchange continued for two years until I wasn’t able to do my part anymore as college life demanded more time. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Letter writing has come to a halt until one day I saw the box of letters my mother had safely kept together with my stamp collection. That prompted me to reconnect with him so I sent him a letter using the same address he used in the past. In my letter, I shared with him how I became a born-again Christian, how I met my husband in the church and that I already had two kids attending a Christian school. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">He wrote back with an update of himself. In his reply, he shared that my letter was forwarded to his new mailing address by the bank where he used to work. He was also married and he wrote about his wife and retirement from the bank.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">That was the last letter exchange we had. Attempt to reconnect with him through the social media in early 2000 led me to an obituary published by his family. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Today, while writing this post, I google searched for his name and was surprised to find his genealogy. Click <b style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://www.geni.com/people/Winston-Manohar-Karkada/6000000001825004149" target="_blank">here</a></b> to read. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">With all certainty, this is he… Winston Manohar Karkada, my penfriend. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifM0wkJDWzz8l6pLKNSAjJOmzCGc0LceU3W9Mji-ivmmOYSrlrC7Ae8_gQiamZLHewu35SKLUtPQR9j0Ka1RpNw2s-rbBBd_OFR__lyHv-Yl2-Es52vq1m3DzDbaepxVWqC_riyodmjtzZRRU-ELmLlwms4t_YHXqHdktz8WivnNwcLOerZK7tF1E1TkbD/s649/IMG_6369.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="607" data-original-width="649" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifM0wkJDWzz8l6pLKNSAjJOmzCGc0LceU3W9Mji-ivmmOYSrlrC7Ae8_gQiamZLHewu35SKLUtPQR9j0Ka1RpNw2s-rbBBd_OFR__lyHv-Yl2-Es52vq1m3DzDbaepxVWqC_riyodmjtzZRRU-ELmLlwms4t_YHXqHdktz8WivnNwcLOerZK7tF1E1TkbD/s320/IMG_6369.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It’s heartwarming to know that he has long slept in the Lord yet memories of him forever live in the hearts of his loved ones and friends… including mine. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">More letter writing stories in the coming posts. Do share your story in the comment box below! </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-35722332981261813932023-08-12T11:46:00.005+08:002023-08-18T09:08:34.380+08:00Stamps and Letters | Queen Sirikit’s 60th Birthday<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Today is August 12, 2023. On this same day in 1932, Queen Sirikit, wife of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, was born. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifrgqhw762U_z6YP_ZbsBgMB93s9O48ZXrnIk7c037Si272ptGmiLwSTK5yeGkC_wlqbfir7qe52tymKLFTCfeYgFl3x5K97RSr3Vj0mQ01DC5lp7sI7gQ_MohpRKWKD7BK0AUOyoxJ1VMmSMf0Zuh_NWKxYFPdYfGY5t1B1QGjx4-HFyEr2szms8qhoeG/s1012/IMG_1506.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="1012" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifrgqhw762U_z6YP_ZbsBgMB93s9O48ZXrnIk7c037Si272ptGmiLwSTK5yeGkC_wlqbfir7qe52tymKLFTCfeYgFl3x5K97RSr3Vj0mQ01DC5lp7sI7gQ_MohpRKWKD7BK0AUOyoxJ1VMmSMf0Zuh_NWKxYFPdYfGY5t1B1QGjx4-HFyEr2szms8qhoeG/s320/IMG_1506.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span></span><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><br /></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Queen Sirikit (Mom Rajawongse or Mom Rajawong) Kitiyakara is the Queen mother of Thailand, the mother of Vajiralongkorn (Rama X), current king of Thailand, and the queen consort (as wife of King Bhumibol - Rama IX) of Thailand from April 28, 1950 until October 13, 2016. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: 17.41px;">I’m collecting stamps of King Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit. My interest on them can be traced back to my family’s travel to Bangkok, Thailand in 2016, at the time when the whole country was mourning over the death of their beloved King. We had that opportunity to witness how the Thais manifested such great reverence on their King. Click <b><span style="background-color: #fcff01; color: #800180;"><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-king-and-i.html" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></b> to read my travel post on that. </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><br /><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">In this stamp post, I’m featuring Queen Sirikit’s 60th Birthday Anniversary - 2nd Series (1992). </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">These are two (2) souvenir sheets featuring photos of Queen Sirikit on different events of her life: her Royal Wedding Ceremony with King Bhumibol (April 28, 1950), Coronation Ceremony of King Bhumibol (May 5, 1950), Royal Anointment by King Bhumibol on her instatement as Queen of Thailand during the King’s Coronation Ceremony (May 5, 1950), her Instatement as Queen of Thailand, visiting wounded soldiers, and visiting her subjects (stamp photos of all events below). </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">These souvenir sheets are 2 of the 14 from the 60th Birthday of Queen Sirikit commemorative series</span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"> (consisting of 1st, 2nd and 3rd), all issued on August 12, 1992.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">The 1st and 3rd series are NOT in my collection.</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">The 2nd SERIES consists of PERFORATE and IMPERFORATE issues, both 175 x 160 mm in size and sold at 30 Thai bahts each. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Here they are:</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-1QercGl32VshYI9VF2m1IF4_8P7eqqIes9jNUSLm8UQucN76ZiiuGjHfJGdNRE7BTW46MR5IYXxcVa9JTk9OQ0GwjXg9wm0d3KF178-6Qvw6TQzHcHAups3167kCd8YxEQrdZESNbVEu8XU_yaXtY3BWttMn0YElwwQ-AeQFuVTHc-qo-Qast7ynXYMh/s3219/IMG_1506.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3219" data-original-width="2477" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-1QercGl32VshYI9VF2m1IF4_8P7eqqIes9jNUSLm8UQucN76ZiiuGjHfJGdNRE7BTW46MR5IYXxcVa9JTk9OQ0GwjXg9wm0d3KF178-6Qvw6TQzHcHAups3167kCd8YxEQrdZESNbVEu8XU_yaXtY3BWttMn0YElwwQ-AeQFuVTHc-qo-Qast7ynXYMh/s320/IMG_1506.jpeg" width="246" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">*60th birthday of Queen Sirikit (1) </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Perforate</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMRMhQakgL5Uw-1TOaqhj7g_fhOgp94UE04yXc1GEywE1cTreyZMXMMIzdyW_Sh4rWd8gQi9bso6yNlgVPrxGXI15vyqtKgibpmvXMmuPE2avwk4nySY9uDVOT4_xVa0vZh0L_I0HqZ1x3ySS2aOXKbeOHyLzILcJq9BKY_LqSHUSgWMJ3ETmggBLhYNmq/s2705/IMG_1507.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2705" data-original-width="2116" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMRMhQakgL5Uw-1TOaqhj7g_fhOgp94UE04yXc1GEywE1cTreyZMXMMIzdyW_Sh4rWd8gQi9bso6yNlgVPrxGXI15vyqtKgibpmvXMmuPE2avwk4nySY9uDVOT4_xVa0vZh0L_I0HqZ1x3ySS2aOXKbeOHyLzILcJq9BKY_LqSHUSgWMJ3ETmggBLhYNmq/s320/IMG_1507.jpeg" width="250" /></a></div><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">*60th birthday of Queen Sirikit (2) </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Imperforate</span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Both Souvenir Sheets from the 2nd series include the following stamps (48 x 30 mm in size each):</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">*Wedding ceremony (2 Thai baht)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhqXTB5a4nIajx-QpqC3ABOnEPLLn8XQgLCZt5FNrlxiOWuf3Qca0ViTUPgnAJs54h6E83yDO7dNgmb0olTOUw8zABKD-wObc1ZzblWN6GjeG8cudkGLE-LJ8RO5u4oDRDbA3ueFQ4mLxVfAd-PNHm9oU4RvOdVeXeZklp1yshEuf2UXXPFOV-fsDqxzkp/s1019/IMG_1506.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="634" data-original-width="1019" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhqXTB5a4nIajx-QpqC3ABOnEPLLn8XQgLCZt5FNrlxiOWuf3Qca0ViTUPgnAJs54h6E83yDO7dNgmb0olTOUw8zABKD-wObc1ZzblWN6GjeG8cudkGLE-LJ8RO5u4oDRDbA3ueFQ4mLxVfAd-PNHm9oU4RvOdVeXeZklp1yshEuf2UXXPFOV-fsDqxzkp/s320/IMG_1506.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">*Royal Couple Seated at Coronation Ceremony (2 Thai baht)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFif_9hX5qd6KwGXjY8xG_lzPqpug6dWECAWC3CbdC4kE7nROh6MGre9hBoZZo9lrlhgj7LZFVM7gqQBp04LVyyHoTBOYJoCRq5dTsZO5-c4jU5qqGHbqnog56-Lg-Ga3POef38IqO-Z7GkM6UTS5F-qaVl0GwDnh1xdPQ-wJnul2pc2WkAbsDeRBiHDw7/s1013/IMG_1506.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1013" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFif_9hX5qd6KwGXjY8xG_lzPqpug6dWECAWC3CbdC4kE7nROh6MGre9hBoZZo9lrlhgj7LZFVM7gqQBp04LVyyHoTBOYJoCRq5dTsZO5-c4jU5qqGHbqnog56-Lg-Ga3POef38IqO-Z7GkM6UTS5F-qaVl0GwDnh1xdPQ-wJnul2pc2WkAbsDeRBiHDw7/s320/IMG_1506.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">*Anointment as Queen (2 Thai baht)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfxdZsvTLTDsFr_zSNBfYBDHwVcE3pUGSBzmwWSRhtMTWyM8l3hLLLyPZfjB23M0Ul2US0SgyfXpW9I1X4Y0JwS_kdZYaAY9dwQKQ7yBxShVMsX_meRqlPetv_IGZOr1jxqseo5fPsJAL7Tbt3ImjQo4Krk86lWwKBIWKyWxCHbcW_PqQw6gqHz5U5e8x1/s1015/IMG_1506.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="1015" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfxdZsvTLTDsFr_zSNBfYBDHwVcE3pUGSBzmwWSRhtMTWyM8l3hLLLyPZfjB23M0Ul2US0SgyfXpW9I1X4Y0JwS_kdZYaAY9dwQKQ7yBxShVMsX_meRqlPetv_IGZOr1jxqseo5fPsJAL7Tbt3ImjQo4Krk86lWwKBIWKyWxCHbcW_PqQw6gqHz5U5e8x1/s320/IMG_1506.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">*Seated on Chair (2 Thai baht)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitnsLhFZtRLZaW-sqgCLG0RaEu8AxMqR3zbZbwIzNFVyyaOlbLgQ6IcDCEGEPJbq-wlhFqYEZtcGk6M_tQDlH5346zhd26OrFjuEmlfgwbRbRp71As4gGDL48YyuIHBH6m4iS-eU3hxiFJ1_QApxQDl2vWyyGBmkm_UATfjUiyPLos5ZKoIdDl_UJImTO-/s1012/IMG_1506.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="1012" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitnsLhFZtRLZaW-sqgCLG0RaEu8AxMqR3zbZbwIzNFVyyaOlbLgQ6IcDCEGEPJbq-wlhFqYEZtcGk6M_tQDlH5346zhd26OrFjuEmlfgwbRbRp71As4gGDL48YyuIHBH6m4iS-eU3hxiFJ1_QApxQDl2vWyyGBmkm_UATfjUiyPLos5ZKoIdDl_UJImTO-/s320/IMG_1506.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">*Visiting Hospital Patient (2 Thai baht)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBqnLtXaPKOaeiRWohlorSX1hpluOCAtULhoQK2DDnJI6reIIILV0fOAU2QIaGbBkRmILhJksXJnxjSJrmPdr0zwrVl52QGb-NRjoCh50v4U5a6RIDvEE3Aesq3gvTWSvAax7DxTEUzosfp5vWdIhfDtWH3A02Qnokp5hMdNskDlmatQhMtvQxT__glep/s1026/IMG_1506.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="1026" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHBqnLtXaPKOaeiRWohlorSX1hpluOCAtULhoQK2DDnJI6reIIILV0fOAU2QIaGbBkRmILhJksXJnxjSJrmPdr0zwrVl52QGb-NRjoCh50v4U5a6RIDvEE3Aesq3gvTWSvAax7DxTEUzosfp5vWdIhfDtWH3A02Qnokp5hMdNskDlmatQhMtvQxT__glep/s320/IMG_1506.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">*Talking to Subjects (2 Thai baht)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqWipr1Zmg_WoNrZkHsBNM5LHNIQpEIHOfWnSJf9p7MRf6Vn81ore3x018_GwBUewm4sN_p7Tz4a4sURKUudtMVD6FO3Ws3WHQW8VyJkdR1ATtFO28eClz_bp7mz8-Y-LJPpF_VgaQEzWHhRW3oeXQ9lRlFI70HBY6FgFAMkVvOBwyOQS67ZeEltlTet6B/s1006/IMG_1506.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="1006" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqWipr1Zmg_WoNrZkHsBNM5LHNIQpEIHOfWnSJf9p7MRf6Vn81ore3x018_GwBUewm4sN_p7Tz4a4sURKUudtMVD6FO3Ws3WHQW8VyJkdR1ATtFO28eClz_bp7mz8-Y-LJPpF_VgaQEzWHhRW3oeXQ9lRlFI70HBY6FgFAMkVvOBwyOQS67ZeEltlTet6B/s320/IMG_1506.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">On the top right corner of each stamp, one can find the Queen’s Royal Cypher in gold. It bears a crown over her initials (letters</span><span class="s1" style="font-size: 17.41px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px;">S (</span><span lang="th" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); letter-spacing: -0.2px;">ส</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px;">) and K</span><span lang="th" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(192, 192, 192); letter-spacing: -0.2px;"> (ก)</span></span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">) that stand for Sirikit Kitthiyagon. </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMbh_ps3u35Heq7ji6kTbF8v9xz4zKhyfjVXTFnaV9kdZbqdOPFUTmOD0cjmUX30xzhzEx-gPo9ALwcVIrQfa12ZPA_Gem3_cKkmQb58czf3rDrr1dMSBf9226iiryIIqqb4ZaQ0NSOJumpuL5iQgaemuSDC7VsQUtvC5DRZzJ4svW1PZ4SS5HWxpqsJE/s709/IMG_1506.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="396" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMbh_ps3u35Heq7ji6kTbF8v9xz4zKhyfjVXTFnaV9kdZbqdOPFUTmOD0cjmUX30xzhzEx-gPo9ALwcVIrQfa12ZPA_Gem3_cKkmQb58czf3rDrr1dMSBf9226iiryIIqqb4ZaQ0NSOJumpuL5iQgaemuSDC7VsQUtvC5DRZzJ4svW1PZ4SS5HWxpqsJE/s320/IMG_1506.jpeg" width="179" /></a></div><br /><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: 17.41px;">In 2012, Queen Sirikit was reported to have suffered a stroke, was subsequently treated and has refrained from public appearances sincethen. </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><span style="font-size: 17.41px;">On August 11, 2022, the Royal Thai Embassy hosted a reception for Queen Sirikit’s 90th birthday at the Ritz-Carlton Washington D.C. under the project, “Thailand Promotion and Thai Advocacy in the U. S.” to showcase her great works and achievement in the revival and conservation of Thai textile, music, dance and food tourism. </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">References: </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><a href="https://colnect.com/en/stamps/list/country/211-Thailand/series/317624-60th_Birthday_of_Queen_Sirikit/page/2">https://colnect.com/en/stamps/list/country/211-Thailand/series/317624-60th_Birthday_of_Queen_Sirikit/page/2</a><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><a href="https://www.thailex.info/THAILEX/THAILEXENG/LEXICON/Queen%20Sirikit%27s%2060th%20Birthday%20Anniversary%20%282nd%20Series%29.htm">https://www.thailex.info/THAILEX/THAILEXENG/LEXICON/Queen%20Sirikit%27s%2060th%20Birthday%20Anniversary%20%282nd%20Series%29.htm</a></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><a href="https://thaiembdc.org/2022/08/18/queen-mother-bd/">https://thaiembdc.org/2022/08/18/queen-mother-bd/</a></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span></p><span><!--more--></span><span><!--more--></span><span><!--more--></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-2909142877164975212023-08-11T02:59:00.007+08:002023-08-18T13:57:15.183+08:00Stamps and Letters | My Father’s Legacy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOV4KA7olY1qeiU95s--zXKMvxEveKX1Zw7suUXxw7a4yZGhbHdE3QT7lQ6Ea-AUPAlT0XNmZiv0k-K251fiYNUEux1SJ0aP_02-PxOc8DVeQWAoiBusKY7VUENLR5PCDdfs07r9Hf_DAVRnb-RlaefSXlySSf5WyP9FOCiV1XdnzFQl82FwGmk4tJUx5k/s2000/Letters%20for%20EVE,%20the%20Postman%E2%80%99s%20Daughter.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2000" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOV4KA7olY1qeiU95s--zXKMvxEveKX1Zw7suUXxw7a4yZGhbHdE3QT7lQ6Ea-AUPAlT0XNmZiv0k-K251fiYNUEux1SJ0aP_02-PxOc8DVeQWAoiBusKY7VUENLR5PCDdfs07r9Hf_DAVRnb-RlaefSXlySSf5WyP9FOCiV1XdnzFQl82FwGmk4tJUx5k/w640-h512/Letters%20for%20EVE,%20the%20Postman%E2%80%99s%20Daughter.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px; text-align: justify;">Today marks a significant milestone as I open the doors to the inclusion of stamp collection under the new section ’STAMPS’ in this blogsite, where I delve into a hobby that has lain dormant for more than 40 years until its reawakening two years ago.</span></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">19 June 2021. The turning point, it was, when I clicked 'JOIN' on the Philippine Stamp Collectors' Society (PSCS) Facebook page. It has caused my life as a retiree to see more transformation, with philately as an added interest to focus on (exactly what my gray matter needs as a senior citizen). </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Since Day 1, I got hooked on discovering the beauty and wonders concealed within those miniature pieces of paper of various color, texture and size. </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Look! ⬇️⬇️⬇️</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAFP1I_vtJN0gq0Fd1fUxePhziKdxOwTM6pGZTyCQ9SpNwK4t-VYVTWDlx9woxPYkCsYrKwAph0uzWqGZ8ow8Sx3dLvt11hIfUFVvq3sRPfwPC1_iLi_Jq7hOYG4IhszBY7fvNN_zvbSl3K0QUsiUQJ-iD_d9asXg8YLVFwxfbc8R4upQY2lHAiq7roLZp/s2192/IMG_1471.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1612" data-original-width="2192" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAFP1I_vtJN0gq0Fd1fUxePhziKdxOwTM6pGZTyCQ9SpNwK4t-VYVTWDlx9woxPYkCsYrKwAph0uzWqGZ8ow8Sx3dLvt11hIfUFVvq3sRPfwPC1_iLi_Jq7hOYG4IhszBY7fvNN_zvbSl3K0QUsiUQJ-iD_d9asXg8YLVFwxfbc8R4upQY2lHAiq7roLZp/s320/IMG_1471.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">These are stamps of different sizes and shapes I have collected from different countries. </i></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></i></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Why does this hobby hold a special place in my heart? Well, as the daughter of the town’s postman, I was introduced to this hobby at a young age. I vividly recall my father entrusting me with a handful of stamps he had preserved in his wallet. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi69yLpy_qRBkTWlRuhPIVPrM9aeVJSLcCEwZfVtWH-VDnUcVGR3_nnWn4UowyH5kImbFdmtBkug2jX3YpJr4NbmjcLrMNIP-nH4EnRzvnQCPYJ_fHTni_91BK0DxRAybeG5NfxRS6EBD06Lr65EQMxrvxbf6oa-k-quGgtbX8BfU1F72fcZ5qbXT6xjmd7/s2904/IMG_3448.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2904" data-original-width="2448" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi69yLpy_qRBkTWlRuhPIVPrM9aeVJSLcCEwZfVtWH-VDnUcVGR3_nnWn4UowyH5kImbFdmtBkug2jX3YpJr4NbmjcLrMNIP-nH4EnRzvnQCPYJ_fHTni_91BK0DxRAybeG5NfxRS6EBD06Lr65EQMxrvxbf6oa-k-quGgtbX8BfU1F72fcZ5qbXT6xjmd7/s320/IMG_3448.jpeg" width="270" /></a></p><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><i><span>These are some of the stamps I kept in my very first stamp album. This page includes one of </span><span>my favorite stamps. </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><i>See the one I have highlighted at the center</i></span></div><div style="font-size: 17.41px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 17.41px;">⬇️⬇️⬇️</span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibxNYU7ukKoJPKU7NJMJ1DZYSWRFU8ukFxHHISEq-vQK6caQuNWKgUHA3mC2xdPT_Jnecs4NgE9PdeLhJM9U6Y0TYkm1YaFErDHSVDdL0saeBEYYnf8mi6och27qWVY9qxHfEZ-fAzAwp9OQdX55E05EovHr-MH_PFgAOJPnp7D9wl03fdmCPXqYXYB7so/s1998/IMG_3388.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1998" data-original-width="1654" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibxNYU7ukKoJPKU7NJMJ1DZYSWRFU8ukFxHHISEq-vQK6caQuNWKgUHA3mC2xdPT_Jnecs4NgE9PdeLhJM9U6Y0TYkm1YaFErDHSVDdL0saeBEYYnf8mi6och27qWVY9qxHfEZ-fAzAwp9OQdX55E05EovHr-MH_PFgAOJPnp7D9wl03fdmCPXqYXYB7so/s320/IMG_3388.jpeg" width="265" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><i>Here, take a closer look. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">⬇️⬇️⬇️</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY_Bbswkze0156a1X0Ied-ii5v9aaumIdfgMoX9afMCEgKwgZoGt4mgKgSWSo3kzQWmUI2Pxb7IxOjIGEKnB-gBQWRgFBAjI0VfHlXVugXVqCx2fV_C8zesov_gCQdKzQvKyvpocWQCj86pNJiFu2DcpeYPvf61bFt5xL8efiL9JCsrA5NI-8XFsknUrxj/s1169/IMG_1420.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1169" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY_Bbswkze0156a1X0Ied-ii5v9aaumIdfgMoX9afMCEgKwgZoGt4mgKgSWSo3kzQWmUI2Pxb7IxOjIGEKnB-gBQWRgFBAjI0VfHlXVugXVqCx2fV_C8zesov_gCQdKzQvKyvpocWQCj86pNJiFu2DcpeYPvf61bFt5xL8efiL9JCsrA5NI-8XFsknUrxj/s320/IMG_1420.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-align: justify;"><i>This stamp reminds me of my father and his delivery bike (to be featured in another post).</i></span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Supported by my mother’s motivation to engage in letter writing, that spark ignited within me a strong connection to this pursuit. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwBvgZS8FdoOi4y54dSuPj5waf6Ayk97cqy5REGfNWWxktz9BJsBxHzBDVgZWOysklCVTQavOlHr3JTYoX3xm3tml3xR8N1clThGhBgPa3oqbGWSKtmlBiC9dhu72ub0VEY-TJNrXPPbPv6WLOjDChBBvYwP34-TSNbuKqzpXpse0F7Dkw0XtEJwPemQTq/s1217/IMG_4047.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="1217" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwBvgZS8FdoOi4y54dSuPj5waf6Ayk97cqy5REGfNWWxktz9BJsBxHzBDVgZWOysklCVTQavOlHr3JTYoX3xm3tml3xR8N1clThGhBgPa3oqbGWSKtmlBiC9dhu72ub0VEY-TJNrXPPbPv6WLOjDChBBvYwP34-TSNbuKqzpXpse0F7Dkw0XtEJwPemQTq/s320/IMG_4047.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span><i>A letter from my very first penpal from India</i></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicdMoSBGmYQOAYajaTO0pedyq1nhFF17qE9I-pJABycz_Y2F4dpsAHsqjOa1EUTKv1Vcqv5coS8X_DVxjPWNfxyJ3LNKw2TWSz9iAMbQVYwnfOvFDrPAwddyoSQJRfT_vvvi7nfCmHgc1Z-Ta82SaqvzWF95smW547yPBwU691mfV4_xTYTwP20t8J-i_x/s2010/IMG_4056.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2010" data-original-width="1645" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicdMoSBGmYQOAYajaTO0pedyq1nhFF17qE9I-pJABycz_Y2F4dpsAHsqjOa1EUTKv1Vcqv5coS8X_DVxjPWNfxyJ3LNKw2TWSz9iAMbQVYwnfOvFDrPAwddyoSQJRfT_vvvi7nfCmHgc1Z-Ta82SaqvzWF95smW547yPBwU691mfV4_xTYTwP20t8J-i_x/s320/IMG_4056.jpeg" width="262" /></a></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Through this blogpage, I am thrilled to share my personal stamp collection, spotlighting on the historical backgrounds of designs, designers, the unique features and characteristics of each stamp, and the connections I have with them.</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Henceforth, I invite you to join me on this journey and together, let us revel in the joy and fulfillment that await us as we explore the countless discoveries this hobby unveils. Within the vast tapestry of history, geography, arts, and culture, we will witness a convergence that unfolds through the captivating world of philately.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">It is my fervent hope that this would serve as an inspiration, encouraging you to pursue your own adventure into the realm of stamp collecting. I challenge you to uncover the treasures within each tiny piece of paper with me. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNT3TBnKxgIBZiWdhN4hOJbUsdbkfLXFFAU8BVbHavZWXc-RYUynsS8ZNfoagpcXUkkQAcJpWeLnCWAcenOn5SDWKu4UJLwQhLB9_c5t_-dlk93LRSYs93f-4fRyejP2BIPqI9yH2gebCYglvUvhsQ-R0bP2ZyjnX-6QmoPXX8hLta4daEYfYLvY1R5Re/s2000/Letters%20for%20EVE,%20the%20Postman%E2%80%99s%20Daughter.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="2000" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjNT3TBnKxgIBZiWdhN4hOJbUsdbkfLXFFAU8BVbHavZWXc-RYUynsS8ZNfoagpcXUkkQAcJpWeLnCWAcenOn5SDWKu4UJLwQhLB9_c5t_-dlk93LRSYs93f-4fRyejP2BIPqI9yH2gebCYglvUvhsQ-R0bP2ZyjnX-6QmoPXX8hLta4daEYfYLvY1R5Re/w640-h512/Letters%20for%20EVE,%20the%20Postman%E2%80%99s%20Daughter.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 17.41px;">Stamps and Letters for Eve… that’s me, the Postman's Daughter… sharing my father’s legacy here and in my new Fb (Meta) page… </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 17.41px;">Click <b style="background-color: #ffe599;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100095482484458&mibextid=LQQJ4d" target="_blank">HERE</a></b> to LIKE or FOLLOW. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span></div></span><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS4tLqIf1miZfOhNbhqEOL5LKp5CejSOqs4T2n4qlRXz7VaXoxW-Kzg7dJ4mnafSGSHq5nKOZHCQRHp4_38mEb3sLOVtcVn9WRcTv7eq1BN5moiSF28ndbqtyNLYkO-ucEQjpKGFjROY5qzYqP1YzWDM-pv_4AsNiD910qtKd3usXL5v75M86QD_2H3ls9/s1240/IMG_1440.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1240" data-original-width="844" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS4tLqIf1miZfOhNbhqEOL5LKp5CejSOqs4T2n4qlRXz7VaXoxW-Kzg7dJ4mnafSGSHq5nKOZHCQRHp4_38mEb3sLOVtcVn9WRcTv7eq1BN5moiSF28ndbqtyNLYkO-ucEQjpKGFjROY5qzYqP1YzWDM-pv_4AsNiD910qtKd3usXL5v75M86QD_2H3ls9/w136-h200/IMG_1440.jpeg" width="136" /></a></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-40709324922482664142023-06-15T16:51:00.004+08:002023-06-16T17:01:40.034+08:00Maruya | Banana Pancake<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It’s been months (?) or a year since I made maruya (banana fritters; <i>kumbo in Ilonggo or Visayan dialect</i>). This has become a frequent breakfast or merienda on our table during this pandemic. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7LBIZBrDI51haJ6RPjNmwtg3qUHxB2ic9byymzextGZ2WaQo4z7WVuylh6FF8i58xK3P4SInlf_1Nwj_5I5U8NEWpahfV3lYw8qFiyMTWOUPIdDsWwQtKCClpJw--68gm5awimbe4S35llVjTpQhJKtitfWvy4WZlp511ykA40W03lecT400ic1AjQ/s1800/8CE8B4D4-1F85-4361-AD80-8021F787F595.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7LBIZBrDI51haJ6RPjNmwtg3qUHxB2ic9byymzextGZ2WaQo4z7WVuylh6FF8i58xK3P4SInlf_1Nwj_5I5U8NEWpahfV3lYw8qFiyMTWOUPIdDsWwQtKCClpJw--68gm5awimbe4S35llVjTpQhJKtitfWvy4WZlp511ykA40W03lecT400ic1AjQ/w320-h400/8CE8B4D4-1F85-4361-AD80-8021F787F595.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span></span><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV2kAPnea9sHu4gIc32DBPopmQnJFdx5R2ZqlTAf8-daNL7XTaf7UpA-eHj_lURYZN2ohx20jE7HKYMoGFWvJYWAepkCllC5ldlR2QvfGXIrCYcimZRSvmOoYQpd0PyXpTU_8fGPU6xKZ_orP3HsHKIVEvP3Tyqjj43pw3Hrw2R9flCthFObKOyiR-yQ/s1794/18F3A48E-7322-45DD-BE99-41B1B99BFBC4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1794" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV2kAPnea9sHu4gIc32DBPopmQnJFdx5R2ZqlTAf8-daNL7XTaf7UpA-eHj_lURYZN2ohx20jE7HKYMoGFWvJYWAepkCllC5ldlR2QvfGXIrCYcimZRSvmOoYQpd0PyXpTU_8fGPU6xKZ_orP3HsHKIVEvP3Tyqjj43pw3Hrw2R9flCthFObKOyiR-yQ/w321-h400/18F3A48E-7322-45DD-BE99-41B1B99BFBC4.jpeg" width="321" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I learned to cook maruya from my mother using a very simple recipe consisting of mashed saba, margarine, flour, sugar and egg but through the years, I’ve learned to modify her simple recipe by doing the math in my kitchen. The price of having a mathematician for a hubby. 🤣 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I play with the ingredients each time I cook… like using unsalted butter instead of margarine, using brown instead of white sugar, adding non-fat milk, vanilla and raisins. For my previous experiment, I mixed the sliced bananas with pre-mixed pancake flour. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">For this version of maruya recipe, there were more spur-of-the-moment additions. The bottle of oatmeal seemingly gave me an irresistible grin while I was reaching for the flour in the cupboard. How could I not give in to such a healthy invitation! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Oh, yes, how could I not notice the dried blueberries waving radiantly at me when I took the pack of raisins? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Finally, the lemon extract took a big step forward even before I could take out the vanilla. It took me a few seconds to make up my mind…Vanilla? Lemon? Vanilla? Lemon? 🤔 Hmmm... why not take both?!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Interested to know how I did it? Here, let me share with you…</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Cooking Directions</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Ingredients:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">5 pcs medium-sized saba </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">3/4 cup flour</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">1/4 cup quick-cooking oatmeal</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">2 tbsps softened unsalted butter</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">1/2 cup muscovado sugar</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">1 large egg</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">1/2 cup non-fat milk</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Few drops of lemon extract and vanilla</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">1/4 cup dried raisins and blueberries (and/or nuts, though optional)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Oil</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Steps:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">1. Slice saba.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixVCLXixtoL3hT7JiOUxupn5Y5KyL8p9KtF-qK_Z9XLqqttaVttIEqTlYMGMrRtck-Kzu6AhFoRRmffQ3GbzThD5R-ollzpZFtluyDeY7cqDT-5lb9TjES4jlVR5nTa-xMVLeEgOWzQeyyynGvx8CEBYpbhrDkI0Lo_rB8YuwbZ_vX4_ZkoSB_B8kplw/s1794/2E4DAA24-7B10-4D68-9FFE-ED8F8B04C2C6.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1794" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixVCLXixtoL3hT7JiOUxupn5Y5KyL8p9KtF-qK_Z9XLqqttaVttIEqTlYMGMrRtck-Kzu6AhFoRRmffQ3GbzThD5R-ollzpZFtluyDeY7cqDT-5lb9TjES4jlVR5nTa-xMVLeEgOWzQeyyynGvx8CEBYpbhrDkI0Lo_rB8YuwbZ_vX4_ZkoSB_B8kplw/s320/2E4DAA24-7B10-4D68-9FFE-ED8F8B04C2C6.jpeg" width="257" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">2. Add flour, oatmeal and 1 tbsp butter. Mix. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUuCCx1A0k_4-G7lNvivW2sWnHkdobPvqRXNT5qg74HFxQ4x32KEYX2g2pgTAZSjDmtnzsRmNQ62lvxMAk4X9awMvhSAHJXExYfCyLoT0jl-HhnUs9d3V9jdYFg_39LI6kQIj7KDpr0Y9mihadi6OLzM5CFxJs6pqjpu5jtW5EPhn7onmomT-cw5CYkQ/s1800/6D658EA3-FE61-493D-B387-00435A5D503C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUuCCx1A0k_4-G7lNvivW2sWnHkdobPvqRXNT5qg74HFxQ4x32KEYX2g2pgTAZSjDmtnzsRmNQ62lvxMAk4X9awMvhSAHJXExYfCyLoT0jl-HhnUs9d3V9jdYFg_39LI6kQIj7KDpr0Y9mihadi6OLzM5CFxJs6pqjpu5jtW5EPhn7onmomT-cw5CYkQ/s320/6D658EA3-FE61-493D-B387-00435A5D503C.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">3. Add sugar, milk, egg, vanilla and lemon extract. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">4. Add raisins and blueberries. Mix. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Oij_29u94FtV7DVckjwm_QozN5iarvlTU0C624vIUDlSiF-n2fO8RZHxoK_2SHN0ThRIR_c1ny4dtgO2ycMe3aoK_mIlQ9dHZddeSV60xLUEiqCNeXxJZpcS5JKNvF4hbUOAAgG8Dwaukjwx3U2kxkJz_KgC-buK2NQ7FmPKyWgX-wHzCPGVtTdDZg/s1794/1DCE005F-C5E5-424D-991E-1E40A1814BBB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1794" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Oij_29u94FtV7DVckjwm_QozN5iarvlTU0C624vIUDlSiF-n2fO8RZHxoK_2SHN0ThRIR_c1ny4dtgO2ycMe3aoK_mIlQ9dHZddeSV60xLUEiqCNeXxJZpcS5JKNvF4hbUOAAgG8Dwaukjwx3U2kxkJz_KgC-buK2NQ7FmPKyWgX-wHzCPGVtTdDZg/s320/1DCE005F-C5E5-424D-991E-1E40A1814BBB.jpeg" width="257" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">5. Heat oil and remaining butter in pan.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">6. Place 2- 3 tbsps of batter on pan. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxFe_hGq0YfOhT6KdVeW4OiFSEJbaJB2QZ2BSGtbfZWC9Bg4ZGPecIaNDrJFmpDXLUbpt6Nw9x-2A-FVTkzoA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">6. Cook until golden brown on both sides.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy0bgtI1EC88OC7osmP7JjLrlOdo-1eRZifr0xLfcXT82cTD-vDjYt_QL2mQmug4EfIYUe-nIKo0iHSGDZUQg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">7. Remove from pan. Place on paper towel. </div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7LBIZBrDI51haJ6RPjNmwtg3qUHxB2ic9byymzextGZ2WaQo4z7WVuylh6FF8i58xK3P4SInlf_1Nwj_5I5U8NEWpahfV3lYw8qFiyMTWOUPIdDsWwQtKCClpJw--68gm5awimbe4S35llVjTpQhJKtitfWvy4WZlp511ykA40W03lecT400ic1AjQ/s1800/8CE8B4D4-1F85-4361-AD80-8021F787F595.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG7LBIZBrDI51haJ6RPjNmwtg3qUHxB2ic9byymzextGZ2WaQo4z7WVuylh6FF8i58xK3P4SInlf_1Nwj_5I5U8NEWpahfV3lYw8qFiyMTWOUPIdDsWwQtKCClpJw--68gm5awimbe4S35llVjTpQhJKtitfWvy4WZlp511ykA40W03lecT400ic1AjQ/w320-h400/8CE8B4D4-1F85-4361-AD80-8021F787F595.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;">8. Serve hot with your favorite beverage. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVHhtKrMj6yVy7bglAEdi2kCepDLCIV7qOVWfIoLCWK0o749XJ8T7Ofm7YHX2wjfMPXe2qrt8f48__SoQ7lu6egYqxN5dRnh1h8Aro6VWFtcK2sdfvPemhNg5D7M22VtQtsxf9_lzrWHU2T1Db6LrmR7YyyHpZNhVZ0YypBqxcDx1NWAPulGHHe3t6EQ/s3015/IMG_9454.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3015" data-original-width="2755" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVHhtKrMj6yVy7bglAEdi2kCepDLCIV7qOVWfIoLCWK0o749XJ8T7Ofm7YHX2wjfMPXe2qrt8f48__SoQ7lu6egYqxN5dRnh1h8Aro6VWFtcK2sdfvPemhNg5D7M22VtQtsxf9_lzrWHU2T1Db6LrmR7YyyHpZNhVZ0YypBqxcDx1NWAPulGHHe3t6EQ/w298-h320/IMG_9454.jpeg" width="298" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Hmmm… I so love this latest version. I was surprised at how the measurement created a perfect blend of batter resulting in soft and fluffy pieces that tasted like pancakes! My mother and hubby both love pancakes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The recipe yielded 8 medium and large pieces. Ssssshhhh…. hubby consumed half! 🤣🤣🤣 Ayana Grace saw my Instagram post and asked if there was any left when she came over the following day. Well, there were still four pieces of raw banana left! That meant the planned banana cake had to wait for the next baking session. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Oh, wait, for this requested batch of maruya, I used peppermint flavor instead of lemon. You guessed it right! Another instant decision I made because I love peppermint (Peppermint Patty, too 😉😜) and there were several of them in the ref!!! Ayana Grace suggested adding a few drops to my coffee. So I did, and I superduper loved it!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">We have finished our afternoon coffee before I realized I forgot to add the egg. Good that nobody seemed to have noticed... and there were no left-overs! 🤣</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Now back to the next episode of my K-drama! 🙂🙂🙂</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-73859754413008487622023-05-20T04:02:00.017+08:002023-06-28T09:50:03.485+08:008th BCCHS General Alumni Homecoming Day 2 | May 13, 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_h6-5nj7RnKoFZJlpDXSOV3mnuggUWMgDY9yg4rAC1or33RrXo1n87e4CfLzkCEEiLmvROC8k-26I-1nNIU2ZzMWCnc42Q70lUxaxb3bFjccuBymDbTjUXINJBKXdF0I5rOeGA0sHVPD_UuCiomXcsX8izqxo54W2XM_-1CTYWt7TYCST0lFssVvCQ/s3041/IMG_7217.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1256" data-original-width="3041" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs_h6-5nj7RnKoFZJlpDXSOV3mnuggUWMgDY9yg4rAC1or33RrXo1n87e4CfLzkCEEiLmvROC8k-26I-1nNIU2ZzMWCnc42Q70lUxaxb3bFjccuBymDbTjUXINJBKXdF0I5rOeGA0sHVPD_UuCiomXcsX8izqxo54W2XM_-1CTYWt7TYCST0lFssVvCQ/w640-h264/IMG_7217.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPnlCqHmoAWERiFMb3_L670kNLPSqZizPjnmRjG8mEpyXhWpC-cCBP7HZ4BnF1ckT5XzbROU6p8OO9rf0UME_cqsmjUULYWYnDtAK-n7BSL3DZB0x7RE0guJShBi83WSPqgZj8FKmgSVCS5TxNFlN6nx_68KSlq5zt_V9VcbGg3fFs0l_tq88nN6XLhQ/s2340/81.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="2340" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPnlCqHmoAWERiFMb3_L670kNLPSqZizPjnmRjG8mEpyXhWpC-cCBP7HZ4BnF1ckT5XzbROU6p8OO9rf0UME_cqsmjUULYWYnDtAK-n7BSL3DZB0x7RE0guJShBi83WSPqgZj8FKmgSVCS5TxNFlN6nx_68KSlq5zt_V9VcbGg3fFs0l_tq88nN6XLhQ/w400-h369/81.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hello dear batchmates! It's time to turn the calendar back to when we last enjoyed each other's company. </div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfJ5GLJoKGH-lGVfBV31CneY2qWzVF6-YDZLv2b_uq-UbDyf8JcOpjTgnjf4CODTkWoSRQ176cksjxgHYup933_pcog7UL4-LEi235evh8K88DEj3wz31DeAmkXbSqGYDgaCvPVoAyxBLKd9-R9Vk2E5H60OLWEbcMz7Uo0oSc6AOepWAeNNBA7bmm-Q/s3000/IMG_3227.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1213" data-original-width="3000" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfJ5GLJoKGH-lGVfBV31CneY2qWzVF6-YDZLv2b_uq-UbDyf8JcOpjTgnjf4CODTkWoSRQ176cksjxgHYup933_pcog7UL4-LEi235evh8K88DEj3wz31DeAmkXbSqGYDgaCvPVoAyxBLKd9-R9Vk2E5H60OLWEbcMz7Uo0oSc6AOepWAeNNBA7bmm-Q/w400-h161/IMG_3227.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTefu1zyHjuuixgwW7IzC7xacFHsxqQxXtO9hEdWs36AHalJk2C4vJArPYQtWeexN1BsIm0PwiZ0mQ6xrWsCLbqoqWbPzBEKowEgaMquwF2ebb753549RBKojuYRUA2Y0ICUcrczlqmedkBrWvDTu4EbbGUhI_1Fgsy-DmluqM6ZCtkZQLI4PJXeWSnw/s3024/IMG_3226%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2181" data-original-width="3024" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTefu1zyHjuuixgwW7IzC7xacFHsxqQxXtO9hEdWs36AHalJk2C4vJArPYQtWeexN1BsIm0PwiZ0mQ6xrWsCLbqoqWbPzBEKowEgaMquwF2ebb753549RBKojuYRUA2Y0ICUcrczlqmedkBrWvDTu4EbbGUhI_1Fgsy-DmluqM6ZCtkZQLI4PJXeWSnw/w400-h289/IMG_3226%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">May 11-13, 2017. It's been six years sincethen! I posted photos of Day 1 of the main event but got lost with work and family life that Day 2 had to wait… for six years! I'm so sorry if this comes very, very late, though I believe, it’s just in time to keep your adrenaline rising again for the upcoming 2023 BCCHS 18th Annual Alumni Homecoming... another time for us to celebrate our 45th year (Sapphire) anniversary! May 20, 2023 (delayed for a year because of the pandemic). Oh, my, that’s only a few hours from now! Thanks to Roger for patiently explaining to me the background of this very special celebration! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before we go any further, you might want to refresh yourselves with the Honoring Ceremony during the 8th General Alumni Homecoming held on May 12, 2017 (Day 1 of the two-day main event). If you missed it, click these links below but make sure you get back here to view more reminiscences on the second day (May 13, 2017).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="color: #807e5c; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.41667; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Click ➡️➡️➡️</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2018/06/40-years-later.html#more" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: small;">40 years later</span></a></span></h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="color: #807e5c; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 1.41667; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Click ➡️➡️➡️ </span><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2018/06/40-years-ago-dear-teachers.html#more" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-size: small;">40 years ago, Dear Teachers</span></a></h3></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>There you are! Thanks for coming back! </div><div><br /></div><div>Now let me share with you memories captured 6 years ago. It was a big challenge recalling specific details at this time when our brain cells are starting to degenerate. Scrutinizing photos over and over again was one thing. The decision of choosing only the best pose was another thing. </div><div><br /></div><div>(Disclaimer: Forgive the hands that trembled in excitement while clicking the cam and credits to May Dizon Ynzon for a number of photos I grabbed from her Fb posts, with her permission 😀).</div><div><br /></div><div>Here they are… photo dump of Day 2, taken from various corners of Fortitude Room. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhRztYfg7IZa5G9uNHyobTA0ebSM9XwnRv9ph7mFO5e0aa4jk7qyjYrmscI7BnQjySjr506cI4zj4A5sMeoPN2emJCOT7Qh1swwbYQ-YyzYyAtIb9xCqvYia0zHOi7VctycwqS9zKQp6R-s5XtXIFHH732haRX92hHtuEMTlMxZGgxlGe2JLVSB3IzhA/s2103/IMG_7242.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1457" data-original-width="2103" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhRztYfg7IZa5G9uNHyobTA0ebSM9XwnRv9ph7mFO5e0aa4jk7qyjYrmscI7BnQjySjr506cI4zj4A5sMeoPN2emJCOT7Qh1swwbYQ-YyzYyAtIb9xCqvYia0zHOi7VctycwqS9zKQp6R-s5XtXIFHH732haRX92hHtuEMTlMxZGgxlGe2JLVSB3IzhA/w400-h278/IMG_7242.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Say "hello, hello, hello!"</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div>Hello, everyone!</div><div> This is Eve Tallafer-Sison. Welcome to our BCCHS <span style="text-align: justify;">8th General Alumni Homecoming!</span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;">Come on, let's volt in!</span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJiD8ZEojIRLEqSEGlErw0yubqK6xG3MXqIc9hdKRyP7E6ITe197FTLxZFyPSvCbC8fWMs5PQivmC_580qohOM49P8An2l9TOnPJJ7B2DHp0JbgxWdjvbCGKq92LgC-tPeZ4j_QN3W5-lz8Q-kOJFyguDeRtc4dOzGAriUzicVGzHlAg0JzpotdCGeWw/s3264/IMG_7181.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3264" data-original-width="2448" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJiD8ZEojIRLEqSEGlErw0yubqK6xG3MXqIc9hdKRyP7E6ITe197FTLxZFyPSvCbC8fWMs5PQivmC_580qohOM49P8An2l9TOnPJJ7B2DHp0JbgxWdjvbCGKq92LgC-tPeZ4j_QN3W5-lz8Q-kOJFyguDeRtc4dOzGAriUzicVGzHlAg0JzpotdCGeWw/w300-h400/IMG_7181.JPG" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Doreen Coriana: "Attention everyone! The Singing and Charity Diva of our batch is here!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMl-UnjkkkEMa2oZfkWQ1skIZ14yHZf8hTOF0Y9dfLFiWW8-PosbCTBkUiJ8zF9mtOTM8IQq7ucppnqA4OjyF-Dz7LTE9dXrQ6SdTibaxuGiVMLGJWR4sV5psOK1SBZ_GAQ747AC_S4XhnyCb1xubtq6mKGh6H9-39g21CWVvAxIeyK2Tv197tSj2PUA/s801/IMG_8202.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="801" data-original-width="612" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMl-UnjkkkEMa2oZfkWQ1skIZ14yHZf8hTOF0Y9dfLFiWW8-PosbCTBkUiJ8zF9mtOTM8IQq7ucppnqA4OjyF-Dz7LTE9dXrQ6SdTibaxuGiVMLGJWR4sV5psOK1SBZ_GAQ747AC_S4XhnyCb1xubtq6mKGh6H9-39g21CWVvAxIeyK2Tv197tSj2PUA/w305-h400/IMG_8202.JPG" width="305" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ruby "Token" Tia-Lizares with her charming smile pose with everybody she sees.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Pa-cute? Pa-demure? Whichever... but I love this!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje9psyT5WXqyFVSnaK2jMI2Vru1C-PjwlU8QbotE-f3D1sQ7iC3_zDflsiCjFkYcyQDPSEv0l9PtMAWhiCyXYH8BrTMqnua5Z6yHo_kX2YsapSCTy-9fjMq3l7RY9rUHAaidNS7rEg0LKy3b8i-13DOTPoek2jSeffrWDLfHb6oCJZYcEfeG7yQXRPjg/s1690/IMG_7249.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1690" data-original-width="1318" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje9psyT5WXqyFVSnaK2jMI2Vru1C-PjwlU8QbotE-f3D1sQ7iC3_zDflsiCjFkYcyQDPSEv0l9PtMAWhiCyXYH8BrTMqnua5Z6yHo_kX2YsapSCTy-9fjMq3l7RY9rUHAaidNS7rEg0LKy3b8i-13DOTPoek2jSeffrWDLfHb6oCJZYcEfeG7yQXRPjg/w313-h400/IMG_7249.JPG" width="313" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Joy, see what Manuel is doing so early in the morning with Alex Gane! 🤣🤣🤣</div><div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Jerome Dazo, Delia Cañon, Pilar Guillen and Maricar Sarad-Moises</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ01pFnBdQX0PjWaqWf0EvsIOEOheUEb0sRL6PTOog4mjSbTakIZL2ij2M--wFmSS5JQh3r6CzUEEbByAzB49sy3_r0CtgtmmbfwnYfqzjRv70yUmeNQrYFYi7X_g7ulB3auyqAPoNfA474lZrv8XbD5HSN4_aGVxy44ao9l9-_r5NE_i8rEPrn7Bi4g/s1280/IMG_7187.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ01pFnBdQX0PjWaqWf0EvsIOEOheUEb0sRL6PTOog4mjSbTakIZL2ij2M--wFmSS5JQh3r6CzUEEbByAzB49sy3_r0CtgtmmbfwnYfqzjRv70yUmeNQrYFYi7X_g7ulB3auyqAPoNfA474lZrv8XbD5HSN4_aGVxy44ao9l9-_r5NE_i8rEPrn7Bi4g/w400-h300/IMG_7187.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Ronald, amusingly squeezes himself in 😁 while I was listening intently to Portia's life story.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Recalling faces time has changed could be depressing. You know the person yet the name eludes you after you think it’s been at the tip of your tongue for some time. Thank you, Maricar, Melba, Pelaflor, Bonny, Susalyn, Roger, MacRey, Jocelyn, for coming to my rescue, refreshing my mind on names of some alumni I couldn't recognize or maybe I really did not know them at all. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Z81pBZkinWCvgvBF-PVoqBosAV_cdZ5Anw3nq-cBdJ1nd0so0KSucC2__34kecOpHd9uxyCyPf3f5NFvUMVACxHE4Z3cXNandcuVd9PWgtDZzHUKtLx5lC8jsIEpOlXwVXZJSV3Pt6rkFaYqH8buCjMxW0J15DdNtaoW9RKObQ8rb9WUwq5b3NnM9g/s752/IMG_7506.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="537" data-original-width="752" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Z81pBZkinWCvgvBF-PVoqBosAV_cdZ5Anw3nq-cBdJ1nd0so0KSucC2__34kecOpHd9uxyCyPf3f5NFvUMVACxHE4Z3cXNandcuVd9PWgtDZzHUKtLx5lC8jsIEpOlXwVXZJSV3Pt6rkFaYqH8buCjMxW0J15DdNtaoW9RKObQ8rb9WUwq5b3NnM9g/w400-h286/IMG_7506.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Thelma Panique, Token, Jane Cuachon-Gestosani and Melany Lumanog</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKgiWSadPyz-izNXKdOYT3G3Uz-gigip5wgSm4LBNCrWUnfwl73x9QbhJIHu4qxxTHWKmHXI8EYmSa5o5fkYbZfAa-g9e5GtOb9xtkmPUzzwJf01XoWTueH_s9kv2jeyDDS7rUKsN7XdP_6Oyx12VWzuKCcp2-1pbUVcG6r35NZQo3BJdFsuz6-puVug/s2979/IMG_7208.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1754" data-original-width="2979" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKgiWSadPyz-izNXKdOYT3G3Uz-gigip5wgSm4LBNCrWUnfwl73x9QbhJIHu4qxxTHWKmHXI8EYmSa5o5fkYbZfAa-g9e5GtOb9xtkmPUzzwJf01XoWTueH_s9kv2jeyDDS7rUKsN7XdP_6Oyx12VWzuKCcp2-1pbUVcG6r35NZQo3BJdFsuz6-puVug/w400-h235/IMG_7208.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Pelaflor Pesca-Espera with her berks - - - Bernardita Malunes, Erilyn Susana, Raynalyn Ngitngit,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Edgar Leganto, Libertad Patalagsa and Nida Gomez-Lopez. Were these the scrabble buddies?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHetL3Ay_Xk_JCWbz0OKZTwXh_vFNih7c5Se_KBmFrnhyXPtRoVeNgTUEnq6FAaXphs61nG7eUUp-yZWTrzIIcEb3NrQ7vp2SdclGWpj7jUv287GMbiHMrbX_4rDWclT1UPQHN0aQuGT1HJDsWN6UwFhxgER1ZesPDa-QvC2jtMHU8_EKGnR4djiehHw/s3264/IMG_7263.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHetL3Ay_Xk_JCWbz0OKZTwXh_vFNih7c5Se_KBmFrnhyXPtRoVeNgTUEnq6FAaXphs61nG7eUUp-yZWTrzIIcEb3NrQ7vp2SdclGWpj7jUv287GMbiHMrbX_4rDWclT1UPQHN0aQuGT1HJDsWN6UwFhxgER1ZesPDa-QvC2jtMHU8_EKGnR4djiehHw/w400-h300/IMG_7263.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hmmm... it seems the room has been occupied already that some have invaded the corridor. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Or the rising temperature drove them out? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I caught this group of lovely ladies who needed to take some breath of fresh air.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpH7IiujYyK3D_417nM-hWptUkxJ9ZaMfj962d_rq585pivAbSxXhW1GPIVtKcXIRm6VGEgidPIXjJ3JClwa6ZUVv2spB1BnK66ITiqc9ueFrPPgief5OOsHgJzOudiKfPQq9DuTq0ywh1a0SibaJ7OjLfKHbGTGXUa1F2IWiMZK3YPToafI2mbRRRBQ/s3264/IMG_7219.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpH7IiujYyK3D_417nM-hWptUkxJ9ZaMfj962d_rq585pivAbSxXhW1GPIVtKcXIRm6VGEgidPIXjJ3JClwa6ZUVv2spB1BnK66ITiqc9ueFrPPgief5OOsHgJzOudiKfPQq9DuTq0ywh1a0SibaJ7OjLfKHbGTGXUa1F2IWiMZK3YPToafI2mbRRRBQ/w400-h300/IMG_7219.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Portia Gimotea-Familiaran and Rena Corazon Tejares-Gargalicano catching up with Angie Geronimo-Tuale and Maricar Sarad-Moises</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrq7qoBHW_6MM_VcTYIIq8sjjD2r-odpBpoemVE6Kc8AatKYNaDNL_cR2VUvr_PvoiR8NJYaZCpVbOrzH-c9KSogODriFdvkR78NRWjBbL6WtD77rIqNKiEf3TGOO09mKMnQTQpS1HdXNha-V9hbfrVJM0JgA5tk8aFcPJo3PW2hPYn5hSSysI-EnILw/s3264/IMG_7246.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrq7qoBHW_6MM_VcTYIIq8sjjD2r-odpBpoemVE6Kc8AatKYNaDNL_cR2VUvr_PvoiR8NJYaZCpVbOrzH-c9KSogODriFdvkR78NRWjBbL6WtD77rIqNKiEf3TGOO09mKMnQTQpS1HdXNha-V9hbfrVJM0JgA5tk8aFcPJo3PW2hPYn5hSSysI-EnILw/w400-h300/IMG_7246.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Joy, Ruby, Doreen and Cherry Pie</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnR9XJaUwX_YidcPKrt93BkgngoaxJTGMdpHUxlLxAAWP63-sVZkSOsVBamqAeNmuHSYwf91_tCYTqzlUgeFoM0Pgx60p1_YC8ZvSawYETWj2hVCqhigxcnNfg9C1U4KCxh1M230B-yOpLpGcjffh9vI7kxOwg_dtH5Z9qgUeu2JP6poURxvCr8YWN8g/s782/IMG_7405.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="782" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnR9XJaUwX_YidcPKrt93BkgngoaxJTGMdpHUxlLxAAWP63-sVZkSOsVBamqAeNmuHSYwf91_tCYTqzlUgeFoM0Pgx60p1_YC8ZvSawYETWj2hVCqhigxcnNfg9C1U4KCxh1M230B-yOpLpGcjffh9vI7kxOwg_dtH5Z9qgUeu2JP6poURxvCr8YWN8g/w400-h280/IMG_7405.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Look who's 'neighboring' from another room! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Miss Dinah Ortaliz wasn’t able to resist posing with her former students. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Look at her face... not a trace of 46 years is visible!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="text-align: justify;">Photo ops pa more!</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">‘Twas really nice seeing everyone smiling, laughing out loud while taking selfies, groupies, catching up, reliving memories of high school days and even of life beyond high school. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNPc6g-QtkI2r8kr6hv1s_wFPhG3ecBJaRR_nlxOoJECKIcT_XV3QcDhdooGI4bTJq9Y4IgWGMbVjr_1a73sqSlZAN6UXVpUHzbDAETZGOeui6rWVfGFkIdPN_HEmns_bTJG1gykFXjHFzBtH3ehnAsexAABU9_BMf9tBg2FEgiR12m2hvktnGvqal5A/s3226/IMG_7232.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Let's see who are on the other side...</div><div style="text-align: center;">Vicente Genzola and Isidro Montero seemed to have been observing physical distancing four years prior to the pandemic! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixkQSod56nnBwb9UzPoITOAXYwgKZIg_VXZpu9Bqi-25EIB-DAgSTCsjrV8je1DCtLLlQu9oly7Q_H3-2FnokzX_F-1ZNDyUI-5bAJS-DYP-6_a4wF8hipLzYSbe7aqvtGUFXvMMCfSW_319KvQts7X1LsgfYMIfPBdEeHqhlPhN2USX1TWSMpEOd1xQ/s3134/IMG_7239.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2055" data-original-width="3134" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixkQSod56nnBwb9UzPoITOAXYwgKZIg_VXZpu9Bqi-25EIB-DAgSTCsjrV8je1DCtLLlQu9oly7Q_H3-2FnokzX_F-1ZNDyUI-5bAJS-DYP-6_a4wF8hipLzYSbe7aqvtGUFXvMMCfSW_319KvQts7X1LsgfYMIfPBdEeHqhlPhN2USX1TWSMpEOd1xQ/w400-h263/IMG_7239.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCsuilVW8IYTStvlxAMrSdHOF33paH5dLTw40s4c2AqTNeL8jdSxpI6t7Ic1VYObq86qtrIhWBWv-KHBaE_Ucav294PTETFYBdLN-EUG4PcNOl8ECUw4VwTxLtHQBE2nwXqu6I4Jiu__aKWBhVXt678Q-qmzN9z5TXh13s8cvtnTU575jDSuKTyvLeEw/s2839/IMG_7244.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1972" data-original-width="2839" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCsuilVW8IYTStvlxAMrSdHOF33paH5dLTw40s4c2AqTNeL8jdSxpI6t7Ic1VYObq86qtrIhWBWv-KHBaE_Ucav294PTETFYBdLN-EUG4PcNOl8ECUw4VwTxLtHQBE2nwXqu6I4Jiu__aKWBhVXt678Q-qmzN9z5TXh13s8cvtnTU575jDSuKTyvLeEw/w400-h278/IMG_7244.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNQLeDbYEWsu8mqrC90-NebumkRtMbEEnNmli7RQOvqi4nzKRq0abZBfEJCZH_riMFKpYUQCu5LMsOb4lVe4lM-yKNE8kqZTk2oOpg2PcV8v6BFw7cLz7rehQXz5u0UwfMLai3qIyKVKYBPO255p4xnLzY4D7trcnIYaCIxCDzcjEmGKjP_bpGjaH-qA/s2417/IMG_7245.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1872" data-original-width="2417" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNQLeDbYEWsu8mqrC90-NebumkRtMbEEnNmli7RQOvqi4nzKRq0abZBfEJCZH_riMFKpYUQCu5LMsOb4lVe4lM-yKNE8kqZTk2oOpg2PcV8v6BFw7cLz7rehQXz5u0UwfMLai3qIyKVKYBPO255p4xnLzY4D7trcnIYaCIxCDzcjEmGKjP_bpGjaH-qA/w400-h310/IMG_7245.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Roger, what are the boys up to? Something's brewing outside!?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsQIuIVheq9eJztLA3-8-OjXnUnmoaupRODjiib9RKh5GXF9e76i1DQIwNvYHIT7qp5tp26iUZr2oM23B9K6rWVUQE1HbmZYBf-RmhJ8_69hOaf-TslA4fJNvdqJMg5ZkNOD4f_EDDCxIuuKoSRRNk5gB3DAiDFZJYcN4IY97rzUE80MLCUp2VFaUVfA/s3264/IMG_7251.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsQIuIVheq9eJztLA3-8-OjXnUnmoaupRODjiib9RKh5GXF9e76i1DQIwNvYHIT7qp5tp26iUZr2oM23B9K6rWVUQE1HbmZYBf-RmhJ8_69hOaf-TslA4fJNvdqJMg5ZkNOD4f_EDDCxIuuKoSRRNk5gB3DAiDFZJYcN4IY97rzUE80MLCUp2VFaUVfA/w400-h300/IMG_7251.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The table is now ready! </div><div style="text-align: center;">Let’s go! </div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6D4_9HAmHrJrfYGWy4JC4NrYa8yDzpBci0gbZ2aolIp6KzddJMGOs93fWBIWL4ePBMalwJh5DeHwzhS3FGpHB6yrf-f9uUsPR3Ij4wDI4WZakQGtqPXvFsze5M_qyjJQmrTpQHDjFCMlrGqzhion_DfgBI4MK1P44aPDLN5OR-kqOmOF0d-bKHREnIQ/s828/IMG_8082.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="828" height="116" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6D4_9HAmHrJrfYGWy4JC4NrYa8yDzpBci0gbZ2aolIp6KzddJMGOs93fWBIWL4ePBMalwJh5DeHwzhS3FGpHB6yrf-f9uUsPR3Ij4wDI4WZakQGtqPXvFsze5M_qyjJQmrTpQHDjFCMlrGqzhion_DfgBI4MK1P44aPDLN5OR-kqOmOF0d-bKHREnIQ/w200-h116/IMG_8082.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkz6gYSzlqQ7YMyekJC5wlv7VteM1_SbKPwGlQb84qEYAfwEDBBeRFJLHf2on2BGQ_UEavx6PVZVHVC9BgTsIOOZMspZBJ9aYH_lWS8pA1TuJfe7DWNJ-HqXaN-n_JVKSWYPrPQl6ucxJKX7bIIPcY6LVY_Y8WDfyTzKefo8oFYYiyhYmoJ6mbuXTyMQ/s829/IMG_7442.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="829" height="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkz6gYSzlqQ7YMyekJC5wlv7VteM1_SbKPwGlQb84qEYAfwEDBBeRFJLHf2on2BGQ_UEavx6PVZVHVC9BgTsIOOZMspZBJ9aYH_lWS8pA1TuJfe7DWNJ-HqXaN-n_JVKSWYPrPQl6ucxJKX7bIIPcY6LVY_Y8WDfyTzKefo8oFYYiyhYmoJ6mbuXTyMQ/w200-h115/IMG_7442.JPG" width="200" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hmmm... the crunch!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Group photo first before lunch</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8fBOmwy4lCb1GUR1GEzLSkl0mEBYzVxz-g1vA1o0GRIh-YrluWrvUUttuU8Bap88XbHsK9MbYA-6cRW2bBVPPR-cELnVn2itGRQgnkktjwaxthU2DFPJDvE4it9hXhFYn_sYSUVoTNQ-FEJW4IYH6RwHY5ryvZdxHlm3Ucgv9SwLY6RVnOlaSA0Tx4A/s960/d3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8fBOmwy4lCb1GUR1GEzLSkl0mEBYzVxz-g1vA1o0GRIh-YrluWrvUUttuU8Bap88XbHsK9MbYA-6cRW2bBVPPR-cELnVn2itGRQgnkktjwaxthU2DFPJDvE4it9hXhFYn_sYSUVoTNQ-FEJW4IYH6RwHY5ryvZdxHlm3Ucgv9SwLY6RVnOlaSA0Tx4A/w400-h240/d3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_2t2Z51L46-av6AGR_ySchcj1l0WqDfd-WsUwwsEKvo1VwiMzHnIML48_cnfilXqI5Ob-SpvzfLuOgjHs2z_lleSu1II0hkhYmrAlxaMFDX8NxsE1VHtm8MOo3SZklAbdJjJjk52TQo-3Lj6GJIpOHGzm6U1XuCblZiTnw67ptXTQVRYR1dyFo2l8qQ/s929/IMG_7382.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="929" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_2t2Z51L46-av6AGR_ySchcj1l0WqDfd-WsUwwsEKvo1VwiMzHnIML48_cnfilXqI5Ob-SpvzfLuOgjHs2z_lleSu1II0hkhYmrAlxaMFDX8NxsE1VHtm8MOo3SZklAbdJjJjk52TQo-3Lj6GJIpOHGzm6U1XuCblZiTnw67ptXTQVRYR1dyFo2l8qQ/w400-h186/IMG_7382.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Fellowship over lunch</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Mr. President Rogelio Jumuad Jr. delivered the Opening Remarks or Prayer? Roger, were you leading the singing of the Philippine National Anthem? Or singing the Happy Birthday song? Who can recall? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWkiKNS44FVLnsquLM24BxxRJr-Hh07uHjZKxmDY7BSzkXxA9WRO8by-j5mkozgcTQAYWcYQY3BFz7BDFlWZvMTllYtU0m-0iCN08GjJutNAFOMZ3jXsEKyOfvOjFiPFKKxpgpva9j_5rsNuUez2qXpjiynRCtjZ3vs9Kn7TWbqnJnr1yiWcGkGy_klA/s2871/IMG_7200.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1821" data-original-width="2871" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWkiKNS44FVLnsquLM24BxxRJr-Hh07uHjZKxmDY7BSzkXxA9WRO8by-j5mkozgcTQAYWcYQY3BFz7BDFlWZvMTllYtU0m-0iCN08GjJutNAFOMZ3jXsEKyOfvOjFiPFKKxpgpva9j_5rsNuUez2qXpjiynRCtjZ3vs9Kn7TWbqnJnr1yiWcGkGy_klA/w400-h254/IMG_7200.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Then Mr. President says, "Let the feast begin!"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-X77kNQOvz0s9tpa957oNs1-EqZ6R0QvftjOC9ARLU6lC9B9Drj8MY93u7CFLMz9z0hfXqFodk10KWJY_syAIbfl9-1to_tWx8Ibtz32UgvDMfaOLyYdOMgQu86aD0fWfa5see-wTZjn4VsnOTMSjmSi3V_bQ-1cmtEuAO2OLKShEOP9uxXG7vNK9BQ/s2671/IMG_7199.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2095" data-original-width="2671" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-X77kNQOvz0s9tpa957oNs1-EqZ6R0QvftjOC9ARLU6lC9B9Drj8MY93u7CFLMz9z0hfXqFodk10KWJY_syAIbfl9-1to_tWx8Ibtz32UgvDMfaOLyYdOMgQu86aD0fWfa5see-wTZjn4VsnOTMSjmSi3V_bQ-1cmtEuAO2OLKShEOP9uxXG7vNK9BQ/w400-h314/IMG_7199.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJR8IVbhWF0pMfRJWqZvnGrqHI9wAQs06lCQmI6Ez2-sXpnERG2_Vy3k9ykYdgQq_LGfJLZTPMgA7A81JF6vIWbKvoYEuksVdrm9uj0R3UUoIcTgalFx9ZnR9xxkJs-AuONpWHjerh0XjZyiIVIxAL72uKjApY_nxVzjMqDl1XhDBVB6ErMaMQaiKvnQ/s3264/IMG_7201.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJR8IVbhWF0pMfRJWqZvnGrqHI9wAQs06lCQmI6Ez2-sXpnERG2_Vy3k9ykYdgQq_LGfJLZTPMgA7A81JF6vIWbKvoYEuksVdrm9uj0R3UUoIcTgalFx9ZnR9xxkJs-AuONpWHjerh0XjZyiIVIxAL72uKjApY_nxVzjMqDl1XhDBVB6ErMaMQaiKvnQ/w400-h300/IMG_7201.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUL8bPiLtLKC7Jlmu4htomTiSvvyfONDbebA99kIcmolyhdt-0JMORMbDprWvFpZ_lHuaEXzPGLYLtMlTzKS5U-a_4rcTN4MeTj_PaivzjvTrnHvy9B0rOXaL0c3jQV6sXGJAMXLK0LWyopLUkai-uXGK8H9NskvRC-sCEMWd1z76EX2S5g5fAmyR_Kg/s2413/IMG_7203.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2376" data-original-width="2413" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUL8bPiLtLKC7Jlmu4htomTiSvvyfONDbebA99kIcmolyhdt-0JMORMbDprWvFpZ_lHuaEXzPGLYLtMlTzKS5U-a_4rcTN4MeTj_PaivzjvTrnHvy9B0rOXaL0c3jQV6sXGJAMXLK0LWyopLUkai-uXGK8H9NskvRC-sCEMWd1z76EX2S5g5fAmyR_Kg/w400-h394/IMG_7203.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Plain rice? Fried rice? Arroz Valenciana?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7znHQZcM1l5W8XlBEn484-BVKwK6vE0QyfQ6P1i1LxHoUuZOEhEkpI_FFIf6NJ86lNKV1jkpZVEnZdp26_cOYAto7YBFUYNd6Tb3hegvZALH4SzoL13yfoIzS6mZNlDRapPFakVfedqK-C3Yf2zXMINrkB5Y03JaTb3r-darZrjprHRRz344qj21LRw/s3264/IMG_7204.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7znHQZcM1l5W8XlBEn484-BVKwK6vE0QyfQ6P1i1LxHoUuZOEhEkpI_FFIf6NJ86lNKV1jkpZVEnZdp26_cOYAto7YBFUYNd6Tb3hegvZALH4SzoL13yfoIzS6mZNlDRapPFakVfedqK-C3Yf2zXMINrkB5Y03JaTb3r-darZrjprHRRz344qj21LRw/w400-h300/IMG_7204.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4livSJtpOTZEsdO2x6j-bxfZZHz3zx_I28hoyPU_eH1GJJcvWX2-iSmQmvkmH17Q-Kwa-9GnXvHyxS4UdX53Tpvr8Fikgk_NHOVNrHoBrZrRfHXiz71uHozx5iBpgWxTqc_5J7KWTRsx9DlXIXGuZkFCdZ9XkEg2jDRaEEbouGzu8z-K1lX0MKUk0w/s2821/IMG_7205.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2083" data-original-width="2821" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4livSJtpOTZEsdO2x6j-bxfZZHz3zx_I28hoyPU_eH1GJJcvWX2-iSmQmvkmH17Q-Kwa-9GnXvHyxS4UdX53Tpvr8Fikgk_NHOVNrHoBrZrRfHXiz71uHozx5iBpgWxTqc_5J7KWTRsx9DlXIXGuZkFCdZ9XkEg2jDRaEEbouGzu8z-K1lX0MKUk0w/w400-h295/IMG_7205.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Daw mas mabakal ang arroz valenciana haw? </div><div style="text-align: center;">Abi tilawan ta man! My fave and I bet, yours, too!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW29KNA5I9nAzMFTYh1OchcNs1T2NMMHjnfNEUFu7xsISaaZiYIlw95M3DE0k6CHLp-u49o31d0lEZjCFEOLdk_0-WYxHYsznEPpFwrRCww2UVZJNZC0sUKLuSkFbDzkSLc7T3HUsk1tNY0WFMENxci4ptGNaMQjrY6wYh5PEDtwCDDG8YlA2GdHe-hg/s2990/IMG_7252.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2295" data-original-width="2990" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW29KNA5I9nAzMFTYh1OchcNs1T2NMMHjnfNEUFu7xsISaaZiYIlw95M3DE0k6CHLp-u49o31d0lEZjCFEOLdk_0-WYxHYsznEPpFwrRCww2UVZJNZC0sUKLuSkFbDzkSLc7T3HUsk1tNY0WFMENxci4ptGNaMQjrY6wYh5PEDtwCDDG8YlA2GdHe-hg/w400-h308/IMG_7252.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrzdlNyBCRMNxirJdMBh1He4nFkURLUhqw-ro4Ci3jRBxYvYHhyVBwSrWBNtwNP4RBMUl3MW-fzhdp50acrf2CFPfrjs6A60g4sv39km0Qk3MgRlVb_xqgTHWoyg3OzAvg8y2G6u7zmsR_9GedWm5i56tGXmJG8yOYsPE-y3ewGGpqRv9rsXxo36aukQ/s621/18447635_1360690337352807_7798429851269310446_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="621" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrzdlNyBCRMNxirJdMBh1He4nFkURLUhqw-ro4Ci3jRBxYvYHhyVBwSrWBNtwNP4RBMUl3MW-fzhdp50acrf2CFPfrjs6A60g4sv39km0Qk3MgRlVb_xqgTHWoyg3OzAvg8y2G6u7zmsR_9GedWm5i56tGXmJG8yOYsPE-y3ewGGpqRv9rsXxo36aukQ/w400-h358/18447635_1360690337352807_7798429851269310446_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Doreen: Kanamit sang suman!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGkajqtxoA8HOSuZtsNdaCJO22AYWtFhGA_79LvvW69d2qV0KJ-nniIIQwvqVP9klJSFtZ75eBayfd3rquFKVJM-mpGeK0hccPZhXKzB2ZCCf8G5PJyAmSk4OWLEmDlzQWPQ_LPWijNV-ZH6jlqeGqr6AFeRhFF6c862D8D_CI7yZts9P3MsX7ZGZ7A/s1847/IMG_7241.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1847" data-original-width="1110" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPGkajqtxoA8HOSuZtsNdaCJO22AYWtFhGA_79LvvW69d2qV0KJ-nniIIQwvqVP9klJSFtZ75eBayfd3rquFKVJM-mpGeK0hccPZhXKzB2ZCCf8G5PJyAmSk4OWLEmDlzQWPQ_LPWijNV-ZH6jlqeGqr6AFeRhFF6c862D8D_CI7yZts9P3MsX7ZGZ7A/w240-h400/IMG_7241.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">The face of happiness and contentment</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, the bonding and fellowship didn't end there. We had an evening of extended fun and feasting at Doña Jesusa Hall, Mt. 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A night of surprises and discovery, it was indeed, as we were entertained by batchmates who showed off their singing prowess without inhibition! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOcs5ujeHrixSfXX1dUksTKZ4viQTolHAQdN3ndk9WlJqxtJR_SYPUIqhWPkIYVkBQflcNpLaJ4fXf27wmFS9WpABvhp5EfGIWhT7_x7dyMPW0rYfXHzbSLliDYVQsqPky9LyCUPi355WbEpr9r_KQ0DLLEtQTLx9iWHwvowjg0e1Ky_jqwEMU8AooEg/s2427/IMG_7271.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2344" data-original-width="2427" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOcs5ujeHrixSfXX1dUksTKZ4viQTolHAQdN3ndk9WlJqxtJR_SYPUIqhWPkIYVkBQflcNpLaJ4fXf27wmFS9WpABvhp5EfGIWhT7_x7dyMPW0rYfXHzbSLliDYVQsqPky9LyCUPi355WbEpr9r_KQ0DLLEtQTLx9iWHwvowjg0e1Ky_jqwEMU8AooEg/s320/IMG_7271.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Through the year, I've never been afraid</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">I've loved the life we've made</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">And I'm so glad I stayed right here with you</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Through the years... </span>♫♬🎶 <span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"> </span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD17b1wK9D2V5d4OoS90orflhdICleYbLfL2sESZcSoX2LGbT5TFZjM6uLBXerRmd_i2z46EEtQmYfqBInN9NK6X-IL4ebRvAWPUmLC20V7C2zuHI_leOBscGTbmooE9u2107m1gqazr9uWmdVQxqxpRTnczZ-jcRMTuedpta1wpvbm89Qoc7wcDBbzQ/s3264/IMG_7273.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; 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He gave a brief recollection of memories of high school days and expressed his thanks and appreciation to everyone for their presence and contribution in the preparation for the event. He commended everyone’s efforts for the success of the Ruby Jubilee. He also presented the accomplishments of the association during his term. He gave a report on generation of funds through individual contribution and other means, expenses incurred, as well as ending balance in the coffers of the association. He also sought the body’s opinion on provision of financial support to alumni in need. I salute you, Mr. President, for a job well done! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTRzmRDz93rAFsAv4pbAgoSOQxPbFZB89bpo6FLPbe-KvJgIFXoaGI2Lrns4ph6OM7NKcgymforetX0YT9YPx10VaYbpjF8bTBSSoGtNKDC-2XOX-6-TL03xP2g8WEQYNv_1u-jbhUlFK64UnjFKMO2X1D01VwVAOI_y6II0BGfuswoKRHWP5Fskx0g/s2779/IMG_7284.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1925" data-original-width="2779" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQTRzmRDz93rAFsAv4pbAgoSOQxPbFZB89bpo6FLPbe-KvJgIFXoaGI2Lrns4ph6OM7NKcgymforetX0YT9YPx10VaYbpjF8bTBSSoGtNKDC-2XOX-6-TL03xP2g8WEQYNv_1u-jbhUlFK64UnjFKMO2X1D01VwVAOI_y6II0BGfuswoKRHWP5Fskx0g/s320/IMG_7284.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Finally, the night was made complete with everybody making a few more poses while shouting "Ruby!"</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLQLX3wxpn98VHouI3L6fN-xMReewmtaPJLvfSzImA4Srphli4Q-BaAFvlYCu2jjaaDu-cXHn5DVFUTYcwBoaJIL_M7YJoVT4WQhoWFnnX49uJRcWc26QfrYw7fzlo6NklT7UQYuKaW2oxObWmguZkRDLFO4v_I5Z6M-WopykUopHs1ovOXq_t95CRrA/s3823/IMG_0758.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1720" data-original-width="3823" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLQLX3wxpn98VHouI3L6fN-xMReewmtaPJLvfSzImA4Srphli4Q-BaAFvlYCu2jjaaDu-cXHn5DVFUTYcwBoaJIL_M7YJoVT4WQhoWFnnX49uJRcWc26QfrYw7fzlo6NklT7UQYuKaW2oxObWmguZkRDLFO4v_I5Z6M-WopykUopHs1ovOXq_t95CRrA/w400-h180/IMG_0758.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxKSKKSaGHG01CQVIOXcZreje3hSlcdvKXiXLGGGAVSdslSkxxLaqL-Vfnx9z5b0lcPC-0kWj4hOo5HEAcXkw2ORmvJYIo9LKkEuRQ3b4UL2xwEbxHpTC9NGCPpwgWX9eEGA7H5DRX6OepVEEtBuiGR-xmdAXPDhr_QjsgtoJGSTYjYRkU7_ThlVVnTQ/s3716/IMG_0766.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1673" data-original-width="3716" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxKSKKSaGHG01CQVIOXcZreje3hSlcdvKXiXLGGGAVSdslSkxxLaqL-Vfnx9z5b0lcPC-0kWj4hOo5HEAcXkw2ORmvJYIo9LKkEuRQ3b4UL2xwEbxHpTC9NGCPpwgWX9eEGA7H5DRX6OepVEEtBuiGR-xmdAXPDhr_QjsgtoJGSTYjYRkU7_ThlVVnTQ/w400-h180/IMG_0766.png" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Wacky!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-aeTVmZcyhUte-7LJDfC7Z4vSuSlo9Uh_O-cGir2ucPBnh6uVEi7PUcY44B-WoGQzDkCZCX7DbHUK0KeMfHc_ZTxunX7_51_FcjMERfC6OguqBq7ziJ-q2h5KyOnUua1ZDn4oZEEfG67oac53_0yeLvKqDWmdJCRLenqN5tyIgwgZf5mZX6AJ2mxuhA/s3383/IMG_0768.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1730" data-original-width="3383" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-aeTVmZcyhUte-7LJDfC7Z4vSuSlo9Uh_O-cGir2ucPBnh6uVEi7PUcY44B-WoGQzDkCZCX7DbHUK0KeMfHc_ZTxunX7_51_FcjMERfC6OguqBq7ziJ-q2h5KyOnUua1ZDn4oZEEfG67oac53_0yeLvKqDWmdJCRLenqN5tyIgwgZf5mZX6AJ2mxuhA/w400-h205/IMG_0768.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">One last... wacky!!!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2F7I3wyN-hZ3ocQeX-F3GJBf9AFgGUWEHj-DzQ_qqqnADekftoflXcBKkwNU_3Axp5yWC9fTRGpQYb3zwbf24CyZfihfkzGH1Jw_QaZrILsViHuMWUmTj8pGJw21SpvX5FwtJ2ZpeLrFA1qqPthtgv11a2iNfJgoyQr1FNSk0dFXBfdZWMb-w1SBNXA/s3405/IMG_0769%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1875" data-original-width="3405" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2F7I3wyN-hZ3ocQeX-F3GJBf9AFgGUWEHj-DzQ_qqqnADekftoflXcBKkwNU_3Axp5yWC9fTRGpQYb3zwbf24CyZfihfkzGH1Jw_QaZrILsViHuMWUmTj8pGJw21SpvX5FwtJ2ZpeLrFA1qqPthtgv11a2iNfJgoyQr1FNSk0dFXBfdZWMb-w1SBNXA/w400-h220/IMG_0769%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Thank you for bearing with me, everyone! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Today, as we <span style="text-align: justify;">meet, catch up and celebrate, on this</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> 18th Annual Alumni Homecoming, </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">our 45th (Sapphire) Anniversary, may we be all, in one spirit, unite to journey to our next stop </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">four years from now... another day to look forward to... </span><span style="text-align: justify;">our 50th Anniversary. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Allow me to park my pen right here... until we all meet again, on <span style="text-align: justify;">our Golden Jubilee! </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">BCCnian, we truly are!</span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVxUugcY3C5CnRGn9WQyPiABQ8tym05SV4-9Uxo5E5LQc0yy4iz-QDfBygS-U3e6JBF5DZwHwR5p6_5JSG1x-U19UY-1ZGqTs9HWD6TMq8DXQmuVxpUE5uell7lo7DeAxGN0bWrfrUJurDmoCuUs0FD6qeAM25-zDthZERRizif-mNalcx_3GO-T8qiw/s2929/IMG_3225%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2929" data-original-width="2808" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVxUugcY3C5CnRGn9WQyPiABQ8tym05SV4-9Uxo5E5LQc0yy4iz-QDfBygS-U3e6JBF5DZwHwR5p6_5JSG1x-U19UY-1ZGqTs9HWD6TMq8DXQmuVxpUE5uell7lo7DeAxGN0bWrfrUJurDmoCuUs0FD6qeAM25-zDthZERRizif-mNalcx_3GO-T8qiw/s320/IMG_3225%202.jpg" width="307" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-36620158300876462772023-01-23T14:32:00.009+08:002023-02-10T17:10:35.866+08:00How to Make Tikoy-Cheese Turon and Tikoy-Langka Turon<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Vz_7fr47X5GV-CIo5fU2Q7B-bxyXYPc2AWABWXuYabSuUug_hBagpVpixAwH61nAdt6Kbht8C5Pu8iBVejUmBsNeqVhwlNo1pXodZ4PMijSW4_mEuHcIkJ7bKW1SqQRln3YDiwp0z1t0ctqjNwoNg88Xhb8f_rwnMoVB4yiNCDXvqCwF1h3sF66OYw/s1173/5A1EF61F-0576-42FE-9EB3-BEE36C6C6D03.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1173" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Vz_7fr47X5GV-CIo5fU2Q7B-bxyXYPc2AWABWXuYabSuUug_hBagpVpixAwH61nAdt6Kbht8C5Pu8iBVejUmBsNeqVhwlNo1pXodZ4PMijSW4_mEuHcIkJ7bKW1SqQRln3YDiwp0z1t0ctqjNwoNg88Xhb8f_rwnMoVB4yiNCDXvqCwF1h3sF66OYw/w256-h400/5A1EF61F-0576-42FE-9EB3-BEE36C6C6D03.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 17.41px; text-align: left;">Gōng xǐ fā cái (Wishing you wealth and prosperity in Chinese)! </span></p></span><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Gong Hei Fa Choi (Happy New Year in Cantonese)!</span></p><span></span><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px; text-align: left;">My family has Chinese blood on both paternal and maternal sides - - - Cuachon on my father’s side and Uy on my mother’s side (originally, but changed to Hoy by my maternal grandfather, to make it less Chinese-eyyy, so my mother told me). Having chinky eyes makes me one of the minority Hoy grandchildren with this prominent Chinese feature. To think that I have only 1/8 Chinese blood and haven’t learned any Chinese word! I would often be asked by acquaintances if I’m Chinese, or Vietnamese, at times, Korean. In Chinese-owned Department Stores, when I was a kid, the owners would ask me or my mother, “Intsik?” </span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 17.41px; font-style: italic; text-align: left;">(“Chinese?”)</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px; text-align: left;"> or would even speak to us in Chinese! </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Oh, well, at my age, the reminiscing stage has really begun! But before I get sidetracked into writing about my family tree, let me share with you these two very simple and easy Tikoy merienda dishes I made yesterday, a shift from the usual Fried Tikoy (Glutinous Rice Cake) with Egg I used to make in the past. Hubby and I both missed this last year so I made sure it was on my ‘to buy’ list. Fortunately, he was able to get one! </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Here’s the recipe of </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedItalicBody; font-size: 17.41px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Tikoy-Cheese Turon and Tikoy-Langka Turon</span><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">, a very simple and easy merienda.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 28.7px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px; min-height: 37.1px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s4" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 28.67px; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17.41px; font-weight: bold;">Ingredients:</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">5 pieces lumpia wrapper, halved</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">10 slices of tikoy (5 mm thick)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">10 slices of cheese (5 mm thick, preferrably quickmelt, for that goooeeeyyy effect, but for this recipe, I used left-over Quezo de Bola)</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Strips of </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">fresh or sweetened </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">langka (jackfruit) </span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">1/4 cup water</span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Oil </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhChTzzHFH2wPa7PyWRtuAZLuOqpa-wCtJvBkvnfPbWPFVxyxDsAREg2T3JVYQsk1dfyKoLmQRAaYuLov2BvoVWSJOdP_kqcC7Oo8z6Dc6gAlmHbgt7ms9rCKpeA_hvK_tIAdsfCuVjjgT0d1TW9lZMl6cjav0VIkWliWBN1ojgY_h2PW535haUSic-sA/s4032/A029F556-70A6-42E8-878E-4AC389606DF8.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhChTzzHFH2wPa7PyWRtuAZLuOqpa-wCtJvBkvnfPbWPFVxyxDsAREg2T3JVYQsk1dfyKoLmQRAaYuLov2BvoVWSJOdP_kqcC7Oo8z6Dc6gAlmHbgt7ms9rCKpeA_hvK_tIAdsfCuVjjgT0d1TW9lZMl6cjav0VIkWliWBN1ojgY_h2PW535haUSic-sA/s320/A029F556-70A6-42E8-878E-4AC389606DF8.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnn1u2SnLW6TAWpExZgZvc4zdJp0QWGMG6O7Wg7YunwCeQSLFLWUGcAyV4n2NuqEpY4-8kUpsp9JPOv8Jj-6_ilbiCm9h3OU1PddzrM8fOJ1LyM19Bo9I2ZXOH4qATWLo98GjET-lyAORnWTSIZsT2y3CJRgdxt3vey0_qyXpa3RRsFkkmP1aH4iA9eQ/s698/0F218280-C91D-46D1-BEFA-3F7A21399213.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="698" data-original-width="648" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnn1u2SnLW6TAWpExZgZvc4zdJp0QWGMG6O7Wg7YunwCeQSLFLWUGcAyV4n2NuqEpY4-8kUpsp9JPOv8Jj-6_ilbiCm9h3OU1PddzrM8fOJ1LyM19Bo9I2ZXOH4qATWLo98GjET-lyAORnWTSIZsT2y3CJRgdxt3vey0_qyXpa3RRsFkkmP1aH4iA9eQ/s320/0F218280-C91D-46D1-BEFA-3F7A21399213.jpeg" width="297" /></a></div><br /><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px; text-align: left;">Ayana Grace, my eldest daughter, brought home a pack of frozen langka that I cooked as she requested. So I just took a few pieces and sliced them into strips for this recipe. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s5" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleEmphasizedBody; font-size: 17.41px; font-weight: bold;">Cooking directions:</span></p><ol class="ol1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-size-adjust: auto;"><li class="li1" style="font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Place 1 slice of tikoy and 1 slice of cheese together on lumpia wrapper. Fold wrapper and seal edges with water. </span></li><li class="li1" style="font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Repeat for the remaining tikoy and cheese slices.</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Heat oil on pan.</span></li><li class="li1" style="font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Fry wrapped tikoy and cheese on medium heat until golden brown on both sides.</span></li></ol><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ7JAoxTTHe-WQL8cMgiY5GdFE0WfV6HmcJWrNOHQbptIb7n2QtxXaz1AuVsK8VJiJtibsJbzBL5RaKX5aE9V4Sh9PcjN77EviHY5jyPcwukNp0APBPSCXPaFFVDTvLp3J2WRvJEE3nFOf167KiqDPDzC-Sbmum6RK_zFkFvyAsy6HGgZzdRVh8N8Q2g/s863/3A7FEAD1-1C2A-4EC1-9019-BDC759729E1E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ7JAoxTTHe-WQL8cMgiY5GdFE0WfV6HmcJWrNOHQbptIb7n2QtxXaz1AuVsK8VJiJtibsJbzBL5RaKX5aE9V4Sh9PcjN77EviHY5jyPcwukNp0APBPSCXPaFFVDTvLp3J2WRvJEE3nFOf167KiqDPDzC-Sbmum6RK_zFkFvyAsy6HGgZzdRVh8N8Q2g/w348-h400/3A7FEAD1-1C2A-4EC1-9019-BDC759729E1E.jpeg" width="348" /></a></div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 17.41px;">5. Remove from </span><span style="font-size: 17.41px;">heat. Drain on paper towel. I used a ceramic oven baking grill plate so there was no need for paper towel. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 17.41px; text-align: left;">6. Serve hot. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 17.41px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK-vCw5xid9lJZYEMeHxsAUWhfOl4OKdJ1Bg8VjeS6EPTQFjydVn1oZ6bb-d0MOUeOEIK_MxzVvymtHKZ0lSNg8S4uwuliRtyOIRjBoTiM5xNmIpokErbOc68rqco5w46C1EPyqfm6Uazpo635CpAfNBxDM_ynJBA7OC3y7WOXECtixJSETnaUKfNsEw/s1173/71CB47D6-75A4-4468-B520-91200BA21672.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1173" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK-vCw5xid9lJZYEMeHxsAUWhfOl4OKdJ1Bg8VjeS6EPTQFjydVn1oZ6bb-d0MOUeOEIK_MxzVvymtHKZ0lSNg8S4uwuliRtyOIRjBoTiM5xNmIpokErbOc68rqco5w46C1EPyqfm6Uazpo635CpAfNBxDM_ynJBA7OC3y7WOXECtixJSETnaUKfNsEw/w256-h400/71CB47D6-75A4-4468-B520-91200BA21672.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 17.41px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 17.41px; text-align: left;">Repeat the same procedure, replacing cheese slices with langka.</span></div></span></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwvItBn22AVhejHqmY1q7pntmfxPvn9YHsDvf0zVZ2pLYeXARbMiD7MQidW6K2_ehSoq0P0ibSLuJOuwBaw7A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: auto;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwlcbd2abJnmw3esrZ2_6jVW2PSDk-fCz26ey3I468Hipe3hfE2LCiqxSSFu8GcRwEuiRZr7xQHEAsW5sUY-A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Hmmm…we all loved the crunch! </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">You have to try it to have a taste of that crunchy experience! </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22.5px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 17.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: auto;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 17.41px;">Happy Chinese New Year! </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-61632848554700266302021-09-03T03:42:00.011+08:002021-09-03T06:55:47.009+08:00Celebrating 32 Years of God’s Grace and Love<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span>On our 31st, I featured how the lockdown caused by the pandemic kept hubby and me together everyday after many years of having been a weekend wife. I also shared about our close encounters with COVID-19, how we, as a family, battled against it, and how God taught us precious lessons in the midst of our journey. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today, as we celebrate another year, still amid the pandemic, I’m sharing memories of that day 32 years ago… the day I walked down the aisle limping after sustaining a fracture one week before our wedding day.</span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwqqKgI6c7Kshgxxi4H6fhp6Npo6nqX5g8YaggBI3c7FA_7or1ONmxrcNxsmt0GNlVBjzNBqaF1Rf3MQ86PK5VVIAr1pwVZcCoFWZaqlbiAixFuajZWYrA8JpvtTGcw-CPxZ_b1IvU9st7/s1917/C6DA884F-C8C4-462D-A26A-CFEDBCDB2346.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1917" data-original-width="1292" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwqqKgI6c7Kshgxxi4H6fhp6Npo6nqX5g8YaggBI3c7FA_7or1ONmxrcNxsmt0GNlVBjzNBqaF1Rf3MQ86PK5VVIAr1pwVZcCoFWZaqlbiAixFuajZWYrA8JpvtTGcw-CPxZ_b1IvU9st7/w216-h320/C6DA884F-C8C4-462D-A26A-CFEDBCDB2346.jpeg" width="216" /></span></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A simple wedding it was, made possible with so much help from our friends. May the Lord bless them all every single day.</span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">September 2, 1989</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5egWYlmR5AJqAxEw4IOu-TJ1A-ZIpx-l-MshiSNvlNXn3C_wKRQAB5NA-0Dfb9XVedgzysUQQyI6UOzYYpnoxyzwA2f6EGO6pJJAcyDfCFQkR67o2TpiuDMq6BHOKxOWhGlYErQIBgQEq/s1577/2F42F323-43F9-40AE-A4FA-B29383DE4420.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="749" data-original-width="1577" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5egWYlmR5AJqAxEw4IOu-TJ1A-ZIpx-l-MshiSNvlNXn3C_wKRQAB5NA-0Dfb9XVedgzysUQQyI6UOzYYpnoxyzwA2f6EGO6pJJAcyDfCFQkR67o2TpiuDMq6BHOKxOWhGlYErQIBgQEq/w400-h190/2F42F323-43F9-40AE-A4FA-B29383DE4420.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiknfkgFElxczw6NTrXkei2V-Hbxdst1jjX7dk76w413Wh78-h96x7c6WwixZjIBB5ypMYP53U7CM4XmUeDT7JboJ4t4B5jqjfX8KJFhrCYxOMCsz_b5hWtYv5LP0Ah1eJjYd0Nco5K81q/s2048/0C69FA59-3271-452C-8078-E37B828AF703.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiknfkgFElxczw6NTrXkei2V-Hbxdst1jjX7dk76w413Wh78-h96x7c6WwixZjIBB5ypMYP53U7CM4XmUeDT7JboJ4t4B5jqjfX8KJFhrCYxOMCsz_b5hWtYv5LP0Ah1eJjYd0Nco5K81q/w376-h640/0C69FA59-3271-452C-8078-E37B828AF703.jpeg" width="376" /></span></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I remember waking up early in the morning to wrap my fractured foot in plastic before taking a bath. I could vividly recall how my hands trembled as I removed the cast before putting on my stockings.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There was no time for me to shop for a low-heeled shoes so I went to church wearing a pair of slippers. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG4hPnxsrneZozJKCBv3oHuY1WBMYH5LJ9sgV1lIWdNscvQxOco1HUzUM1W9CpRVkvHZUm_YQ-hoz-3PyI2b6bdA6IdfNgfcFGZ4g5gKHELCUoP-134EDuFPzHQwfL7sxpOJm8nns0tjdX/s1932/7A728DFF-A6DF-4D4E-9395-76A8320FE7DC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1932" data-original-width="1368" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG4hPnxsrneZozJKCBv3oHuY1WBMYH5LJ9sgV1lIWdNscvQxOco1HUzUM1W9CpRVkvHZUm_YQ-hoz-3PyI2b6bdA6IdfNgfcFGZ4g5gKHELCUoP-134EDuFPzHQwfL7sxpOJm8nns0tjdX/w454-h640/7A728DFF-A6DF-4D4E-9395-76A8320FE7DC.jpeg" width="454" /></span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I had to carry my shoes to the bride’s waiting room.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWzdlNQhaEPYKxGK77FrgFhGgKEjPcveP9roeqPyI3D3-byKQ5CQLpyFhHc8EtMVSK-mT9bOX3cwUDs1L0uiQWCbASzLhYJEvIsOosrDk8iUgETGU4He9DJvPUjzrT01Byx3CSwQTIXiIU/s2048/61925340-91A2-46AE-8D7A-F32E08C20321.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1267" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWzdlNQhaEPYKxGK77FrgFhGgKEjPcveP9roeqPyI3D3-byKQ5CQLpyFhHc8EtMVSK-mT9bOX3cwUDs1L0uiQWCbASzLhYJEvIsOosrDk8iUgETGU4He9DJvPUjzrT01Byx3CSwQTIXiIU/w396-h640/61925340-91A2-46AE-8D7A-F32E08C20321.jpeg" width="396" /></span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">A minute before the bridal march, I slowly put on my two-and-a-half-inch-heeled shoe to the affected foot, so afraid that it won’t fit due to the slight swelling. Wohooo, it did fit! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But I had to whisper to my father to walk slowly along the aisle. <i>“Tay, hinayhinay lang.”</i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I was softly counting the steps going to the altar, taking extra care to keep both feet straight during the march.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibOlyWSeNgWaY_3Sed-VVTf1VzAU7B1Ml7f2MleFdtiE1MIMqXBuMelqwcAAnylQ5FP58HoAyq3LbOW5A5MGAv1nBpZp-XNsaC30AwXoViiWBci6CEn5augrtimZEehBfFvzPXGqGkUMfz/s1724/55348727-EA2D-4B04-A43B-0D340E986E62.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1724" data-original-width="1293" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibOlyWSeNgWaY_3Sed-VVTf1VzAU7B1Ml7f2MleFdtiE1MIMqXBuMelqwcAAnylQ5FP58HoAyq3LbOW5A5MGAv1nBpZp-XNsaC30AwXoViiWBci6CEn5augrtimZEehBfFvzPXGqGkUMfz/w480-h640/55348727-EA2D-4B04-A43B-0D340E986E62.jpeg" width="480" /></span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For the rest of the ceremony, I never felt any pain. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All the endorphins must have been in full force doing their job so well </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">until we said our <i>“I do’s” </i>and vows.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">😊😊😊</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijiQ5KN4gMoLMPKKrU1wWcaO0yqCywzQlA-HiWNMtFQH84s8KaId94q4a5JpnuCud0JwivCPAB19gib5CdCbY1MgoLbKtneR2RJhPl4wzKTmsKeLbCj7THjuZQoOWsvKyyQDlx0e3-Se-H/s2048/058C98E6-19E1-4F1F-ABB5-31BBE98B5145.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Not a single sign of pain while signing the marriage contract!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">🤣🤣🤣</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1K1x0z69MZh3IDxLlv9KRZ1kY_-CkOIQzOkvvtK-CrEmQSx6OLLQCeiGuiPe6YUeJb-riYvlyMOJfW6PSWwUA-WKelzfdG_wOePs6l3GrRYbXuy93xq-e2vN3sI40Ngyha7giTYyc7DNk/s2048/64773D15-5753-4F7E-99AE-430F1F58481A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1406" data-original-width="2048" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1K1x0z69MZh3IDxLlv9KRZ1kY_-CkOIQzOkvvtK-CrEmQSx6OLLQCeiGuiPe6YUeJb-riYvlyMOJfW6PSWwUA-WKelzfdG_wOePs6l3GrRYbXuy93xq-e2vN3sI40Ngyha7giTYyc7DNk/w640-h440/64773D15-5753-4F7E-99AE-430F1F58481A.jpeg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now, it was time for the groom to kiss his bride.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1753" data-original-width="1161" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPG4VtDFjbDXY55yTgwUZsOC5xy4OIVL8KEXfBzJSP5NCanJ6WJ3Ttixw5LdEbBT2bzST5f4i4o3ysvqERskdCmlSeontSId35Ys5fj5Z_fqCG-zQWjKzfyLd3WCk1MNTCnIojOf8z5Omx/w424-h640/5DBF4A2A-60F4-464E-8BB1-5E642CEF248E.jpeg" width="424" /></span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Praising and thanking God for His sustaining grace to both of us and our family these 32 years! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">= = = = =</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Related posts:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #800180;"><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2020/09/a-blessed-31st-amid-covid-19-pandemic.html" target="_blank">A Blessed 31st amid the Pandemic</a> (2020)</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2012/09/happy-sunday-to-allwhats-so-special.html" target="_blank">Stories from the Cupboard: Vegetable Pastel (2012)</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2013/09/lamour-24.html" target="_blank">L'amour @ 24 (2013)</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-best-of-billy-and-eve-at-25.html" target="_blank">The Best of Billy and Eve at 25 (2014)</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2016/09/thank-you-for-rejoicing-with-us-in-our.html" target="_blank">Thank You for Rejoicing with Us (2016)</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-changing-colors-of-autumn.html" target="_blank">The Changing Colours of Autumn (2018)</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2019/09/trekking-thirty.html" target="_blank">Trekking Thirty (2019)</a></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-81743104818361282232021-07-08T16:46:00.005+08:002021-07-10T00:23:07.881+08:00Kilawing Labanos (Sauteed Chicken or Pork and Radish) Recipe <div style="text-align: justify;">
In my post some years ago, "<a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2012/06/legacy-from-my-mother-in-law.html"><span style="color: purple;"><u><b>A Legacy from my Mother-in-Law</b></u></span></a>," I wrote about how I learned to cook. I also shared where I got the recipes for the first few dishes I usually made as a young wife. In this post, I mentioned the recipe book, <span style="color: #351c75;"><b>Masasarap na Lutuing Pilipino ni Aling Charing</b></span><span style="color: #351c75;"><b>.</b></span> <span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In a sequel <b><u><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #351c75;"><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2015/05/kilawing-labanos-sauteed-radish-legacy.html" target="_blank">post</a></span></u></b>, I featured one dish from Aling Charing’s recipe book, one of my husband's favorite dishes - - - Kilawing Labanos (sauteed pork and radish). Hubby introduced me to this recipe from Aling Charing's old favorite cookbook. From then on, this dish has become one of my signature dishes at home. Through the years of making this dish, I already made some twists from Aling Charing's original recipe.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS5aSUq-YK4ey4oxuF3hUMaHKBmVZa24hRH1z4qy0Rz9LN4MACfmZGnSzIvLTghg6DT4-44-0J-089ZlB9HShtFz5bCBpaN2TAWcsKvT1Rx0ipWBPzpoDiGwrgsDUSw1mSdQ6bNrHSGt_p/s2048/57191B54-823C-44CC-BE63-82DC64647305.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1537" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS5aSUq-YK4ey4oxuF3hUMaHKBmVZa24hRH1z4qy0Rz9LN4MACfmZGnSzIvLTghg6DT4-44-0J-089ZlB9HShtFz5bCBpaN2TAWcsKvT1Rx0ipWBPzpoDiGwrgsDUSw1mSdQ6bNrHSGt_p/s320/57191B54-823C-44CC-BE63-82DC64647305.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here’s my own version of Kilawing Labanos.</div>
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Ingredients:<br />
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2 cloves garlic, minced<br />
1 medium onion, sliced thinly<br />
2 large tomatoes, sliced<br />
1/4 pork or chicken breast chunks (I always use chicken because hubby doesn’t eat pork)<br />
1 cup water <br />
1/4 pork liver<br />
2 medium radish, sliced thinly<br />
1/4 cup soy sauce<br />
1/4 cup vinegar <br />Salt, ground pepper, brown sugar according to taste<br />
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1. Saute garlic, onion, tomatoes. Add pork or chicken chunks. Simmer for 2 minutes.<br />
2. Add water. Simmer until meat is tender.<br />
2. Add pork liver. Simmer for 1 minute.<br />
3. Add radish, soy sauce and vinegar.<br />
4. Add salt, ground pepper and brown sugar to taste.<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtvZeA-0uQsus9KsR6Wj5jHwiCMyqZMrB_K0hcVnDJpXw1mMnozx884TKVu4Z4E2f9LPBTnGvm2SFUpCoQW0mKRIWwAY03ijg_TrS__He9wg2APtQCO8hnkoQT9XeVbxdX5Oo-mCdVVN2q/s2048/83A823BC-0071-4725-B90A-3C0708896BED.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1797" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtvZeA-0uQsus9KsR6Wj5jHwiCMyqZMrB_K0hcVnDJpXw1mMnozx884TKVu4Z4E2f9LPBTnGvm2SFUpCoQW0mKRIWwAY03ijg_TrS__He9wg2APtQCO8hnkoQT9XeVbxdX5Oo-mCdVVN2q/s320/83A823BC-0071-4725-B90A-3C0708896BED.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>Why don’t you give this dish a try? It will surely make a big hit in your family and will make them love radish. I dare you tell me if I’m wrong. </div><div> </div><div>Please write in the comment box below your experience in trying this recipe. </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-88707880148549306902021-06-06T23:49:00.007+08:002021-06-15T09:38:40.044+08:00Camote Tops Ensalada Recipe<div style="text-align: justify;">
In my <a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2020/09/a-blessed-31st-amid-covid-19-pandemic.html" target="_blank"><b><u><span><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">anniversary </span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #351c75;">post</span></u></b><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;"> </span></a><span style="background-color: white;">last year,<b> </b>I</span> mentioned about making this Camote Tops Ensalada as one of my pandemic appetizer dishes. It’s a very simple yet healthy veggie salad that you can make with camote tops, onions, tomatoes and dressing. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">See how I gave this salad a twist.</div>
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<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Wait, there’s more! I also added slices of cucumber and <i>burong kamias</i> (salted bilimbi). Thanks to Gina 😊 for giving me a bag of kamias that I stored in bottles with salt in the ref. They lasted for months!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hmmm.... I loved how it turned out! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here’s how I made this.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ingredients:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2 cups camote tops, blanched for 1 minute</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2 large tomatoes, sliced</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1 medium onion, sliced</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1/2 small cucumber, sliced </div><div style="text-align: justify;">5 pcs burong kamias (salted bilimbi), sliced</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dressing (according to taste):</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1/4 cup white vinegar</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1/4 tsp salt</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1/4 tsp black pepper</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1 tsp sugar</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2 tbsps Pinakurat </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Steps:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ol><li>Blanch camote tops for 1 minute in salted boiling water. Drain. </li><li>Prepare dressing.</li><li>Mix together all veggies. </li><li>Add dressing to mixed veggies. Mix. </li><li>Serve as appetizer with grilled or fried meat or fish.</li></ol></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;">“Today is Metro Manila’s first lockdown anniversary.</div><div style="text-align: center;">#COVID19PH” </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">That’s hubby’s post in Facebook today (March 15, 2021). Yes, it’s been a year since Metro Manila was placed on lockdown. We started working from home, and as health care workers, we physically reported to office two or three times a week. <span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For me, the Work-from-Home scheme was more stressful than reporting physically to work. One gets to deal with office concerns by chatting with officemates non-stop while attending to household matters, such as preparing meals on time. So this pandemic has taught me to make simple, fast and easy-to-cook meals.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For this post, I’m featuring a dish that has become popular during this pandemic. This was inspired by the various Tortang Sardines meal ideas posted by friends after receiving their share of goods (ayuda🤪) from the barangay or local government units. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tortang Sardines with veggies for the twist. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here’s how:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ingredients:</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1 can sardines in olive oil</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2 tbsps flour</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1 medium onion, sliced</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2 medium tomatoes,sliced</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1 medium eggplant, chunked</div><div style="text-align: justify;">1 small carrot, sliced into strips</div><div style="text-align: justify;">5 pcs shitake mushroom, sliced</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Salt and pepper to taste</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Curry powder (optional)</div><div style="text-align: justify;">2 eggs, beaten </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Steps:</div><div><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Remove oil from sardines. </li><li>Mix sardines with flour. Set aside.</li><li>Use the oil from sardines to sautee onions, tomatoes, eggplant chunks, carrots and shitake mushroom. </li><li>Add salt, pepper and curry powder. </li><li>Add sauteed veggies to sardines-flour mixture.</li><li>Add beaten eggs. Mix together. </li><li>Form patties and fry in oil using the same pan until golden brown on both sides. </li></ol>
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You may also share this post with your friends through your social media account. </div><div><br /></div><div>See you again soon! </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-50005375610258953902021-02-27T17:32:00.009+08:002021-06-12T20:14:59.204+08:00Veggie Boosters to Spice Up Your Chicken Tinola <p><font size="4"> </font></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOk3fPfUR6S2m_4ORjTLEWh7sYNPkMDBrUECv1xyzklxVeSU5Bfc1ffjqrx2Onocu9sEpSTnf4qsnEJC-OX65jPgvxCWtxFs3rEFPZWmGMfOZXUsryTx6tLkbjBKX_h1kh0GtxPzF5Jz_/s1440/3ED66C58-037E-4A66-8D9D-3B5D7A82C596.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="400" id="id_4543_1f1e_118f_77d3" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSOk3fPfUR6S2m_4ORjTLEWh7sYNPkMDBrUECv1xyzklxVeSU5Bfc1ffjqrx2Onocu9sEpSTnf4qsnEJC-OX65jPgvxCWtxFs3rEFPZWmGMfOZXUsryTx6tLkbjBKX_h1kh0GtxPzF5Jz_/w400-h400/3ED66C58-037E-4A66-8D9D-3B5D7A82C596.jpeg" style="height: auto; margin: 4px; width: 616px;" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It’s been almost a year since I started staying at home more than I used to for the past 37 years. March of 2020 when working from home (WFH) a number of days per week was made an alternative work option during the COVID-19 pandemic.<span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The WFH scheme hasn’t exempted me from doing household duties. One could get so engrossed with chat exchanges with officemates and you just realize it’s past noontime because you feel your stomach gurgling and an irrate hubby asks, “Aren’t we having lunch yet?” but you haven’t decided what to prepare for lunch!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, this pandemic has taught me how to be more innovative and resourceful in the kitchen- - - </div><div style="text-align: justify;">🧑🍳 use everything in the veggie bin</div><div style="text-align: justify;">🧑🍳 get out of the box (or should I say pan?) by trying other veggie combinations to upgrade the taste of old recipes </div><div style="text-align: justify;">🧑🍳 learn to play with spices to enhance the flavor of dishes</div><div style="text-align: justify;">🧑🍳 take note of expiry dates so nothing goes to trash (and no tummy gets upset!)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Heading to the grocery store is a real hassle these days. How I hate the thought of disinfecting everything before bringing them inside the house! One has to exhaust all means to minimize going out. We are all reminded to:</div><div style="text-align: center;">Stay home.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Stay safe.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> #RespectLockDown</div><div style="text-align: center;">Make every effort to:</div><div style="text-align: center;"> #SaveOurWorld</div><div style="text-align: center;">#FightCOVID19 </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And now, before I get sidetracked writing about the pangs of WFH, let me get back to the main reason for this post. I’m supposed to share how I upgraded my Chicken Tinola to the next level.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Chicken Tinola (chicken soup or chicken ginger stew) is one of my favorites 😋 and I confess I’m always tempted to cook it every week. So I thought of tweaking the ingredients from the traditional recipe. I always cook chicken tinola without sauteing the chicken in oil as many do. Recently, instead of just putting in ginger, papaya or sayote and chili leaves, I applied a liitle of math (by adding more ingredients like corn kernels, string beans and bell pepper) and geometry (by using chunks or strips or ground chicken instead of the standard tinola cut). Hmmm... that’s what you get from having a mathematician for a hubby!🤣</div><div><br /></div><div>Here’s how I did it. </div><div><br /></div><div>Ingredients:</div><div><br /></div><div>3 cups water</div><div>1 tbsp ginger strips</div><div>1 medium onion, sliced</div><div>1/2 kg chicken breast fillet, cut into strips or chunks (or ground chicken)</div><div>1/2 - 1 piece chicken bullion (according to taste)</div><div>Salt and pepper to taste</div><div>1 cup corn kernels (or canned sweet corn)</div><div>1 small sayote or papaya, chunked</div><div>1 small bunch string beans, cut</div><div>1/2 red bell pepper, diced</div><div>2 bunches of chili leaves </div><div><br /></div><div>Steps:</div><div><ol><li>Boil water with ginger and onion.</li><li>Add chicken. Simmer until tender.</li><li>Add chicken bullion, salt and pepper according to taste.</li><li>Add corn and sayote. Simmer.</li><li>Add string beans. </li><li>Add bell pepper and chili leaves. </li><li>Serve hot. </li></ol></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is a complete meal in itself. Very tasty! I love how the sweet flavor of the corn and bell pepper blends with the chili leaves. Actually, I just add corn most of the time. But if other veggies (string beans or bell pepper or eggplant) are available, I also add them. Prevents them from becoming overstaying residents in my veggie bin. And most often, spur-of-the-moment decision.😊</div><div><br /></div><div>You can also add more water as desired. 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Well, would you like to try it for your next meal? If you do, please tell me how it went by dropping a line or two in the comment box below. If you or your family liked it, please show some love by sharing this recipe post to your friends. 🙂</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-25548796694574980312021-01-08T00:38:00.012+08:002021-06-12T20:15:34.392+08:00Scrambled Garden Tuna<p dir="rtl" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg16-OYg81Q2FHdmJCIP8UcjjXsUlpAf2xgosz4l4tsAMatXzg3YySY51tI2z8LtaNplzg2HXmN5jLgOgcQ13mO6S2opNHs3pRkO6I93VGT6Mt4onLZ_v7j7dFNBB_2QyDkiC0lOzEoo8rD/s2048/8B477E74-AD14-44C5-9124-9074A3DAA761.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" id="id_fc6a_aad3_59dc_75d8" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg16-OYg81Q2FHdmJCIP8UcjjXsUlpAf2xgosz4l4tsAMatXzg3YySY51tI2z8LtaNplzg2HXmN5jLgOgcQ13mO6S2opNHs3pRkO6I93VGT6Mt4onLZ_v7j7dFNBB_2QyDkiC0lOzEoo8rD/w400-h300/8B477E74-AD14-44C5-9124-9074A3DAA761.jpeg" style="height: auto; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Sunny side up. Egg omelette. Garden omelette. Scrambled egg. Any of these egg meals with wheat bread is the usual breakfast for hubby and me. Easy to prepare. Easy to cook. <span><a name='more'></a></span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">For this breakfast meal, I prepared ingredients for tuna garden omelette, but spur-of-the moment decision turned it into Scrambled Garden Tuna using Century Tuna Premium Red Chunks in Vegetable Oil for the first time. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxTUgSGlVrctoF5M60N1SsYjmKI81JxvurjhYIdSb8U9ac6BrjTjER2VHIO5DtI1XY5esaiis91la4NfS4TfpoA5gYyjymTGBYbuA1t80698GQjvf0xccWc_rygQcwEZ-si9ZWsLhsnBc/s2048/5A62260B-15AB-4EAA-9758-3A8CB65E9B67.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1965" data-original-width="2048" id="id_68a0_4a61_1d0f_a873" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxTUgSGlVrctoF5M60N1SsYjmKI81JxvurjhYIdSb8U9ac6BrjTjER2VHIO5DtI1XY5esaiis91la4NfS4TfpoA5gYyjymTGBYbuA1t80698GQjvf0xccWc_rygQcwEZ-si9ZWsLhsnBc/s320/5A62260B-15AB-4EAA-9758-3A8CB65E9B67.jpeg" style="height: auto; width: 320px;" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><b>Ingredients:</b></p><p>1 small onion, sliced</p><p>2 medium ripe tomatoes, sliced</p><p>1 can Century Tuna Premium Red Chunks in Vegetable Oil</p><p>1 red bell pepper, sliced into strips</p><p>1 green bell pepper, sliced into strips</p><p>1 bunch of spinach leaves</p><p>2 eggs, slightly beaten</p><p>Mozzarella cheese</p><p>Green onions or parsley</p><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Here’s how:</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ol style="text-align: left;"><li>Sauté onions and tomato slices and tuna chunks in Century Tuna vegetable oil.</li><li>Add red and green bell pepper, spinach leaves, slightly beaten eggs and mozzarella. </li><li>Top with green onions or parsley. </li></ol></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg16-OYg81Q2FHdmJCIP8UcjjXsUlpAf2xgosz4l4tsAMatXzg3YySY51tI2z8LtaNplzg2HXmN5jLgOgcQ13mO6S2opNHs3pRkO6I93VGT6Mt4onLZ_v7j7dFNBB_2QyDkiC0lOzEoo8rD/s2048/8B477E74-AD14-44C5-9124-9074A3DAA761.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" id="id_4d53_40da_e728_7374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg16-OYg81Q2FHdmJCIP8UcjjXsUlpAf2xgosz4l4tsAMatXzg3YySY51tI2z8LtaNplzg2HXmN5jLgOgcQ13mO6S2opNHs3pRkO6I93VGT6Mt4onLZ_v7j7dFNBB_2QyDkiC0lOzEoo8rD/w640-h480/8B477E74-AD14-44C5-9124-9074A3DAA761.jpeg" style="height: auto; width: 640px;" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Watch this 👇👇👇</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" id="id_40c4_6d47_c70c_ab8d" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N8wZvdMcHzg" style="height: 433px; width: 520px;" width="320" youtube-src-id="N8wZvdMcHzg"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>See, it’s that fast and easy! But wait, I forgot to add the mozzarella 😩</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This was certainly perfect for scrambled garden tuna sandwich in wheat bread but could also be added as topping to garlic rice or steaming hot plain rice with a cup of hot coffee. ☕️</div><div><br /></div><div>Enjoy your breakfast! 😋</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMbjbjKzXV4/UTs4HALfoOI/AAAAAAAAC38/O_Ew__1Pjhg/s1600/facebook.png" /></div>Garden Chefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18129873100670309104noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6332047872560999043.post-52495736407888559652020-09-02T11:10:00.020+08:002023-01-16T09:57:46.329+08:00A Blessed 31st amid the COVID-19 Pandemic<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For the very first time, I posted all my previous wedding anniversary blogs daily in fb as a prelude to this year’s 31st celebration. I’m proud to have completed the six-day countdown. You may click any or each of the links below for a throwback.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2012/09/happy-sunday-to-allwhats-so-special.html" target="_blank">Stories from the Cupboard: Vegetable Pastel (2012)</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2013/09/lamour-24.html" target="_blank">L'amour @ 24 (2013)</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-best-of-billy-and-eve-at-25.html" target="_blank">The Best of Billy and Eve at 25 (2014)</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2016/09/thank-you-for-rejoicing-with-us-in-our.html" target="_blank">Thank You for Rejoicing with Us (2016)</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-changing-colors-of-autumn.html" target="_blank">The Changing Colours of Autumn (2018)</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2019/09/trekking-thirty.html" target="_blank">Trekking Thirty (2019)</a></span></div>
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Apologies to my fb friends who might have been bombarded with these old blog posts for several days now. My thanks to all who already reacted and greeted us in advance by writing their comments. But special thanks to all who took time to click the link and read my posts. Your very precious click has certainly spelled magic by adding to the views which I monitor closely in my blogger dashboard (as all other bloggers do)! That meant you are helping me grow my blog. Oh, how I enjoy keeping track of all reactions in fb (👍 ❤️ 😲) but I love the clicks to the link more! 😀🙂🥰😍😘</div>
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When news of the lockdown came in March, hubby (a Math Professor at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños) deliberately timed his travel home, side-tripping to our new residence in Taguig where our two daughters (whose workplaces are in BGC and Makati) had been staying.<br />
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Our family decided that the kids stay there while hubby stay with me, my mother and her caregiver at home in Fairview.</div>
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I have always described myself as a weekend wife but this pandemic has made hubby and me home buddies once more, bonding everyday yet observing physical distancing within the confines of our very home. 😩😩😩 I’m not a frontliner but as a HCW exposed to the hospital, I had to exercise due care primarily because of my mother’s special needs as an elderly.<br />
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Would you care to know how we maintain physical distancing at home? Well, for a HCW like me, it means:<br />
*sitting at the opposite ends of the dining table with hubby during mealtime, and<br />
*just saying hi/hello to my 96-year old mother from her door<br />
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Five months had gone by. We have been surviving the pandemic, transitioning from ECQ to GCQ, practicing COVID-19 prevention standards in our desire to shoo the virus away, keeping it from invading our home. A habit that we have been conscientiously doing for the past months. No joke, promise!<br />
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Going through all these rituals had given me the feeling of not wanting to go out for anything not essential. I admit the first few weeks had been so taxing, giving me back pains at having to squat by the faucet where we do the disinfection process.<br />
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We (hubby and I) had to schedule our going to the drugstore or the supermarket. Thanks to the privilege accorded to health care workers! My HCW ID has always been an indispensable passport, sparing me the need to bring our quarantine pass or join the long queue at any store entrance.<br />
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Since I had been working from home certain days of the week, I've been faced with the challenge of preparing energy and immune booster meals. Here are some of them.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #674ea7; font-size: small;"><b><u><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2020/08/blog-post_2.html" target="_blank">Ensaladang Camote Tops with Kamias</a></u></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2021/02/booster-veggies-to-spice-up-your.html" style="background-color: #ffe599;" target="_blank"><b>Corn soup with chicken</b></a></span></td></tr>
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👆👆👆</div><div style="text-align: center;">Click to view recipe</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Spanish Sardines Garden Omelette</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2020/04/tortang-sardinas-with-mixed-veggies.html" style="background-color: #ffe599;" target="_blank">Sardines-veggie Patties (Tortang Sardines with Veggies)</a></span></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;">👆👆👆</div><div style="text-align: center;">Click to view recipe</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chicken-Veggie Wraps</span></td></tr>
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Fruit-veggie salad (with Pickled Bilimbi or Burong Kamias, unripe mango,<br />
ampalaya, steamed okra, onions and tomatoes)</div>
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With the pandemic, celebrating our 31st this year is uniquely different from all our other wedding anniversaries. No staycation. No travel. No special trip anywhere since our last in November of 2018.</div>
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Ayana Grace had a memorable 30th birthday in quarantine 20 kms away from our Fairview home.<br />
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My mother turned 96 this year without her grandchildren.<br />
Watch her dancing the TikTok craze on her birthday.<br />
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We also had virtual blowing of birthday candle for Ana Cristina’s 28th birthday.</div>
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But wait, there’s more! A taste of precious lessons from the Lord, we also enjoyed!</div>
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While He allows us to experience certain circumstances in our lives, <span style="text-align: center;">He also never fails to make His presence felt in our midst. </span><span style="text-align: center;">The dreaded unseen enemy, the deadly COVID-19 (</span>2019-nCoV) <span style="text-align: center;">virus, did not spare us, having entered stealthily in our home- - - infecting my mother, hubby and me. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;">We had first-hand experience battling with the disease, leaving us without any choice but to call upon Him (and a few close friends and loved ones). For the very first time, I seemed to feel so alone, having nobody with me in the hospital to stay with Nanay. Hubby could not keep me company as he did in her past hospitalizations. It was a family decision that I stay in the hospital with her in order to avoid unnecessary hospital exposure for hubby at home.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span>What I thought was dehydration fever brought about by diarrhea was a prelude to an emotionally and spiritually-challenging trial. </span><span>Hearing the COVID-19 positive result of my mother’s swab test gave me tremors. </span></span><span style="text-align: center;">Human that I am, m</span><span style="text-align: center;">y little faith and limited perspective wondered how a 96-year old could survive the ordeal.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;">From a regular room, she was transferred to the COVID Ward, I was also afraid for my own self. I was subjected to a swab test at once, having been a close contact as her caregiver, and was subsequently placed on hospital quarantine. It was a privilege I was blessed to avail as a hospital employee. </span><span style="text-align: center;">That was the most convenient arrangement for all of us. But experiencing quarantine was like being in exile away from home. Facing the walls of the room the whole day, with only my gadgets keeping me company, allowing me to communicate with my family and be informed of what’s going on outside through the social media. Having </span><span style="text-align: center;">to do office work on my hospital bed while on quarantine somehow helped lessen the stress of dwelling on our travail.</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="text-align: center;">The fear was real! What if I develop symptoms? </span><span style="text-align: center;">It was SOP to monitor one’s health status daily. </span><span style="text-align: center;">I made my own monitoring sheet. </span><span style="text-align: center;">What if my symptoms worsen?</span><span style="text-align: center;"> I prayed that my temperature would not rise beyond 37 degrees Celsius. But it did! I had low-grade fever, chills and headache at night. I also had occasional bouts of dry cough. I prayed so hard that my symptoms would not worsen as I was thinking of my mother. Who would take care of her if I develop complications? </span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;">Counting the days until my swab result was out was another dreadful thing. It was, indeed, as the </span><span style="text-align: center;">test yielded a positive COVID result. I had a strong feeling it would be because of the fever that started a day or two after the swab test was taken. </span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHWsYIkC7gJvHQvHnCQn0nKG1rSi3gjUIdOqDnOE9O2bHGY4tUG7Z1M7wP4ZJd6a7vYVqhs4iO2Yx60u39g9SS1Bhcr6cV9OpqQDAe1Y0u9qieajB9MYGqvJtDTipJ9FSBSalD7zWhYLcv/s1600/EB2684CC-EBC8-45DD-8876-BF4593E43897.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHWsYIkC7gJvHQvHnCQn0nKG1rSi3gjUIdOqDnOE9O2bHGY4tUG7Z1M7wP4ZJd6a7vYVqhs4iO2Yx60u39g9SS1Bhcr6cV9OpqQDAe1Y0u9qieajB9MYGqvJtDTipJ9FSBSalD7zWhYLcv/s320/EB2684CC-EBC8-45DD-8876-BF4593E43897.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My quarantine room and bed</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"></span><span style="text-align: center;">Now, the fight against the unseen enemy began! Question after question played on my mind. Where did I acquire the virus? Was there a breach in my compliance to health protocols in the office? At home? Did I carry the virus home? Why me? Why Nanay? How about my husband? Will he get infected too? (And God said, “YES! I will allow him to get infected, too!”) </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;">It was barely two months before my retirement from service. I was preparing for a turn-over on top of daily office works. Why at this time? There were so much to do and there I was… hands tied on my quarantine bed. I had no choice but work from my quarantine bed.😩</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;">These were questions and concerns I could only raise to God in prayer. </span><span style="text-align: center;">But He made me realize I needed not understand His purpose. Waiting has been a precious lesson--- counting hospital and home quarantine days daily not only for myself but also for hubby whose RT-PCR result also yielded a positive result despite being asymptomatic. M</span><span style="text-align: center;">other was classified moderate (she was monitored in the ICU but praises to God that her oxygenation did not drop to a critical level that would necessitate intubation) while I exhibited mild symptoms. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;">Had it not been for the comforting promise of His Word, full of assurance that His ways are higher than mine, I would have lost hope. </span><span style="text-align: center;">We had to wait patiently for Him to lift us out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire and set our feet on a rock, a firm place to stand. To be certified fit to work and rejoin the community was something we looked forward to. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Every morning, He whispered that we hold our peace for He will fight for us... for the cleansing of our bodies, by His mighty healing power and grace. He made us see that His hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, nor His ear too heavy, that it cannot hear. He revealed Himself to us as the God who has done great and terrible things, which our eyes have seen.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was discharged after 15 days of quarantine but chose to stay with my mother who was also transferred back to a regular room after having been monitored in the ICU for 13 days.</div>
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That called for shout of praises and thanksgiving for how He has dealt with us, for how His healing grace amazed us. We thank Him for more of His precious truths He has revealed through His Word, and for the many lessons we have learned, individually as His children and as a family.</div>
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Today, we do acknowledge Him, the author and finisher of our faith, our Omnipotent and Sovereign God, who has seen the beginning and the end of this pandemic. We need not know the reasons for the things that come our way. We only need to trust and believe that all these are for His greater honor and glory.<br />
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<i>When we can see, it is not faith, but reasoning...So faith looks up and sails on, by God’s great Sun, not seeing one shore line or earthly lighthouse or path upon the way. Often its steps seem to lead into utter uncertainty, and even darkness and disaster; but He opens the way, and often makes such midnight hours the very gates of day. Let us go forth this day, not knowing, but trusting.—Days of Heaven upon Earth (Streams in the Desert)</i><br />
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that we may see and behold the beauty of what He has in store for us,<br />
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Oh, dear Lord, have mercy!<br />
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A blessed 31st anniversary to us, my Adam!<br />
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One day, a friend sent me a video recipe of Asparagus Roll-ups. Hmmmm... it really looked yummy! I confess it made me crave for another asparagus recipe I have tried before which my kids loved- - - Bacon-Asparagus Wraps! </div>
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On my next trip to the supermarket, I was very fortunate to find a few bunches of asparagus so I also grabbed a pack of bacon without any second thought. </div>
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So here’s how I made the Bacon-Asparagus Wraps. It’s been ages since I last served this on our table. </div>
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<li>Remove hard ends of asparagus. Wash and drain. </li>
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<li>Secure open end of bacon with a toothpick (optional).</li>
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<li>Fry asparagus stems wrapped in bacon a few stems at a time until golden brown. </li>
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See, it’s really that simple and easy!</div>
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Ooopppsss... I didn’t fry all the asparagus stems altogether in the pan as seen in the photo below!</div>
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I just arranged all of the stems together to create a fan-like effect for photo ops. </div>
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Making a fan in the pan😀😀😀</div>
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Ready for the crunch!<br />
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See you again next time!</div>
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Love at first sight, it was again for me, the moment I saw the <b><u><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: purple;"><a href="https://naztazia.com/covered-clothes-hangers/" id="id_f7e4_1f5b_5163_67d1" target="_blank">crocheted clothes hanger cover</a></span></u></b> by Naztazia. Even in my sleep, I kept seeing the colorful hanger covers she made with <b><u><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: purple;"><a href="https://naztazia.com/kanzashi-flower/" target="_blank">kanzashi</a></span></u></b> flowers as embellishment.<br />
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I tried her pattern using a very old wooden hanger from my mother’s cabinet. This was made by my late uncle who was a carpentry teacher in his hometown.</div>
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Doesn’t it look good with the crocheted choker I made?</div>
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Well, what do you think?</div>
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The written pattern was very easy to follow.<br />
But thanks to the video tutorial too!</div>
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I posted this in fb and I was so glad when a friend said she will give me wooden hangers!<br />
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Thank you, dear Melody (Empoy)!!!</div>
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Then, there were two. </div>
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And finally, I made three! </div>
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So what are you waiting for? Isn’t it time to organize <span style="text-align: center;">your wardrobe of delicate fabrics with these crocheted hanger covers and </span><span style="text-align: center;">make a garden in your clothes cabinet 😀</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Hmmm... how ‘bout giving these to your frennies? What a perfect gift idea indeed! </span></div>
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A long overdue prequel to my post,<br />
<span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-ruins-of-talisay-story-of-love.html" target="_blank">The Ruins of Talisay</a></span>. </div>
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May of 2017, exactly three years ago, when I brought my family to Campuestohan Highland Resort, a fast growing local tourist attraction in my home province, Negros Occidental. Located at Sitio Campuestohan, Brgy. Cabatangan, Talisay City, this resort lies at the foot of Mt. Makawili, at the boundary of Bacolod City and Talisay City. Coming from Bacolod-Silay International Airport, it is very practical to visit this place especially if one has a private transportation. </div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Thanks to high school friends who recommended this place! We made it second in the itinerary prepared by Tin, the family event planner, for our 4-day summer vacation. Having breakfast at El Ideal in Silay City after coming out of the airport was the first itinerary, of course. Click </span><span style="background-color: #ffe599; color: purple;"><a href="https://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2018/06/heritage-tour-in-silay-city-paris-of.html" target="_blank">here</a></span><span style="text-align: justify;"> to read my post on that. We took an early morning flight from Manila as we didn't want to waste any time. Every minute was precious for the 4 Sisons. </span></div>
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Prior to the trip, I have read that Campuestohan Resort best caters to family with kids as I have seen posts of relatives and friends in Facebook having fun in this themed amusement park and showcasing their photos with life-size figures of dinosaurs, and movie icons such as Superman, Spiderman, Captain America, Michael Jordan and many others around the area. </div>
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I was afraid my family might not like such kiddie-iiish environment but the idea of plunging on the pool was an effective bait 😕😩😨 They agreed to see the place! Sad to say, there were already many people enjoying the morning sun in the different swimming pools. So we decided to walk around instead and enjoyed the panoramic view at 800 meters above sea level. Sorry... I didn't get to take photos of the swimming pools anymore. The climate there, they say, resembles that of Tagaytay City and Baguio City especially during the cold season.</div>
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Would you like me to show you around? Come on, let's go!<br />
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Walking around, we found these <b>Bonita Huts</b>. These are huts designed like abodes of Hobbits in the movie, Lord of the Rings, and are used as overnight accommodation. </div>
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Well, we have been walking around and we deserved a few minutes of rest.<br />
Credits to Ana Cristina <span style="font-size: large;">📷</span></div>
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We were not able to tour the whole 5-hectare area and see the other accommodations available such as Teepee huts inside an Indian Village, log cabin and cottages.</div>
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<b>The Rope Course</b> challenge requires players to reach the other end without falling off the 10-feet elevated series of planks, tires and ropes.<br />
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I was amused watching each person stepping on hanging planks while holding onto the ropes to cross to the other side. <span style="text-align: center;">I requested Ayana Grace to take a photo of me </span><span style="text-align: center;">with the group in action.</span></div>
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Cheers to the first person who succeeded at crossing to the other side without falling!</div>
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Now watch as the others follow.<br />
That's hubby intently capturing the rope course adventure on his cam.<br />
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The <b>Cable Hamster Wheel</b> requires one to walk like a hamster 130 meters on air using a wheel. </div>
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The <b>Hang Glider Zipline</b> allows one to view the entire expanse of the resort while zipping through the 340-meter cable line from the eastern point to the western end 60 feet above the ground at 50 kms per hour.</div>
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Look at how Ana Cristina did it! Such guts and energy! </div>
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Ayana Grace did a great job at capturing 📹 Tin’s flying adventure!</div>
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Hmmm... do you recognize that gigantic creature from afar? Well, well, well, isn't that King Kong?! Who wouldn't recognize the famous giant gorilla who hit the movies in the 80s. Take a look at his life-size replica. It sits on top of a huge rock, making it the most prominent attraction that is visible from the entrance of the resort. </div>
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Wowowohhh!!! He doesn't seem to like being disturbed by these kids at this time of the day!</div>
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Or he must have found out that the love of his life is nowhere in sight. </div>
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Oh, no, no, no!!!! He got me!!! Help!!!!</div>
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Waaahhhh, KingKong, please let me go!!!</div>
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Hello, anybody there? Please take me out of here!</div>
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Look, he's holding me close now and wouldn't let me go.</div>
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Did I hear you right?<br />
Oh my, he thinks I'm Ann?<br />
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Thanks to hubby for all these photos 📷 We had our own exploring to do while the other 2 Sisons were preoccupied with their own photo ops down there. Tin seemed tired after her zipline adventure!</div>
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And so while working from home since the ECQ started, I was challenged to think of veggie dishes to serve daily. Well, not only because hubby is home, but because we all need to boost our immune system with nutritious diet to fight the COVID-19 virus.</div>
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For this post, and the coming ones, I’m using the hashtags #ecq #ecqdiet #ecqdishes #ecqmeals #healthydiet</div>
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This is not the first time I’m posting about this dish—-Ensaladang Ampalaya (Bittermelon Salad) as I have featured this several times in the past.<br />
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Oh, by the way, ampalaya is also known as bitter melon, bitter gourd, bitter apple or karela.<br />
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Well, this appetizer has become popular among my close friends at work. They have learned to love my concoction. 😜🤪😄 Here’s how I did it. </div>
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1 medium ampalaya, sliced thinly</div>
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3 medium tomatoes, seeded and sliced thinly</div>
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<li>Mix ampalaya with onion and tomato slices.</li>
<li>Prepare dressing: mix vinegar, salt, pepper and sugar according to taste.</li>
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See? It’s really that simple and easy! If you have a mandolin slicer cutting the ampalaya to the desired thickness would not be any hassle at all. Although a sharp knife can be one great buddy tool for this.</div>
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I used to squeeze ampalaya slices with salt as practiced by some people I know. However, you may do away with the squeezing. A healthier practice is not to squeeze off the juice from the ampalaya. It does remove the bitter taste, but you lose the nutrients, too! Now, I leave you to choose the lesser evil.<br />
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Click <a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2013/08/eating-rainbow-bitter-melon-salad-3.html" style="background-color: #ffe599;" target="_blank">here</a> to read my other ampalaya post where I used a mandolin.<br />
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The classic ensalada includes a mixture of ampalaya, onions and tomatoes with the<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"></div>There you are! Now serve the grilled fish or pork liempo. They would make a perfect pair!<br />
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‘Til the next ECQ dish!<br />
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Related post:<br />
<a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2013/03/bitter-melon-and-cucumber-salad.html" style="background-color: #ffe599;" target="_blank">Bitter Melon and Cucumber Salad</a><br />
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I was made to revisit my photo files of Zurich after six years. I was actually planning to do so a few years back but just didn't get to do it.<br />
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These past weeks, however, I got infected with this very contagious K-drama craze that has invaded the social media. Trending on Twitter and I've seen Facebook friends posting about it but it didn't strike me point-blank until my daughter and hubby called me to sit down with them on one episode. Oh, #CLOY what is it on you? There you are, you got it right, Crash Landing on You!<br />
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See hubby's post in fb and twitter</div>
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Hubby kept telling me about the scenes shot in Zurich and asked me if I remember those places. Of course, how could I ever forget! Well, indeed, after seeing a few from that episode, my heart seemed to flutter and my mind instantly traveled back in time...<br />
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First, to<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; text-align: left;">Münsterbrücke</span>..</span>. then to Grossmunster Church... and finally, to Lindenhof. So in this post, I’m featuring Lindenhof and some photos of Munstebrucke and Grossmunster taken 6 years ago.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; text-align: left;">Münsterbrücke</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> </span>is a pedestrian road bridge crossing the Limmat River from Munsterhof (at the West Bank) to Limmatquai (on the East Bank), named after the two famous churches, the Fraumunster and Grossmunster. Click <span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://gardenchefsneedleandpen.blogspot.com/2014/04/kirchen-in-zurich.html" target="_blank"><b style="background-color: #fff2cc;">here</b></a></span> to read my post on the three churches near the Munsterbrucke.<br />
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Day 3 in Zurich</div>
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Wahaha! Hubby caught me at the Munsterbrucke with the Fraumunster at the background.</div>
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The spire of St. Peter's Church with the biggest clock face in Europe</div>
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in this photo taken from the other side of Munsterbrucke</div>
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Hubby took this pic of the Grossmunster and Munsterbrucke</div>
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<span face=""trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;">Also known as the </span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 15.84000015258789px;">Great Minster</span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;"> or the </span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 15.84000015258789px;">Great Church</span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;">, Grossmunster is an </span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 15.84000015258789px;">Evangelical Protestant</span><span face=""trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-size: 15.84000015258789px;"> church in the Old Town of Zurich.</span><br />
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While hubby attended a conference at Sorell Hotel Zurichberg, I walked along the length of Limmatquai, taking time to view the picturesque spots along River Limmat. This golden tree didn't escape my attention. Looking at my tour map, the place pointed to Lindenhof. </div>
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See the trees on top at the back? That's the Lindenhof Square sitting on a hill!</div>
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There... I marked the exact place for you. </div>
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Take note also of the brown house on the right. Will feature a close-up view of it towards the end. </div>
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I crossed the Munsterbrucke to go to the other side of Limmat River, the West Bank. </div>
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Locating the place was easy, following the directions from the map, I found the place after walking some blocks.<br />
I just had to walk slowly as the steps went uphill.</div>
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Paused to take some photos along the road... </div>
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of shops</div>
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The Roman tombstone</div>
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Well, I never realized I took a photo of this--- the Roman tombstone along Pfalzgasse </div>
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on the way up the Lindenhof Hill!</div>
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This is a modern replica (the original being at the Landesmuseum)</div>
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of an ancient Roman gravestone, containing the first recorded Latin name of Zurich (Taricum).</div>
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Oh, here we are. This is it! I’ve reached my destination!<br />
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That's the place--- Lindenhof. On top of the hill.<br />
Here... take a closer look.</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">I never thought Lindenhof is a meeting point for passionate chess players! One couldn't miss this upon arrival. I was amazed to witness people playing chess standing while moving the huge chess pieces from one point to another on a large chessboard lying on the ground!</span></div>
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I was so excited taking the shot, I didn't realize I wasn't able to get a full coverage of the trees. </div>
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Oh, well, I still hope that somehow I have given you a glimpse of the Lindenhof Square.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: justify;">A haven of peace and tranquility, an oasis in the heart of the city of Zurich, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; text-align: justify;">that's what Lindenhof is known to be. </span></div>
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The Grossmunster Church viewed from Lindenhof</div>
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(Ssssshhhh... I just grabbed this photo from hubby! 😀😀😀</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">Lindenhof is a place of historical events. Literature tells that a Roman fort stood in this place in the 4th century and in the 9th century, a regal palace used as residence was built by Charlemagne's grandson.</span></div>
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The LIndenhof (Hedwig) Fountain</div>
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Built in 1912, this fountain has a statue of a woman with a helmet that was built to honor the women of Zurich in commemoration of their defense of the old town against the army<br />
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Do these benches below look familiar?<br />
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<span style="font-size: small; text-align: justify;">Which of these benches do you think are the ones on the photo below where Ri Jong-hyeok and Yoon Se-ri are seen crossing the Lindenhof Square? </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: purple;"><a href="https://en.blog.kkday.com/28711/europe-k-drama-fan-ultimate-guide-to-crash-landing-on-you-filming-locations-in-switzerland" target="_blank">Filming Locations</a></span></td></tr>
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They must have watched the birds fly and rest on the rooftop, too.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The Birds of Lindenhof</span><br />
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See how they fly across River Limmat and get back to this place.<br />
Watch this!</div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">👇👇👇</span></div>
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Amazed at the view from Lindenhof, I continued to explore the streets nearby.</div>
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Afterall, hubby encouraged me to be adventurous! </div>
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That meant I was at liberty to go places in his absence. Yahoo! </div>
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You must have seen this building in the photo posted earlier. </div>
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Now, for my finale photo, here’s one taken by hubby with me at the fountain. </div>
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I went to Lindenhof alone the first time, remember? I was so enamored with everything I saw that I told hubby he should see the place. So, before going to the airport on our last day (March 2, 2014), we went very early in the morning to see the place.<br />
My second time! It was a verrrrry cold, drizzling morning! </div>
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That’s me at the Hedwig Fountain<br />
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Lindenhof was the last place we visited before going to Flughafen (airport). </div>
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We may not have stayed longer than a week in Zurich but that one week, for me,<br />
was definitely the best!<br />
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