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May

Few weeks ago, we tried eating at Heawen located at K Village…after kids enjoyed their Fun Arts activity. At first I thought its Heaven but no, I am wrong its Heawen…I don’t know if its meant to be “w” or just wrong and supposedly “v” for Heaven for Burger Devils. Lolz.

Anyway, here are the counter and dining area…

Their menu’s adjusted to Thai foods…spicy and stuff like that although they have classic burger! And here are the burgers we got:

K got Massaman Curry Pork Burger…

3 of us got Pork Classic Burger with fries and drinks!

Lastly, us…happy diners in spite of…well, the burger is not big as we expect, taste is just ok but not something that I will recommend! What makes us happy was that kid enjoyed their burger and fries plus had a good time playing around because yeah, no other customers—its only us there that time!

Although the staff were nice to us…and even gave the burger canister for kids to play at home. And we’ve been to K Village few times after that but we didn’t go back at the Heawen yet, maybe someday, sometime…

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Category: Dine-in, Food and Cuisine, Food Friday, Food Trip Friday, Meme on Friday, Restaurant 9 Comments

May

City of Moon…

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I never thought I will be in this city a week ago, by myself minus K and the kids. I’ve been there just because I have to do it, to get my Non-Immigrant ED Visa. Anyway, will be sharing more about my Vientiane, Laos visa run soon…for now let’s all enjoy the view of this beautiful growing city.

The Patuxai Park is the most prominent landmark of the city, started in 1957 and completed in 1968. The arc de Triomphe in Paris inspired the architecture of the monument but the design incorporates typical Lao motifs like “Kinnari,” a mythical bird woman in Laos. And all those pictures taken from the top of the monument that shows an excellent panoramic view of the city!

Lovely, isn’t it? Its beauty and simplicity were perfect to captured one’s heart. My stay was short but I had a great time…I enjoyed going around the city thru “truck-buses.” I wish I could visit the place again with my family and see more of Vientiane. Its a trip that I will always remember, my first land travel from one country to another and I met few nice people, gain number of friends from all walks of life. Life’s always full of surprises…and yes, got that visa stamped on my passport, yehey!

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Category: Green Monday, Laos, Mellow Yellow Monday, Travel, Visa Run, Wednesday Whites 6 Comments

May

Welcoming May…

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…with a smile, happiness and full of hopes but it will be a busy one! May 1 is holiday for its International Labour Day but our workaholic Daddy’s working but he will be on-leave on the 3rd and 4th to take care of kids! Because tomorrow, I will be traveling by land to Vientiane, Laos to do my ED visa run. I avail the package from my language school to make my life easier and it will be my first time so, I am excited. Then mid-May my little princess will be three, but she’ll have her small party on the 19th!

I am organizing her party as I always do, I love it and I am happy to do it. I will bake and cook like I did on her second birthday. I will also make her invitation, party hats, cupcake toppers, birthday banner, signs, thank you cards, favor boxes, food/drinks labels, and a lot more with the help of the party printables that I bought at Etsy from DimplePrints, I got a package and I am excited to start doing it, well, at least until when I get back on Saturday…I am actually running late with the invites but I said it to friends already, just need to get the invitation out soon for formality!

Anyway, I am happy that Mike and Carli emailed the pdf files to me today…I bought it April 29, 2012. And here are the sample of those printables that I will be using, got these pictures from their Etsy site—DimplePrints.

Yes, it will be a RAINBOW PARTY…with a bit of ART and happy colors around, after all, she’s a happy girl. I am sure it will be fun.

And for more of their Printable Party Package you can visit their Etsy Shop DimplePrints or for more party ideas, inspirations and more please visit their blog at www.dimpleprints.com for more.

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Category: Birthday, Color Connection, ETSY, Happiness is..., Isabelle, Mellow Yellow Monday, Printables 4 Comments

Apr

Bangkok Airways Flight Meals…

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Last April 6, 2012…I traveled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia from Bangkok, Thailand for the purpose of getting a visa stamp that will be valid for a month while waiting for my Education Visa that’s still on process at the Ministry of Education at that time. Anyway, I flew with Bangkok Airways going back and forth on the same day with few hours difference. And my meals are these yummy Thai foods…

Shrimp Set…

Ready to eat…

My flight meal going to Phnom Penh, I was asked chicken or shrimp. And I chose shrimp, I got pad thai, pork salad, vanilla pudding, orange juice and water! I like the pad thai, just right for my taste. The pork salad even though it is bit spicy, it was mouth-watering. The dessert was lovely, too. All-in-all, I was able to finished my food…I must be hungry then! Hehehe!

While on my flight going back to Bangkok on that same day, I was asked chicken or fish and here’s my choice:

Fish Set…

Yummy…

I had fish fillet with assorted vegetables, papaya salad, strawberry cheesecake and drinks! The fish fillet meal was served with two kinds of rice: brown and jasmine rice, both delicious. The fish fillet was fine with me but I didn’t ate some of the veggies. The papaya was really great, I love it, I thought it will be so spicy but its just mild. The cake was nice, too! As usual, I got orange juice and water for drinks! But they have sotdrinks, assorted juices, tea, coffee, and wines.

It was a good flight back and forth and good meal, that’s why I enjoyed flying with Bangkok Airways! Plus I enjoyed seeing friends even for my few hours of stay and spending an afternoon in Phnom Penh with them.

Yes, the immigration gave me one month tourist visa, which will expire on May 5, 2012 which means I will be traveling again next week to another country to finally get my Education Visa as my Thai Language class started last week. Next stop will be in Vientiane, Laos…for 3 days! Yeay, it will be my first time in the City of Moon!

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Category: Flight Meals, Food and Cuisine, Food Friday, Food Trip Friday, Meme on Friday 7 Comments

Apr

Egg Painting…

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Yes, I am still posting about our Easter Celebration…if you’ve been here then maybe you’re tired reading about it here and here and here already, but oh, well…spare some time and look at the pictures of my two beautiful kids if no time to read, hehehe! Promise, it will be appreciated…thank you!

Anyway, our first activity last Easter Sunday was egg painting. I just boiled chicken eggs and let the kids paint it, and here are the pictures…

boiled eggs…

happy kids…

Kuya CJ…

Isabelle…

painting, painting and painting…

finishing…

CJ’s work…

Well, the paint that I got wasn’t not the right one for this I think, we used Crayola Washable Paints…next time, I knew better. But still what great is, they enjoyed it. And here’s what they did…painted eggs!

Isabelle…

CJ…

Yeah, you might be wondering the egg in the middle inside the pot, they did that at Fun Arts at K Village a day before Easter…

Next year, I will dye it first…and get better paints for them to enjoy it more! What important then was they had a great time doing it. And we are happy to see them having fun!

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Category: Color Connection, Easter, Green Monday, Orange Tuesdays, Pink Fridays, Red Hot Thursdays, Thursday Brownies, Wednesday Whites 11 Comments

Apr

Easter Sweet Table…

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After the egg painting last Easter, we snack in some sweet goodies—this is actually no cooking at all—that I prepared…

Easter Sweet Table 2012

I know I can do better than this one but with our schedule before Easter I was not able to prepare well…a week before Easter, K went to do field work and I flew to Phnom Penh to get a visa stamped. So, both tired but I am still happy that we had some and kids enjoyed everything we prepared for them.

Easter Sweet Table 2011

Just sharing our Easter Sweet Table last year, its better…yeah, I know! I thought I can do better than that but with events going around, I can’t.

Anyway, here’s what we got in our sweet table this year…

Bunnies and Egg in a Nest Bread…

Oreo and TimTam…

White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies and Donut from Mister Donut…

Orange Juice…

assorted goodies…

Japanese Custard Cake…

Cookies with Hershey’s Chocolate Bar…

Banana Cupcake…

Lastly, I baked a cake and its a disaster, huh, something wrong but kids and K said its delicious…and that’s enough to make me smile. Its a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting then I just added a nest-shaped meringue with Jelly Beans on topped.

And here we are having a good laugh while eating some snacks…

kids with Daddy…

kids with Mommy…

the two kids having fun with bunny ears and bows!

Easter Bible Verse…

Last but not the least, those beautiful Easter Printables that I used is from Bird’s Party…I got it last year after Easter when she put those set on sale. Its lovely but I wasn’t able to give justice with her work, I will definitely used it again and I hope I can do better! But big thanks to those talented individuals like her because it adds color and life to the party! Also, the Easter Bible Verse Subway Art is from Agape Love Designs and Photography, so big thanks to her for sharing beautiful subway art.

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Category: Desserts, Easter, Family Time, Food and Cuisine, Food Friday, Food Trip Friday, Meme on Friday, Snacks, Yummy Sunday 17 Comments

Apr

Egg Hunting…

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…in the comfort of our home last Easter Sunday was fun! Easter Bunny came and left a lot of chocolate eggs for the kids together with the instructions that Daddy read to the kids! Lol. And to make their searched easier, Easter Bunny let some ribbon trails that they can follow and its a sign that there’s something inside…such a kind Easter Bunny, made my kids life easier. Hehehe!

Anyway, here are the pictures and its a lot, so please bear with me! I hope you will enjoy it…

listening to what Easter Bunny’s instructions…remember, he left a note!

Isabelle’s so fast, Daddy’s still reading the message from Easter Bunny…:)

the marker/trail that Easter Bunny put…yellow for Isabelle and green for CJ!

in their bedroom…

closet area…

showing their finds…

counting time…

Hershey’s chocolate bar from us, for working so hard…

…and we also gave them the huge paper egg with lots of goodies inside!

chocolates, jelly beans…

Excited to open their huge paper eggs…:)

Showing the goodies that they got!

With their big happy smile…

Egg hunting bring smiles to them, joy and the excitement of finding one eggs from one place to another. At some point it also show how good Kuya, CJ is by helping Isabelle…and how sweet she is by telling Kuya also that she saw the green ribbon at some place. Nice to know that they are helping each other this early. I just hope that they can bring that good deeds as they grow older. Then after the egg hunting…Daddy let them watched a movie about Easter that he downloaded earlier!

After the movie, we all enjoyed the simple “sweet table” that I prepared, which I will sharing on my next post! Tons of pictures here already…hehehe!

How we prepared it? Well, its just the morning of Easter when they are having a bubble bath while they are busy splashing water and playing with the bubbles…K and I were busy putting all the ribbons and chocolate eggs around the house! And this is the second time we are doing it for the kids! We did it last year in Phnom Penh, Cambodia!

In the end, they both love it…Isabelle even asks for more, hehehe, we just told her that those are the only eggs Easter Bunny left. But we told her that next year, Easter Bunny will come again and hide some chocolate eggs or chicken eggs around (that’s what we used last year) our house! And she’s so happy with that, she’s jumping for joy!

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Category: Color Connection, Easter, Family Time, Occasion/Event/Holiday, Red Hot Thursdays, Thailand, Thursday Brownies, Wednesday Whites 14 Comments

Apr

Chocolates, Paper Eggs and Rabbit Toys…

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…these three were around our house last Easter, April 8, 2012 and kids enjoyed having them around!

We got the rabbits on our first trip to Ikea…the nest on the other trips and the paper eggs also from Ikea on my recent trip to the store!

I got these Kinder friends chocolate when I did my visa run to Cambodia last April 6, got it at Suvarnabhumi Airport…I just thought it will be perfect to be put inside the paper eggs!

Then I got these chocolate eggs at Ikea, got it same time I got those huge paper eggs…we used these chocolate eggs for egg hunting within our house!

So, I put those Kinder friends chocolates inside the huge paper eggs. I got those nest basket at Japanese Store here in Bangkok, a day before Easter! We gave it to them after the egg hunt, its a huge prize from Mommy and Daddy…

yellow and green (I used the orange for the centerpiece decoration.)

…and believe me or not,those chocolates in each paper eggs were equally distributed, I count it while eating some during the preparation, hehehe.

The centerpiece on our center table look like these but with Isabelle’s talent, sometimes its re-arranged…the orange paper egg, pinwheels, Isabelle’s plant, and the eggs in the pot they got from Fun Arts a day before Easter.

Lastly but not the least, I got these crepe paper from a bookstore…yellow, orange and green, my favorite Easter color. I put in on the tv area, and it serves as a photo wall…

…and, oh, I got that Easter Subway Art from eighteen25 (thanks so much, dear!) while the two patterned paper are included in the Easter Printable Package I bought a year ago from Bird’s Party.

Anyway, I love preparing something for the kids that they can remember when they get big, this year might not be as prepared as last Easter 2011 but I still tried this year. K’s at the field on week before Easter then I got busy with my visa run to Cambodia, Friday before Easter. So, I got some stuff needed last minute, printed all the printables a day before and things like that! Also, the pieces I got are all affordable and re-usable, just like the basket…can be a bread basket or snacks basket, infact I already used it as that when we got visitors last Friday, just put paper doily to look more nice! Affordable because we got those rabbits at 50% off, I got the nest for 10 baht, nest basket cost 60 baht, paper eggs and egg chocolates come together and you’ll be saving some, and the rest will not cost much! How about you, do you love to prepare something like this? Let me know…

So, these are the stuff around our house last Easter…will be sharing next the kids egg hunt and they had so much fun! Then our Easter sweet table and egg painting at home!

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Category: Easter, Family Time, Green Monday, IKEA, Mellow Yellow Monday, Occasion/Event/Holiday, Orange Tuesdays, Thailand 11 Comments

Apr

3-in-1 Ice Cream…

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K said its Neapolitan Ice Cream because it is made up of blocks of 3 different flavours side by side in the same container. More common flavours during the time it was introduced was chocolate,vanilla, and strawberry…but there are variety of flavours these days!

Anyway, I always have a tub of ice cream in our fridge, any day and time but since we will be having some friends kids coming, I add some more and choose 3-in-1 ice cream for kids have more choices.

I got raspberry, banana and blueberry…but looking at the colours, I thought its strawberry, vanilla or mango, and ube (yam), hehehe, I am wrong!

I also got in the 3 different chocolate flavours…

Well, kids enjoyed having some…there are still some left-over and we’re finishing it slowly! It was a great weekend, Songkran Festival is almost over. K will be back to work on Tuesday while CJ’s will be back on Wednesday…start of Term 3 in Year 3. Hope you had a good weekend also.

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Category: Desserts, Food and Cuisine, Snacks, Weekend Eating, Yummy Sunday 8 Comments

Apr

Beef Massaman Curry…

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Friday the 13th…and the start of Thai New Year, first day of Songkran. So, let me wish you all a Happy Songkran! We will be joining the fun this morning…and we are ready to get wet!

And because its New Year here in Thailand, I will be sharing something that I never made before and first Thai food that I cooked, Beef Massaman Curry and this is the first of many…

Massaman curry is commonly made with beef but there are other variety of it like chicken, duck, etc. The Massaman curry paste is full of flavours and aroma, which usually contains of coconut milk, peanuts, potatoes and lots of different spices. K loves Thai food and Massaman Curry is one of it, which is originally from Southern Thai dish that is Muslim in origin. I served it with hot rice and K just loves it. Oh, CJ likes it and I can eat it too!