Thirdies's Celebration

Thirdy Boy, the son of a family friend celebrated a late birthday and a welcome party yesterday. His birthday is last month and he just arrived from the Philippines two weeks ago. He was named Thirdy because he is the third kid.

His mother Marissa invited most of her friends including us and we feasted on pinoy foods, salads, grilled meat and siopao below.



In just one week, i attended three birthday celebrations and i also cooked leche plan three times.


Our common friends

Lalaine's Birthday

Yesterday is the hottest day here in Germany. The temperature reached almost 40 grad but the humid weather didn't stop us from attending the birthday celebration of a good friend, Lalaine. Normally, in that kind of weather, i just stay home and enjoy the four corners of the house watching filipino movies rather than staying outside. I have sun allergy and the strong heat makes my head bumpy.


As usual, her relatives and our common friends attended her swimming party.

The kids and other guests enjoyed the pool very much.

The girls with their Miss Universe pose

My best friend Joy as lechon cutter



Of course, the men in the girls' lives were there too!

Mommy Moments, our miracle baby and mom Mary

LP- Merienda (Snack)

Happy HuweBEST sa lahat, LP day na naman. Ang tema natin sa araw na ito ay merienda o snack. Ano naman kaya ang paboritong meryenda ng ating mga kasamahan sa Litratong Pinoy.

Tayong mga pinoy ay sadyang mahilig kumain kaya dalawang oras maatapos ang almusal at tanghalian ay meron tayong merienda at midnight snack naman sa gabi. Sa pagitan niyan ay meron pa tayong mga kinukutkot tulad ng butong pakwan, chips, mani at kung ano pa. May mga kaibigan nga ako na malakas kumain pero ang mga katawan ay coca cola body. Sabagay depende rin iyon sa metabolism ng isang tao. Ang mga tao dito sa Alemanya ay hindi nakagawian ang magmeryenda. Ang pinakaheavy nilang kain ay tanghalian at sa hapunan sa mga tipikal na german ay brot o tinapay na may keso o palaman tulad ng ham, salami.

Speaking of merienda, ang paborito ko ay turon, sabayan mo ng malamig na coke zero, wow, solve na ang snack ko. Ang inyong abang lingkod po ang mahilig gumawa ng turon dito at special request yan ng mga nagbebertdey.

Paborito ko rin ang mga kakanin na sariling atin tulad ng puto, kuchinta, maja, buche, palitaw,biko at iba pa, wag nyo na lang pansinin ang ketchup, naligaw lang yan diyan, hindi masarap ang kakanin kung lalagyan ng ketchup, dapat toyo, patis at datu puti (joke)
Mga ka-LP meryenda na tayo, Guten Appetit!!! (good appetite)

Family Friend from Limburg

Yesterday, the couple Klaus and Bebel Lützig minus their children visited us. They are friends of Dirk for more than 20 years. Klaus and dirk worked at markant Offenburg before and its where their friendship started and continued through the years.

As usual, they also like to dine at Schloss Staufenberg in Durbach.

Aside from flammkuchen which is the specialty of the castle, they also ordered a cheese plate

And of course my favorite apple flammkuchen

The castle is on top of the mountain with a nice view of the vineyard

Since its summer, the sunset is at around 8 or 9 pm, look at the red sky on the background.

Meet Cha Cha

Our new addition to the family is a shih tzu named kimberly, nicknamed cha-cha. She is two months old and she is older than jaimee. Shih tzu is one of the most popular of the toy breed. It is well known for its long, flowing, luxurious hair, which covers all of its body. It has a round head, pleasant expression, and large, round, dark eyes.

She is now the apple of the eye of my family. She is very playful, affectionate and love attention and being spoiled. Because of her hair, she was yesterday mistaken for a rug in the house.

Her birth certificate reveal that her name is Heart but soon she's going to have a new name- Kimberly Jemarie Paala

Jaimee's Baptismal

Yesterday, my youngest grandaughter Jaimee was baptized in a catholic rites. She will be two months next week and guests includes all her godparents, family members from both sides, relatives, colleagues and close friends.

The proud parents, Joseph and my daughter Arianne

One of the godmother is my eldest daughter Rosebelle and my niece Marivic (the girls in white)

My eldest sister and arianne's mother in law prepared and cooked the foods

It was a low-key family affair, the above photo shows the family of my son-in-law, Joseph and below my other daughters who needs a crash course in Diet101

To you apo, welcome to the christian world!!!!

Ate Lita's Birthday

Ate Lita who live in Sinzheim is just like a big sister to all of us here. That's why when she invited us to attend her 60++ birthday, we readily said yes. There are lots of pinays who attended her party but there are some guests that are not familiar to me.

Ate Lita (in black dress) seem to be never tired of cooking on all her birthdays. She prepared and cooked a lot of foods, mostly pinoy dishes like fried fish, nilaga, pansit, lumpia and many others.


She also prepared filipino delicacies like maja blanco, kuchinta, puto, ricecakes, etc.

There's also grilled meat and barbeque. At the moment we forgot to think that we're on diet.

The party is not complete without karaoke. On the microphone is Cita, our filipina singer here. She's a good friend and i'm very proud of her.

And of course the dancing queens

The guests



my schatzi dirk and belinda's partner