Book Review: In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden

In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden is the story of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flod–a tragedy that cost some 2,200 lives when the South Fork Dam burst on Memorial Day weekend, 1889. The dam was the site of a gentlemen’s club that attracted some of the wealthiest industrialists of the day–Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Mellon, and Andrew Carnegie–and served as a summertime idyll for the families of the rich. In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden imagines the lives that were lived, lost, and irreparably changed by a tragedy that could have been averted.

Rating: 2/5 

With books like this, I want to have a connection with the people in the book. I want to get to know them more. It didn’t really happen to me in this book. I didn’t feel like I know the characters after reading. It felt insufficient somehow.

Although, I gotta admit — I loved the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius quotes!

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Smint Ad

From all the ads that I watched during the UP Fair, this one caught my eye:  

The girl is smoking hot!  

Pao Express

Okay. So this is just too cute to not share.

If you pull the string, the box opens like this. NYAAAAAAA. CUTE! 

Different dots mean different flavors.

Plus, they don’t have that annoying under the siopao that I always accidentally eat! 

Chinatown Adventure

The Chinatown Adventure happened this morning. Our call time was 6:30 but we got there around 6:45. The “program” started at around 8? I’m not so sure because we were at our stations by quarter to 7.

Our station was the at Ongpin Statue. The Lion Dance station.

Participants were given 5 minutes to learn and perform the lion dance.

2 people on the Lion, 1 on the drums, and 1 on the cymbals.  

 Funny Anecdote:

While there weren’t any participants on our station, we asked to be taught the Lion Dance. I was able to learn the drums. And there was this guy, who told my sister that she should try the Lion’s head. My sister refused because the Lion’s head is heavy. And then the guy said, “Di bale, malaki naman braso mo. (Ah! But you have big arms!)” To which my sister replied, “Bugbugan na lang oh! (How about some fist-fighting!)” LOLOL. Okay. Translation fail.

Anyway, it was over and all was good.

It was super worth it! Imagine: You pay a refundable 500Php (It’s just to make sure that you actually show up today), run around in Binondo and play around with stuff like Lion Dance, some other dance, eat siopao, blahblah. And then you get freebees like a Pao Express box, Robby Rabbit folder bag thing, Mug, Chinatown Adventure shirt, etc.

1st: 10k

2nd: 8k

3rd: 6k

4th: 5k

5th: 4k

6th-10th: 2k

11th-20th: 1k

21st-30th: 500

NYAHAHA. Congratulations to everyone!

I heard that there was this guy who was given 10k by a Feng Shui expert for knowing the name for the 12 hours in a day — did I get that right? Anyway, boo for the people I asked to join and refused.  

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F Word Restaurant

What I like about Fusion Cuisine is that you not only have to know how to cook well, you also have to be creative about the dishes you whip up. 

Last month (or was it a couple of months ago?), we were invited to dine at F Word in Ortigas. 

G/F 109 F&M Lopez Bldg.C. Palanca St. Legazpi Village Makati City

+632.813.04.75 | +63922.777.51.42  

Here’s the pictures from F Word provided by F Word.

Here are the pictures I took from when I dined there with other blogger friends!

Click on the pictures for my descriptions.