Sexy Eats: J.Co Donuts and Coffee

Newest donut store in town center. J.Co Donuts & Coffee

We have to line up just to buy




Goodbye DIET i love ALCAPONE i ate 2 pieces in one seating








i also like OREOLOGY

Ayala Centrio Mall

"Deep in the heart of Mindanao lies Cagayan de Oro, a first-class growing metropolis that has earned the sobriquet the city of golden friendship. For here, the people are ever ready to welcome visitors into their homes, be it ever so humble, and into their hearts. The home of warm and hospitable people, CDO is also home to awe-inspiring historical sites and natural wonders designed for pulse-racing adventures for adrenaline junkies like white water rafting, kayaking, rappelling, and zip lining." - Philippine Star



I went to Cagayan de Oro yesterday together with our company's Managing Director - Kathy Gueverra, to visit our new client Ayala Centrio Mall.



We were awarded the contract of protecting their establishment from pests. I got the chance to take a stroll during my visit yesterday. Centrio is an integrated mixed-use complex composed of a shopping mall, Seda hotel, an office building and a condominium tower located along Capt. Vicente Roa St. and Corrales Ave., cor. C.M. Recto Avenue, Cagayan de Oro City.

Ayala Land preserved two large acacia trees, about 60 years old.


While other developers would have cut them down or relocated them, they built the mall around the trees and made them the centerpiece of the development.




Tenants in the mall includes Esprit, Starbucks, Aldo,  J. Co Donuts, Watsons,  White Yoghurt, Bench Human, Kashieca, Face Shop, Cotton On and many more.



There is also homegrown food merchants Bigby’s, Candy’s, Thai Me Up, Oro Shawarma, Nai Cha, SLERS and Barkadahan Grill.




non-food merchant list at Centrio includes Bettina, Children’s World, Mag’s, Treasures, Parasat, Hair Chemistry, I Lash Salon, Solidmark, Spacecom, Vanity Works, St. Jude Optical, Technomart and Oro Graphic.

30 Days of Thankful: Share-a-Page Fridays

Enjoying Autumn Days

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus

Every year, for the past five years i was travelling to the USA.  Sometimes Spring and most of the time every Autumn (October) ,  to attend the pest control convention. It was only this year that I was able to take spectacular fall foliage photos. I enjoyed so much the changing leaves and the crisp breeze.

I was fortunate and blessed to take these photos -- it was days before Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast.  The moment Sandy was in east coast, I was already back in the Philippines.

photo at HARVARD Square - Cambridge Massachusetts 10.20.2012

Butchart Garden - Victoria B.C. Canada 10.10.2012

Cape Cod - Massachusetts 10.18.2012
"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, 

and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking 

the successive autumns." George Eliot

photo taken by my hubby post processed by yours truly 10.10.2012

photo taken by my hubby post processed by yours truly 10.10.2012

Plymouth, Massachusetts 10.18.2012
“How beautifully leaves grow old. 

How full of light and color are their last days.”

John Burroughs

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."

Emily Bronte 10.10.2012

ABC WEDNESDAY

The Grotto at Portland Oregon

We visited this beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.  I'm glad that I have the chance to visit amazing places in Portland Oregon.




 “The Grotto” is the popular name of The National Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother. 

We're blessed to met Fr. Alby the parish priest who used to be the parish priest at St. Peregrine Church at Tunasan,  Muntinlupa City (The place where i grew up).




The grotto carved from the basalt cliffe 110-foot  where an alter was constructed, above which was placed a full-sized replica of Michelangelo's Pieta.



We were the first visitor  touring the grounds.

since we arrived at 9am the weather was freezing cold ;-)

Chapel at the Garden

The chapel on the second level is called the Marilyn Moyer Meditation Chapel.

Another pieta inside the chapel

View of the chapel on the lower level from the upper level

my Uncle Willy inside the meditation chapel

view outside the meditation chapel

We walked through the woods on the upper level--

 (Joyful Mystery Station)

you could find many places where you could sit and think.

They had areas to pray--stations, rosary mysteries

The church on the grounds--The Chapel of Mary--inside view

The blessed mother inside the church