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New Giveaway! Manilamommy x Lactacyd Mums and Tubs Club x Big and Small Company

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Hello everyone! I hope your weekends went well ;) Did you do anything special for 10.10.10 ? Seems like everyone and Mahoma were out last Sunday! The DWs and I just stayed home. DW still has a very bad cough but thankfully he has recovered from a fever which he had from Monday to Wednesday :( Now it's BDW's turn to get sick. AAAANYWAY... We have a new giveaway courtesy of Lactacyd Baby's Mums and Tubs Club wherein Manilamommy.com is a partner blog!  The Mums and Tubs Club is Lactacyd's way of … [Continue reading]

The Great Cake Experiment…

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So the great cake experiment began last Saturday! I made a chocolate cake with the goal of building my confidence towards ultimately creating this thing of beauty: the holy grail! For the experiment I decided that I will not make the cake from scratch! If the Pillsbury Doughboy, Betty Crocker and the Maya Kitchen have perfected cake mixes I am not going to mess with them haha so the one thing that I want to test therefore is this: CAN I FOLLOW DIRECTIONS?? Seriously, I need to test this … [Continue reading]

Tips for Working Moms from a Working Mom

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A couple of Mondays ago, I gave at talk Pioneer Life's monthly kapihan. The theme last September was on Smart Parenting and Grand Parenting. As you guys probably have noticed, Pioneer and Blue Cow are sponsors of Manilamommy.com. If you see that shiny 2nd banner at the top of the page, yep that's them and their wonderful comic book Private Iris. To know more about Private Iris, you could vist my post here. So, Pioneer Life asked me to talk about being a working mom. My talk was purely … [Continue reading]

Crystal Jade La Mian Xiao Long Bao (Greenhills)

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BDW and I have never been to Hong Kong or Singapore and so we've never experienced how it is to shop there during a sale which some folks I know swear by or to eat at all these great restaurants that some people know by heart (and swear by too!).  When news of a Manila branch of Crystal Jade fired up the blogs and twitter, I couldn't relate but what got me excited was the prospect of eating at a great restaurant which is know for its good food. I was particularly curious about Xiao Long Bao, the … [Continue reading]