Happy Feet and Paws

Getting Fit

Tuesday, April 07, 2015

When you are on your thirties, one of your major concern is your health. You started to be conscious on what you are eating, check nutritional facts at the back of the packaging, and decide to be fit to avoid any illness.

START YOUR FITNESS JOURNEY

My office colleague and I decided to jog every Saturday. Our day one started last October 25.
We also agreed that we should motivate each other and refrain from making any excuses.
We had an agreement that each of us will have two maximum leaves (free pass without any question) before the year ends. Anyone who cannot jog can use their leave or pay 20php per absence. When you jog on a holiday, you will earn one day leave.

Here's our tracker:

Events

BFF Just Got Hitched

Tuesday, April 07, 2015

The long wait is over, my highschool bestie Connie married her long term boyfie crush Mike last December 22, 2015.

Adventure

Side Trip to Guimaras

Thursday, September 25, 2014

When you visit Iloilo City, the highly recommended side trip is the island of Guimaras. One of the primary goal when you visit the island is to taste the sweetest mango in the Philippines. That is why, the island is known as the Mango capital if the Philippines.

Yes, we didn't miss our chance to visit Guimaras. Aside from tasting the mangoes, we want to see and witness the beauty of the island.

HOW TO GET THERE

From Iloilo, just ride a cab or jeepney going to Ortiz Wharf where you can ride the motorboat wharf bound for Jordan (the capital town of Guimaras). From the port, you can ride jeepney or tricycle going to Raymen.

WHAT TO VISIT

Since we are too early for swimming, we decided to explore the whole town of Jordan. Along the road, you will see the stalls of green and ripe mangoes.

“Take note that bringing mangoes or any part of a mango is strictly prohibited in Guimaras
since they might carry pests, which could damage their sweet mangoes.”

Along our way, we saw the Guimaras Museum but because we are too early it was still closed or under renovation.

We also visited the National Mango Research and Development Center where you can see mango trees. Since its off-season when we visited, the mangoes are not yet ripe. One of the vendor told us that during mango season they have EAT ALL YOU CAN MANGOES.

For pasalubong hunt, we visited the famous Trappist Gift Shop. Here's our photos while waiting for the monks to open their gate.

We bought different kinds of mango products such as: mango otap, mango tart, mango biscocho, and etc. In short, mango overload. After that, we ride the jeepney again going to Raymen Beach.

Of course, its time for Island Hopping:

TURTLE ISLAND

AVE MARIA ISLAND AND BARAS CAVE

NATAGO BEACH

In Guimaras, you can enjoy their white sand beach while eating their sweet mangoes. Indeed, Guimaras has the sweetest and delicious mangoes in the Philippines.

Adventure

La Paz Batchoy Food Crawl at Iloilo

Monday, July 14, 2014

Our main purpose of visit in Iloilo was to attend the wedding of his former boss. We are really obsessed in foods and most of our city adventure involved foodtrip. I watched the Ang Pinaka: Yummy in Iloilo episode on GMA News TV and used it as our reference on our food adventure. So here’s our great adventure:

Nervous face of Boots (his 2nd time to ride on plane).

Sea of clouds

We stayed at Highway 21. The hotel has a very unique heart shaped ceiling.

We are just in time for the Dinagyang Festival.

The main highlight of our trip: THE WEDDING

WHERE TO EAT

Our foodtrip adventure started at Breakthrough. I‘m sorry but I don’t have the actual images of the food since the lighting there was not good. The food are all delicious. We ate kilaw, inihaw na bangus, liempo, and etc.

The next day, we ate our lunch at Tatoy’s Manokan. We ate their specialty, lechong manok, steamed oyster, chicharong bulaklak, grilled fish, grilled squid, kilawin and ensaladang mangga. (left to right)

THE BEST LA PAZ BATCHOY

Iloilo is known for their delicious and special La Paz Batchoy. One of the reason why we visited Iloilo is to search and taste the best La Paz Batchoy.

First on our list is the La Paz Batchoy of Ted’s. For me, it taste the same with the batchoy here in Manila.

Second is the Deco’s miswa La Paz Batchoy. At first its a bit weird because it s not usual to see miswa noodles in a bowl of La Paz Batchoy but surprisingly it is really delicious. Another plus is that you can request for additional garlic, chicharon and even the soup.

Last stop is the Netong’s La Paz Batchoy. They said that it is the first La Paz Batchoy store in the town. It is located at La Paz Public Market. At first, you will feel awkward to eat there because it is located at the market but if you are not that picky you should add Netong's La Paz Batchoy on your list. La Paz Batchoy soup is really delicious that it can match Deco’s La Paz Batchoy. They also serve extra garlic and chicharon. You can pair it with their puto wrapped in banana leaves. For me, among the three, Netong's wins the best La Paz Batchoy.