If you come to Victoria, you must try the world-renowned Tea at The Fairmont Empress (fondly called “The Empress”), one of Victoria’s oldest hotels. Because of her national signficance, The Empress has been designated as a National Historic Site of Canada. When she became weary around 1965, there arose a debate to either tear down…
The Best Things In Life Are Free
Victoria and Vancouver are such beautiful cities. A mere stroll across four days within a very small radius provides a feast for the eyes and senses. This is a sampling of the landscape, architecture, sights, and vibe. Apart from God’s beautiful creation, it cost someone to pay for the buildings, plants, labor. But it’s free…
Butchart Gardens Afternoon Tea at the Dining Room
The original family home of Robert Pim Butchart and his wife, Jennie, has been converted into The Dining Room where you can enjoy afternoon tea or meals. Set in the Butchart Gardens, now a National Historic Site of Canada, The Dining Room is where the family used to live… …and the adjacent Rose Garden used…
Butchart Gardens, Victoria
I didn’t get to see Arashiyama on my last trip to Osaka but my marshmallow test reward gave me something I like even better! Victoria, the capital of the Canadian province, British Columbia! Thank You, Lord for the blessing that comes with obedience to You! It started with a 35-minute seaplane ride from Vancouver Harbor,…
Making Amends with Siopao and a Humbled Attitude
I really dislike having to back up into a garage from a small street. The street outside my work studio is one example. When the neighbor across doesn’t maximize the available parking space outside their gate, half their car grazes loosely into the street and my car tires draw a zipper path on the road as…
Grief 101 with Cathy Babao
Good grief! Have you suffered a loss lately? Cathy Sanchez-Babao may be able to help. Mother; storyteller; newspaper columnist; author, corporate communications consultant; sometime teacher; mental health, women, and children’s health advocate, Cathy is also a Grief Coach who journeys with the grieving person through the method called “companioning.” After her son, Migi, died in 1998, Cathy went…
Two Tea-For-Two’s: Raffles/ Fairmont
Aki and I wanted to try out the two afternoon teas at the adjoining Raffles/ Fairmont Hotels in Makati but couldn’t figure out another date to set for a second one so we thought…why not hit two teas with one scone? I mean… two birds with one stone. Yes, why not? And just like that, the pastry…
Dorothy Ferreria: Entrepreneurship Tips
Meet the Cake Boss. She was ten years old when Dorothy Ferreria took her first cooking lesson with a neighbor. She went on to study with Sylvia Reynoso Gala, Rory Subida of Maya Kitchens, and then with the late Dexter Rebolledo of Dexter’s Bakeshop. Later, she studied at the Wilton School of Cake Decorating and Confectionery Art…
Penk Ching: Entrepreneurship Tips
Penk Ching, owner of Pastry Bin, which supplies bespoke decorated cakes for special occasions, has been in business for thirty-four years. She held a corporate job for more than a decade. Her baking and cake decorating was just a hobby she enjoyed but slowly, as more friends and officemates excitedly asked her to make cakes for…
Beth Romualdez: Entrepreneurship Tips
Beth Romualdez is a highly accomplished woman who has worn many hats— chef, author, restaurateur, entrepreneur. She used to own a printing press and kitchen store. She is passionate about gardening, able to call trees by name; she is a painter, art collector, and a great dancer. [Please don’t tell her I told you that…
Salud De Castro: Entrepreneurship Tips
For this series on Entrepreneurship Tips from Women in the Food Business, we start off with the story of Mrs. Salud Donato de Castro, who was able to juggle a career in the stock market, her food home business, and a growing family. Vice-Chairman and Treasurer of A. T. De Castro Securities Corporation, member of the…
7 Entrepreneurship Tips and Startup Business Education for Women From Carlo Calimon
After completing his MBA (on the Dean’s List) at the Asian Institute of Management in 2003, Carlo Calimon joined LET’S GO Foundation (Leading Entrepreneurs Towards Seizing Global Opportunities), a non-profit, non-stock organization advocating entrepreneurship education for Filipinos of all ages towards the long-term goal of collectively strengthening the country’s economy and uplifting the quality of life of…
