The other night, I was chatting with the last two customers and they started appreciating the food and the details of the shop. I asked them if they saw the verses on their placemats. This was the gentleman’s placemat with Karla Dornacher’s artwork: asked him if the words made sense to him. He answered,…
Category: Seeing God’s Hand in Daily Adventures or Misadventures
Encouraging Entrepreneurship Part 1 : 702 DZAS Guesting
Yesterday, I called my friend Malu Ortiz to ask her to pray for me because I was scheduled to guest at the entrepreneurial inspiration/ encouragement show of Far East Broadcasting Corp. She agreed to pray for me and asked, “You want me to accompany you?” I said, “Sure!” She is regularly interviewed on the different…
Message from Manila
Originally posted on The Infinite Fountain:
In August, we sold our 100 year-old Detroit Jewel gas cooking stove. My dad bought it at a swap meet in 1972 and not quite knowing what to do with it, gave it to me. When I got it, it was little more than a rusted out hulk and a…
An Article on the National Daily
Since 2004 when an Asian Institute of Management panel (for the thesis defense of the Business student, Marian Balcos, who studied to improve my business) declared that the only remaining agenda my business needs is “yabang (slang for ‘marketing’)” but I didn’t have a budget for it, I surrendered this to the Lord and He…
Restoring a House
Two years ago, I was so frustrated with myself. I knew what God wanted me to do but I kept failing to stick to God’s program whenever my self wanted to get back on the throne of my life. God impressed upon me a vision of a rotted house in need of rebuilding. It necessitates…
Wait for It! There’s Light!
I was so blessed by an offer to display our cakes for free in the South. I made the trip to Alabang to check out the place. The traffic on the way home was quite slow so I fiddled with my phone and decided to try the Hyperlapse app. It’s so easy to use, it…
Coming Out
Yesterday, the Meg Magazine team came over for a photo shoot at the shop. Hannah interviewed me while Lynn and another lovely lady fixed up my hair and makeup. Hannah asked me about how the shop came about, what my day is like, how I balance my time, etc. She then somehow asked me…