Cultured Chos

So, I have an official trip to Baguio City but I was very early, so I have time to spare. And since I have a vehicle and I heard of BenCab Museum which I haven't visited yet, I decided to spend my day there. I missed my museum buddies (Syanang Syalen), we could have so much fun since we love visiting museums. I asked my manong driver to join me so I can have a photographer hehehe, libre ko naman sya kaya quits lang =P 

pang TODA collections

may restaurant din sa loob ng Museum

Haunted White House

If you searched for tenderness, it isn't hard to find...ano daw?

If you searched for Baguio's Most Haunted places, for sure if not the top, Laperal White House is always included. The Laperal Guesthouse was built in the 1930s as a vacation home by the clan heads, Roberto and Victorina Laperal.

In 2013, the tycoon's Tan Yan Kee Foundation transformed the house into a Bamboo Foundation museum, thus it was open to the public and so, I paid a visit. I love old houses and I don't mind the haunted stories that go with them. 

So, let's take a peek inside the house.

the stairs are my favorite, obvious ba?

Isn't she lovely? The White House, I mean =)

Food trip in Bacolod City

The AssoTech team went to Bacolod City to do a 2-day training workshop on rice production for our partners in Negros Occidental. We stayed in East View Hotel in Bacolod, our poging Sir in PhilRice-Negros did all the logistics and he's also the one to tour us around, but not for places but mostly for food, thank you, ACS (Albert Christian Suner).  

photo op of the participants with our welcome banner

inside East View Hotel

halata bang gusto namin yung stairs?

After our courtesy visit to the Mayor of Kabankalan City, that's how we do things, we always go to the municipal hall or provincial hall to visit local officials and their municipal agriculturists. Then we proceed with our activities for the day in the area.

for my TODA collection, a tricycle wrapped in plastic because it's raining most of the time (it's July when we visited, already rainy season) waiting for passengers in Kabankalan City hall

Welcome to PhilRice-Negros, the station based at Cansilayan, Murcia, Negros Occidental, going here you will pass by a lot of sugarcane fields, oh well, you are in Bacolod, that's why. 

Additional 2 for my TODA collection, saw these tricycles when we went to Pala Pala.

Pala Pala is a seafood market on San Juan Street corner of North Capitol Road. The style here is very much the same as "Dampa", you pick your kinds of seafood in the market (like what Ms. Lani and Tita Vangie are doing in the photo) then go to the restaurants around Pala Pala and asked them to cook it for you. 

grabe, anlaking mga itlog

halaan nga ba 'to? hulaan nyo =P

pssttttt sarap!

iba't ibang klase ng hipon, di ko na inalam kung anong tawag sa kanila at anong kaibahan, basta orange din lahat yan pag naluto =P

siempre pag may hipon, may crab, partner yan sila 

at dahil nasa Bacolod, siempre not to miss ang masarap na scallops, na ang tagalog pala ay "iskalop" or kabibi...mahal at di masyadong present to sa Laguna, kaya sige Marya, "heeyah scallop" ay gallop pala yun =P

at ayun na nga, sa alaala na lang sila =P

salamat po sa masarap na paluto =)

nakuha pang mag-marang after ng super busog na dinner

lakad lakad lang para humupa ang busog at nadaanan ang San Sebastian Cathedral 

It was a productive official trip and a happy tummy too food adventure with the AssoTech team, till next time.