Playing with LEGO one night with the boys was fun filled with happy memories! One of those days that we learn to appreciate our simple yet blessed life makes me happy.

In fact since we bought this loose Lego, we allow the boy to bring it so that we can have fun playing with it and building something while waiting like when we are at resto or a coffee shop perhaps during our weekends. I am happy hubby bought this for the little boy because it is a creative toy that we can bring with us anywhere we may go. We actually want to buy more packs of this next time so we ca build bigger things out of these blocks. These are from two packs each with about 125 pieces each of loose Lego that we bought at a mall just a few days ago for almost two hundred bucks each pack.

Took this souvenir photo of what the little boy built with his dad when we went to a nearby fast food for late night snacks after we missed the newly opened branch of Spirale in Abreeza Mall that had its opening around 5PM that night.

Finally tried Milk Tea from SenCha and am happy that my curiosity was satisfied! Happy as well with the time spent with my boys and we had a short, not so easy with the little boy yet still fun photo shoot. These photos are just two that I have cropped through the  D7K.

Thanks to my dear hubby for indulging in satisfying my curiosity over this milk tea thing that some DB friends have been drinking and sharing over at FB! *Wink* I am happy with the place. I like the place for I find it girly and cute in terms of their choice of colors in the interior. But I can’t say though that this all meant am happy with the milk tea but just curiosity satisfied. *Wink*

One of the coffee shops in town that we would go to and spend some relaxing time during our weekend off is Starbucks. I would miss my fave hot peppermint mocha when they would altogether stop serving it. They still serve it though until supply lasts according to the barista.

This is where we could sit down and relax because at home we may sit down but we’re doing work. Here we have no laptop or work to do but just to sit and relax while sipping my fave coffee. We need some relaxing time and am happy we do get a little time just to do that. It may be time wasted for some but it ain’t time wasted if you enjoyed the process, right?

This chocolate is delicious. The boys and I would share with one bar at a time which can be divided into 5 parts. The little boy can actually consume one bar by himself just as I can do too. This is really delicious and you can say quite addicting that I can eat more than a bar by myself! Oh Cadbury why are you delicious? LOL!

He liked this game as I remember when he was much younger when they also played it at the Timezone at NCCC Mall. That then was the first time he played bowling. He did not make a strike then but he enjoyed it so much too and those are part of our happy memories.

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We finally visited the Christmas Lights Galore at Mana Davao 2012 last night. This place is somewhere near Robinson’s Cybergate.  I personally like it better viewed from afar. Mana Davao is an antique furniture shop in the city that has traditionally has this show of lights every Christmas for the past few years now. I like their design this year compared last year though I personally think the best was during Christmas 2009 as far as I can remember since 2007 when I first heard about their Christmas lights display. But we missed it in 2007 and only the year after that in 2008 when I first visited their display. You can see photos here of Mana Davao’s Christmas Trees, Decors & Lights in 2008.

Do you know this whole things costs them around P2.5million? Yes that is what I read from the local news. It is a very expensive endeavor though I think the owners of Mana wants the people of Davao to be happy and delighted with their Christmas lights display every year. I think this year they opened the place to the public rather late I think December 17 unlike previous years when it was usually earlier. The last day will be on January 3, 2012. So for those who still want to go there, you still have a few days left.

It has become like a landmark during the holiday season in Davao city that people flock to Mana with their families especially with the kids to enjoy and have their souvenir photos taken. For sure there are lots of happy memories captured here for many families and kids in Davao. You just have to be quick in snapping those photos as the place can be really crowded especially towards Christmas day and especially early evening. This year I think they

The mascots are not there anymore which may be the reason that there were not too many people anymore which is better for me. Though there are still more people than I expected when we arrived around eleven in the evening. The traffic is lighter less than an hour before midnight. There is a 911 police patrol car in front plus I saw about two to three traffic police managing the traffic. A few nights when the display started, the traffic was really heavy around the Bajada area.

After spending surprisingly almost an hour snapping shots with the little boy and the three of us together, we got hungry and went to the new Jollibee DMC branch for the first time since it opened earlier this month last December 15. We are happy with the time spent there and the shots we have, it is time to make our tummies happy. *wink*

]]> http://www.thehappymemories.com/2011/12/christmas-lights-galore-at-mana-davao-2011/feed/ 0 http://www.thehappymemories.com/2011/12/colorful/ http://www.thehappymemories.com/2011/12/colorful/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:12:43 +0000 THEhappymom http://www.thehappymemories.com/?p=2389 I am just happy for my friend who just gave me a pep talk earlier. Life is made more colorful because of sincere people and friends who makes us happy when we are bluer than blue.

On the topic still of being colorful, another friend of mine who also cheered me up today showed me these interesting and not to forget colorful medical computers at Howard-Medical.com. We were both talking about computers towards the end of our chat when she mentioned about those colorful medical carts that she saw during her recent visit at the hospital for her annual medical checkup.

I have yet to see these colorful medical carts as they are called with these colorful designs. It would be great for children’s ward in the hospital making the place lively and colorful. It could indeed brighten up the hospital environment for the kids.

I miss those times that we would go to Picobello Restaurant in DC to have pizza with my boys during their happy hours where you can avail of a buy one take one in their pizza. We would go to the 5th level of Gaisano Ilustre between 2-5pm which are the promo hours and we would just order pizza. It’s affordable and really tummy filling. Even our lil boy loves their pizza.

What just turned me off from going back there again was that one waiter who feels more than the manager of the resto. Even if he was indeed related to the owner, that makes it more not right for him to treat (like what he did) for regular customers like us then. Anyway that was the past. I still do look forward to reminiscing those happy and busog afternoons we had at Picobello.

I remember sometime last year when online friends were asking what they wanted for Christmas, they all answered they would want those silver bars that one among us shared and was talking about during that time. Investing had since then been something I want to explore into. It is just the capital money to invest that is of concern then. Though I think this is something we should try to explore as part of your financial plans for 2012.

Our lil boy finally was able to bring to school this Christmas wreath to decorate their classroom. This was actually the same wreath that he brought to school last year and the teacher returns it to us after the Christmas holiday. We use this as Christmas decor too at home when they are on Christmas break already after next week. I love this one. I think as far as I can remember, I got this cheap at one of the malls in town. It was on sale I think at GM. It was actually quite salable according to the sales lady.