Author: Rochelle Sy Chua

Causeway Seafood Restaurant

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On August 29, 2009

Causeway Seafood Restaurant
883 Banawe corner Del Monte Avenue, Quezon City
(02) 410-8690

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We’ve been having our toastmasters meeting at Causeway Banawe. Last night, I realized that I haven’t blogged about it! So I took note of all of our orders and remembered my experience with the food.

Let me share them with you.

The restaurant’s serving is good for 3 person or more. So if you’re just going to order for yourself, you’ll have a hard time as you only have a few choices… I remember when I try to order, my only choices were:

Congee
Noodle Soup
Rice Topping (3 types only)

Since I’m a rice person, I can only have the spareribs & rice, chicken feet & rice, sparerib w/ chicken feet & rice. ahhaha see? I can even remember them!

Here are what we ordered last night:

Beef Hofan (S-Php 200, M-Php 300, L-Php 400)

I love this dish very much. I shared this with a friend but I think I ate about 3/4 of it hehehe 😛 Very tasty, lots of beef, very tender, yummy but a lil oily.

Lapu Lapu Congee (Php 110)

Just the normal fish congee that we have in chinese restaurants. best to put calamansi in it to make it tastier and more yummier 🙂

Dimsum (after 9PM, 30% off & will be priced at Php 43)

We waited till 9PM before we order the dimsum, this is because they have 30% off on all dimsum after that time. I was still very hungry and I felt the dimsum is just cheap so it’s okay to order many 🙂

The Chicken Asado Roll sucked big time! The asado was raw &a I didn’t dare eat my share. I told this to the waiter but they didn’t do anything about it so that kinda disappointed me more. Anyhow, good thing it stopped my craving for more food so that was the sign that I have to stop eating already :P:P

The seafood roll was delicious though, you should order that when you go to Causeway 🙂

Here are the dimsum we ordered:

Seafood Roll (Php 65)

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Chicken Asado Roll (Php 65)

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Pan-Fried Radish Cake (Php 60)

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Asado Pao (Php 65)

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Toastmasters Meeting in Mandarin Language

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On August 29, 2009

I attended the Mandarin version of the Toastmasters meeting last night. If you remember my post last time, I made a promise that I’ll be attending the meetings often. Unfortunately, I have global meetings scheduled every wednesdays that end 10PM, so I’ll have to beg off wednesday meetings.

I’ll probably move from Emperor Toastmasters to its sister club, Camanava Toastmasters. This is because their meetings are scheduled every saturday mornings and the schedule is more doable for me.

The friday ones I will attend as schedule permits 🙂

I attended the mandarin-version for the 1st time. And it’s really cool! Would you believe we all tried our very best to speak mandarin all throughout the meeting. It’s pretty hard for us especially we don’t get to use that language much in our everyday life.

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The books/manuals are also in chinese!!! It’s sad though that the book available during the meeting is written in Simplified chinese, I’m not really good at it and I can’t read most of the words. I’m more comfortable with Traditional chinese, there is one available at Toastmasters though, our co-toastmaster just don’t have it during that time 🙂

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The meeting yesterday was attended by 6 members. It was a pretty intimate meeting so we didn’t get to use the stage anymore. We talked while eating our dinner. The first hour was used to introduce ourselves in chinese then we just chatted.

Later in the night, the others started talking about religion & history. Those 2 topics are totally not my thing hehehehe so I ended up talking to the younger ones and we talked about photography and hobbies 😉

Here’s our picture from last night, more pictures here.

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Slenda Commercial Shoot & Slenda

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On August 28, 2009

I was invited to watch the Slenda new commercial shoot last saturday. It was my 1st time to watch a commercial shoot and found out that it is indeed tiring. Imagine the model has to repeat the lines for hours (literally!), never thought that being a model is that hard, I initially thought that it’s the easiest profession of all.

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Slenda has 2 new models in addition to Valerie Concepcion. We have the privilege to meet them all but I can’t stay the whole day so I was only able to meet their new endorsers- Gloria Diaz & her daughter Isabelle Daza.

Gloria Diaz is just soo charming, she’s very welcoming, down to earth, easy to talk to, very smart and nice. We talked about Slenda (ofcourse!), her stint at the Miss Universe Pageant, her daughters, life, etc. She’s still soooo pretty at her age, truly Miss Universe. Was able to take pictures with her after the discussion.

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We were also able to meet Isabelle but she’s in between shoot so we have to make it really short. Rico took the time to interview her regarding her gadgets, she showed us her macbook, her canon camera & her phones. She said she’ll be getting a blackberry storm soon. Was also able to take picture with her. She’s a beauty & according to her mom (Gloria Diaz), she’s a very conservative lady.

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We’ve met the models but why are we all here? What product are they advertising? What product made them believe and endorse it? I also discovered a great product that day…

It’s SLENDA 🙂

Slenda is a supplement product that you can take 10 minutes before meals. It promises to address overweight & obesity problems through the ingredients in the products which are:

Resveratol – help reduce & eliminate fat resulting in the reduction of excess body weight by blocking the accumulation of fat in the tissues. known to possess anti-lipid, anti-viral, anti-bacterial & anti-cancer properties & more prominently, the lowering effect of what we commonly know as ‘bad’ cholesterol or LDL (low density lipoprotein).
EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate) – flavonoid found in green tea that eliminates fat due to a lipase inhibitor which allows fat to be excreted in the stools.
Banaba (Lagerstroemia speciosa) – contains sterols that reduce serum cholesterol & protect the body against infections by boosting the immune system.
Turmeric or Luyang Dilaw (curcuma longa linn) – helps reduce & break cholesterol in the body by efficient bile flow, thus also help prevent gallstone formation.

The discussion that day convinced me that I should try the product out and see myself. They gave us 1 month worth of Slenda. I’ll definitely plan to try this out, I’ll start taking September 1. 3 times a day before every major meal.

Aside from Slenda, we were also given DVDs of Slendance. Remember what Valerie Concepcion was endorsing about? Slendance is an easy to follow 30-minute work out that combines aerobic exercise, coordination, endurance & mental workout.

Let me show you a video of the Slendance Ad:

More pictures from the meet here.

HeaRty’s Haven will be giving away 1-month worth of Slenda & a DVD of Slendance to 5 lucky readers very soon. Just always visit my site & I’ll provide details on how to join and win 🙂

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BPI-Italianni’s Shop Anywhere Promo

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On August 27, 2009

Went to Italianni’s for lunch for 2 consecutive days courtesy of my BPI receipts worth Php3k or more 😛

I really really love BPI promos, I think nothing beats it! I’m so glad I have chosen BPI Gold as my credit card.

This particular promo is open exclusively for BPI Gold Mastercard holders. You just have to spend at least Php3,000 anywhere using your BPI Gold Mastercard, keep the original receipt and you’re on your way to a great, great, greeaat meal!! 😀

Promo Period is from July 1 to September 30, 2009. Can be redeemed till November 30, 2009.
Valid for dine-in, Monday-Friday, 11AM-3PM.

At Italianni’s, we can either choose 1 of 2 of their famous big lunches!

Grilled Fish with Fettuccine Gorgonzola

Grilled fish fillet with tomato, olive & caper relish. Served with fettuccine in gorgonzola cream sauce. The fish is just perfect!!!! The pasta is very tasty, I’m not a pasta person so I’ll probably request if I can have rice instead when I go back to Italianni’s hehehe 😛

Beef Stufato

Beef cubes simmered in tomato herb sauce. Served with spaghetti pasta. The beef is soooo tender! The sauce is very tasty & yummy as well. I don’t know what to say, loving Italianni’s now 🙂

One thing that I really like is that even if I’m just going to pay for my drink and order this. The waiters still treated me like any other customer. I was still given this complimentary bread 😛

I notice for other promos (Citibank ring a bell?), the freebie they give is like a mini-one (mini popcorn, mini drink). As for BPI-Italianni’s, they really give you the full dish (as advertised, worth Php 350!!).

Totally a great promo, if you’re a BPI gold mastercard holder and you don’t know about this yet, it’s not too late. Go & redeem your big lunch from Italianni’s. I myself is a very happy customer! 🙂

Get a Post-It OC Sampler Pack for Free

Posted by Rochelle Sy Chua On August 27, 2009

Wanna get this for free? You definitely can!

All you have to do is to go to this link, register at the Post-It website & indicate which National Bookstore branch you like to pick up your free OC pack. No purchase required, totally free! Take note, this is till September 30, 2009 only.

I picked it up this afternoon at NBS Trinoma branch. (Was able to shop as well hehe!)
It includes a Post-It Pop-Up Notes in Paper Dispenser & an OC guide.

The OC guide is actually quite interesting. Let me share what is inside the guide.

Basically, it listed down all the OC levels, their characteristics and also what post-it products best fit them.

The 3 OC levels are the ff.:

Novice-OC – You’ve just started to realize how important it is to organize. At this point, you most probably have a beginner’s OC tool with you wherever you go which you got as a gift from a friend. (Product Recommendation: Post-it Notes & Page Markers)
Mid-OC – Organizing is already a part of your daily routine. You write your 3 most important tasks on your post-it notes. By now, you already have your no-fail organizing basics kit that you don’t leave the house without. (Product Recommendation: Post-it Notes, Notes Cubes & Post-it Flags)
Uber-OC – Over the years of organizing, you have developed a highly effective organizing system that in the future will bear your name in its pending patent. A clean desk and a finished to-do list by the end of the day is your Zen (Product Recommendation: Post-it Notes, Flag highlighter, Flag Pen, Pop-up Notes, Arrow Flags)

Which one are you? 🙂