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When Mom Violy spotted Crisostomo’s handwritten menu, something in her chest lit up: home-style lumpia, sinigang steaming in clay pots—could this be the comfort food she’d been missing?

Carmina informed Mom Violy that she would visit her home on Saturday, November 8, 2025. She asked if Mom Violy wanted to go out for lunch and mentioned needing to do some grocery shopping due to an upcoming big storm. Mom Violy suggested trying Crisostomo, a Filipino restaurant inside Robinsons Magnolia. Carmina forwarded the menu for her to choose what she wanted to eat, while Carmina already knew her order. I chose pork barbeque served in a set of three pieces with a vinegar dipping sauce. I skipped rice and opted for lumpiang hubad, fresh lumpia without a wrapper, topped with peanut sauce.  Mom Violy initially craved the classic Pinoy paella, but when it wasn’t available, she decided on sinigang na baboy with an extra serving of rice. A family member chose sisig with garlic rice. Carmina enjoyed her meal with Mom Violy and particularly liked the  lumpiang hubad , though she kept wondering why it had no wrapper. I explained that it’s called "naked" because it’s served witho...

Roselle's Wellness


 Roselle's Wellness

Carmina had asked her best friends if they would like to participate in their own wellness giving my viewers that not only herself is concern on what they have lived for themselves.

Roselle requested to fill up some questions for her to answer.

Carmina's Questions to Roselle:
  1. When did you start doing wellness in your life?
  2. What made you go forward fitness?
  3. Did you have any medical conditions during your time toward fitness?
  4. When you started what was the most difficult task between juggling it with your family?
  5. What type of fitness are you doing?
  6. Did you ever go through emotional hardship? Example: Stop doing fitness for a long period of time.
  7. What made you go back to doing fitness?
  8. What was your weight before you had started? What is your ideal weight?
  9. How do you stay motivated to keep up your work?
  10. What is your motto or what do you say to yourself?
  11. How do you reward yourself doing a great job?

Story of Roselle's Wellness

Roselle started doing wellness on January 2016 as my New Year's resolution.

Roselle used to drop off Peyton and Jordan to Kuk Sool Won (Korean Martial Arts) I usually sit, watch, and wait for them. Its family martial arts I always wanted to continue martial arts so I decided to join.

I have anxiety and a lot of stress the time I started Kuk Sool Won. 

I don't have weight problems, always been on my right weight, but I have hypertension (family history).

There's not much difficulty when I started attending martial arts, because I am a stay at home mom and my kids was training with me at that time. Sabrina she was old enough to be at home by herself and doing her own homework, chores, etc.

When I'm training martial arts with my boys, I sometimes go inShape with my daughter Sabrina and we do Zumba, UJam, or use machines.

Yes, once in a while I go through hardships nor do any workout. Like when I had some kind of headaches that happened last year 2020. I didn't know what kind of headaches was that but it's gone now.

It's always my passion to do martial arts but I can only do what my body can. Roselle is 51 years old my bones and body doesn't turn or bend that or this way anymore. 😂🤣

The more I do my training the stronger I get. It controls my blood pressure and it motivates me.

My motto is " Never too old to learn something new".

How do I reward myself? Nothing really, maybe shopping for my kids not for me.

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