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Carmina's review on Summit Hotel in Tacloban

Last year my dad had informed me he will be getting married in Tacloban the place his wife grew up in the Philippines . My dad said he would like all of his family members to attend since they couldn't go to the one in the United States. Carmina booked her flight during Philippine Airlines ’ year-end sale at the start of 2026. I told my dad about my travel plans for a short trip from Friday, April 17 to Sunday, April 19. My cousins also asked for my flight details so they could book the same flight. My dad said he will book my room for me sharing with two family members at  Summit Hotel in Tacloban . Sending me the confirmation booking information for my reference.  As the months went by, before I knew it, the big day had finally arrived—a rare event that doesn’t happen too often. Everything had been carefully planned by my dad and his wife, Tita Cielo. When we arrived, the check-in time was 2 PM, but there was a mix-up with the rooms. Some were ready for check-in, but the one...

Chop Suey Recipe

I will share a secret ingredient to add more flavor to your chop suey. Chop Suey Recipe: Ingredients: ½ kilo pork (sliced) 1 ½ cup cauliflower 1 – Carrot (peels and slices) ¼ kilo – snow peas ¼ kilo – baby corn 1 – Piece bell pepper (sliced into strips) ½ Cabbage (sliced) Optional 12 pieces quail eggs (boiled and peel) 1 – Piece Onion (chopped) 4 – Cloves Garlic (minced) Patis to taste 1 - Knorr Crab and Corn Soup Cooking Instructions: Step 1: In a medium pot add cooking oil, onion and garlic sauté Add pork and patis Add cauliflower, snow peas, baby corn, bell pepper and cabbage Step 2: Follow Knorr Crab and Corn Soup Instructions add to the chop suey. Cook until tender do not overcook vegetables. Ready to eat! NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Pechay with Shrimp Recipe

Pechay with Shrimp Recipe Ingredients: ½ kilo – Pechay (chopped) ¼ Kilo – Shrimp (clean, remove head and slice) 1 – Roma Tomato (chopped) 1 – Onion (chopped) 2 – Clove Garlic 1 – Tbsp Patis 1 – Cup Water 1 – Tbsp Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Step 1: Cook in a pan add cooking oil add garlic, onion and tomato Add patis Add water, pechay and shrimp Cook for 30 minutes in low heat. Ready to serve. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Pork Chop Recipe

Pork Chop Recipe: Ingredient: 1 kilo Pork Chop Salt Pepper Step 1: Sprinkle salt and black pepper both side of pork chop Step 2: Boil water and half cook pork chop Step 3: Heat oil in pan until boil Cook pork chop until cooked. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Ampalaya Recipe

Ampalaya is a bitter melon that is good benefit for people who are high blood and diabetic it lowers your sugar. In order to make the ampalaya less bitter when cooking is to do the following open the ampalaya length wise using a spoon remove seeds and white pith underneath until you see the green gourd. Add salt to the ampalaya where you had removed the seeds and white pith leave for five minutes until salt dissolved on its own. Rinse the ampalaya with water and dry with paper towel. Or slice ¼ inches moon shape and place in a bowl of water with salt leave for five minutes and rinse out and drain water. Ingredient: 4 - Pieces Ampalaya (clean and cut thin slices) 1 -Tbsp garlic (miced) 1 -Tbsp Patis (Fish Sauce) 1 - Tomato (sliced) 1 - Onion (sliced)1 - Canola oil ½ kilo - Shrimp (peel, remove head and slice) ¼ pork kilo ground pork Optional 1 beaten egg Cooking Instructions: Step 1: In a cooking pot place cooking oil add garlic, onion and tomato sauté...

Family, Marriage, Boyfriend, Girlfriend and Friendship

When something new comes along and you worked off a new friendship when that friendship vanish in thin air you start to begin to wonder what you have said to that person. In every friendship is just like having a relationship you hold on to it just like you would hold on to your family, marriage, boyfriend and girlfriend. What happens when one person who had become a part of your life vanish not even explaining yourself to you why they did what they did? After watching a lot of videos about relationship to understand myself better because this has never happened to me before I had to understand that it wasn’t my fault to begin with it was the person who held something against me. When we come across a person like this you realize one thing that all the friendship you still have is something greater than the friendship you have just lost those are the friends who stuck to you just like any relationship would have worked on. I realize that I place myself to work o...

California Crunch Cassava Chips

Not an ordinary cassava chip this one is flavored from barbecue or sour cream and onions at first I was wondering how it would taste like and found out it was actually  delicious . The shape looked like an ordinary potato chip that you would not recognize something that looked so healthy. Try and see if I am right can be found through  California Crunch Cassava Chip  or online from Lazada and Shopee where I was able to purchase my chips. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Cinnamon Coca - Cola in Sydney, Australia

There was something I had discovered when I was traveling in Sydney, Australia that they had something I have never seen before and it was coca - cola soda that had a taste of cinnamon taste in it. It was something that had caught my eye when I was inside 7- Eleven. Cinnamon is known a spice that is very healthy for you and when you are like me, I am into something healthy even if it is in a beverage, might as well try it when you feel you will be in town in Sydney, Australia. It cannot be bought from anywhere else. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Getting to Know About Casing and Where to Purchase in the Philippines?

Do you ever wonder what is the outer skin in a hotdog or longganisa that you eat and why is it called, casing? There are different types of casing used in the market : Salted Hog Casing Cellulose Casing Collagen Casing Fibrous Casing Do you know what each casing is used for? Salted Hog Casing is local intestines used for sausage casing Cellulose Casing is used for hotdog comes in two colors in clear and dark cherry Collagen Casing is layer of beef hide used for sausage. Fibrous Casing is used for pepperoni, salami, luncheon meats, boneless ham, other deli style process meats and process smoked cheese. What does each casing do when you produce your product? Salted Hog Casing – is an edible used in making Italian sausage, bratwurst sausage and bockwurst sausage. Cellulose Casing – The product is more refined and the wieners and franks become tender from the casing. Collagen Casing – for cooked and dry sausage to gives it form of curve and stra Fibr...

MTB - Let's Talk About Location for Beginners!

I started riding my bike there we're a lot of restriction to the people I was living at and they wanted to make sure I was safe enough. I was ready to bike places that were all flat land and slightly level land so I would be able to balance myself and get a hand on my new mountain bike. I have biked in the past teenager year but with the big gap of age difference as well the location was not in the Philippines. I will give you places where cyclist bike in the Philippines other than the roads are in the mountains and when you are not prepare for those area we start from the bottom or the beginning stage until you can progress yourself to challenge your ability to reach high just like anyone else who has cycled for a long time. It is never easy it takes a hard of will power to put your mind and to be inspired to do it because you want too not for someone else. The first place I started practicing was at UP Academic Oval in Diliman, Quezon City in which I rode my ...

List of Activites to Do

Have you ever came across a friend who starts planning a future for you as you start writing a list you want to do together when you decide to visit your home town? You notice the list becomes more on what you friends wants to change you to become like them a person who you are not active into sports but you agreed upon trying it since your friend suggested they will be your personal trainer giving you the basic. You begin to question why your friend wants you to so much become like them and why can’t your friend just accept who you are. In the beginning you get all excited listing all the activities you want to do together base on some experience the friend has you want to encounter your fear to be a stronger person. What happen when that friend disappear from you do you push through your list with another set of friends? Do you just set aside the list of activities which are the following? Snowboarding Hiking Cycling Jogging Swimming Camping Sky D...

Being the Subject of a Conversation

You come across a friend and they tell you not to tell anyone about themselves and one day you receive a phone call. Your friend passes the phone to their friend and asked to talk to person and find out later your friend has told their co-worker who you are you become unsure why your friend tells you not to tell anyone to your friend who you just met. You become curious and wonder why all a sudden you have become the subject from their friends and you are so curious what your friend has told their friends about you. Sometime you encounter a friend who only says what they mean but it is not true when behind your back they are talking about you and you realize the friendship you have with them becomes unfair because you we’re told not to say anything to your common friends that you are talking to them. You start to question the person and ask their friends what they have talked about because you we’re shocked you are the subject among their co-worker. Sometim...

Inspired to Make New Changes

There will be a time in our life when we need to make new changes in the way we live because what we are going through around the world is sacrificing things we want to do if we could. Sometimes those changes will become an advantage and disadvantage to us because we are not use to those new changes in our life. I’ve realize during my sheltered in place people go through different moods when we are in our homes feeling unsure of ourselves. For the past months I have been inspired to keep adding more video because I realize this is what everyone has more things to do we come home to our homes from work and we are tired. We have no time to watch a long movie but we have time to watch a short video that has laughter and put our smile back on our faces. You can find the videos in Carmina Lifestyle Facebook Page . Kindly add me as one of your followers or Liked the Page. Sometimes we need to be inspired to gives us hope that when the time comes we can do what we love ...

Prisoner in Our Own Home

When we’re all prisoner in our own home we have a tendency not to be in a mood swing and you have friends close to you who don’t practice safety during our crisis you end up getting annoyed from the way they tell you stories about them. No matter as you keep caring for them your friends are in their own world you end up lecturing them because you are getting annoyed from them when they say they are prepared to die but they complain to you about other things going on with them. You come to the point your conversation goes on the broken record and you can’t seem to control your feelings and tell your friend NOT MY PROBLEM. I don’t usually use this term but I have friend use this to me before and I know it hurts to hear it but to put a stop on a conversation not going anywhere with just excuses you need to stop yourself and control your emotions before your friendship ends with that person. What happen when you’re friend thinks you’re mad at them like you need a ...

MTB - Clothing and Accessories

My friends in California who are just the leisure cyclist they just wear regular t-shirt, shorts or leggings and sneakers. Although I have other friends who are a pro in cycling and they wear something different which are tight fitting cycling clothing? As I was starting my new hobby having my mountain bike all set up was finding the proper clothing and accessories needed in order to start I figure since I am new at this sport I didn't want to spend a whole lot of money in a sport I wasn't sure I would enjoy. I just bought a pair of leggings that came with an attached shorts something someone wear when they are jogging as long it is dri-fit there is no reason not to wear it. This is the common clothing to wear when you are a cyclist: Woman's Sport Dri-fit T-Shirt Short Sleeve Mountain Bike Shorts Half Finger Mountain Bike Gloves Cycling Sunglasses Mountain Bike Socks Mountain Bike Shoes Mountain Bike Jacket Men: Men's Sport Long Sleeve Jersey or D...

Blake's Wings & Steaks in Katipunan, Philippines

Dibs On Ribs comes with corn and carrots My family and I are into eating barbeque ribs and this time I wanted to try something new so I decided to have food to deliver to the house.  I found  Blake's Wing & Steak  something that I have tried twice in a row. The ribs remind me of soul food back home in California that I miss so much. Pumpkin Soup Shrimp Scampi Corn and Carrot from Dibs On Ribs Mashed Potato

Tips in Dating

There are so many steps when you begin to go outside in the world to date someone we meet them off guard when we are not ready or they come in front of you when you are not really looking but no matter how you start off meeting someone new or old friends you come across waiting for them to text you back or waiting for them to respond to your messages. No matter how it goes beyond dating there is this three days rule for a guy after they have seen you in person they want to wait and figure out if the person they have just meant is really the one for them. Or they want to date other people before they decide to see which best meet their standards. Some woman fall for the trap to text and call the person they have just met not sure if the guy had liked them or not.  There are some woman who act like the jealous girlfriend who ask who, what, where and why this is a drawback the guys will not pursue you because he will start to see you the jealous girlfriend that he doesn'...

Stop Light Green,Yellow and Red

Just like a stop light we use when we drive we sometimes need to stop ourselves when we meet someone new because there are times we fall in a trap and we are not sure if that person we have just met is someone you want to hold on too or just let go. In every stop light there is a green to go which means to keep moving on in a friendship that might turn on to a relationship as a boyfriend and girlfriend. When some boundaries begin to interfere with each other we come across a yellow light which represent us to slow down and test the water to see if this person is really who he/she is because we are afraid to get hurt all over again. There is a person who judges you the way you are and complains who you have become you tend to slow down to feel like there will be something you will not get along with each other as you keep pulling away from him/her. You have figured everything out and you are really not meant to be as a friend and toward a relationship with one another...