Students have been doing online courses at home and it may take longer than expected until the school of education decides upon whether how long they will allow each and every student, teacher and in the school to be working off from their own home. In order to have good internet services we need to decide how much we are willing to afford to have access for faster internet in our home. Currently I have two internet carrier in my home one for personal and the other one for business purpose for all I know the rate everyone staying at home the internet is not as fast as it should be.  The internet carrier all depends on your location where you live in the Philippines. 1.     PLDT 2.     Sky Cable Corporation 3.     Convergeict 4.     Globe 5.     Smart Bro Steps to Apply for Internet Service in the Philippines: Whichever carrier you plan to register for comes with an application to fill up ...

After seeing for the first time the most colorful pancit ever been made in the Philippines I realize after I had tasted it and why it looked the way it does it is because it is half palabok and half pancit canton made with sotanghon and canton noodles mixed together. The way it looks different from being mixed with palabok and pancit ingredients combined and the unique flavor is not the sauce usually made from a palabok it is flavored with soy sauce. It also has peanuts, shrimp, pork, calamansi just like what you normally see in a noodle dish in the Philippines. You may purchase this pancit at  O'ini Authentic Kapampangan Cuisine  to check out their location and menu.

Every now and then my friend would call me up through video call and ask me what she can cook out what ingredients she has in her home due she miss eating Filipino food but she is staying in a foreign country. As my friend takes out all the ingredients she has in her home I started analyzing to see what she can make her ingredients in something that she can cook out of it. It may not be the same ingredients we used back home from the Philippines but with her ingredients we can improvise to make it something close to home. My friend had some fresh small shrimp, tomato, onion, spinach and bottle white beans. I told my friend she can make into munggo even if the beans we're not exactly the beans we used either way she can eat something that looked like a Filipino dish. You can find my recipe of my  Munggo Recipe  through this link to direct you to it.

When you cannot travel your friends calls you up during a video call while she is in a car traveling somewhere other than her home you get to experience being in your home but you can also be seeing the view from the outside of the car. Your friends always make you feel special when they know your situation in your life when you are not able to go outside so they call you up to keep their time in the car as you have a conversation with them as you experience seeing places outside their video you notice how bumping the ride is from the reflection of the moving up and down. Your friend laughs not realizing you can see it from your end so matter if you are like me and you have friends who wants to share the same experience like them anything is possible through video call because where you are you can still see the outside. One time my friend called me up when she was in her backyard of her home and she had decided to call me up through video call and I was telling my friend can I see the...

Have you ever been a third wheel on someone’s date? I’ve always experience being a third wheel when I was young when my friends didn’t want to go alone on a first time they met someone for the first time. Or I use to ask my friends to come with me because I also felt the same way I didn’t want to be alone with someone new I met when I use to live in the Philippines when I was younger. I had heard stories my parents use to tell me when I was young and what they might do to you. In my mind I had this imagine what if what my parents told me was true but again on the second date you kind of know the person a little more and the tension of the person seem easier on yourself. Having a first date gives you an excitement and you wonder who is this person you really don’t know I am sure anyone has felt the same way you really don’t know the person if you get to know someone and ask them a lot of questions. As we get older and you are single all over again the same thing happens to you...

This picture was taken years ago along with my mom, her best friends and I they all love to eat out this time around it is eating Korean food. In every Korean restaurant there is always a serving of side dishes that comes in your meal. There is a limit of how many servings they will give you for free all depends in all Korean restaurants you eat at most places have an extra charge. Seafood and Vegetable Pancake Japchae Bibimbap Sillas Korean Restaurant is closed at the moment they only offer delivery service by Food Panda you may try ordering it online.

This time around my family member was craving for Japanese food in our home and I decided to try something new than an ordinary place we normally have ordered online before my great advantages is because I get to try the food and let you know how it looks. In our family someone was craving for Unagi (eel) so I went ahead and found it available at  Kimono Ken . California Maki Dancing Eel Roll  Miso Soup Unagi Kabayaki Crunchy Chicken Teriyaki  When you live in a house hold that loves eating you get to try new food each time when they start to crave for food on a certain day. Note: Carmina is not selling or advertising for  Kimono Ken in the Philippines.

Do you ever have family and friends telling you need a life? What does it mean to someone when someone tells you have no life when you are home and going through a lockdown? Does it mean you need to go out? Does it mean find something else than being on social media or playing too many video games? I had started playing a game Candy Crush that started year 2012 it is the only game I play and I find it challenging for me to reach each level as I keep reaching a higher score and during that time my sister asked me to play the game so I can send her lives. We use to compete with each other and see who would be first to reach the next level. Everyone goes through a pattern when someone loses or wins in a game and they can no longer reach to the level you are on. My sister than told me I need to get a life and stop playing Candy Crush because I had already beat her score but I kept playing the game until now. Just recently my friend was messaging me asking...

Have you ever walked around with your family and friends notice that they have something on their face when they are eating? Do you tell them or do you wipe it off from their face with a tissue? Or have you ever hanged out with someone and their zipper is not closed do you inform the person or do you just mind your own business. When you see someone and their hair is sticking up or they have something on their hair do you let them walk with a messy hair or you remove what is on their hair. There are a lot of incidence that has happened to me and I am the type who would inform whom I am with to inform them upfront so in case it will happen to me I hope if they are with me they would inform me as well usually it doesn't happen 100% in which I have notice. There are a lot of incidents that comes to us we use women who walk around not knowing they have a blood spot on them because they have no clue they have their menstruation or if their menstruation is too heavy not ...

Mooyah is a favorite burger place my mom loves to visit when we're in California and the reason she loves it so much the way they make it. Must try it yourself and see why she approves this place so much by checking out what they have to offer in their website  Mooyah Burger .

Kalabasa is a favorite vegetable cooked in our home by Manang V who decide which dish she plans to serve us by her creation made daily in our home. This is an easy soup to make as your comfort food when there are days you feel lazy and just want to eat soup for the day like our days when it has been raining, we want something warm in our stomach. Kalabasa with Shredded Chicken Soup Ingredients: 1/2 - Kalabasa squash (peel, remove seeds and slice into cubes) 1 - Cup Shredded chicken 2 - Cloves garlic (minced) 1/2 - Onion (chopped) 1 - Knorr Chicken Cube 3 - Cup Water Cooking Instructions: In a pot pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic, onion sauté together add shredded chicken and water. Add chicken cube and let it dissolve in the water until it is boiled Add kalabasa once tender it is ready to be served in a bowl NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your su...

We live life expecting things will happen when someone promise you or they say they will do something for you but when you find out later it is just something they feel you want to hear or they are just bragging about it by saying it through words. We live in life where some people talk to you it comes out of not thinking just words coming from their mouth and not remembering what they have told that person that they have promised or they have told a person. In those kind of people I’ve learned not to take it all serious because it has happened to me several times when a person say something they should really do it out of their consideration not just say something and really doesn’t push through. I’ve lived with people making up stories and in reality it is not true they have this imaginary image and think it is possible when in return it is all make believe in order for me to believe what people say I need to see it that it is true. May be from all false things...

We often see people we know selling items from their homes, whether brand new or second-hand. After living in a place for a long time, you realize there are things you don’t really need or have outgrown. Whatever the reason, some people choose to sell these items to the public for anyone interested in buying. I’m similar, but I sell brand-new items on an installment basis because I know the people around me can’t always afford to pay in full, as they have their own obligations in life, whether single or married, helping support their families. Everyone wants to buy something, but it’s important to limit expenses on personal wants. I understand those who want something but can’t pay in full, so I create a promissory note for every transaction, written in Tagalog so they can fully understand what they’re committing to. This way, we have a formal agreement to ensure payment, making it like a business but favorable for them, as they can buy through installments with zero interest ...

When you crave for New York style pizza and there is no way for you to travel at this time  Sbarro has it in the Philippines can be delivered at your home. You can choose by ordering by slice or whole pizza of your choice. This picture is a Chicago all meat pizza it can be with red or white sauce. My favorite is ordering the spinach lasagna in alfredo sauce but of course you can choose another sauce for this dish in meat sauce or tomato sauce. Sbarro also have the baked ziti in meat sauce the same thing chooses your own sauce you want for this dish. Anything is possible when you're craving for something to eat from back home.

Crispy Pata is deep fried knuckles that is from a pig, and it is dip with vinegar combined with soy sauce or lechon sauce. This is a popular dish in a Filipino restaurant and often some people love eating this at home. This is a recipe of Manang V that she cooks, and I will give you a secret way to make it crispy and taste good that your household will love you're cooking. Crispy Pata Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Pork leg (clean, scrape the hair on the pork and trim nails) 2 - Cups 7-up or Sprite soda 1 - Cup Vinegar 5 - Cloves of garlic (minced) 1 - Tbsp Peppercorn 3 - Bay leaves Salt to taste 5 - Cups of water Cooking Instructions Step 1: In pot boil water add 7 -up, peppercorn, vinegar, bay leaves, garlic, salt and pork leg cook for one hour until pork is tender. Stain the pork leg Step 2: In a new pot add cooking oil let it boil than add the pork leg until fully cooked on both sides you can serve it how it is whole or cut it up just like the picture I have  Dipping Sauce Ingredients...

Longanisa is a popular breakfast cooked in the Philippines it is known as sausages. We normally eat this with garlic rice, sunny side up egg and sliced tomato or some eat it inside bread as a sandwich. I have a lot of friends who call me up asking how to cook longanisa and I will teach you the best to way to cook it. Cooking Instructions First Step: In a frying pan add a little amount of water let it boil added longanisa cook each sides cook for short time. Second Step: Strain the water and remove the longaisa from the pan. Separate each longainsa by using scissors. Third Step: In a frying pan add cooking oil once it is hot add the longainsa and cook it until it turns brown. Fourth Step: You will begin to poke a hole by using a fork, lower the temperature and watch out the oil from the inside doesn't hit you try holding a lid to prevent splashing at you. Cook it until it begins to be fully cooked from each side. Ready to eat enjoy your longanisa.

The asparagus in the Philippines are much skinny compared to the ones in another country. Chicken with Asparagus Recipe Ingredients: 1 - Whole chicken (slice per parts) or 1 pack of choice of chicken parts 1 - Chicken broth cubes  2 - Tbsp Patis (fish sauce) 1 – Bunch of Asparagus (sliced 1 inch) 2 - Cloves Garlic (chopped) 1/2 - Onion (chopped) Black Pepper to taste 4 - Cup Water Small amount cooking oil Medium Pot Step 1: Add small amount cooking oil in hot pot add onions, garlic and patis mix together Add sliced chicken Add water and chicken broth cube Add asparagus Season with black pepper Cook for 25 minutes NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for your support.

Repolyo in English means cabbage cooked in shrimp and sometimes I eat this with instant noodles to add flavor in your soup to add fresh vegetables otherwise you can eat it as it is made with fried fish, chicken or any source of meat you want to combine the dish together. Repolyo with Shrimp Recipe Ingredients: 1/2 - Repolyo - cabbage (chopped) 1/2 - Cup Shrimp (peel, remove shell and head) 1 - Riped Tomato (chopped) 1 - Onion (chopped) 2 - Cloves Garlic (minced) Patis - (fish sauce) to taste 1/2 Cup - Water Cooking Instructions: In a pan pour small amount of cooking oil when hot add garlic, onion and tomato saute it then add shrimp, cabbage to season with patis. Simmer to cook until cabbage is cooked. Ready to serve on a serving plate Optional There are days you feel like eating instant soup you can add the left over to your soup to add vegetables and sunny side up egg. NOT SPONSORED. Subscribe @ Carmina Lifestyle YouTube Channel  a place to look, discover and share. Thank you for ...

The fun only begins when you travel with family who are game to be silly when you take a picture together even if you are in a foreign country and you don't care if strangers are looking at you any way they don't know your name and where you live so you cannot be trace for your identity. We love to be silly at times when we take pictures and being the best of life is to express how we feel by pictures making a goofy look. If you don't see me taking a blooper video, being a photo bomber or making faces that is a person you can recognize who I am really is. I am a fun, sweet, caring, thoughtful and full of jokes to give a smile on your faces even if you are having a tough time stress is not healthy but laughter is so why not take life the next level of finding your own happiness and be child like once in a while not unless you want to grow old with wrinkles on your face. The best in people when they don't hide what they feel when you are under a camera because the truth w...

When you lived in the Philippines for a long time you start missing the bagels back home my sister use to bring us bagels when she had visited us. Now I had discovered places that do sell bagels but the texture is not the same back home. There is nowhere to compare the difference since the taste is almost the same. Flavors available are Cinnamon Raisin or Plain from  French Baker you can purchase them online. They also carry other bread in which we had missed for example sour dough  In case you are a raisin bread lover they also have it at French Baker The one I love eating the most is the soup of the day that comes with bread bowl and it look like this It is best to ask and call to see what soup they are serving the day you plan to visit or when you have it delivered to your location. Loaf of bread sold in their store choose from the following: Whole Wheat Half Loaf Whole Grain Bread  Flat Ciabatta Ciabatta Rolls We will not run out of bread every time we feel like maki...