Hey there! I’m Jan and I’ve been a long-time advocate of Self-Education, Personal Growth & Development, Transformation, and Life-Long Learning.
I’ve been continuously learning and growing for the past 15+ years, reading books, attending seminars and workshops outside the country, enrolling in online courses, building businesses, succeeding in some, failing in some, traveling, immersing in new cultures, and all the other ways you can think of to grow both my personal and professional life.
This is a LIVE Blogging Event held @ the SM City Cebu Foodcourt on November 30, 2009 entitled the "Asia In A Basket" Food Blogger's Event.
This event is organized by the SM City Cebu Foodcourt Manager and we, the Cebu Bloggers Society were lucky to be invited by this once in a lifetime event.
The staffs prepared specialty foods from different Food tenants inside the food court for us to eat and share our opinions on what their Specialty was like.
These are some Food Tenants who happily shared their Speciaty foods to us:
Marina
Golden Bowl
Fountainhead
Island Grill Express
And MORE! (to be uploaded soon :)
As a Travel-Events-Food Blogger myself, this is a very great opportunity given to us by the SM City Foodcourt Manager and staffs to be able to share my food experience to other people visiting the SM City Cebu.
A very BIG BIG Thanks to the SM City Foodcourt Manager and staffs for organizing this event! The SM City Cebu Foodcourt sure is one of the Best Places To Eat with your family and friends @ the SM City Cebu. Read more...
We went to SM Mall Of Asia (MOA) the day after we went to SM Sta Mesa (SM Centerpoint). We stayed there for the whole day, my Dad waiting for my Auntie and cousin to arrive from Davao City, and me, waiting for someone to lighten up my mood (Imagine being stuck inside SM Mall Of Asia for the whole day!). SM Mall Of Asia (MOA) was supposed to be the largest mall in the Philippines and in Asia but is now only ranked as the second largest mall next to SM City North EDSA because of the many extensions done to SM City North EDSA. The mall is located at Bay City, Pasay City, Philippines just near the SM Central Business Park and the Manila Bay.
The SM Mall of Asia mall grounds consists of four buildings interconnected by walkways; the Main Mall, the Entertainment Mall, and the North and South Carpark Buildings.
The Main Mall includes shopping and dining establishments and the food court. The Entertainment Mall is a two-story complex, a majority of which is open-air, facing Manila Bay.
The mall's 5,000 parking spaces are divided across two, six-story parking buildings conveniently designated the North and South parking buildings. The South Parking building houses the mall's official SM Department Store, while the mall's supermarket, the SM Hypermarket is located within the North Parking building.
One of the mall's somewhat-unique features is a 20-seater tram traveling around the mall grounds to ferry shoppers around.
Concierge desks are located in the Main Mall and the Entertainment Mall. -Wikipedia
SM Mall Of Asia Ice Skating Rink
One of the main attractions in SM Mall Of Asia is the first ever IMAX Theater in the country. Another attraction inside the mall is the Philippine's first Olympic-sized ice skating rink. And since it's an ice skating rink, it's slightly cooler in this area and people tend to stay here. There are times that an artificial snow is being popped off from above on to the ice skating rink, and luckily, we have captured it in real time. Here's a video we have taken:
SM Mall Of Asia Bowling and Billiards Area
Me and my dad also went to the mall's Bowling and Billiards Area where my dad usually takes a nap when he's in SM Mall Of Asia (shh.. that's our secret!). Here's some pictures of SM Mall Of Asia (MOA) Bowling and Billiards Area:
SM Mall Of Asia Shows and Events
There's also some luxury car shows and a Yamaha motorcycle show that time. I manage to get some pictures of my "Dream Cars" and a picture of one of the Yamaha Promo Girls too!(don't tell my Mom!):
Krispy Kreme in SM Mall Of Asia
Our most favorite doughnut is at SM Mall Of Asia (MOA) too! The Krispy Kreme Doughnuts! We bought 2 Dozens of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts before going to the airport.
San Miguel By The Bay / Manila Bay
After a long, long wait, my auntie and cousin finally arrived so we went strolling outside the mall to the Manila Bay or is called San Miguel By The Bay. There we saw this Big, floating, inflatable balls with a kid inside it (yes! inside the big, floating, inflatable ball!). We noticed that the parents of the children inside the ball are enjoying watching them, while the kids were not (poor kids.. tsk3!).
Sunset/Twilight In Manila Bay and SM Mall Of Asia
We waited for the sun to set there and captured some scenes of Twilight in Manila Bay and SM Mall Of Asia =). After a long day, me and my dad together with my auntie and cousin decided to go to the airport for our 11PM Flight to Saigon, Vietnam.
P.S. And of course, my day would not have been complete if I haven't met that someone who could lighten up my mood! Okay, I met with a pretty friend of mine whom I met at Plurk and Facebook, selling her Networking deals (yes! she's a business-minded chick! :p). Some say she looks like Jennelyn Mercado, some say Iya Villania, but I say, she's prettier than those two! (ehem!). She is Iana Therese Abesamis of ianatherese.blogspot.com (and now she's in to Problogging!). We both met at the SM Ice Skating Rink and I was glad to see her in person, atleast before leaving for Vietnam-Cambodia. Too bad she was in a hurry to get home that time, I wasn't able to treat her a snack! (Tsk tsk!) (She hates this picture so just check out more of her pics at ianatherese.multiply.com)
After a short stroll at Greenhills Shopping Center, we went directly to SM Centerpoint to have our dinner there. When we arrived, I noticed that the name of the mall was SM Sta Mesa and not SM Centerpoint. My dad then told me that SM Sta Mesa was formerly called SM Centerpoint. He said that it's the second SM Mall to be established in the Philippines. The mall is located very near the boundaries of Quezon City, San Juan City and in Manila.
However, the mall is not considered as the 3rd mall located in Quezon City because the term Centerpoint refers that the mall is located between the cities of Manila, San Juan and Quezon City. The SM Centerpoint was now changed to SM City Sta. Mesa in mid-May 2006, commemorating SM Sta. Mesa's 15th Anniversary. - Wikipedia
There was also a Graduation Reggae Special Event that day on SM Sta Mesa. There were a lot of hot, sexy Hawaiian (Filipinas actually, just dressed in Hawaiian) dancers and a Reggae Band to entertain the customers at the Food court. Here's a short video of the hot, sexy Hawaiian dancers and the cool Reggae band with a hot vocalist =).
