Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all! May the spirit of Christmas brings happiness, blessings and joy to every one as we celebrate the holiday season with contentment and fulfillment. I hope and wish that all your wishes have been granted for the past year for your family, career and your plans. With strong faith in God we learn to accept his will and his love for all of us.
Our family celebrated the 3rd Birthday of my grandson Jake yesterday at the Glorietta in Makati. It was a family date that we always cherished to do at Christmas time. With our busy schedules, as most of us were working, we made sure that everyone in the family must be able to attend Jakey's special day. Jake is my youngest grandson, the son of Au, my youngest child and her husband Paul. Au made a reservation to the Wee Nam Kee, a Chinese Restaurant located at the Glorietta in Makati. Though I preferred celebrating the occasion in our home, most of us agreed that the venue would be much better in a mall since it is Christmas season; and the children would love to see the decors of Christmas trees and its glittering lights with toys, Santa with reindeers; and many more displayed in many parts of the mall. We were 9 in the family. Ponchie, my eldest child and his wife Babylin and their 2 big boys, Gabe and Rafa; Agatha, my 2nd child and her beau, Voltz and my wife Edith and me.
We were supposed to meet at the restaurant at 6:30 pm for our reservation. But with the Christmas rush of many people going to the malls to shop have created big traffics everywhere. Going to Makati was impossible to reach within 30 minutes, though it is near for most us. Through our cell phones we connected to each one in the family to extend our reservation for another one hour or at 7:30 pm. With these changes, we were able to reach Glorietta just in time for our family dinner at the restaurant. We enjoyed the evening as we greeted our grandson Jake, giving him our gifts with hugs and kisses. After dinner, we strolled at the Glorietta Center for some time and we took our dessert and coffee at the Vanilla Cup Cakes Bakery at the Glorietta roundabout facing the park. Edith and I enjoyed the company of my children and my grandsons for the whole night until we went home to our respective homes. Here are my selected photos of my family yesterday. I hope you'll like it.
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| My daughter Au |
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| Au & Paul |
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| Au and her son, Jake |
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| My wife Edith and Au |
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| The lantern lamps at Wee Nam Kee Restaurant |
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| Au and Paul at the Glorietta Center |
Jake with cousin Rafa at the lobby of Glorietta |
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| The lobby at Glorietta with a big beautiful Christmas tree |
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| Paul, Jake and Au at the lobby |
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| The big beautiful posts at the lobby of Glorietta |
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| Edith, Rafa, Gabe, Au and Jake |
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| Edith, Gabe, Au and Jake |
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| Jake and Gabe at the piano |
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| Jake and Gabe |
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| Gabe and Edith |
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| The Wee Nam Kee Restaurant |
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| The restaurant |
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| The wall at the restaurant with many beautiful picture frames |
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| Agatha and Volts |
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| Paul, Gabe, Ponchie, Rafa and Agatha |
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| Gabe and Babylin |
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| Agatha and Volts |
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| The food at the restaurant |
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| My wife Edith |
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| Ponchie, Jake, Au and Paul |
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| Chinese vases displayed in the restaurant |
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| The Kitchen with chickens hanging for display |
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| Au and Paul with some gifts |
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| My daughter Au |
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| Rafa and Ponchie |
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| Babylin |
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| Jake, Agatha and Volts |
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| My family |
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| At the Glorietta Center |
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| Edith |
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| The Vanilla Cup Cakes |
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| Gabe |
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| At the Vanilla Cup Cakes Bakery |
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| Jake blowing his cake at the bakery |
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| At Vanilla CupCakes Bakery |
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| Edith |
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| Babylin |
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| CupCakes |
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| Gabe and Jake enjoying the games on their IPad |
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| Gabe and Jake |
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| Volts, Agatha and Au |
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| Au and Paul |
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| Babylin and Ponchie |
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At the Glorietta Center with Christmas decors
All the photos here were taken from Canon EOS 550D with a zoom lens of 18 to 55mm. It is a 18 Megapixel camera with APSC CMOS sensor. It has a very good LCD screen with 1,040,000 dots and an aspect ratio of 3:2. Its ISO range is between 100 to 6400 and expandable to 12,400. If you have used Canon DSLRs you would really not feel any difficulty in handling and operating this camera. It handles well with different settings and easily understandable even if you're a new user. I have used a small Point and Shoot Canon Powershot S100 and it is almost the same in its settings and I really find it good and beneficial for my photography.
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