A German Visitor

Yesterday, Hans-werner visited us in our new place. He's vacationing here alone and his wife was not able to join him because of work schedule. He had a house in Carmona which is just few kilometers from ou place. We invited him to joined us for lunch.

The Kitchen Queen

I'm on temporarily hiatus and semi-retired on my domestic duties. Let the guests do the cooking and do some household work. Here in our new home, Swetha, Arthur's russian girlfriend is our kitchen queen. They loved to go to the public market to buy some fresh fish, vegetables and fruits. She also cooked well and even bring her own spices from Moscow.

Our Guest Bed

Our guest bed was delivered yesterday. Its made of massive wood and its very heavy. Look at the pictures below on how they bring the bed to the second floor of our house. We have it customized in one of the furniture shops along Tagaytay road. They dismantled the bed and screwed it together in the bedroom.

Cost- Cutting Measures

Life is not that easy, with the present economic crisis, we're also doing some cost cutting measures on our new house. As much as possible, we don't use the air condition that much, we want to save on electricity and water as well.


We still have few plants in our garden and we have a sensor that if the soil is dry then our hose will automatically water all the plants.


We also don't hire an interior decorator, we just do it ourselves, we have a very tight budget and every single cent that we save helps. We shipped some of our painting and some household items. But since we're already at the Mall of Asia yesterday, we just look at some paintings available there but we're going to buy that later when the pocket is already stabilized.

The Power of Plants

In our new house, to conceal the outside unit of the aircon, we covered it with plants which also serve as our fence at the moment.



We also have thai bamboo to cover us from the neighbor's peep.

My Christmas Tree

Here in the Philippines, putting christmas decorations starts during the BER months. So as early as September, some people already starting to decorate their homes. When we arrive here, or house is already decorated with christmas bling blings. My daughters used our old christmas tree from our rented house but all the christmas balls and the red star are from Germany.



That spot of the house is my favorite where i have a small artificial flower garden.

Fine Dining at Home

We don't have internet connection yesterday thats why i was not able to blog. My day is not complete without an entry in my blog world. For the first time, instead of eating in the restaurant, Arthur's girlfriend cooked for us.


She prepared vegetable salad, tenderloin with curry and another pork dish with vegetables. It tastes good but i only eat the pork because i dont eat vegetables.



Also yesterday, three of our balikbayan boxes arrived. You know what is inside, well its dirk's beer dispenser and beers from germany and the two other package contained the roll up door and my sampayan, imported from Germany.