Asparagus and Strawberries

It is asparagus and strawberry season in Germany. Spargel is the german name for asparagus and most of it are colored white as it is grown covered in soil in order to prevent photosynthesis. This process prevents the asparagus from turning green and results in a sweeter and more tender taste.

It's perfect when its served with slices of ham and hollandaise sauce.

The german strawberry season had also started. Dirk like very much strawberries picked by neighbors and other locals here in our place. These seasonal foods/fruits are selling like hotcakes in the supermarkets and stalls.

Cool mom in front of the supermarket

Schnitzel and Pommes

Everytime we go to any german restaurant, i always order the same food, fried sliced pork and french fries. Sometimes vegetable salad is included as an appetizer.Take a look at my order below, its really a big portion that you can only eat one slice.


There are some restaurants that allow you to order kids menu and that includes small schnitzel and french fries. With our small built, i think that portion is enough for us, same thing with t-shirts that we can buy in the kids section.

The other schnitzel menu at Gugglhupf restaurant

Meet our Engineers

These are the young but promising engineers of Bestman Builders who are responsible in building our retirement house at southforbes golf city. The two are graduates of Mapua Institute of Technology (MIT) and the other one is from Adamson University. MIT used to be the best engineering school in the country. Since they started with the quarterm, the increase in tuition fees and the changing of school name, the quality of teaching suffers.

Caring for the Oldies

Filipino culture do not really look well on children "abandoning" their parents to any homes for the aged. We are reared to respect our parents and that means taking care of them when they grow old. Filipino families are close knit and taking care of our elders is a responsibility.

Here in Germany, the older generation are looking at new models of living for their retirement years. They want security, social contact and comfort. To live in a nursing home for older people is always a family decision. Some children don't have time to care for their elders because of work and own family.

In a nursing home, there are rules to follow, strict schedules and everything is planned as if you're trapped. It's also expensive and rooms depends on the pocket power. Some who cannot afford the nursing home resort to alternative care from relatives and the mobile caregivers.

The Stone Bread

For the first time in his life, dirk baked a bread. It's a dark wheat bread and he said its tastes good. For me, its more of a stone than a bread beause of the dark color and its really hard.

Actually he's just testing the ready mix wheat bread if it tastes good. Mutti is going to be with us in December and she only eats dark bread and we're going to buy a bread baking machine soon.

The Second Hand Shop

While browsing around the city today looking for the new office of our friend michael, we came accross this second hand shop selling used clothes, accessories, decors, furnitures and other housewares. They're even selling a very old sewing machine way back from the 60's.

It seems that i'm collecting different scratcher, i found this at one euro shop and i also have two others from baguio and vietnam. My new find had double purpose, a scratcher and a shoehorn

The Strange Weather

Yesterday, i have some bouts of headache because of the hot weather. When the weather is like this, ice cream and coffee shops are full of people enjoying the sunny weather. There are also lot of shoppers because its the start of the spring vacation for students. On my part, i just bought some toiletries, fresh asparagus and kopfsalat.

While browsing around the city, i saw this black dog who dont want to get out of this stone figure with water inside. Its probably his way to fight the hot and humid weather. If its sunny yesterday, its raining the whole day today, strange isn't it??