Cj Bane

from Walis-tambo to window decoration

Okay, so yesterday 29th of January, I took a walk in New Haga street here in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden and this window display caught my attention.

This caught my attention because in Philippines we use this to clean our yards and yesterday I saw it as a window decoration in a salon.

I remember nanay (mother) gave me the responsibility to keep the yard always clean and I'm proud to say I do it well and I still do it when I visit Philippines.

Nanay has different uses of walis-tambo;

she use it for cleaning,
she use it for a threat, if me and brothers were doing something stupid, nanay will just show the walis-tambo and we know its time to stop whatever stupidity were doing or else.... you know what will happen...
and as far as I can remember nanay use walis-tambo as pamalo rather than for cleaning :)

Well, being hit with the whole walis-tambo is better than being hit with only one piece of it (isang ting-ting). Mas masakit kaya no!

... anyway this picture brings back the memories. I love you 'nay and thank you sa mga palo. See you soon.

Heart of Gold Charity night in Gothenburg, Sweden

Last saturday 28th of January the Heart of Gold charity night was held in Gamlestaden, Medborgarhus here in Gothenburg, Sweden. A lot of filipinos attended the charity night.

This charity night is intended for all the Sendong victims.

The ticket

our dinner....sarap

The opening ceremony

a lil' girl sang a song of Adele
Someone like you

Si kuya Albert oh...nag I wan't to break free ang drama...

our Justin Beiber of the night
Baby...baby...baby oh....

They are Bolivian dancers and unfortunately I forgot the name of
their dance. :(
Aside from showing their dance to us, they
also show how big their heart is...they
also donated some amount for the Sendong victims.

Si kuya Albert again...this time siya si Lisa Minelli

Heal the world

one of the talented pinoy of that night
He played the FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS of Metallica.
This boy rocks!

We may live so far away from our home country Philippines but we do know how to look back and reach out to offer help for those who are in need. I hope that we made a small difference.

Looking forward to be with mama Filipina this year.

A day in Gdansk part II

I'm on my way to eat golonka.

busy shoppers

I'm one of them... ^_^

A day in Gdansk part I

Oh I love Gdansk.

I would love to stay in Gdansk more than just a day.

A night in Sopot

Visiting the TROJ MIASTA or the Tricity in Poland. First stop was in the pier of Sopot.

if I'm not mistaken, this is the St. George church
Correct me if wrong.

A movie night in Sopot pier
I actually forgot the title of the movie .

The Grand Hotel at my back....

Saying hello to Poznan, Poland

Me and family-in-law drove four hours from Warsaw to Poznan. My mother-in-law who is a polish show the cozy old town and though it wasn't that sunny, that day is enough to make me realize that someday I wanna go back there again and just sit in one of the restaurant around old town and have a cold glass of beer. LECH.