for myspace friends: AWITAN sings

recorded at one of those events

my very own banca in gamay, northern samar

my banca, municipality center behind


she loves the freshj fish


she my life

tis is why can not easily have many small internet transactions

south east in picture my place and home town gamay, nortern samar, south 70 km to west is catarman, is only here have bank and express mail service, i go there every month, north west ist quezon city, part of metro manila

doorlock, philippine style

daily life in samar

my 3d store




so dark after summer

more from my place near Ormoc Leyte

taken around May 2008

finger food at the beach

my little plantation store

near Ormoc, Leyte

my home near ormoc, leyte, december 2007


my sari sari store


typhoon, june 2008

MY HEART WILL GO ON: awitan rehearsal honors a generous person with a kind heart

awitan feels so blessed today,
it came so unexpected and so beyond expectation!
she requested blogger to publish something immediately for the world to share her joy.
awitan is in northern samar, and probably a trip 2 days or more from the blogger. so blogger choose from the series you know already: every event needs preparation and rehearsal. here excerpts of MY HEART WILL GO ON, taped in awitans modest place in metro manila .

you dive? i dont, i know how to swim

many divers paradise in philippines and especially cebu. very accessible with mactan cebu international airport via hong kong qatar singapore korea japan and other

dive corals or dive wrecks of battle of leyte gulf, largest sea battle ever.

haruhay, where austrians and others meet and dine and wine

whenever in mactan cebu and have have a crave vor schnitzel knoedel wuerste wein pfannkuchen... haruhay is the place to be

open air restaurant, austrian yes, in austria no. comes with rooms swimming pool tennis court and more. real underground wine cellar under construction!


have a look at the beer add, dont worry they dont have it hehe


awitan wasnt here yet, she would find it if someone would ask her to guide

proposed cd covers

sinulog beat

sinulog! pit senyor!





beat of sinulog

dreaming of my own place with food and music

some 6,500 different people visited this blogspot and exactly 8 (as in eight) inquired to learn more about awitans dreams. we tried to answer individually and now for the benefit of all we come up with some pictures.


awitans dream is reasonable, realistic and achievable. here is why:
eatery in the philippines is a bit of all of the following: a diner in the US, bistrot in france, eethuis in netherlands, imbiss in germany,

it can be fastood, junkfood or home cooked,

it may come with entertainment like sports, cable tv, karaoke singing, live band

the locals love to sing dance and eat. it is not uncommon to see people in a public parc ballroom dancing at 6 am before work,

they all sing, many out of tune :-) ,

they love to eat and they amuse themselves almost without alcohol...

a franchise is out of reach, that would be high end
in a good location. more down to reality the investment can be anything starting for a streetcorner pushcart, - and the sky is the limit.

it depends on buying land or not, building a structure or not etc.

going into the business is easy, staying there is difficult, lots of competition

so here is the plan:

- look for good location, dont buy land, just rent

- built own cheap light and open-air structure. please note here they separate ownership of land and ownership of buildings and structures.

- start small expand as it goes, no loans.

- i saw a 24 h well working concept offering only

- grilled or fried or boiled

- fish or chicken or porc,

- vegetable of the day,

- soup of the day,

- mango or papaya or pineapple,

- soft drinks or beer

- for awitan i suggest opening time 11.00am to 11.00pm sun to thu, 11.00am t0 2.00am fri sat)- add a karaoke so guest may sing themselves, live band evenings thu to sun, may be cable tv with sports channel and sure awitan sings herself at times as well

face mask from samar

artificial body parts have been of interest since centuries, here an artificial face from awitans home island of samar.