House For Rent (or Sale)

Planning to rent or buy a house in General Trias, Cavite?
The two-storey house below, located in Chateau Real Homes, Manggahan, General Trias Cavite is ready for immediate occupancy.

The subdivision is 400 meters away from Walter Mart, Eagle Ridge Golf & Country Club, Mercury Drug Store, McDonalds, Jollibee, KFC, 7-11, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Filipino restaurants. 2 Kms away from Lyceum University Dasma, 3 Kms away from Gateway Business Park. 6 Kms away from SM City Dasma and Robinson's Mall. Only 30 minutes drive to scenic Tagaytay City.

The garage has enough room for two cars and has plant boxes for aesthetic gardening. Large luminous switches were used and safety electric receptacles that fit both flat and round plugs.

There are two adjacent areas that have their own wash basins. Plenty of storage space is provided above and below the countertops. The cooking area has good ventilation and has pre-installed ducting for an overhead exhaust.

The interior of the cabinets under the countertops are fully lined with ceramic tiles.

Let's see how the second floor looks like.

There are three bedrooms in the second floor each with its own color theme and large built-in cabinets.

The two toilet and baths on the first and second floor have two-toned ceramic tiles from floor to ceiling and a partition between the toilet area and bath area to keep the toilet area clean and dry. Electric outlet is provided for installation of water heater. Premium water fixtures, lavatories and bowls were used.

Click HERE for a WikiMapia sattelite view.
For inquiries email hermie.unite@gmail.com or send SMS to 09209137107.

This property is for rent or for sale.

Ipoh White Coffee of Malaysia

When you say black coffee it means coffee without milk or creamer. So it is only natural to deduce that white coffee is coffee with milk or creamer. Its true in some parts of the world but not in Ipoh.

Ipoh is a town in Malaysia that is the birthplace of Ipoh White Coffee . It is made from Robusta coffee variety but the beans undergo a different roasting process from the traditional Malaysian black coffee where the beans are roasted with sugar and margarine until it is very dark.

Ipoh White Coffee is produced by roasting the beans in margarine without sugar and roasted to a lighter degree resulting to roast that is lighter in color.

My wife bought a few bags of instant white coffee for us to try at home. Each sachet contains 40 grams of 3-in-1 white coffee mix that you dissolve in 180 ml to 200 ml of hot water - just enough for one small, regular cup of coffee.

40 grams is a lot for a small cup of coffee considering that a regular Nescafe instant coffee mix contains only 14 grams. The 40-gram mix contains Ipoh white coffee, non-dairy creamer and cane sugar.

A light froth forms as soon as you mix in the hot water then the aroma of the roasted beans gets hold of you. A hot sip gets you acquainted with the rich and creamy coffee that has a slightly bitter taste and a subtle but familiar sweet taste and aroma of sugarcane that I used to eat raw in my childhood days while I walk home from school beside a sugarcane plantation.

Decades have passed since I've eaten a tubo (sugarcane). Nakaka-miss.

Pagers, Beepers From Not Too Long Ago

Do you still remember this mobile fashion accessory from the past? This thingy was clamped on the belt or pocket of professionals, doctors, politicians, celebrities and college students to keep them wirelessly informed of whoever wants to contact them.

Let's take one last look at these old beepers or pagers from the nineties. The popular brands in the Philippines were EasyCall and PocketBell.

Do you remember calling the pager number of someone you need to contact then being answered personally by an operator asking you what message you want to tell someone? With a perfect stranger jotting down your message so that it can be sent to the pager of someone you know, it was awkward sending corny love messages or private stuffs to them. Replying is also not possible. You have to pick up a land-line phone and call the your friend's pager or land-line phone.

Let's energize two old Motorola pagers using one AAA battery each.

Turning on the pagers in the year 2008 greets you with the same loud beep-beep-beep as the pagers wake up from its long slumber. After setting the time and date, here is how the display looks like. Some dots of the LCD display are already dead. But aside from that, all functions are OK including the vibrating alert. But any old messages it kept before were now lost.

February 2008: No signal

Easycall started its paging service in the Philippines in 1988 and reached its peak in the nineties and had 250,000 subscribers by the end of 1995 with coverage reaching all of Manila and its neighboring provinces, Baguio, La Union, Pangasinan, Bataan, Pampanga, Iloilo, Bacolod, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, Zamboanga, General Santos and Davao.

The later part of the nineties turned gray for pagers as the popularity of a new technology called mobile cellular telephony grew steadily in the Philippines. I still remember the old TV Commercial of Globe Telecoms where two speech-disabled lovers were finally able to "talk" to each other using a Globe Handyphone with text messaging capability - a task previously difficult for speech-disabled person using ordinary phones that were only for voice calls. SMS or text messaging also eliminated the "third party stranger" in the message loop thus liberating all of us to send privately anything we want, no matter how corny or how personal it was. My first GSM cellphone was the Nokia 100 with a SIM card the size of a credit card or ATM card and I loved it.

The pager survived crossing the year 2000 but it was already on its decline. Today, nationwide paging using beepers or pagers is dead in the Philippines. These old pagers can only be used as fancy alarm clocks and time keepers from the past but cellular phones and smartphones like the Nokia 6120c are now the king of mobile messaging and much more.

There are still countries where nationwide paging is available. But most of the time, they are used as local paging systems inside hospitals and factories where there is a need to be wirelessly connected but avoid the interference generated by cellular phones to sensitive equipment.
EasyCall Philippines is still existing though they moved on to other services and there are no more beep-beep-beep for the common Pinoy.

Food Picks in Iligan

Here are some food picks when you go to Iligan, Lanao del Norte, Mindanao. A big thanks to Nick and Chic for sharing these food finds.

Lechon Baka (roast beef) of Abetria

You can choose to have it delivered to you roasted, sliced and ready to eat or have it roasted in your own backyard.

Baboy ramo (wild boar) of Hunters

Papait of Hunters

Kilawing Kambing of Hunters

Chinese Kinilaw of Lai Lai

Birthday Pansit of Lai Lai

Beef Brisket of Patio Alejandra