Luncheon dates - Tuesday, Sept. 25

Luncheon dates - Tuesday, Sept. 25



Mommy's Fish and Chips in Lachine, with Karen, Agnes, and Tita Nil.

Specialty- they serve English style fish and chips.


Medium Fish & Chips plate, two pieces of fish and fries - $7.75


Nil had a small plate, single fish with fries, $5.25


woh, easy now Agnes ;-)

After lunch we headed to the Dairy Queen a few steps away from Mommy's Fish and Chips for dessert.







From Dairy Queen we headed towards the water, by the banks of Lac St. Louis, to enjoy the view of the surrounding area.

















What a beautiful afternoon - PTL!!

Luncheon dates - Monday, Sept. 24

Monday, September 24

Lunch with Sam T., at Maiko Sushi on Bernard St. One of our favorite sushi place. Whenever dining there (usually lunch), I order their Bento dish ($16.00); yesterday I had the Beef bento (with Salmon, Tempura shrimp & veggies, fresh veggies, etc.)


soup to warm up with


Beef Bento (mine)


Assorted Sushi platter (Sam)


sweeeeet

Even sweeeter because it was Sam's turn to pay for lunch this time. ;-)))

Arachnophobia

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Fear of spiders

Who's afraid of these beautiful creatures?

Tita Nil, Trish, Pam - to name just a few ;-))

Lunch at Arahova Souvlaki

menu


Tita Nil and Pam


Allen and Tito Lits


Cleopatra Nilda ;-), just teasing Tita Nil

I suggested that maybe we should go to Chinatown for lunch (VIP Restaurant), right after church. But, as we started to drive away, a few suggestions for alternate lunch destinations, closer by, came up, and so from the original idea of lunch in Chinatown (VIP Restaurant), we ended up in the West Island, at the Arahova Souvlaki restaurant, the one near Fairview Shopping Centre. Thank God, we had a great lunch and a chance to walk around and do some 'sight shopping' at Fairview afterwards.


Gyro chicken plate- large, $15.00


Tita Nil and I shared a large plate of Gyro chicken- with fries, salad

FAMAS Induction Ball 2007 Slide Show

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Saturday Night at the FAMAS Induction Ball

We were invited to attend the induction ball for the newly elected executive board of FAMAS (Filipino Association of Montreal and Suburbs). The invitation cost us $100.00 ($50.00 per person, dinner, dance). It was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Montreal (formerly the Meridien Hotel).







Coming into the downtown area, I took the Ville Marie Expressway. I had my camera (Canon SD1000) on standby, ready to shoot on the fly. There's this certain frame I'd been wanting to shoot, it's where and when you are approaching the De La Montagne exit off the Ville Marie. Again, I just love the compactness of the SD1000.









I took these four photos (above) after taking the De La Montagne exit and while weaving through the slow moving traffic. This was in the vicinity of the Bell Centre where the Montreal Canadiens pro-hockey team was scheduled to play, which explains the heavy traffic.





Finally made it to the Hyatt Regency, made our way into the hotel parking, underground level. Max Handinero, an old acquaintance of ours, shows us a vacant parking spot. Thanks Max!

For the rest of the pictures from the FAMAS Induction Ball, I will be posting them shortly on my Picasa Web Album.

Cheers! Mabuhay!!

Breakfast at Fairview Deli

Tita Nil and I had breakfast the other day at the Fairview Deli restaurant inside the Fairview Shopping Centre.





I took these photos using my Canon SD1000, ISO setting was on High. Noticed the graininess (if there's such a word), characteristic of a higher ISO setting.

Tita Nil loves real Coke

Playing around with the various settings that come with my Canon SD1000.

Here are a couple of pictures I took using 'select a color' thingy. Can you guess what color? ;-)





By the way, that tall Coca-Cola plastic bottle came from one of the Roy Rogers along the NY Thruway. Uncle Marvin got it for Tita Nil.

I love my Sony DSC-S75

I love it specially in low light conditions, even with the flash turned off.

Here are photos I took recently, so as to compare results with my new, smaller Canon SD1000 (which have many features that my older Sony doesn't have). I am posting only the photos from my Sony.

By the way, a challenge I have with my older Sony DSC-S75 is that it only takes up to a maximum of 128mb Memory Stick.





Following are some recent photos from Tita Nil's garden.


reaching for the sky


late bloomer


the Sony also takes great macro shots


macro setting

I am already late for work

C'mon give me a break.

I am already late for work- still have to walk the dog or else it'll pee wherever, and then I'll have to make a mad rush through the crowded interstate thruway and put up with the long toll booth line ups, etc.

oh no, this is what happens when I forgot to walk the dog before leaving for work

I am late for work already, I was here first

2008 Honda Accord Sighting

According to my source:
"This car should be available to purchase at the Honda dealers by Sept.
21st."

Lalaine and Paul's Wedding, Photo Compilation

Photos compiled from various Facebook buddies, friends of Lalaine and Paul.



[ Picasa Web Album Photos ]

All Emma

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The pathway to heaven begins at the foot of the cross

September 11, 2007

Lead Them To The Cross

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READ: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25

God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. —Galatians 6:14

About this cover

Many heart-touching stories were circulated after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. None seems more spiritually significant than that of ironworker Frank Silecchia. As he was helping to recover bodies, Frank noticed two steel beams in the shape of a cross standing upright in the middle of all the debris.

Appointing himself as the curator of that striking symbol of God’s love, he often took heartbroken visitors to see it. Many of them were comforted by the silent testimony to the divine Presence in the worst of tragedies. One day when journalist Barbara Walters came with tearful friends who had lost a son in the catastrophe, Frank simply led them to the cross.

The answer to the world’s terrible pain and evil is not a philosophical argument or a theological treatise. The all-sufficient answer is Calvary’s cross, where in fathomless grace Jesus, the incarnate God, took upon Himself the burden of our sins and bore them “in His own body on the tree, that we . . . might live for righteousness” (1 Peter 2:24).

If you have not been led to Calvary’s cross, let me take you there. He died for you and then rose again. Believe in Him and you will be saved (1 Cor. 1:21). —Vernon C Grounds

They are nailed to the cross, they are nailed to the cross!
O how much He was willing to bear.
With what anguish and loss, Jesus went to the cross,
But He carried my sins with Him there. —Breck

The pathway to heaven begins at the foot of the cross.

Bike Ride, September 9,2007

Bike Ride, September 9,2007, our threesome of Uncle Pilo, Uncle Marv, and myself. Departure time, early Sunday morning, 7:30am, round trip arrival time was 9:45am. Destination, St. Anne De Bellevue, via Senneville Rd, return via Chemin St. Marie, to Kirkland, DDO, and finally Pierrefonds

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Happy riding!!

Tito Lits

Follow up post re: Canon SD1000

I've used a number cameras over the years ever since my interest in photography developed (pun not intended) back in my high school days in the Philippines.

Cameras were very expensive then and a good SLR would set one back a few thousand pesos.

I've been meaning to buy a small compact camera that would also have very good photographic qualities and features. I settled with the Canon SD1000, purchased from Best Buy for $299 CAD. It had to be small and light enough to fit in the back pocket of my cycling jersey and at the same time take better quality pictures than my Palm Treo 700wx.


size comparison of some of the cameras I have - a manual Vivitar SLR, Sony DSC-S75, SD1000, Palm Treo 700wx