Going on Lunch Inside Saudi Aramco

So It's 11:19 am and I am set to take my lunch which is a usual trip from my building to another via land travel (walking)

Some essentials before going out..

This is my building - 3137 in LIP and the facade

I will be walking through this street to reach my destination.

So I reached the intersection where everyone has to stop and follow the traffic rules. At this point, I am not an option but a priority. Hahahaha

And let me continue walking

Yes I need to take this stairs to go to the other side. But there another way though. I just like going this route.

This is the building where the cafeteria is.

And some beautiful flowers along the way 😊

That is the dining area and I am already on queue. 😜

The queue is a bit shorter today though 😬😬😀😀

There's KORIAN CHICKEN

This is the guy who serves us on a daily basis 👍👍 (pardon his blurred pic)

And yes - I ordered the KORIAN CHICKEN with some vegetable sauce and rice which cost me only SAR 12 or about Php 144.00, plus 8 riyals for the water and fresh orange juice. 😀

By 12:15 I will be heading back to 3137 coz lunch is already over. I enjoyed my meal for today and hope you enjoyed that quick tour inside the Dhahran Industrial Camp - Light Industrial Parkway 😊

Expectations: A part of Life, A Cycle.

A person I knew from a recent past quoted:

"Do not expect others to treat you the way you treat them"

It hit me; right on the face. It was true, it makes so much sense. I had to reflect and realized that I am seeing myself in that statement. 

We often hear people say these words, but does it matter? Is it bad to expect? Did we care at all? Answer to all is NO. It's doesn't matter to us that we expect. It's not bad to expect. And we don't care at all when people say this and we still expect. 

I do not see something wrong with that. We are humans. It's but natural for us to expect something in return when we exert effort, spent much of our time, used our resources. 

However, things gets worst when we let our thoughts and emotions control us. When these expectations becomes far more important than what it should be in the first place. But we still chooses to get hurt and be hurt. And then we move forward and learn. 

But this is a cycle. You'll go through the same stages "UNLESS YOU DO NOT CARE AT ALL!"

Cheesy Garlic Potato Hotdog - The Winning Dish

In relation to my Hotdog Festival blog, I am not posting the ingredients and the cooking instructions for my winning dish:

 

Ingredients: 
2 small packs of Baby Potatoes (bought from Market-Market - Dizon Farms brand)
10 pcs. Jumbo sized hotdogs (Tender Juicy)
1 small bottle of Cheese Whiz
1 can of Angel Kremqueso
1 pack of Eden grated cheese
Butter
Garlic (1 head and few more cloves)
1 big White Onion 
Dried basil (McCormick bottle)
Salt and White Pepper to taste
All spice (McCormick bottle)
Sugar

Cooking instructions:

1. Wash baby potatoes. Cut in half. Seasoned with basil and all spice. Boil potatoes until cooked.
2. Cut hotdogs in 4 equal sizes. Fry the hotdogs. 
3. Mince garlic and onions 
4. After boiling the potatoes, you are now ready to saute.
5. Heat the pan, add oil and butter (keep the fire in low to medium heat)
6. Add garlic and continue mixing until golden brown
7. Add onions, dried basil, and all spice
8. Pour in the potatoes, mix until golden brown 
9. Add salt and white pepper to taste. 
10. Simmer for about five minutes and set-aside

Sauce:

In a pan, pour in Kremqueso and 5-6 tablespoons of Cheese whiz. Keep the fire in low heat. Stir until sauce thickens. To balance the strong taste of the cheese, add 1-2 tablespoons of sugar. Simmer sauce for about 5minutes. Set aside and the cream and cheese settles. 

Mix hotdogs and sauteed potatoes. Pour the sauce on your dish and top it with grated cheese. You can make 8-10 servings of the dish (or more.. hahaha). 

I hope you guys understood the above... LOL.. Apologies for some terms used as this is my first time to create something like this. This is easier discussed than written. I swear. LOL.

Enjoy cooking and eating. :)

Hotdog Festival: The Great Hotdog (and Sausage) Cooking Challenge

Part of being in a team (in the workplace) is the regular weekly meeting. However, our team does a monthly meeting, when we are all complete and we have some presentations on top of the usual topic or agenda.

But what sets our team apart, is the most exciting "pot luck." Yes, you've read it right. In so much more that we are excited about games and stuff, we are more fond of eating. We actually just finished one last Tuesday and here are some of the foods we brought and munched on together (Photos credits goes to Kilven Ablaña):

  

There was so much variety that you don't even know which one to eat first. In the middle of the conversation while eating, one member of the team uttered that he like any dish that has HOTDOGS in it. 

And so another pot-luck was set, and the main ingredient is:

 

Each member of the team would need to cook something, with HOTDOG as the MAIN ingredient. Yup, hotdog was the KING. 

The potluck become more exciting when our boss sent an email that this potluck would be a contest and the best dish will win Php. 500.00 gift certificate. 

And now all the people from the team were searching for best dish to cook. Competitive Mode turned on. 

Presenting the dishes by the Master Chef contestants:

Hotdog Crepe with Olives and Cheese - named  DOGGY CREPE ala OLIVIER, by Junjie Aves.

Menudo-Hotdog wrapped - named WRAP-AROUND HOTDOG, by Arvy Liana Baluyot

 

Spicy Hungarian Sausage in Red Spicy sauce, named SPICY SAUSAGE ala BOGART, by Kris Zabala

The self-titled dish, AFRITADA HOTDOG, by Rich Chua

 

Another self-titled dish, Cheesy Garlic Potato Hotdog, minus the "ala Valdez" as the dish includes Basil as an ingredient, made by me. :)

Hotdog Hamonado, named HAMONADOG, by Vhia Carla De Dios

Hungarian Sausage Sushi, named HOT FUSION, by Brian Sotelo. FUSION is pronounced differently, you may just ask the owner how. LOL

Hotdog Embutido, named EMBUTIDOG, by Leah Mantaring.

Named CORNDOG, is a Corned Beef-Hotdog fusion by Vic De Guzman

 

Another fusion dish, Tuna and Hotdog named as NA-DOGGING TUNA by Raymund Austria.

 

Crunchy Hotdog in Menudo Salsa sauce, named CRUNCHY DOG by Kilven Ablaña.

Although some did not have the luxury of time to prepare, Ate Lalaine brought pizza and Cho Nor (Vince Balba) bought some rice:

 

Now the time has come for the judges to do the tasting and determine which dish tastes the best:

 

We had 3 persons who judged the Great Hotdog Challenge: Lorraine Banzon (IGS Director), Ruby Miquiabas (S3 Tech Manager), and Rhea Mendoza (INFOR ION Tech, Lead).

Prior to the announcement of winner, we enjoyed this yummy desert prepared by our manager Diana Macalino.

And the winner of the Great Hotdog (and Sausage) Challenge is  ( do you hear the drum roll? ):

 

My  CHEESY GARLIC POTATO HOTDOG ala VALDEZ!!! wohooooo... Thank you so much judges. hahaha.. 

Please leave a comment if you want to get the ingredients of all the dishes presented here. I will, on the other hand, create another blog for my dish' ingredients and cooking instructions. 

I hope that you were able to get an idea of what to cook for your family especially for the kids. Happy cooking! :)

Jia's 1st Birthday - part 2

Jia's kumare was introduced in part-1. That's Calista Soleil Aves aka Cayli, my officemate's daughter and the kumare of Jia Carleen De Dios - birthday princess.

More of Jia Carleen, and some cute tricks she can show:

But of course, these birthdays are for kids. Some games were played, and bet the tropa (Yuri, Renz, Marcus) enjoyed it well.

There was also a magic show, and a balloon twist show (just wasn't able to take pictures of the balloon twist show).

We also enjoyed posing in front of the camera in the Photobooth:

But the kid in me enjoyed the Candy Buffet much more than the real buffet. Don't get me wrong, as the food were all delicious.

It was such an enjoyable day for me, and the rest of my office mates. But most especially to the family of the birthday girl.

Oh, and before I forget, if you have any events coming-up and you are looking for an events organizer, please feel free to contact the person behind this successful event:

Jazmin Dela Cruz
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