Happy Birthday, My Dear Neo!

Happy Birthday, my dear Neo!  You are a big boy now but you will always be Mama's little baby.  Thank you for being Mama's biggest blessing.  Always remember that Papa and Mama loves you so much!  😙😙😙

A Lunch Visit at F Café of F1 Hotel

Sometime last October, we dined at F Café.  F Café is the in-house restaurant of F1 Hotel, a hotel located at BGC, Taguig.  We went there after the MBP Mad HatterHalloween Party, which was held at The Mind Museum at BGC too.  Since I decided to have our lunch there a week prior to our visit, and as a practical person, I bought vouchers at Deal Grocer (one of my favorite group buying site).  The vouchers were priced at 50% off but we need to reserve a slot 3 days before the day of the actual dining.

We parked at the basement parking of F1 Hotel.  The elevators indicated that we need to go to the 3^rd floor as that is where F Café was located.  There’s a small lobby for the restaurant.  We were ushered to our seat the moment we hand over our vouchers.

The restaurant looks very nice but very small.  Our family has been to hotel restaurants that offer buffet dining, and F Café has the smallest area and the least food selection. 

They offer limited choices of food, and I am sad to say that my little boy wasn’t able to eat save for the small piece of cake and ice cream. 

However, what F Café lack in variety they compensated with taste.  As with other hotel buffets, F Café’s foods are one of the most delicious I had ever tasted.  Hotel buffets have the tastiest foods, no? 

The service is also impeccable.  We didn’t need to ask for coffee or tea after our dining as the staff offered it the moment they saw we were done savoring the buffet foods. 

We had a nice experience dining at F Café, but if you asked me if dining at F Café will give you a good value for your money, I would have to tell you otherwise.  The food taste good, the venue looks nice, and the staffs are attentive, but if you go to a buffet, you really want to taste a variety of food and the limited food choices offered by F Café does not give the money you paid for it a good value.  Maybe a price reduction or perhaps adding for more food choices would make a good idea.  But during this dine in, I am glad we bought vouchers at Deal Grocer for the half price deal! :) 

F Café buffet price is Php1399. 

The family that eats together, gets happy tummies together. J

Neo at Volkswagen Junior Child Safety Initiative

Early this year, Top Gear Philippines announced that there’s an on-going Volkswagen Junior Child Safety Initiative.  Because Neo loves cars too much, this is something I would like for him to try.  So when I saw that Volkswagen Junior Child Safety Initiative will be part of Summit Ridge’s Eat, Shriek, and Be Scary Halloween Party, we immediately put it in our calendar.

After the Halloween Party at Summit Ridge events hall, we went outside the lobby where the Volkswagen Junior Child Safety Initiative was located.  It has four (4) main components.

REGISTRATION.  Parents register their kids to participate in the course.  Part of the registration is the taking the kid’s picture and personal information for their Junior Driver’s License.

SEMINAR.  After registration, the kids were ushered to a hall for the driving seminar.  Our little boy was lucky as it was former LTO chief Alberto Suansing who led his Junior Safety Seminar.  The kids were taught basic traffic rules and regulations.

PRACTICE DRIVING COURSE. Once done with the seminar, kids can now apply what they learned in the driving course.  The driving course is composed of makeshift routes and buildings, traffic lights, and road signs.  Kids drove around using kiddie Volkswagen cars.

DRIVERS LICENSE RELEASE.  After completing the registration, seminar, and practice driving course, kids were given their very own Volkswagen Junior Driver’s License.

After the activity, parents were also given a handbook entitled Child Safety Initiative.  This is to aid parents in teaching our kids how to be more vigilant in the roads.  Learning always starts in our own home.   

This is a very nice activity that can help kids.  Neo enjoyed it a lot while learning.  I hope there will be more activities such as this one that my little boy can participate.

PS: Being a wife to a car enthusiast and a mom to a future car enthusiast, I do follow websites and facebook pages about cars. J