Our Lives With Red Ribbon

 

Cakes are very popular everywhere you look. Cakes are always present on some restaurants, serving it as a dessert or sometimes as the main course. Cakes are also popular as a form of a gift to give thanks or to receive forgiveness. Cakes are always present in every birthday that we’ve gone through. We haven’t really taken any thought about it, but cakes have become part of our lives. And bakeries such as the Red Ribbon Bakery have become a household name in every Filipino family.

 

The Red Ribbon Bakery is among of the many bakeries in the Philippines that specialize in providing a wide Array of premium cakes from birthday cakes to cakes given as a gift. But before the Red Ribbon Bakeryhas become as popular as it is today, in the past years, it wasn’t even known throughout the Philippines but popular in certain places. But today, the Red Ribbon Bakery has become so popular that Filipinos abroad can even enjoy its cakes because of it’s continues expansion throughout the world.

 

Red Ribbon Bakery is a popular fast-food chain and bakery in the Philippines and the United States, offering a wide range of cakes and pastries. Some bakeries also offer pastas, macaronis, and some Filipino dishes such Palabok.

 

Red Ribbon Bakery is a popular bakery in the Philippines and in the United States, offers the widest range of cakes and pastries that will sure hit the taste of Filipinos, in and out of the country.

The Red Ribbon Bakery began in 1979 in Quezon City along Timog Avenue, it is where the first Red Ribbon Bakery opened its door to its customers.

 

It started its franchising in the year of 1999. But before they started that, the Red Ribbon Bakery first opened their first US branch in West Covina, California.

 

As of March 2008, there are an over of 194 branches of Red Ribbon Bakery that can be found all over the Philippines, each offering its unique collection of cakes for Filipinos. There are also 20 stores all over California, two in Las Vegas, two in New Jersey, one in metro Phoenix, and in New York.

It was in 2005 that Red Ribbon was acquired by Jollibee Foods Corporation, a conglomerate of popular fast-food chains in the Philippines.

 

But aside from cakes being popular as a symbol for a special event or occasion, cakes are also popular as gifts. And this is what Express Regalo can provide for their customers, a way to send gifts all over the world.

 

For more information about what Express Regalo can provide, or about the cakes of Red Ribbon, then visit Express Regalo at www.expressregalo.com for more details.

 

 

Short stories: Inspirational

KRISTEN: THE GAY FROM FRISCO

I got sick and was “confined” at home for 3 months. Since i could not go to the parlor I asked for the parlor to come to me. Kristen was to give me perm and a pedicure. My eyes popped out of their sockets when I saw Kristen for the first time. He/she was already in the living room when i came down – it was late to send him/her away.

Kristine looked tall, slender, meticulously dressed in soft pants and over blouse. He/she wore a scent I could not stand, and had some make-up on. He/she wore leather sandals and ten pedicured toes peeped out of the shoe straps. He/she stood up as I approached.

“Good afternoon, Mader. I’m Kristen and I was sent here to do you hair. Let’s begin right away; two customers are still waiting to be home-serviced.” Oh, he/she was glib of tongue! As a matter of fact, he/she chatted endlessly as his/her long, manicured hands flew from my hair to the utility tray that held his/her paraphernalia.

“Shall I call you Mr. or Miss?” I asked

“Call me KRISTEN: THE GAY FROM FRISCO; I am a man but i feel like a woman, and I prefer to be a woman if given the chance to be born again,” he/she said.

His/her voice was husky, but her wrists were limp. He/she has ambitious, too, just like anyone of us, I told myself.

“I’m trying to save as much as I can, Mader (how I detest this address!); sell my part of the parlor in San Francisco del Monte; leave for FRISCO in California and join my friend Nicole(another Gay) in a similar business venture. God willing, I can send dollars home for the education of my only child – a third grader in one of the exclusive school in Davao City in Philippines.”

“Are yore parents happy about you being gay?” I inquired.

“Oh, at first they drove me out of the house. They took me back when I gave them a grandchild and my job put food on our table. Besides, they maybe sad, but I’m happy and that’s more important, as far as I’m concerned. There, I’ll be back after5 1 1/2 hours. I will give a manicure to a customer in the next block. It takes a long time to do your hair.”

And with that, he/she gathers his/her bag, his/her fan and umbrella, “re-touched” his/her make-up and dashed out of the door, his/her hips swaying as he reached for the service gate and out to the street for his ride.

He/she left me in deep thought.

Commentary: Philippine culture and politics

OK so I’m looking through the titles and trying to see if there was anything worth writing about….Then I stumbled on to this little gem written by someone who is so clearly out of touch with her own heritage and people that she has chosen stereotypes to define our once proud culture.

Let me start by clarifying something. If you are Filipino and you refer to yourself as a pacific Islander you might want to first find out are your ancestors Ilicano or are they colonist.

The Philippine island has played unwanted host to many. The first being the Malaysians making most of her people not of ilicano decent Asian. She next played host to Spain which explains the similarities in Tagalog and Spanish. Throw in America, France, Japan, and a host of others and you have quite a blending and adding to the culture itself.

So now that we have that Little confusion out of the way lets look at some other aspects of Filipino culture you don’t hear about in jokes and stereo types.

The Philippine islands is a matriarchal society giving obedience and respect to the eldest woman at home. It is a family based culture retirement homes are not an issue in many Filipino families it is very much common place for an elderly relation to move in with a younger relation to be taken care of that relation is then as the oldest member of the house given the dominion over the home. They are seated at the head of the table and all family decisions are discussed with this senior most relation. Many Filipinos still allow their mothers to choose their spouse for them as arranged marriage is still legal in the Philippines.

The article I read when choosing this title mentioned food. Yes we offer food because sharing food with someone that has made it a point to visit your home is the ultimate respect you can pay them. You are saying come sit with us be apart of our family even if just for one night.

Also faith is a huge part of our culture we are raised that all things are made possible through God and that he deserves our respect because of it.

We are a culture rich in spirit and love we hold our families close and count our friends as part of that extended family.

I recommend that if you are going to look at our culture you need to look at our real culture.

1. Japanese invented Karaoke and I know just as many Caucasians as I do Asians that enjoy karaoke.

2. We have a history of over 100 years of resistance to many invaders.

3. we have our own Holidays, beliefs and culture and that makes us our own people.

Having said that I will let you be the judge I just couldn’t let our people be represented by someone that obviously has no clue about their own culture.

I have a hard time with someone who starts an article of with a title like the truth about the Filipino culture and doesn’t mention anything real or substantial to represent our culture. There is no truth in that.

There was no mention to real Filipino culture what so ever. There was no mention as to why we spell Filipino with an F instead of a PH.

* The name Philippine Island came from Spanish invaders. People not wanting to show allegiance to Spain started referring to them selves as Filipinos with an F instead a Ph to show Spain that they did not support nor would they ever the occupation and colonization of the indigenous people of the Islands as they were simply called.

We have a great culture here in the states as well in places like Delano Ca. where we helped Cesar Chavez to get better conditions and more rights for farm laborers.

The list goes on and on. So hold your head high because you come from more than over indulgence and Karaoke.

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