Angel's Pasta in a Dough: Your fave pizza and pasta in one!

It's a dream come true for kids and kids-at-heart: their favorite pizza and pasta mashed up into one heavenly treat with Angel's Pasta in a Dough!

I remembered my mentor Ms. Josephine Bonsol treating me to Angel's with their new Pasta in a Dough, and how I enjoyed playing with the pasta heaped on top of the pizza dough, and even thought hard if I had to eat the pasta first or chomp it with the pizza.

I decided to share the same childish but heavenly experience with my twin sister as we ordered the Pasta in a Dough Creamy Bacon (P215), and we both loved the rich creamy sauce coating the pasta, the juicy sweet bacon and crunchy green peppers. We laughed at ourselves as we struggled to slice the pizza and played with the creamy pasta just like kids enjoying the good old days.

They also have Classic Spaghetti (P205) and Tuna Pesto (P215).

Reminisce those childhood days with Angel's Pasta in a Dough. You can visit www.angelspizza.com.ph or call 922-22-22 (free delivery) to taste heaven at your doorstep!

Celebrating heavenly birthdays with Angel's Pizza Pasta Combo!

"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."

September for us is always jam-packed with birthday celebrations--with my brother, big sister, nephew, cousin and even my 83-year-old grandmother enduring turning a year older almost simultaneously. All having the same crazy craving for pizza, we'd always celebrate with hot pizza on the table, especially from Angel's Pizza Pasta Combo.

Fancy Aloha

We celebrated ate's 22nd birthday last September 3 with Angel's new Fancy Aloha (P470/12") and she loved how the mozzarella cheese with gravy sauce complemented the sweet pineapples. The juicy bacon and ham we kids would always sinfully prefer than veggies made us come back for second servings.

Extra Feast

We were also overwhelmed with the generous heap of toppings in Extra Feast (P340/9"), loaded with pepperoni, ham, beef, onion, mushroom and green pepper all coated with oozing mozzarella cheese. My big sister specially liked the Extra Feast with its perfect combination of sweet chorizo and spiced pepperoni.

Cheesy Burger

Last September 9 we indulged ourselves with another heavenly birthday treat for our brother and nephew. We ordered the Cheesy Burger pizza (P556/14") and Angel's Medley (P459/12"), and even my grandmother got the meat fever as both pizzas were showered with juicy beef, bacon and pepperoni. My 6-year-old nephew was amused at how the rich oozing cheese didn't immediately come off from the rest of the pizza in Angel's Medley, while the Cheesy Burger's mozzarella cheese stilled puffed up like it was fresh from the oven.

Angel's Medley

Angel's Pizza Pasta Combo offers a load of heavenly promos. You can get a VIP card and avail any of the following:

1. 20% discount on all pizza purchase

2. a FREE Family pizza for every Big Family pizza purchase, or

3. a FREE Medium Pizza for every Family pizza purchase

Crazy for pizza and pasta? You can avail the following:

1. a FREE Pasta in a Dough (any flavor) for every Family Pizza purchase (any flavor except Angel's Wish) 

2. a BUY 1 TAKE 1 promo of Pasta in a Dough (any flavor) and just add P20, or

3. a FREE carrot loaf or a 16oz iced tea for every Pasta in a Dough (any flavor) for P199 only

They also have the new Double Deal All Day Promo. You can avail two of your favorite Big Family Original Hand Tossed Pizza for only P725 (save P385), or two Family Size Pizza for only P550 (save P320). Now that is heaven at your doorstep!

You can visit www.angelspizza.com.ph or call 922-22-22 (free delivery) and experience a taste of heaven in your favorite pizza!

Thank you very much to Ms. Annesy Del Mundo!

Dad: "You are already my gift"

Puppets by my tiwn sister Jillian

We finally made a groundbreaking record: making our dad shed tears of joy.

It's his birthday today and we decided to experiment on another childish presentation to amuse him on his special day: a puppet show. His seasonal cold was a spoiler, but he managed to watch our unrehearsed play with a big smile on his face.

Entitled, "Around the World in 10 Minutes", the story was in Dora the Explorer style: we were about to give our gift to dad when Cuba Gooding Jr. (Swiper) stole it and scattered the pieces around the world. We met dad's favorite artists along the way, like Sylvester Stallone, Sean Connery, Richard Gere and Jason Statham, and they helped us in our "mission". 

We also inserted The Beatles songs ever after stopover, which made him laugh while he told my big sister Ate Nadine the song titles.

In the end, dad had tears in his eyes we seriously didn't expect, and even my brother Norman secretly cried and said to me he was moved by dad's tears of joy.

When we announced we had a surprise gift for him, he said, "Gift? Eh kayong mga anak ko na ang regalo ko para sa birthday ko."

Well, that moved me to tears.

We love you dad!

A Christmas debate between curiosity and faith

It must've been so hard to lack birth certificates during the ancient times. 


For eight years I've studied in two private schools, and I was spiritually conditioned to always participate in Nativity scenes and Christmas carol performances. Even in our high school days, we laboriously worked on our best and most intimidating exchange gifts. For 18 centuries, almost half the world has generously adopted December 25 as Christ's birthday. But the issue remains a debate: was kuya Jesus really born that winter night?

One of the dilemmas, I believe that somehow made Jesus' birthday too vague and unsettled was the use of different calendars during the early times. Others referred to our adopted Julian calendar (invented by Julius Caesar), with the 365 1/4 days standard. Others used the Gregorian calendar embraced in Catholic Europe.


WHY DECEMBER 25?


While the Norse people (Northern Europe) greeted the sun on December amidst a winter solstice, and the Romans honored their gods on December 25, the early Church decided to celebrate Christmas on the same imperative date. Also, early Christians focused more in honoring Jesus as the Son of God (that is, his resurrection) than as a Son of Man (his birth). The Church revived the  Son of Man's birthday celebration, but when nobody even knew when, it simply paralleled the date to December 25.

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THE HARD EVIDENCE: THE SHEEP FLOCK


Thank God the Bible mentioned something about the shepherds and the flock.
A handful of theories coincidentally digged up the same evidences to prove Jesus was either born on December or September: the shepherds and the sheep flocks. Biblical scholars argued sheep in Bethlehem should be under cover from November to March. While the Bible says shepherds out in the fields that night saw a star and an Angel leading them to the historical place, this makes it impossible for Christmas to be on December.
But then they continued those sheep were an exception in Bethlehem to be flocked outside that time because they were sacrificial lambs. It somehow made sense that those lambs were meant to be offerings for the baby Jesus.

John the Baptist
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Another theory authored by Biblical scholar E.W. Bullinger traced Jesus' birth through the latter's cousin John the Baptist. With the help of Zacharia's (John's father) scheduled job the same day when Elizabeth conceived John, and counting the 6 months ahead when Mary followed to conceive Jesus resulted to the 15th of Tishri in Hebrew calendar, and equivalent to the 29th of September. December 25 makes the day of Mary's conception.


Through the flock of sheep as well, he also argued there was no grazing for flocks during December in Israel that time.


ASTROLOGY SAYS...


These claims might just be doubtful after all.


Star watchers, on the other hand, believe Christmas should be celebrated on April 17 (same day as Easter). Astronomer Dr. Michael Molnar studied a "Star in Bethlehem" research where Jesus was born bearing the zodiac sign Aries . Others claim Jesus being born in September makes it more appropriate, because Libra's zodiac sign (September-Glitnir) is more parallel to Jesus' character than Capricorn's (December-Thrudheim).

It is much food for thought that the Bible's inaccuracy led people to fabricate dates and even names and enthusiastically filled in the blanks. To some extent, this even drew a bold line between squabbling religions (other people didn't celebrate Christmas believing it was subject to paganism).


Given this phenomenon, I believe the Bible is trying to say something past the Scriptures, the story and the prescience of our after-world. It might be testing and tickling our curiosity and open-mindedness to ask questions and stop being contented with what's written on any published book. It might also be testing our faith to stop arguing and simply believe in what we have not seen and witnessed.