There’s a belief that when a person can have a pet and be able to love it unconditionally, that person is kindhearted and can easily love other people as well.

These people will do everything just to give their pet the comfort that they need no matter how much it will cost them. They are actually treating them like their children. Right after birth, they also go their vets to have their regular vaccine shots in order to ensure a healthy life.

Some pet lovers would even invest for their pet’s house. Just like any other rooms inside the house, a pet’s corner is complete with their lavatory, pet bed, and any other stuff that they need. They believe that everything can turn out to be a good karma. Anything you do good even to animals can result to anything good to yourself.

More than the material things that you can give to your pet, your time matters to them. They are also like human beings who need attention and proper care. You get pissed off when your dad is always at work and can’t even attend your firs school recital it’s because his presence matters most. Same goes with your pet; they might not have any important events in their lives but your presence matters to them. Every time you arrive home, do not forget to give them a pat on the head or feed them. Even little things like these can already have a great impact to them. You will be surprised that even during time that you least expect their help, they are willing to give it wholeheartedly.

Considering the fact that lunch takes place every day during the course of regular business hours, it is probably the most important meal of the business day. Catering a business lunch involves quite a bit more than simply delivering great food. It requires the caterer to have a good grasp of the business they are catering to, an understanding of why the business is having the catered lunch, and a well thought out menu of appropriate food to make their catered lunch a success.

Understanding the Business

Like countries and regions, every business has its own culture. Whether it is a fresh, hip startup or a well-established corporate bank, the first step in making a catered business lunch successful is to understand the business culture you are catering to. It is a given that you will ask questions in regards to the business expectations for the catered lunch, but here are a few tips to discover even more about the business you are catering than questions alone may answer.

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Visit the business during regular hours and take mental notes on the atmosphere, dress and décor of the workplace.

• Do you you see a lot of people smiling, talking and interacting?
• Is the décor colorful and fun?
• Are the employees young and hip or older and more conservative?

Understanding the business culture is a great way to make a lasting impression and find common ground with your audience, in this way you sell more than just your ability to provide good food, you sell an experience.

Know the Purpose of the Lunch

One of your best opportunities as a corporate caterer lies in your ability to create an environment that assists in accomplishing the overall goal of the meeting. In doing so you become more than just a caterer, you become a tool the business can rely on (time after time) to help make their business lunches more successful.

If you don’t currently view your catering business as a form of acting I would encourage you to do so starting today. Everything you and your catering staff does during a catered business lunch is a performance that will be observed and noticed, from the way your staff communicates with guests to the way they walk and dress. Assuming all eyes are on you will remind your staff to perform their duties in a way that builds your reputation as a caterer, instead of detracting from it.

Consider the difference between a catered lunch meant to double as a meeting and a catered lunch meant to celebrate the success of the business or a specific anniversary. They are as vast and diverse as the world. Suppose the goal of the lunch is a fiscal meeting and people are going to watch a presentation while eating. It probably wouldn’t be a good idea to have food or utensils that make a lot of noise or require constant interaction with your catering staff, as this would be distracting and detrimental to the goals of the meeting.

Choosing the Right Food

Make it a top priority to pick the right food for the client. Make sure it’s in season, acceptable for lunch time and jives with the business and people you’re catering to. This is where understanding the business and knowing the expectations and purpose for the business lunch come into play. If you do your homework in advance, everything else should fall into place.

If understand the business, know the purpose for the lunch, choose the right foods and perform your duties flawlessly you will win the respect of the company you serve and become the go to caterer for every business lunch they have!

Richard Bracke is a self-professed foodie, father and culinary enthusiast who loves to dine at new restaurants and subject his pallet to new and exciting food creations. Richard currently blogs and writes for EZ Cater, a company who specializes in local catering.

I was depressed, mourning these past few days for the passing of my nephew in-law. Gladly I have friends that cheered and comfort me up. Like what my old classmate says we can’t do anything because we are all going to die. It only happens Cody’s time came first, someone says I should stop acting strange and don’t get so affected because I never met him. I just can’t stop it, he was a family. Thinking how sad and depressed her immediate love ones made me down as well. I am not just too vocal with my feelings I don’t say what I felt I wrote it.

One night I asked God for a sign if my nephew in-law is already on his hands. He gave the sign right away and I found solace and reason to let go. Words are not enough how I felt sorry for his family’s loss.

Happy Journey to you Cody! May the love of  God and everyone who loves you will guide you on your journey, and may the love of God will comfort your family through this difficult times! #praying

I am not in the mood to update my blogs these past few days, my heart is mourning for the passing of my nephew in-law.  Tonight we had a short walk around the downtown and after it we went to GS25 to buy pizza, there’s 2 box left my husband doesn’t like it but I do so I bought them. I love GS25 Bulgogi pizza not just because they are meatier but because they are thinner and more flavor on it.

My husband want a real pizza what I mean freshly cooked in the oven so I went to 59pizza to buy him bulgogi pizza. Luckily when I went there the shop was not busy so I just waited instead of going out and walking around the market.

I know life is not forever, because we are all by passers on this world. We are just travelers, but it really feels hurt when someone you love, you know passed away. My nephew in-law passed away from a tragic accident, it hits me hard, so painful. I never met him nor them but I know in my heart that they are my extended family, I can’t help but cry during the time I am down, I can’t express the pain. To ease it I found comfort on listening to Christian songs and reading my Bible.

He is too young, he could done a lot more things but I think he already accomplished his mission on this world. I remembered one of the preach I’ve listed from our Pastor that everyone has a mission on this world and when our mission was done, God will call us to be on His Paradise. I don’t know if it is just a coincidence but my nephew tweeted something about accomplishing a mission the day before he met an accident. That’s his last tweet on twitter.

Before we know his passing that night, I just came out from the bathroom when I saw on my peripheral vision that someone went to our kitchen, I thought it was my husband so I shake it off but when I went to our bed I was surprised to see him there, so I voice out and told him that I thought he is in the kitchen, he teased me smiling that I might have little friend around our apartment, he smiled on his own joke and that smile makes him a lot more younger on his age.

After few hours my husband found out that his nephew met an accident and was on the hospital and underwent an operation to save his life. He was really shocked that he went to the bathroom to brush his teeth while shaking with a terrible feeling.  I have my own gut feeling I went to my Facebook and there our world turned upside down, the first thing I saw is a tagged picture of my nephew in-law with his friend  with description “Already missed” we are late to know.

To cut the story short, the agony is very painful. My body shook, my mind is rushing and my husband doesn’t move. He cried, it was so painful and I can feel it. He cannot utter a word, he can’t think, the world stops for a minute.

Cody, I just would like you to know that you are going to be missed and a lot of people is loving you, including me. Thank you for touching our lives,  you are now an angel that who will watched over us. It was just too bad that we never given a chance to see each other.  🙁

Yesterday we decided to go to Shinha and see how the school and neighborhood looks like my husband printed the school address we found on the school website. We took a taxi from the downtown and it took us few minutes to reach the place and the trip cost ₩6,300.  My guess was right that it is around the Hynix and what surprised me is Shinha is the stop over of Express Buss to drop passengers before reaching the downtown and pick-up before going out to Seoul.

[Shinha Elementary School]

The school is not that big compare to Icheon Elementary School though it looks big on the picture that we saw in their school website.  It is painted on white and there’s a guard house near the gate.

Newly painted Shinha Elementary School

Right after gym my husband craves for hotteok and dumplings so I went out to buy them. Yeah right I am the errand girl because he is the financier (lol). I went to the dumplings place first and bought 4 box of dumplings, which is consist of 2 fried and 2 steamed. There are few customers so I waited until the dumplings are cooked.

Right after I went to the public market where the old woman hotteok stall was, when I arrived there she is with another woman on her age, probably friend or sister, as I already forgot how much per piece is I ask them but as we cannot understand each other I just gave all my money and I ended up having 11 hotteoks.

Well I think curiosity is not just on human or cats, dog has their own curiosity too! Below Jihoo is very curious on what my mother is doing, my mother is playing games in front of my old laptop and our pet kept jumping and looking behind her back.  Probably he is waiting for his turn to play. Hehe

When I also sat in front of my laptop and play some games Jihoo did the same watching what I am doing. He is a very sweet dog and I already missed hugging him, right now I am just contented seeing our pet in pictures.

I usually cooked chicken adobo rather than pork adobo but this week was different I decided to cook the pork in soy sauce, instead of using potato I used sweet potato because they are on sale in the supermarket. My husband is also eating pork but he don’t eat the fat so I included them on my adobo, it was a mistake because my adobo became too oily.

I cooked the two package of pork I thought it is only small once cooked but I was wrong because there’s too much sweet potato too!