Yesterday's Simple Celebration.

Being born in this world is a great thing and celebrating about it became a tradition already to most of the people here.

There are many ways to celebrate our birthdays and we just had one yesterday. We celebrated the birthday of my grandmother who's currently taking care of me since I was a kid. I'm very grateful to her for she raised me into a fine man. All of the lessons that were engraved into my soul right now is all thanks to her.

First to that is to always put your feet intact to the ground even if you attain the highest goal and achievement in your life time. Second is to pay and show respect to all even if they did harm to your life because disrespecting them will just put you in the same shoes as they are.

Those are example of lessons she taught me long ago and until now I still carry kt with me no matter where I go.

To celebrate her birthday, I decided to cook some food that she liked. It's called biko. The main ingredients for this one is the glutinous rice combined with coconut milk and brown sugar. You can add a pinch of salt to balance the flavor.

I woke up early to prepare it and ofcourse to cook it.

First I peeled off some matured coconut using a bolo ofcourse but some strong guys out there can do it with just their bare hands. My dog Kenny slept beside me while I do the thing. As you can see I finished it while he sleep deep. It's like he's saying "just do your job there while I do my business here" hihi.

After finishing it I cleaned it off to reduce some of the unwanted things. Then I divided it into two. My cousin took the picture and I just told him what to do. I happy with the outcome.

Dividing a coconut might be fatal especially when you're not careful because you may cut your hands badly.

I get the grater and a basin. I said that I need to finish it fast but I was charmed by my cat Asta. He jumped in to the grater and saying like "pet me first and take a picture of me first before you can proceed. hehe.

I took a picture of him as he insisted. I remove him there but he still comes back the after I took some shots he left without a word lol.

I boiled some water to be put in the grated coconut to bring out the milk from it. Later on I squashed it very hard to gather the milk and success I gathered a lot from just one coconut. After it I cooked the glutinous rice combined with the coconut milk.

After that I added brown sugar to enhance the taste. And I forgot to take a picture of it after I finish cooking. So my bad for showing what's left only. I know you already eaten something like this.

We ate and talk to each other together with my aunts in the next municipality. It was a simple celebration for her birthday but she enjoyed it as she laughed hard while we're talking with the family and there's no more pleasant to see her in that state. I wish it could last longer as she continue her journey.

And to end this one I will just put our picture here. This was taken when we took a hike in one of the tourist spot here in our place.