Giving Back on Christmas
Christmas Dinner at Crown Park
Christmas Dinner at Crown Park
(Naga
City Christmas 2013
Series 5)
We hosted our traditional December 23
annual Christmas dinner with our employees
and our household and housekeeping staff
at the Crown Park Restaurant in SM City Naga.
Everyone was present in the occasion from our
employees both at the Endolab SM and Plaza Medica,
…to our housekeepers, and drivers at home
Everyone was excited as they knew that we would
also be giving our traditional Christmas gift,
their cash bonuses and our personal gifts for those
who performed and behaved well for the year.
Our dinner began with Century
Eggs as an appetizer
which was serve with various kinds of dips and sauces.
Some of our employees did not like it but I have always
loved the gelatinous and earth- like taste of this aged
eggs.
The main course consisted of Sweet and Sour Pork
which is one of our all time favorite dish in this
restaurant.
Our employees also liked the dish as well.
We also had Lechon
Kawali and it was our first
time to try this dish in Crown Park
as it is not my
family’s list of favorite dishes. But it’s Christmas and
lechon is a must for every Filipino Christmas dinner
and this is the closest that we get to the real thing.
It tasted okay, but not one that I would rave and crave.
Interestingly, most of our employees loved it.
We had several alternative healthy dishes like
the very delicious Breaded Fish Fillet fried to a
crispy perfection and was served with Tartar Sauce,
... and the very healthy but otherwise delectably
yummy
Prawns with
Broccoli which everybody liked very much as
the seafood was fresh while the veggies were still
crunchy.
Also on the healthy dish list is Beef with Broccoli which was
cooked the same way the Prawns in Broccolli but
this time
tender bite size beef was used and it tasted very good,
tender bite size beef was used and it tasted very good,
...and the Fish
Fillet with Soya which was made of nugget sized
fish fillet
which was steamed and later mixed with
soy sauce
and served with herbs and spices. The fish was so
deliciously
tender that it melts in you mouth when you eat it.
Of course, no meal in a Chinese restaurant
without their staple Pancit Canton.
We concluded our dinner
with Fruit Salad for dessert.
After the sumptuous dinner, it was time for gift giving.
MA, one of our newest domestic helpers has worked with
We thought we could never find someone as proficient and
ASA, has only been with us for several months as she replaced
JE has been our medical technologist for almost 10 years and
JLC also started working with us as a Medical Technologist
After the regular gift raffle, we raffled five extra gifts to additional
five lucky winners and two of our household staff, JR and TN
and three of our paramedical staff, RP, RI and JC won them.
The Naga Endocrine Laboratory or Endolab SM City Naga
will cease to operate by the end of January 2014, not because we
are closing but we are expanding it to become Endologistics or EndoLx.
We would be broadening our services, acquiring more
medical equipment and hiring additional employees.
There would not be enough space for our the coming upgrade,
so we will move to Plaza Medica not as a branch but a separate facility
closer to the original Naga Endocrine Laboratory (the Endolab)
located in the same building.
Of course, no meal in a Chinese restaurant
without their staple Pancit Canton.
We concluded our dinner
with Fruit Salad for dessert.
After the sumptuous dinner, it was time for gift giving.
We gave our household staff our annual personal
gifts
like grocery items for the newcomers, and appliances
for
the more senior and more hardworking ones.
They also received cash for their Christmas Bonus,
a ham for their Noche Buena, and an extra
household
appliance gift that we had raffled off for them.
MA, one of our newest domestic helpers has worked with
us for less than a year and doing great doing our
laundry.
TC our driver who has been with us little more
than a year is
kind hearted, polite but tenacious and rarely
comes on time.
Three of our most trusted and hardworking
housekeepers
also came to our Christmas Dinner and one of them
was TS.
She only started working for us this year when she
replaced our
long time housekeeper of almost 19 years, who started working
with me even before I got married but recently
moved to Baguio.
We thought we could never find someone as proficient and
as assiduous,
but TS was just as hard-working and made
us feel like our long trusted housekeeper never
really left.
JR, has been working with us for about 5 years,
and has competently
served us with so much dedication, hard work and
proficiency.
He never comes late and arrives very early in the
morning everyday
to make sure that our garden, garage and lanai are
litter free
and our dogs are clean when we wake up in the
morning.
Aside from always coming on time he had a perfect
attendance and
never goes off in the afternoon without leaving
any task undone.
TN, our must trusted housekeeper for the past 14
years
started
working with us when he was his teens and virtually
grown old or should I say, ‘matured’ under our
very eyes.
He has already mastered the art of keeping our
house in
top shape and runs our housekeeping like he is
running
a hotel by keeping our carpets dust free, mirrors
and floors
spotless, kitchen well organized, bedrooms well
kept and
all our bathrooms and toilets clean and dry all
the time.
We have always treated
our household staff professionally
we only them report 5
times a week, (except for our driver
who reports 6 times a
week), they only work daytime, goes
off in the afternoon,
gets a average salary of 270 to 350 pesos
a day, free meals and
snack while at work, and for those who
had worked with us for
more than a year, we give them
a 13th month
pay, and SSS and Philhealth membership.
They have always been a
part of any of our special family celebrations
from birthdays, graduations,
thanksgiving dinners that sometimes
hotel party organizers
are surprised whenever we submit our guest lists
and do not see any
VIP’s on it, we would respond that they are our VIP’s.
Even Timothy’s former
nanny (who has left us few years ago to start
her own family) had travelled with us
extensively locally and abroad.
Our paramedical staff
are not as highly paid as their counterparts
in bigger hospitals
and institutions in the city but thankfully
most of them stayed put with us for a very
long time.
They report five times
a week with two days off, and get
salaries based
on the recommended daily minimum wage
by the Department of Labor.
They are entitled for
overtime fees when working more than eight hours,
get paid double on
holidays and Sundays, get paid extra when
they
work on their off
duties and have paid sick and annual forced leaves.
They are provided
free meals and snacks while at work,
we give them
a 13th month
pay, and SSS, Philhealth and Pag Ibig memberships.
It is not much and not
enough for them to get rich fast but
that is the best that we could offer with our
small enterprise.
For our paramedical staff, we gave them our annual
a personal gifts
which are usually jewelries which my wife believes
are good investmenst.
They also received their Christmas Bonus, a ham
for their Noche Buena,
and an extra household appliance gift that we had
raffled off for them.
We also handed them SM Gift Cheques for their
extra holiday shopping.
ASA, has only been with us for several months as she replaced
our Radiology Technologist who resigned few months
ago to work
in the Middle East. She is still on a contractual
basis with
us and on the process of being observed if
she deserves a permanent position in our small
business.
RI the most junior among our paramedical staff has
been our Med Tech
for almost two years and one with the most perfect
attendance among
our employees. He is very polite, courteous and
very soft spoken.
He already informed us his intention to resign on
January 2014 to
pursue further studies and we already gave him our permission.
Lately, he again asked a favor to extend his stay
as he has not
finalized
his plan yet and told him that could still stay with us
as long as he wants until he finalized his future
priorities.
RP another Radtech started working part- time with
us
four years ago as she was connected with Bicol
Medical Center
and finally joined us full time about two years ago.
Widowed about three years ago, she supports three
children
and one of them is in college and sometimes works
on her
free time
as my clinic assistant for extra income.
She is a very reliable employee and willing to
work on long
hours even on holidays, very assiduous and uncomplaining.
JE has been our medical technologist for almost 10 years and
started working with us after graduating from college.
He has very effervescent personality that we
awarded him with
a Champagne to symbolize his bubbly and
vivacious eccentricity.
Lately, he unofficially changed his name to
Princess.
JLC also started working with us as a Medical Technologist
almost ten
years ago right after graduating in college.
My wife and myself have a very high respect for
this
extremely good looking, well behaved, disciplined young
man.
His father died on his first year of employment
with us, leaving
his younger brother in high school and his mother
to support.
He scrimped and saved and sent his brother to
college until
he became a registered nurse and got himself his
own job.
He then
reviewed for his Medical Technology board exam
and successfully passed it with an impressive
rating.
My wife and I are very proud him as our employee,
and his parents must be credited for raising him
well.
So young and good looking, yet so matured and responsible-
and take note girls, he is single and very much
available
(but I'm not really sure if he's ready to mingle).
RG one of the three of our most senior paramedic
employees.
She Is my wife’s aide and trustee and has been
with us since 1996.
She is a manager, a cashier, a personnel officer, an
auditor, a phlebotomist
our eyes and ears, and sometimes an errand girl rolled
into one.
She is also our shock absorber as she gets to
absorb all the
complaints from our clients an patients and also
my temper
tantrums which are usually due to the aircon
adjustments
that I find too hot and everybody finds too cold
otherwise.
BC also started with us as our original Medical
Technologist in 1996
and remained with us until now. She is takes her
work very seriously,
a quality control buff and obsessively organized
and compulsively strict.
She is always being mistaken as a supercilious person
but she is
actually nice but naturally dexterous and adroitly hard
to please.
That what endears her with my wife as she
describes her
to be so like her in so many ways, strict and hard
to please,
but could easy be impressed with someone’s good
deeds.
GB is the longest staying among our employees and started
working with me as my clinic assistant since 1994.
Now on her 19th year of service going to her 20th this 2014.
She was still single then, now she is a mother of four with her
eldest daughter in college an an OFW for a husband.
She is s silent worker and was the most flexible when it comes
to working hours and working days as she could easily be pulled
out even if she’s on off duty every time her services are needed.
Our long term employees except for GB (who was pregnant then)
had a chance to travel with us to Singapore for R & R and
they truly enjoyed the experience and we are looking forward
to take them out again for a vacation in the near future.
GB is the longest staying among our employees and started
working with me as my clinic assistant since 1994.
Now on her 19th year of service going to her 20th this 2014.
She was still single then, now she is a mother of four with her
eldest daughter in college an an OFW for a husband.
She is s silent worker and was the most flexible when it comes
to working hours and working days as she could easily be pulled
out even if she’s on off duty every time her services are needed.
Our long term employees except for GB (who was pregnant then)
had a chance to travel with us to Singapore for R & R and
they truly enjoyed the experience and we are looking forward
to take them out again for a vacation in the near future.
After the regular gift raffle, we raffled five extra gifts to additional
five lucky winners and two of our household staff, JR and TN
and three of our paramedical staff, RP, RI and JC won them.
The Naga Endocrine Laboratory or Endolab SM City Naga
will cease to operate by the end of January 2014, not because we
are closing but we are expanding it to become Endologistics or EndoLx.
We would be broadening our services, acquiring more
medical equipment and hiring additional employees.
There would not be enough space for our the coming upgrade,
so we will move to Plaza Medica not as a branch but a separate facility
closer to the original Naga Endocrine Laboratory (the Endolab)
located in the same building.
Read My Other
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City Christmas 2013
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Naga City’s All Year Round Christmas Fare
Naga City Christmas 2013Series 1
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Naga City’s All Year Round Christmas Fare
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