This is the second time I have stayed at Day’s Hotel in Iloilo City. The hotel is located at the 4th and fifth floors of Atrium Shopping Mall along General Luna Street Iloilo City Philippines.
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Even though it’s online, Spot.ph has come out with a hard copy version (in booklet form) of its Top 10 Everything Food Lists. In a nutshell,it’s all about the different kinds of food that’s tops in the heart of spot.ph editors and contributors.
I have to say that Top 10 lists are always hard to make. Oftentimes, they’re subjective; tastes vary from one person to another. But I have to agree, and just consider myself lucky, to have tried some items from their list. Although it’s a shame that I live in Paranaque and still have to try Maty’s. Must go soon! 
Some things NOT on the list: Manila’s Top 10 best buffets (there seems to be a healthy competition between Buffet 101, Vikings, Yakimix and the rest of them). How about the best adobo, or the best pizza?
My officemate from San Juan would surely put in here the lechon kawali or the pancit of Aling Banang’s. And am still partial to Chic-Boy’s lechon sisig and Jonas Pares.
Anyway, here’s a sampling of spot.ph’s Top 10 list – the Potluck Party Food to Order:
1. Cochinillo from El Cirkulo
2. Chicken relleno from Romulo Cafe
3.Dulcelin mango torte
4. Freska seafood tray
5. pancit canton from Ado’s Panciteria
6. Yulo’s strawberry shortcake
7. Red Velvet Cake from Karen Young
8. Crown Roast of Pork from Adarna Food & Culture
9.Pork barbecue from Urdaneta Village
10. Conti’s Roast Beef in Mushroom Sauce (I like Chef Resty’s though… the one in the weekend markets)
So there.. if you want more of the lists like the Top 10 mami, lechon, buffalo wings, nachos, siopao, chocolate cakes etc., get yourself a copy for P150. We daresay it’s a foodie must-have, along with the Claude Tayag book Linamnam 
P.S. I’ve been enamored with Pinspire lately, the newest photo sharing site on the web where I can post photos or repin images I like. I’ve put up a collection of Yummy Food and considering all the delectable offerings in the planet where a foodie like me has to try everything far and wide, this list of mouthwatering food photos is ever-growing
Well-protected fugitive
CEBU SCHOOL DEFIES COURT ORDER ON BIKINI GRADUATES
DE LIMA DEFIES COURT
The first headline was about officials of St. Theresa’s College in Cebu defying the temporary restraining order issued by Cebu City Regional Trial Court Judge Wilfredo Navarro directing the school to cease and desist from enforcing the penalties on five students graduating from highschool for posting in Facebook photos in a bikini and in poses which school authorities considered “lewd.”
STC Cebu decided not to allow the five students to join the graduation rites although they can get their diploma.
STC Cebu officials said they are not to execute the court order because they have filed a motion for reconsideration.
The second headline was about Justice Secretary Leila de Lima defying the order of Manila RTC Branch 26 Judge Silvino Pampilo Jr to open for inspection the vehicle National Bureau of Investigation deputy director Reynaldo Esmeralda was riding in when he was ambushed last Feb. 21.
The order was issued in connection with the grant for a writ of amparo petitioned by former NBI director Magtanggol Gatdula he was going to be framed for the Esmeralda ambush.
Some quarters observed that the Feb. 21 incident looked scripted and an “ambush me” operation.
De Lima happened to be at the NBI compound when the sheriff together with Gatdula’s lawyer arrived to carry out the vehicle inspection order. She said it cannot be implemented because their motion for reconsideration seeking the dismissal of the writ and the orders is still pending in court.
Lawyers we have talked with said a motion for reconsideration does not bar the execution of the court order.
I will not touch on the merits of both cases. The point raised here is that, if De Lima can get away defying court order, why should anybody be held in contempt for doing the same?
Actually, this is not the first time that De Lima acted above and beyond the court. Nov. 15 last year, she ignored the TRO issued by the Supreme Court on her watch order list which she used to prevent Gloria Arroyo from leaving for Singapore.
There was no hold departure order on Arroyo because at that time De Lima’s office had not filed a single case against Arroyo, more than one- year- and- a -half that the Aquino government had assumed power.
De Lima was applauded for what many considered a decisive and courageous act of preventing the much-disliked former leader from leaving the country for good and escaping her accountability to the Filipino people even if she resorted to shortcutting the law to make up for her failure to file cases against Arroyo.
That’s probably the reason why Malacañang last Tuesday was confident that they could get away with defying again the order of Palawan Judge Angelo Arizala to arrest former Gov. Joel Reyes for the murder of broadcaster and environmentalist Gerry Ortega last January.
Wednesday Interior Secretary Jesses Robredo said they will wait for Reyes to surrender and serve the warrant “weekend.” Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said the leniency is out of deference to the Reyes’ position as former governor.
Ha???
Some speculate that Malacañang is lenient towards Reyes because he is protected by Palawan Governor Abraham Mitra who is member of the Liberal Party, President Aquino’s party.
The National Union of Journalist of the Philippines, in a strongly worded statement, asked:
“How can Malacanang explain this ‘deference’ for a former governor, which contrasts so glaringly with the zeal it has displayed in going after Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, a former president no less, and to Renato Corona, the incumbent Chief Justice?
“Besides, the last time we looked, not even being an incumbent official can spare one from arrest for a crime, especially not a capital offense like murder.”
Robredo now said he has ordered the arrest of Reyes.
NUJP President Nestor Burgos said, “We will not even demand an explanation from Malacanang, for there simply can be no explanation, much less justification, for how it could countenance a perversion of the law and of justice.
“What we do demand is that Edwin Lacierda – who, we ought to point out is a lawyer – face the family of Gerry Ortega, who have fought so hard and so long to see those accused of his murder face trial, and tell them why this accursed government believed ‘deference’ for a former governor so important it was willing to break the law and withhold justice for the life of a good man.
“And, yes, Lacierda should also face the families of all victims of extrajudicial murders and tell them why, in heaven’s name, they would be better off waiting in vain for this government to give them justice instead of seeking it elsewhere.
“And they have the temerity to wonder why people rebel?”
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