Chocolat by Joanne Harris

cover of the book I read

Who loves chocolate? Well, this is a story for y’all chocolate lovers out there! Are you aware that there was a time when “eating chocolate is a sin”?

This is the era where the story begun. It’s about the dark luscious taste of pure chocolate that seduce people of the town to ignore the priest’s Sunday sermon of avoiding sinning. Vianne Rocher with her young daughter arrived in a small French village in the beginning of Lent, where they started a business of chocolate. The store faces the church hosted by a young cure Francis Reynaud that watches her with disapproval and suspiciously thinks she's tempting the villagers to over-indulge...

The people cannot resist Vianne's good humor and carefree lifestyle... She even help a woman to stand against domestic abuse and she helped outcasts and children. I like how she shows her wit to the stern town people and touched their hearts through serving them chocolates.

Her genuine intentions caught the self-righteous cure off his tracks and in the end, he gave in to the luxury taste of her pure dark chocolates and hence completely open the mind of the people to embrace this new sweet treats.

I also love the film, especially the parts where they make chocolate treats. It's a mouth-watering movie starring Johnny Depp and Julliete Binoche. Now I'm hunting for the sequel "The Lollipop Shoes". :)

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Improvements on Bayan Park Garden

Aside from famous tourist spots, Baguio is also known for its local small garden spread all over! One of these is the local public Bayan Park garden in Aurora Hill. This garden used to be dark at night with broken bottles and garbage like plastics and papers but the local authorities here decided to beautify it! :D

I've been visiting this park for quite a while now for my walkathon and sun bathing in the morning! :P I took some pictures on whats been up and new :)

These rocks are intended for foot massage.. and I thought this spot could be use for yoga too.. :P Like the ones senior citizens do in Burnham Park. :)

They are currently planting grass while maintaining cleanliness :)

 Mountain bikes and baby bikes are welcome here as well :)

benches are scattered everywhere

comfort room for men and women are available :)

Pine trees and other plants are rehabilitated and very well taken care of

"Elephant Slide"

I think I would call this slide "The Carp" :P

See how vast the park is?

Slides

Mini Playground

Picnic Grounds

wide parking space

Beside the new clean park, there's a covered court that's also been used for government events like free check up and a police station beside it.

For now, they are planting small plants and flowers around the park :)

The renovation is still on going. It's a good thing it's just a 5minute walk from our house and we could enjoy a picnic and a morning walk anytime we want. And to help the local authorities in beautifying the place, people and tourist should also do their part: throw their garbage in the trash bins. Simple yet for sure it'll go a long way. :)