ELAH the turkey

teacher sent me via email elah's turkey  costume sketch.  so lets see if my tahi-tagpi skills are still intact!

her reading recital is on dec 3!  i promise this weekend i will be making tahi tagpi all day all night!  :D

EDSA to Cory Aquino Ave? Seriously?

but why?  is that congressman from bohol cant think of something else to do?  publicity stunt ka sir?

imagine how many millions will the government spend on changing all the road signs if this bill gets passed?  filipino's taxpayers money yan oy!  dear congress, don't the taxpayers get a say on this?  please check twitter and see all the hates and the rants!

oh if this gets passed, whats next for the aquinos?  BALLSY International Airport perhaps? oooh no... i gave them an idea to rename! naku pow!

what do i really want for christmas???

Hubby wants to give me this...

my daddy wants to give me this...

add up the values of the watch and the purse, i think i can get

problem is, im too shy to ask my dad to get me this and have hubby pay for the bag.  also, hubby doesnt like the monogram.  he always prefer damier ebene like my speedy.  so its like 3years ago, when we were in the store and he was about to buy me already.  but we couldnt agree on the style.  i wanted the neverfull and he wanted the batignolle.  so now, i want a montorguiel in monogram but he frowns at it so again i cant get a new LV. 

so should i settle for the watch and the tory?  but i am not very fond of hobo bags.  i prefer the robinson tote. my dad got that purse for my mom.  but im not sure why he wants to give it to me?  im really not sure if i like it.

i better make up my mind soon before my mom's flight to here and before hubby spends his budget on his gift for me!  

well to top of my dilemma, i still dont know what to get him.  a kiss wont really do it this time because im working again and all. hehehe

becky terminologies

my friends and i have been using these terms ever since forever. end of highschool or early college?  more than 10years ago...  as in when they were still not popular among the becks.  the oldest ones weve been using are the ff:

CHANda Romero - malaki ang tyan
PAGODa Cold Wave Lotion - pagod

my friend nini had been saying David HASSLEhoff for more than 5years now i think.

and now, anywhere you go, you will hear people using celebrities' names to refer to a feeling to sound amusing.  so im listing below our barkada favorites.

AFRAIDy Aguilar
HAGGARDo Versoza
BITTER Ocampo
STRESS Drilon

(picture from Google.  sorry Ces...)

Tagaytay... no boys allowed!

KC treated the barkada to a night's stay in tagaytay.  one cardinal rule though - No Boys Allowed!

even with husband protesting, nope he couldn' t join.  and days prior to the trip i thought i was going to miss it.  Uno had ashtma attacks and impetigo.  oh the horror of seeing your child wheezing hard at night and the terrible terrible manifestation of impetigo.  thank god his skin started healing after all the antibiotics both oral and topical. and the wheezing was only for that night.

And so off we went to tagaytay last saturday.  we had a little car trouble on the way.  it wasn't major.  but we saw instead a lot of majors and other men in uniform while having the car fixed at the gasoline station. the Hukbong Himpapawid ng Pilipinas' bus ride was having troubles as well. hahaha!  they couldnt help but notice our entourage.  found out from Misty's driver that the major guy approached him and was crushing on misty. He asked mang pido if misty is married or still single.  Mang Pido forgot my friend is single AGAIN! hahaha!

anyways, we went straight to antonios.  ran into our friend charmaine.  ordered plenty.  tambay and talked A LOT!  took pictures ofcourse (thats a given, all of us are camwhores).

We checked in at View Park Hotel.  all in all the hotel exceeded our expectations.  The hotel staff were all nice and all men (we didnt see even one lady staff).  They are always more than helpful.  The extra bed, which we expected to be a small extra matress to be put on the floor, was actually an actual twin bed.  The room service was speedy.  They even recooked our adobo baon!

The best part about the trip is the girls.  chikahan was nonstop.  True enough, like what my husband and their boyfriends noted, theres no dead air when the girls are talking.  theres always a new topic.  everyone comments.  everyone gets everything!

Til our next destination.  kc wants it sabaw in a beach!

Cold feet

i put in my YM status message "Cold feet" coz literally my toes are now freezing here in the office.

and within a few seconds, my team mate YMed and sent me a picture of this cutie.

i remember... nothing

i saw that my favorite author nora ephron has a new book out titled "I Remember NOTHING" (cant wait to get my hands on 'em)

which brings me up to my husband's longtime peeve on me.  he says, how the hell can i remember the date when he bought his first iphone, or remember what he was wearing the day we met or remember the food he ordered on our 2nd date, but i dont remember what he said that is totally 100% important 10mins ago?

and then i will answer back with conviction "ikaw ba ma caesarian 2x!  imagine ang anesthesia na tinurok sakin ng bonggang bongga?"

no but seriously, i can still remember these random weird things:
-what my friend wore to her friend's brother's wake 15 years ago, but i dont remember what i wore.  (she wore her RL collared light pink shirt tucked in a jeans)

-i cried in nursery class when my classmate pointed out i colored the whole page wrong.  the instruction was to color only the things that can be found inside the house.  and i colored the pig black and the car red. but i dont remember being told by the teacher of the instructions (i guess i wasnt paying attention)...

-i used to sit under the barre and outline with my finger the seams of the tights of the bigger girls when in line for corner exercises.  i remember they would all get tickled and be surprised to find me hidden there under the barre.

-it was in ciara's house where i first ate sineguelas. i remember also we even ate a lot of pineapples.  we ate lunch at her house.  i just dont remember what viand we had.  we definitely had rice ofcourse.
-i remember my brother getting mad at me for jumbling the questions in his reviewer (he memorized the answer in sequence kasi)

-my mom got mad one time when she was putting baby oil at my brother's back, because the bottle was filled with water (and i filled it.  i never admitted it was me)

-i remember Myra, the lady who owns the salon in my hometown, where my mom used to take me to have my curls done.  (i was jealous of my friends with curls daw.  but i dont remember ever telling her i was jealous of anyone's curls...)
-i remember that the cousin of my neighbor lent me my neighbor's stationary set.  i remember they were blue with flower design and scented.  she handed it to me early morning.  by the afternoon she said my neighbor was looking for it.  so i tried and tried so hard to look for it.  i never found them.  i was so sorry, i gave her a different set of stationery.  and she got mad at me.  for weeks i really tried really hard looking for them, but i never found them.

-i lost a ring my mom gave me when i was in gradeschool.  she accused me of giving it to a boy i was crushing on.  the thing is, i was really really bad at remembering where i put things before.  i always lost a jewelry, a headband, a one week old guess watch (which was really IN back then).  i never gave any of my stuff away.  i really really lost them. i regret losing them til now.  like the charriol bracelet i bought with my salary.  i lost it when i left it on the floor in the studio during a shooting for a tv show.

-i remember random dates of events
            -like when my husband bought his iphone (it was dec13 2009);
            -when we  went to enchanted with my daughter and i was pregnant (dec 18 2009).  i was 2 months pregnant.  my daughter and i took a cab to my husband's office in valero.  the cab's meter read 179, super overcharging.  i was so mad but i still paid for it anyway.  i thought i was gonna be short for change so i asked my husband to wait for us outside his office.
           -when we went to see narnia when we were still dating (jan 12 2006)
           -when i first learned i was pregnant with elah (may 29, 2006)
         
isn't my memory weird?  usually when my husband and i talk about some random past, i would just blurt out, "oh you were even wearing this... it was on MM/dd/yyyy" and he would just give me a look with a gigantic "?"

i can still restage some dances i last performed 10 or 15years ago.  i can dance them full length in my head right now.  my friends say my brain is a total dance database.  :)

back when...

pics below were taken back in 2003. during the time when i was working from 6am to 2pm in makati, then will go straight to quezon city.  will be dancing from 6pm until maybe 11 or 12midnight.  then off to a bar somewhere.  go home at 2 or 3 am.  sleep only for 2 hours then the cycle goes on.

on some days will be in the theater maybe the whole day, just dancing and dancing and dancing...

explains why i was so thin.

im still thin.  the thin me is still here somewhere, hidden under fatties.

Super Bowl is definitely NOT Super!

Last saturday, hubby elah and I were doing errands in glorietta before heading to batangas.  Finally when we had the chance to eat already, hubby suggested we eat at Superbowl of china in glorietta.  I agreed since I didnt want to think anymore another fast resto that we both will like.

and so here is the kwento why superbowl is not super...

Precondition - 

we decided to order the ff:

    1.  yang chow fried rice

    2.  seafood chopseuy

    3.  crispy fried chicken

    4.  pork siomai

    5.  rootbeer

    6.  lemonade

and so after we decided, we called on a waitress and ordered them all.  after taking note of our orders, she left us and gave us a bowl of kropek. 

after 5mins

Waitress:  Ma'am hindi po pala available ang crispy fried chicken (babbled about the deliveries havent arrived yet).  kung gusto nyo iba nalang?  try nyo ung ongpin chicken

Me:  ok sige

after another 5mins

Waitress:  Ay ma'am ala na pala yung ongpin chicken.  gusto nyo eto nalang (pointed at something that looked spicy red with all the peppers)

Me:  ay bawal sya ng maanghang (pointed to hubby). ano ba yan bat wala lahat ng pagkain nyo?  o sya sige.  lechon macau nalang.  

Waitress:  ok mam

yet after another 5mins or so

Manager:  maam pasensya na.  naubos na pala yung sauce ng lechon macau.  kung ok lang sa inyo, yung lechon lang.  walang sauce sya ise serve?

hubby:  ano ba yan!  ms. alam mo gusto lang kami maka kain.  eh magsara nalang kaya kayo kung wala lahat ng nasa menu nyo???  

Manager:  sir pasensya na ha

hubby:  sige dalawahin nyo nalang yung pork siomai namin!

after waiting another round, hubby followed up his drink

hubby:  pa follow up nga ng lemonde ko.

waitress: ay sir!  naubos na! 

hubby: ha?  pati ba naman inumin?!?!?

waitress: sir, ginagawa na.  padating na po.

and guess what, after a few minutes, she arrived with a lemonade in really dirty baso!  hubby was so mad comparing my baso to his!  so he called again the waitress

hubby:  miss ano ba to?!?!?!?! kita mo ba kugn gaano ka dumi etong binigay mo sakin!??!?! ayoko na nyan!  bigyan mo nalang ako ng tubig!

waitress: ok po sir.  and got the glass of lemonade.

and the stupidity doesnt end there... she arrived with 2 glasses of steaming hot water, at nakalagay sa plastic na baso!!!  OMG!  hubby and i didnt know if we will laugh or scream our heads out! so we called the waitress again.  

hubby:  miss, ano ba to bat mainit?  

waitress:  ah sir gusto nyo pa mas mainit?  sandali lang po.

hubby:  ano?? bat mo papalitan pa ng mas mainit???  

waitress: ha bakit po?

hubby:  iinumin ko to???  mainit???

waitress:  (tameme lang)

hubby:  pag sinabi sayo ng customer na pahingi ng tubig?  anong ibig sabihin?

waitress:  aaahhhh!!! ice cold water po ba???

hubby:  (shouting) oo malamang!  iinumin mo yan mainit????

so the waitress got the 2 hot water back and replaced them with 2 ice cold water.  eventually our food arrived.  halfway thru the food the waitress approached me with a survey form and a pencil

me:  ay ayoko yan sagutan pwede ba?  kakain nalang ako hindi ko na yan sasagutan.

waitress:  sige na po mam.  paki sagutan na po

me:  sure ka?  eh ang palpak palpak nyo!  anong gusto mo ilagay ko dyan?  eh bagsak kayo sa lahat

waitress:  ok lang po pakisagutan parin po

me:  sige sasagutan ko pero alam mo naman ang isusulat ko dyan.

and then so answered them all with a FAIL!  afterwards, hubby asked for the bill...

waitress:  sir, bibigyan ko nalang kayo ng voucher para sa pagbalik nyo may free kayo...

hubby:  ay naku sayo nalang yang voucher nyo.  di ko na kailangan yan kasi di na kami babalik ulit dito!

waitress:  si sir naman.. (still insisting on giving the voucher)

on our way out, the receptionist girl said "thank you come again!"

we hollered back "Never again!!!"