HBT

while watching E!News on ETC, i learned a new word from US Presidentiable Hillary Clinton..."H.B.T."

E! host: and what exactly does HBT mean?

Hillary Clinton: H.B.T. -- "human being time"

he was so happy to see hubby & Ex-US Pres. Bill Clinton in one of her campaign sorties, because she says: "we need some HBT"

E! host: how' s ur human being time like?

Hillary: good! HBT is great!

love her! hillary (first-name-basis huh) is one admirable lady! from a former first lady to senator, to future US President, why not?

Birthday Blast

My birthday was such a blast!

Thanks to my dear hubby ronald who made it extra special! Since I was in Cebu from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2 (Thurs-Sun) i didn't have time to prepare for a celebration. He did it all for me!

Arrived home on the day of my birthday, Dec.2 and i was surprised to see the house fully decorated and the kitchen filled with food, drinks etc. Apparently the day before (Sat) he and Yaya Josie went to Farmers and Shopwise to buy all the stuffs needed for my birthday celebration. It was supposed to be just a family affair but when i found out that there were plenty of food prepared for the day, i figured i should invite my close friends too. Ronald prepared spring rolls/lumpia & special macaroni salad the night before...and prepared the ingredients for the rest of his planned recipes. He still went to work at ASAP, and intended to cook after the live show. He just gave instructions to the helpers.

And true enough, after ASAP, he hurriedly went home, while i was taking a nap becoz i was a bit dizzy from my flight...at kahit pagod na siya diretso sa kitchen. Such energy! All for the love of me hehe!

So aside from the spring rolls and the macaroni salad, he also cooked Szechuan crabs (sweet & spicy), kare-kare, escabecheng lapu-lapu, pancit, chicken drumsticks...lahat yummy! well i cooked too--spaghetti hehe! and i brought lechon from Cebu. Sayang! Wasn't able to take photos of the food.

my heroes

with my kumareng decs and inaanak louiz

Thanks to my St. Paul friends who came with their hubbies and kids... just like last year, your presence made me happy, sabi niyo nga, annual reunion na natin ang birthday ko! Si Zyann lang ang absent coz she was in a news coverage in Batangas...And of course, i missed jet and bennet too. My halliwel friends, hay naku, inindyan nyo ko! My family of course, ever-present! Thanks to you all!


To Raph, who in his own little way, has surprised me with a cutie red balloon... and to Ronald na nag-effort BIGTIME, hihi...BIG THANKS!

flight booboos & bloopers

while senator trillanes and general lim were in the streets of makati calling out the filipino people to withdraw support from GMA government... there i was desperately trying to find ways so i can catch my flight to cebu which seemed impossible with the terrible traffic that the makati standoff has caused.

since i didn't join the rest of the group who earlier convened at abs to take the service van, and no one was to drive me to the airport, i took a cab and braved the heavy traffic...after about 50 mins of almost- not-moving traffic, the cab driver suggested that i take the mrt instead. okay sounds logical! so he brought me back to the mrt station. ayan, for sure mas mabilis na! pero hello ang pila sa tokens matindi rin! it took me about 20 mins just to purchase a token, what with the long queue of people who also took the alternative ride.

i was already near the magallanes station when my EP called to check where i was, they just got to the airport and there was only little time left before boarding. after a bit, haay finally pasay na! which means malapit na ko sa domestic airport, but the way going to domestic road was even more horrible! my EP called again to inform me that they already checked me in and i should just claim my tickets from the lady guard at the gate. sabi ba naman ng EP ko kung malapit na ko, at hindi nagmo-move ang traffic, lakarin ko na lang! huh? maybe i would do so had it not for the rain.

our flight was at 1:40pm , i arrived about or exactly 1:40, i hurriedly went inside to claim my boarding pass, went through the rigorous baggage check...gosh my toiletries were inside my suitcase which i had to handcarry kasi wala nang oras! i feel guilty nakaligtas ako sa strict security procedures, for a while i was questioned dahil sa liquid toiletries na nasa dala kong maleta... then she just asked me, "ano ba gagawin niyo sa cebu?" and when i said "taping po ng deal or no deal" she goes, "ah kasama ka ba nung group ng abs?", "opo!" ...at the back of my mind what i was really thinking was... "imposible nang makasakay pa ko sa eroplano, late na late na ko!"

but this was one instance na good news ang delayed flight! our 1:40pm flight was moved to 2:20pm hahaha! so i made it! even tp who arrived at the airport at exactly 2 pm. we were earlier texting each other that if we don't make it to our flight, we would just take the next available flight together. good thing we wouldn't have to go through the hassle of having our flights re-booked, what if fully-booked ang succeeding flights?

grabe! lagi na lang ako victim err late sa flight hahaha! i remember 3 yrs back, the game knb? team was headed to davao for a taping at eden nature park. for fear that i'd be late for my flight, i took the mrt by myself for the first time, the instruction to me was i alight at the last station and take a cab going to the domestic airport. when the guard was about to check my suitcase, ewan ko ba kung bakit di ko mahanap-hanap ang susi sa lock...haay 15 minutes din akong na-delay, di ko na maalala kung pano ako nakapasok. aaah i think sinira ko na lang ang lock para lang ma-check ng guard ang maleta ko!

eto ang nakakatawa, pagdating sa pasay station, i was clueless that it was time to get out of the train already...
so there i was, still at my seat while everybody else was moving out...i thought may susunod pang station. another set of passengers came in. after a bit, i noticed, the train was moving towards the opposite direction, as in pabalik na sa makati! oh my god!!! kakaloka! kung pwede lang pumara sa mrt ginawa ko na! i had little time left!

i was able to go down from the mrt in magallanes station, no other choice but to take the ever-reliable cab ride going to the airport...besides that it took me so long to take a ride, again traffic was horrendous! and yes with all the circumstances, there was no way i could make it to my flight. i missed my flight! i made some calls and had my flight re-booked but not after more than another 2 boring hours at the airport. haaay!!

after 3 days of taping in davao, time to head back to manila! from eden nature park, it takes about an hour or so to get to the airport. while inside the service van and we were already near the city, i discovered i had left my ticket in my room. Gahhhd!!! NOT AGAIN! i couldn't ask the van to go back or else male-late ang buong grupo! had to re-book my flight again but the next available flight is after more than 3 hours pa! waaaah! grabe na to! i had no book with me, no ipod, no nothing to entertain myself with while waiting at the airport...wala akong kausap, mainit na ulo ko, wala ako gana kumain, i think nagsulat ako nang nagsulat ng mga angst ko sa aking notebook, not the laptop. di pa ata uso wifi non. kaya actually kinda may trauma na ko mga flight flight na ganyan.

ilan beses na din kasi na kasama ko ang crew para sa out-of-town coverage noon sa balitang k/rated k, at dumarating sa point na pine-page na ang mga pangalan namin kasi late kami...one time naiwan ko ang tickets sa opisina at kinailangan namin bumalik...minsan naman may na-late sa crew, or ako ang late hahaha! haay, usually kasi galing pa work, uwi lang to pack then diretso na airport...laging kulang ang oras! haaay!

pero bakit pag international flight never naman ako na-late, maybe because we allot longer hours prior to departure! at pag personal trips usually pre-planned, there's enough time to do stuffs. oh well...

back to trillanes, because of what transpired, our host almost didn't make it to cebu...they were booked on the 4am flight, but because there was a curfew, kris didn't want to take the risk. all the succeeding flights were fully booked, so our prod heads had to find a private plane for kris and her entourage. wow! kris was supposed to bring josh and baby james to cebu but for security reasons, tita cory had advised against it.

so there...i'll be posting about our cebu trip...and my birthday celebration next time.