starshadow_rivaulx | Fwd: Wednesday, 14-September-2011

Event of the Day: getting a text message from the secretary of our historical society, that I was supposed to be at the Senate Building to visit Senators Trillanes and Sotto in order to ask for project funds. Cue me going into a momentary freak at the timely reminder, since I had planned for a totally different afternoon once we'd dropped off Ma's PT.

So I did a little schedule-shifting in my head, Ramon and I went to eat lunch at the Blue Wave Shakey's, I left Ramon at SM Mall of Asia, and arrived at the Senate front door at least a half-hour early. We ended up at Senator Trillanes' office and were allowed to see him even though he was supposed to be on his way to the session hall! Thus he was given the drive-by explanation of who we were, what we wanted, and where the money would be going. The Senator said he would forward it to his legal team and they would see where in their budget it would be legal to release money - if any. OK, a case of "don't call us, we'll call you".

Thankfully, considering my opinions about the RH Bill, we met with the chief of staff of Senator Sotto. He was a very nice man - he even gave us merienda! We were, in the end, advised to address a letter to the Senator requesting a specific amount of money; on the way to that end, however, we had a nice discussion on history and historical gossip. My feeling is that we may have managed to make ourselves a friend, and this is good.

Having done with the Senate, I met Ramon at the Pet Express in the Mall of Asia - bless them for having a bench outside the store for the dear man to sit and wait for me. The nice young man who takes care of me in the Pet Express at the Makati Hypermart was in the store, so was able to get my 2 sacks of Kitty's Crumble and a sack of Friskies, plus assorted goodies, into the car without too much stress on Ramon's part.

After that, a fly-by visit to Healthy Options, by way of the Greenbelt driveway. The rush-hour traffic was just starting, so it wasn't too much trouble to convince the guard to let me park the car on the lay-by while I literally dashed into Healthy Options and back out again.

Then home, to start feeling aches and pains and read about how Shalani Soledad (ex-girlfriend of President Aquino) has gotten herself engaged to be married. Husband goes, "Well, at least it's not Willie..." (Willie=Willie Revillame, a game show host of dubious reputation but nevertheless extremely popular on TV.)

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* /05:34/ Stories from the Heartland t.co/W8iAnBZ
<http://t.co/w8ianbz> #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113727269800914944>
* /12:30/ Lunch before a meeting at the Senate I forgot about!
Luckily I need to be there by 2. (@ Shakey's Bluewave)
t.co/j6zPCjw <http://t.co/j6zpcjw> #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113831973402853376>
* /12:33/ Aieee. Good thing I got.the reminder about a 2pm meeting
at the Senate building. Trying to tap funds for historical society
projects. #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113832628355989505>
* /12:39/ RT @Binalot: Follow @Binalot and RT this for a chance to
win an Ecothings notebook & a FREE #Binalot meal! Sender of 18th
and 25th RT wins. #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113834274460942336>
* /13:29/ well. had no idea the blue eagle was part of our legal
tender. t.co/03oHTiP <http://t.co/03ohtip> #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113846830445506560>
* /14:20/ Waiting for the rest of the meeting participants. (@
Senate of the Philippines) t.co/kNbf4j4 <http://t.co/knbf4j4> #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113859663342215169>
* /14:24/ @kuyakim_atienza <http://twitter.com/kuyakim_atienza>
"Fourscore and seven tweets ago" ☺ #ReplaceWordInQuoteWithTweet #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113860548596211713>
* /14:28/ @kuyakim_atienza <http://twitter.com/kuyakim_atienza> "How
do I love thee? Let me tweet the ways..." ☺
#ReplaceWordInQuoteWithTweet #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113861556390993921>
* /14:49/ Oh my. Soneone with bad dreadlocks just walked across my
field of vision. That poor hair. #
<http://twit%0a%20ter.com/starshadow/statuses/113866874177073152>
* /15:02/ @momblogger <http://twitter.com/momblogger> @mmda
@telibert @jabjimenez @piahontiveros @limbertqc why shoot at all,
that's only compounding a wrong. #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113870220988395520>
* /18:29/ I'm at Pet express MOA (Pasay) t.co/wc2Px0C
<http://t.co/wc2px0c> #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113922204655304704>
* /18:31/ I'm at Healthy Options (Greenbelt 5, Ayala Ave, Makati
City) t.co/xgm3oNg <http://t.co/xgm3ong> #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113922825290653697>
* /22:31/ @GelSantosRelos <http://twitter.com/gelsantosrelos> a
marriage of two different religions will face incredible pressure
fr the in-laws. Not (cont) t.co/IiirG6f <http://t.co/iiirg6f> #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113983170579402%0a%20752>
* /22:32/ @GelSantosRelos <http://twitter.com/gelsantosrelos> a
Catholic cousin of mine married a Mormon. They have a lovely home
life and doing well. But oh, the interfernce #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113983506492817408>
* /22:35/ @misterjpmanahan <http://twitter.com/misterjpmanahan> hm.
A year after the split, Shalani is now engaged; parang nagbabang
luksa sa dead feelings, ano. :) #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113984278987149312>
* /22:41/ @misterjpmanahan <http://twitter.com/misterjpmanahan> good
heavens, I hope not. But a year is long enough to figure it out;
and they're not bound yet. :) #
<http://twitter.com/starshadow/statuses/113985775921664000>

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