at Gotti's

yesterday my brother and i met with mommy at the grocery store. some nice italian lunch awaits us there prior to that. it would be my third time eating there now, my brother's first time. we ordered frutti di mare and what they called godfather pizza. frutti di mare's very tasty and hmmm, very delicious. it's a seafood dish, has a combination of sour and salty taste. here are some pics of that mouth-watering meal:

Frutti di Mare (right before we savour it all up)

my share..i tell ya it's yummy

we weren't able to take a picture of the godfather pizza. anyway, it's like pepperoni pizza, all the same.

gotti's a fine restaurant, i would rank it right next to sbarro's. though there are many other italian resto's out there, for now, i'll settle with what these two could offer. i love italian cuisine very much. you could try them out at sm megamall. gotti's located at sm megamall's mega atrium, and sbarro at building A. bene!

forgettable

Gloria Arroyo's being bombarded by lots of rotten tomatoes. i can imagine her on stage tied on a chair wearing what she wore during her infamous meeting with US President Obama, while audience are in rage, booing, and media people are enjoying good shots of the tumultuous recreation of La Tomatina.

Arroyo is on fire these previous days, burning hot at the stake set by her critics and Filipinos who are fed up by her mere presence in news reports and ads. three alleged lavish dinners during her US visit are currently the hottest talks in town. Fishy? for most people, especially Filipinos, those dinners are brow-raising and brazen acts of insult to their empty starving stomachs. spending thousands of money in celebrating, while at home, many are going gaga over finding food to eat need not doubt not only a waste of people's money, but most importantly, time that could have been spent on matters of the country.

what's more embarrassing is that news came from US press. local media began to question the government and affirm the truth. as of now, the government is still mum about the issue, and other issues are exposed (i.e., costly travels, Arroyo's sudden richness).

obviously, i'm one of those who are tired of news about Arroyo's scandalous activities. i can hardly wait for her to get out and be gone. if those freakin' dinner issues aren't true, why can't they just say the true cost of all they lavished abroad? even the delegates included in that wasteful trip contributed to the fishiness of it all. haay.. who wouldn't get tired of it. it'll always end the same anyway, all of it will be buried in the sands of oblivion.

the best i could do is to wait for election and vote wisely. she won't be remembered anyway, unlike Cory Aquino.

sycophancy

this man, who has crawled and crept through life, wounding the hands he licked, and biting those he fawned upon: this sycophant, who never knew what honour, truth, or courage meant;

-- Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty' (Charles Dickens)

thank God Filipinos' long wait will be over for more than a quarter of a year. yes, the remaining months of 2009, and the first four months of 2010 will be Gloria Arroyo's last as president of the Philippines. although it's still a long bit of a wait, thinking that it will be over is enough for a good news. i did not see her final SONA (State of the Nation Address) in TV. news reports say that it's mostly a rebuttal, her answers to all the critics of her administration.

i won't deal anymore of her pointless, inconsequential speech. i doubt if all Filipinos believed every word she said. just a waste of time listening to her cock and bull retorts in Batasang Pambansa. i'm more glad 'cause my former teachers in school won't be here requiring me to write a reaction paper regarding the said SONA. for sure, i'll just bombard her with all the negativity the English language could offer.


last week, she made a big deal out of her meeting with US President Barack Obama. with her are a bunch of 'bootlickers', legislators wasting their time hoping to exchange hi and hellos with foreign people and with the President himself. one freakin' actor-turned-senator even confessed he merely joined the entourage just to see Obama (probably even have his picture taken). what a stupid reason to waste people's money...

even at her nearing exit from presidency, Arroyo's political toady (herself) continues to desperately flatter us in everything she does. if i were in Obama's shoes during their meeting, i would ask her one question: do you think Filipinos were satisfied to your almost a decade rule and service as president? i anticipate a starstruck Arroyo in front of international media with all her sycophantic and cocky response.

like any other political flatterers we could think of, Arroyo undoubtedly includes herself in the list. she might have been blinded by power, and saw what she wants to see so that her rule as an executive compliments with what she expected, and not what the masses wanted. obviously, many are not satisfied.