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    #11
    Ubos na naman ang kaban ng bayan...hinuthot na ang pera ng GSIS ngayon pati pera ng SSS kinuha na tapos ganyan lang mababalitaan mo? Anu ba namang klaseng tao yan napaka kapal ng mukha. yung halagang yun kung binili nya ng gamot maraming filipino na ang nakinabang. SALAMAT SA PAG WALDAS MO NG TAX NAMIN.... ABULOY KO NA YUNG TAX KO SAYO!!!!

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    #12
    Gee. And I thought Obama's $500 per plate dinners were bad.

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    #13
    from: www.inquirer.net

    Lapid did not enjoy French dinner - Miriam

    Christine Avendaño
    Philippine Daily Inquirer
    August 09, 2009


    MANILA, Philippines - No photo with Obama plus the meal sucked. And for that, Senator Lito Lapid could have just stayed home.

    After failing to have a photo opportunity with US President Barack Obama, Lapid was said to have not enjoyed the P1-million presidential fine dining experience at Le Cirque restaurant in New York.

    It was Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago who spilled the beans on Sunday as she also put her foot down on such an “outlandish'' spending.

    Like Lapid, Santiago joined the recent US trip of President Macapagal Arroyo, but she said she skipped the infamous dinner at the popular French restaurant which cost a whopping $20,000 or P1 million in food and wine.

    She said she skipped the August 2 dinner with President Macapagal Arroyo and her entourage because she said she normally did not like to go to places like that as this would require her to doll herself up with make-up and jewelry.

    She also ditched the affair because Santiago said she was not a “scintillating personality after 8 pm.'' Santiago attributed this to her chronic fatigue syndrome condition, which she jested, made her a cranky person in the late hours.

    Still, she said she was surprised to find out that dinner was at Le Cirque, the watering hole of the rich and famous.

    The senator said that when in the US she preferred to go to Vietnamese restaurants because for $10 to $15, one could have a meal of rice and viand.

    Those who go to restaurants like Le Cirque pay “for the prestige of that place and privilege of seeing and being seen,'' according to Santiago.

    But apparently, the ambiance of the restaurant failed to impress Lapid.

    Santiago said she learned that Lapid had told protocol officers that he did not enjoy the Le Cirque dinner.

    “Sabi niya, grabe naman itong restaurant na eto, katagal tagal dumating ng order (He said, ‘This is too much...it takes too long for the food to come),'' Santiago said in an interview with dzBB radio.

    Lapid had pointed out to protocol officers that it took time to serve the meal because waiters would change plates and silverware every course, according to Santiago.

    “That's why he did not like the French restaurant,'' she said of Lapid, a movie actor and former Pampanga governor.

    Lapid recently raised eyebrows and not to mention giggles when he admitted he joined the US presidential trip so that he could be photographed next to Obama, the first American black president.

    The senator did not get his wish because Obama only got to chitchat with President Arroyo, Santiago, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto Romulo and Speaker Prospero Nograles in the White House.

    On Sunday, Santiago said she had explained to Lapid about how strict the protocol was on the Obama meeting as she disclosed as well that anyway, the group did not even had a chance to be photographed with the US President.

    “We have no picture with Obama because we're not allowed to have pictures with him. His time was very very limited,'' she said.

    The US president, Santiago said, was all business. “So there was no picture taking,'' she laughed.

    Santiago said in the meeting, she was able to tell Obama that “America would not be able to get what it all wants from President Arroyo because she was not free to sign treaties as these needed to be approved by the Senate, which is dominated by the opposition.''

    And for that remark to Obama, she said the US president told her with a laugh that “I can see you are a powerful woman.''

    It was a good thing that during the meeting there was no talk of prisoners in Guantanamo being shipped to the Philippines.

    Had this been mentioned and with Obama telling her that she seemed to be a powerful woman, she said she might end up being “powerful in a sense that I would have raised my voice'' on that issue.

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    #14

    Is this true?.... If it is, malabo na talaga ang mga nangyayari.....

    8404:duel:

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    #15
    sarap!

    from New York post..

    eat and drink



    "ang sharap sharap nho!"-GMA

    August 7, 2009 --
    THE economic downturn hasn't persuaded everyone to pinch pennies. Philippines President Maria Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was at Le Cirque the other night with a large entourage enjoying the good life, even though the former comptroller of her country's armed serv ices, Carlos Garcia, was found guilty earlier this year of per jury and two of his sons were arrested in the US on bulk cash-smuggling charges. Maca pagal-Arroyo ordered several bottles of very expensive wine, pushing the dinner tab up to $20,000.

    Last edited by shadow; August 10th, 2009 at 11:10 AM.

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    #16
    Saan kaya nakuha yang bill nila and ilan talaga yung kumain dyan? Yan ba mismo yung bill/receipt?

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    #17
    pansin ko the very rich (locals) do their big spending abroad

    they live here, make their money here, pero pag dating sa gastos... kuripot sila

    yun pala, the big spending happens when they go abroad

    dun sila hindi kuripot

    when i saw that $20,000 dinner news, i wasnt really surprised

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    #18
    kung 25 sila.. that's 40T pesos per head!!! dapat di na ulit iboto lahat nang kumain dyan..

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    #19
    i'm sure, GMA can just easily walk away from this

    ibang klase talaga, kapal. wala na siyang sense of morality

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    #20
    last term na niya eh

    maybe her last US visit as Phil. president

    so to the max na

    sira na din naman image niya, so nothing really to save or protect

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