How to spot an ALDUB fan

ALDUB is a global craze.  If you are still not aware, well, where have you been sleeping, Snow White?  Okay, for your benefit, here is how to spot an ALDUB fan.

1.  An ALDUB fan wears a positive outlook just like Maine and Alden.  Who would not smile everyday with the joy they bring in Kalyeserye?

The HOLD sisters, most are ALDUB fans.

2,  An ALDUB fan is respectful.  Respect has always been taught in every episode of Kalyeserye where ALDUB plays a major role.  Remember that grandpa who wanted to buy a ticket for the Tamang Panahon concert?  He fell in long line for the ticket but the ALDUB nation allowed him to be prioritized as he is older.  When Maine, learned about this, he was given VVIP tickets.

3,  An ALDUB fan types fast. :)  This is proven by the record breaking tweets,  ALDUB nation keeps on breaking their records every week with the highest record of 41 M tweets for tamang panahon.

4.  An ALDUB fan is talented.  I can't count how many songs have been written for ALDUB by fans and how many sketches have been drawn.  All I know is that ALDUB nation's weapon is creativity.

one of the sketches I found on internet

I was so inspired I made a terracotta scent diffuser

5.  An ALDUB fan is LOVE!  As the love team ALDUB spreads love and belief in forever, we ALDUB fans are also loving and compassionate.  Spread love!

Preparation day for ALDUB's date and National Pabebe wave day

Today, yaya Dub and Lola Nidora came from the parlor  to prepare for tomorrow's visit of Alden in the mansion because tomorrow is the day when Lola Nidora allowed Alden to visit Yaya Dub in the mansion.  Lola  Nidora allowed Aledn to visit provided he will follow the three conditions:

1.  Alden and Yaya can come near each other with a distance of one foot and NO touch.

measure a foot with the ruler

2.  Bring chicharon with love and sweetness.

chicharon is fried pork skin

3.  Lastly and the best of all the three conditions, Alden should sing his own rendition of God gave me you by Bryan white.

These are the three conditions of lola Nidora for Alden.  Tomorrow is Pabebe wave national day!  Make some wave!!!

ALDUB More than words

It has been two days since Yaya Dub, the other half of the love team ALDUB, has uttered her first words.  Yes, first words (with an S) because she uttered two names.  The first time was in the episode after their first most awaited date.  She came back with her head bandaged due to a minor car accident after running away from the ALDUB date to get to Lola Nidora in time for her medication.  The episode ended with the voice of a woman calling "Lola".  Suddenly, Lola Nidora and Lola Tidora found Yaya Dub lying unconscious.  That was her first word.

Screenshot from EB's Kalyeserye episode 21.9.15

On 22 September 2015, Yaya Dub was not physically present but she was only on the phone.  Lola Nidora said that she was resting from yesterday's passing out incidence.  Yaya called several times.  She was still dubsmashing on the phone but then she suddenly uttered, "Lola", "Alden".  Those were her next words.  

Babbling is a stage in child development wherein the child is like vocalizing syllables but not yet forming words.  At 12-17 months, this is the time the child  may begin to say one or more words.

Comparing child development with Yaya Dub's development in kalyeserye, babble is her dubsmash. She actually is quite advanced in her development because she has already uttered her first two words - Lola and Alden, in only just more than two months. :))  She has also soared high in her career from dubsmash queen to, commercials and soon movies (she is currently shooting My Bebe Love with Alden, Vic Sotto and Ai Ai delas Alas).

Her first two words could be symbolic.  Her first two words could mean more than words.  Her first two words could mean more than advance development.

What could it mean?

• Say what you mean and mean what you say.  Yaya Dub's first two words - Lola and Alden - could be coming from her heart for these are the two people whom she loves the most.

• For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.  In the bible, Luke 6:45 says A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.  Whatever is overflowing in Yaya's heart, she speaks.  Alden! Lola!

• Ever heard of the saying, "follow your heart"?  Well, Yaya Dub just followed her heart and her heart says, Lola and Alden!

• “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” ― Rumi.  Yaya Dub as obedient as she is was drawn to what she really loves - Lola and Alden.  (I need oxygen now!!! ha ha ha )

• "Her heart was talking now..." - Karen Kingsbury, Even now.  Well?  

Whatever the meaning of Yaya Dub's first two words, wherever it came from and whoever it is (that she uttered), one thing is for sure - the heart is speaking more than words!

ALDUB's first date!

And so it happened.  Millions, actually proven by 10 million tweets, witnessed the first date of the sensational amazing phenomenal love team, ALDUB.  The excitement was felt all over the world.  Although in Dubai we had a hard time with live streaming, it did not stop us to watch it live simultaneously with our loved ones in the Philippines.  It was like watching while sitting with your family.  We tweet together and watch at the same time.  It was another bonding moment with our families back home.  It was indeed a record breaking event.  Last night before I slept, it was already one million tweets, maybe around 11:45 p.m. Dubai time.  At 11:00 a.m. Dubai time, the tweets reached 7 million.  Joey de leon, one of the hosts of Eat Bulaga, said that he is happy even with 8  million tweets but the audience shouted and gestured 10 million! Indeed, we have reached 10 million and counting.

10 million tweets for #ALDUBMostAwaitedDate

What can we learn from this first date?

• No touch and other oldies rules.  Lola Nidora, the grandmother of Yaya Dub laid down rules for the first date, which Yaya Dub and Alden obediently followed today.

• Respect the girl's parents by asking permission.  

Alden kissing the hands of Yaya Dub's parents

• Stick to the rules.  Although the ALDUB love team almost wanted to  break the rule, they controlled themselves and remembered lola's rules.

Almost, but oooppsss. ...remember the rules

• Do not pretend.  Be who you are.  They were both actually  not acting.  They were who they are and that made people love them.

Beautiful couple...uuuy couple

• Do not bare your skin, especially for girls.  Alam namin maputi na mga kilikili nyo.  (we know you have white armpits) ha ha ha.  Look at Yaya Dub.  She wore the most elegant and most respectful dress for a first date.  If you want respect, respect yourself first.

Respect yourself if you want respect from others

• Family First.  Though the two were enjoying the date, when the medication alarm clock rang, Yaya Dub came running out so she will be able to give the medication of her grandmother, lola Nidora.

• Lastly, Be compatible.  There were 10 questions of compatibility from which the two answered 7, getting the questions maliwanag o madilim (light or darkness) and sweet or spicy wrong.

I still cannot get over the event.  Thank you Eat Bulaga, my endorphins are high.  It helps me recuperate and somehow forget that I am sick.  To Aldubnation, it's the lesson, not the number of tweets! Move forward for more happy moments.