Saturday all stars

In a sea of black shirts (there was a photography event happening, and photographers always wear black shirts (even when they don’t need to) no matter how hot. I still don’t get it.) and short people, their bright colored clothes and, as this picture shows, height, made them stand out. It’s Allison Harvard and Dominique Reighard of America’s Next Top Model! Alison was from Cycle 12, and Dominique Cycle 10, then both returned for the All Stars season. They were so sweet and kind when people asked for photos with them. Alison was just like what I saw in ANTM, she seemed so meek and dainty! And Dominique’s beauty was just striking. I wish I had her color! They’re both here for the Bench Philippine Fashion Week (PFW) runway show. And I think they had a shoot for their Bench campaigns which I am excited to see.

And that night, I got to see two more stars…Mario Mauer was just charming, such a cutie! I still feel kilig when I remember his movie A Crazy Thing Called Love (read about it here). When I saw him, I couldn’t help but smile. If I’m not mistaken, Mario was the second international endorser for the brand, right after Ed Westwick. The followed by Zac Efron (rumored to visit the country soon! EEP!) and Ian Somerhalder.

And to complete the Penshoppe All Star campaign, they added Leighton! Oh.my.god. Leighton’s super pretty! And fresh! Actually, scratch off pretty. Elaine was right, she’s gorgeous!!!! And she looked like such a darling. (And I love the shoes!)

Who knew that all these current stars would fly here to endorse something local?! Never in a million years would I imagine. Akala ko hanggang Jerry Yan and other asian stars lang ang kaya, but no. Just this week, Joe Jonas and Ian Somerhalder were here! (Elaine was lucky enough to meet Ian!!!!)

Thank you Elaine for letting me tag along. It’s always fun to hang out with you and Russ :)

A letter from Rome

I loooooove hand written notes and letters! And I feel really sad that people don’t do it anymore. Most people rely on emails, Facebook messages, Tweets and text messages to send out something to another person. But not me, I try my best to send out something hand written every now and then, but I don’t really expect them to do the same for me.

But when I arrived from Bacolod two nights ago, I was surprised to see an envelope addressed to me. It’s a postcard from Rome! From Philip! PHILIP!

A boy who never really wrote down anything, and I mean any-thing, for me. Not a single post it with a phone number or an email address or whatever. Come to think of it, I only saw his handwriting once, when I had to steal paper from his notebook.

I feel the little love he has for me all the way from Rome :)

7 awesome things of the week

If last week I blogged about being filled with feelings of melancholy and nostalgia (here), this week naman was filled with awesome. Okay, exag ang whole week of awesome, but there were things that happened that deserves to be tagged as ‘awesome.’ These moments were like being in vacation happy.

1. Chichi and Gigi. I woke up Monday morning to this weird but very cute laugh. You see I wake up to Chico and Delamar every work day (my alarm clock is set to RX) so it was weird to hear this guy laughing. And then I was hooked. Chico and Gino, or Chichi and Gigi, as they call their tandem, makes my day. I called in sick Monday (hope my bosses don’t see this!) to listed to them lang. Well, plus bed weather. Then I was late the whole week kasi I get distracted by their banter.

2. New songs! Last week was all about Coldplay and Linkin Park, but this week its all about these songs —

Eminem’s back! He’s my rapper crush. And he collaborated with Bruno Mars.

I could imagine this in So You Think You Can Dance. In my vision its a contemporary-hip-hop dance performed by Melanie, Marko and Tadd (hearts!) choreographed by TabbyNaps and Mandy Moore or Mia Michaels. Biyutipul! (Speaking of So You Think You Can Dance, all my favorite numbers from Season 7 got Emmy nominations! Yay!)

I loooove Adam Levine. And I like Gym Class Heroes. Another collaboration!

I don’t know if that’s the official vid, but I like it. And the song is cute naman, diba?

It’s from the singers of Like A G6!
Yes, its another collaboration, Far East Movement and Snoop Dogg. It makes me want to go clubbing (yes naman.) and dance the night away.

3. Cleaning up my email. I’ve got more than a thousand unread emails. (Blame my addiction to blog subscriptions.) And since this week is a down week for work, I got to read all some of those emails. Its so nice to see no numbers some of my email folders. Hay, but I still have a lot more to read. Ang sakit na ng ulo ko!

4. You make me smile. Itago natin siya sa pangalang G6. He makes my heart flutter. Yun lang. Haha! I hope I get to meet him para naman I have kwento for you guys.

5. Supportive friends. I’ve mentioned time and time again that I have supportive friends. And they’ve proven that fact again. They were all game with the craziness I thought of this week. I hope I get to return the favor.

6. Cirque du Soleil. I remember, it was 1999, my parents left for HK to watch them. Dad has seen four, mom: three, and this was my first. I was all giddy and excited! And boy they did not disappoint! (Okay, I was disappointed by the tent, I thought it would be bigger!) I was floored by their talent. As in. Read more about it here.

7. Lady loves. Spent Saturday evening with Chonx and Pia. Discussed boys, trips, boys, food, and boys. Then we set off to watch Love, Loss and What I wore—the perfect play to watch with your girlfriends. (Bituin was da bomb! Sobrang galing. I like everyboy, except one. All of them were ‘normal’ and believable, except one.) “I look in my closet and think.. with all these clothes, why do I have nothing to wear? Nothing to wear!” And we capped the night with one drink for the road.

So ayun. I’ve been a happy girl most of the time last week. I hope you guys had an awesome week as well :)

The circus is in town!

Varekai was A-MA-ZING! From the photos palang the costumes looked great, and they did not disappoint. And grabe sa stunts! My brain was like “look to you right, something’s happening. But there’s something to your left!” it was like watching a tennis ball going from left to right, except that there was no ball being passed around. Hindi ako maka-clap kasi I was so mesmerized and amazed byt everything. I think my mouth was open the whole time.

Thank you for setting up tent (literally and figuratively) in the Philippines!

PS: Walang sinabi ang egg roll ko.

What made me smile today [06.10.11]

AMAZING! I couldn’t stop myself from reposting this. Okay, maybe I could actually stop myself, but its too cute not to share! Ade, super thanks for posting this! I hope this is a sign that its gonna be a good weekend.

Ticket to Mars!

I’m gonna starve til the concert wince I’m also paying for my other bills, but I don’t care! It’s Jared Leto. Jared.freakin.Leto.

But I’m still willing to sell my kidney (appendix, blood, whatever!) to be able to buy the Golden Tickets! And I’m also crossing all crossable body parts that I get invited (*ahem* Elaine! *ahem*) to the press con. Tee hee.

Homaygeeeeeed, I’m sooooo exciteeeeeeed!!!!