Asenso na ako!!!!

Dati, Bacoor at Imus lang (na may Antipolo rin paminsan-minsan) ang mga out of town trips ko, ngayon, may Malolos na rin!!!

Yes.

Moving on to happier things, my cousin Joanne got married last Saturday and, biases aside, I thought she was one of the most beautiful brides ever.



More pictures here.

Excited "fons" outside the SMX Convention Center


Guess who we saw at the entrance! The PRP Boys! Of course, photo-op time na :)


The judges, front row and center.


Philip right before presenting his collection.


Sorry, no pictures of the clothes :( We were seated too far from the stage and there were scary looking bouncers all over the place, so I was too intimidated to go nearer to take better shots:p

Over all, it was a fantastic show! All the collections were commendable, but Aries really stole the show because (1) he incorporated color in his pieces (Philip and Veejay stuck with neutral palettes) and (2) his 4 way dress was a production in itself.

So yeah, I think Aries is it.

My prediction:

First- Aries
Second- Veejay
Third- Philip

Thanks to Solar Entertainment for the tickets!

To do list:

1) Wax
2) Charge camera
3) Watch PRP final runway show!!!
4) Pack things for Joanne's wedding weekend in Biliran.
5) Suck gut in and hope that bridesmaid's gown still fits.
6) Prepare stock answer for the inevitable question(s) of when I'll go next.

Woke up today with three words in my head:

"I'm so out"

Technically that's four, but when you just woke up, you don't really split hairs.

Ok, so that's (finally!) settled, now where to next?

Sssshhhh....the baby's sleeping!!

Haven't blogged a lot these days.

Primarily because there hasn't been much to blog about.

And the bloggable things are dooce-worthy. So zip it.

The two most useful things I learned in high school:

1) Touch typing using a "takatak" typewriter. Imagine typing "Adam ate an apple" over and over again (or at least you fill up one short bond paper). The following year, the typewriting room was converted to the computer lab and the succeeding batches never experience the pleasure of getting your finger stuck between the typewriter keys.

2) The "SI Jingle" which we had to sing in a group in front of the class. The song goes like this:

It's easy to change from English to Metric
The system (or was it secret? hmmm....) is fun if you know it
So let's all convert from English to Metric
Let's do it and share it and show it!

Just multiply inches by 2.54 (said as two point five four) and then you'll get centimeters.
The feet multiplied by .305 (point three oh five) will give you equivalent meter.
You multiply pounds by .454 and you'll get kilograms it's true!
The gallon times 3.79 will turn to liters for you!

Subtract 32 from degrees fahrenheit, the result, keep it in mind. Why?
Cause you'll multiply that by 5/9 and you'll get celcius just fine.
The yards and the miles are things of the past
Use meters and go kilometers!
So I'll use the English with modern at last
The system of metric is (3x) BETTER!!!

I set my alarm clock for 6am fully intending to spend a good hour and a half or so at the gym before going to work.

But I woke up to such lovely bed weather (which doesn't always translate to good commuting weather!) and I already went last Tuesday and I lose weight really fast and...

And the excuses go on and on.

Sigh. After I found out that Jessica Alba and Kate Beckinsale look the way they do because of HOURS of workout (with trainers and nutritionists pa!), I kinda lost interest in going to the gym:p

Anyway, it's still early and I think I will go because if I don't, I know I'll just end up kicking myself later on in the day for my pathological laziness.

Final three: Philip, Aries and Veejay.

All is well in the world again :)

Can't wait to see their collections!

Team Philip ako. Kayo?

Go EB Babes!

There's just no justification for a supposedly educated man to douse someone with scalding hot coffee no!

Hello.

It's sad though that less serious physical injuries is a bailable offense.

But at least he got imprisoned for two days.

Buti nga sa yo.

Finally, to recap: Go EB Babes!

and go Toni!:p

Dear A (aka Buntis),

It's not that I no longer have any work angst.

Far from it.

It's just that I've grown tired of bitching and whining, and am just biding my time until I can skedaddle out of here.

Yun lang.

****

Dear Blockies,

I have no intention of being a martyr and my last act of (misplaced) loyalty is to weather the barrage of cases that the firm will get in the next few weeks and to just stay on board until things become calmer. Or at least until early 2009, whichever comes first.

Promise, last na to.

Don't be mad now:p

From Choir girl priss.


To ice bucket destroyer.

Because some stories will be retold over and over :p

I AM SO UPSET!

Jaz is out and Mara won the challenge?! Hello! What sort of idiotic parallel universe is this?!

If avant-garde means being eye-catching and noticeable, the way a bloody train wreck is, then by all means, Mara's creation deserves to win.

But it was not wearable, it was probably glued on the wire thingies and it looked more like a sculpture than something anyone would wear.

It just so happened that Rajo Laurel "Absolutely loved!" Mara's work, thus the win.

You could see how the other judges sugar coated their words after Rajo made his very firm comment.

Apples Aberin was like: It definitely caught my eye. While the guest judge was like: It certainly does stand out.

But that's because she put wires covered with fabric around a human being, people! Of course it will stand out! You try wearing an umbrella on your head and see if you don't stand out!

Ok, I'll try to stay more focused now and review the creations as per this episode's challenge, that being to create a non-traditional outfit using indigenous materials. Somehow, avant-garde got thrown in during Teresa's explanation, but the primary challenge was to showcase the fabrics and to prove that such fabrics are not only for barong tagalogs or baro't saya.

Hmmm...from that perspective, it really would appear that Jaz's outfit was the least avant-garde of the lot, but it was still ten million times better than Mara's sculpture-ish thing.

Maybe I'm just blinded by my standard pragmatic point of view (read: clothes are functional and are meant to be worn) and am too fashion-retarded to appreciate Mara's fashion forward creation. But I still think it was a case of the emperor's new clothes. After Rajo's very vocal approval of Mara's outfit, you would have to have a few screws loose to disagree with him. Rajo deemed it so and so it was.

They should have just named the challenge as: Avant-garde, futuristic, non-wearable bullshit crap. That way, Mara would have really deserved the win.

Basta, Team Jaz forevah!