Event: #CosmoFabFemale Awards

My sister was invited for the Cosmopolitan ME Fabulous Female Awards (June 9, 2015) as one of the bloggers and I was her plus one! Click here to view her blog! The event was held in The Act at Shangri-La Hotel, Dubai. It had such an interesting theme although I'm not aware of what it is on ordinary nights. Anyway, I didn't take proper pictures or anything. I was just Snapchat-ing everything I found interesting. Who blogs their Snaps? Me. (This is not all of it, I rather now upload some because it features other people...)

Free cocktails upon entering the venue and lots of models (spraying us Juicy Couture scents! I want to show you guys their showcase which was placed outside the lifts but nah)... My self-esteem was at its lowest throughout the event basically.

The drink stubs got us wine! You can choose from red wine and white wine. It would've been better if they still served food when we got our wine. I loved the cheese in dumpling wrapper with some spicy dip and the meat with cheese on top (well, because those were the only things I tried... They also served sushi and some vegetable salad). I don't know what any of them were called, the servers would just tell us what was in the food. I eat anything so...

The first round of announcements but no acts yet. I took videos of the performances but I decided not to post them. The performers were great though. One chick singing was also part of a dance! Very talented. (Applause) Interesting that a man with a man-bun hosted this event. Everyone has the hots for men with man-buns these days so perfect for a women's magazine event.    

That's it for my Snaps! Now for other picture (of me) taken with proper phone camera use.

After the event we got a bag of freebies! Thanks Cosmopolitan ME, Gilette Venus, Woojooh, Aldo, Olay, Juicy Couture and others! <3

Last but not the least... My make-up for the event. This picture was taken on the way home and my lipstick came off already but I just put on a nude shade (Cherish by MAC) and dabbed red colour (Rouge Allure Velvet 38 La Fascinante by Chanel) on top so it would have that pinkish glow, my natural lip colour would do to complete the look for the picture because I put so much eyeliner I couldn't go any darker. For my eyes, I used my sister's eyeshadow palette from Sephora (the one with the different shades of brown lol so bad at this...). The liquid eyeliner and eyebrow pencil and highlighter are the ones by Sephora as well. For my mascara (tried falsies but no, that was so hard to put on) I used they're Real by Benefit. Yay!

Event: Dubai Poetry Slam (June 6, 2015)

Hey guys! I have been in Dubai for a month now and I haven't seen any of my friends yet. This little Dubai Poetry Slam (DPS) made me get off my ass, wore pants and went to Dubai Mall. I met like four friendships. Two for lunch and two for the DPS in the night. 

I had lunch with the Kumaresan sisters, Melissa and Kate. If you read my blog like back in 2012 I had a post meeting them in Philippines. After high school we would just meet once a year. I don't know why we don't meet more often even if we're in the same country now but her house is just way too far and so is mine and no cars for any of us. So we had lunch at Carluccio's. No pictures because Snapchat. Such a wonderful "blogger" I am. Anywho, I had a seafood pizza which was gooooooooooood. After a lot of talking in the restaurant we walked aimlessly around the mall but just decided Tim Horton's. More talking yada yada and this guy who asked me to go to the DPS finally came and so Mel and Kate went na rin (lol sorry maybe we should watch out for future tagalog). Also saw a couple of kids from my school.

So Raph finally came. None of the people who I thought were coming as he had mentioned them to me. So it was just me, him and Karel who came so late. Moving on to the whole point of this post (as the title tells us)...

This was the first time I went to a Poetry Slam! I have come across people reading their stuff but this was like pure poetry stuff or I don't know what I'm saying... whatever. So what I did was awkwardly sit in a very uncomfortable chair because I couldn't put my feet up or rest my arms jk not complaining anymore. I hope none of them read this. #notags

The thing I noticed was majority of the poets were women which gave me a lot of feels. Nope, not because we're of the same sex but because of what they wrote. They (all the poets) wrote about self-love, family, love, the metro lol and of course, themselves. All pieces were original and you just see them open up in front of their friends and strangers. It was refreshing because I never liked people who are too open about their emotions because I hate hate drama.

Highlights!!!

• The chick who I think rapped her piece. Awesome!
• The couple in which the guy read his poem and it was obviously about love.
• The featured poet and friends!
• The guy who was went in front barefoot. 
• My friend Raph! I'm such a nice friend I don't even know his blog.

I'm really glad that I went for this. I'm going to be honest and thought it would be a bunch of emo kids and other stereotypes about poets you could think of (but I always expect the worst rather than disappointments) but boy was I wrong! These people were amazing and I wish that I could express myself the way they do. Thank you to my friend Raph for inviting me!

Snatched some pictures from their Facebook page!

Event: Bloggers United 6

Oh, Blogging! I am so back. I got inspired again after attending the sixth installment of Bloggers United (on December 7, 2013) after missing the last two. Anyway, it's becoming more and more intense after every event. There was a long line before you could get into the room where the event was. It was exciting because the doors were shut close and they would only open it when they were ready to let in another batch of shoppers in! The first picture below shows how I was the most patient of them all.

I met Kryz Uy, Patricia Prieto, Lissa Kahayon (I was surprised how excited I got when I saw her! #fitspiration), Ava Te, my personal friend Rafa Concepcion and in my surprise the girl who I discovered in SoundCloud who turned out to be a blogger, Reese Lansangan!

Event: REDux Canvas of Expression

So, my friends and I decided to join REDux Canvas of Expression. It is a painting competition of 8 groups, we were one of the 6 groups that participated and the weirdest thing happened... WE WON THIRD PLACE! (HYFR). Here is our entry...

Made by yours truly, Bea Arada, Joanah Verzosa and Gleah San Grabriel (picture below: left-right). The guy with us in the picture is Marvin, he joined the competition as well and won second place (Animo Block 7!). We shared all the paints we had! You can see Marvin's (Sir Artist) below too. It was Joanah's idea that we join the contest because she wanted money for Avicii but thank God that Avicii's concert was moved to May, we won't be in Philippines anymore! The money can go somewhere else but the organization is taking so long to give the prize. I don't think we're getting it though. PHOTO DUMP TIME!

And Marvin's entry!

 

UPDATE: THEY NEVER GAVE US THE PRIZE!

Event: The New Glorietta Vibe

Have you seen the new Glorietta 1? Well, you should have on November 29th! They had their opening and at the same time the biggest fashion show in the world. As of now, Philippines is the record holder of the Guiness World Record for the most people walking on a runway. 2,255 people walked the runway that night which beats Turkey which had 1,967 people walk on the runway just six months ago! It was my first time to witness a world record-breaking event. The only reason why I was there  was because my cousin modeled for Meg. It was so cool because she walked the runway when Kyle Patrick of Click 5 was performing!

After the fashion show, while they were finalizing the total number of people who walked on the runway, Bamboo performed a few songs! That was like the only part I enjoyed because watching 2,255 people walk on stage gets boring after the first 1,000. I'm kidding.

Event: I L.I.K.E. (I Live Inform Educate)

This Saturday, I went to my first free concert! Okay, I've been to MTV's Exit but this one was for a cause. It was for A Global Child's Rights Day Celebration. 

We only went because my cousin's bestfriend's boyfriend's band was one of the bands who played. You can check their Facebook page out! The link will be at the end of this post. So keep reading!

Karren, KM and the band. (Donard, Neil, Mak and Reynold)

I am not a big fan of OPM.. If you don't know what it is, it stands for Original Pilipino Music. But this one band called, Up Dharma Down, which I hear a lot from people was just wow. They're not a rock band, they're music has like that electronic lullaby thing to it. My memory's a little hazy but I got 'electronic lullaby' from my friend, Audrey. She came up with it when we started listening to Owl City way back in 2008.

So as a new fan of Up Dharma Down, I was lucky enough to get a picture with their vocalist. I don't think she likes her teeth, because she doesn't smile so much. I actually had to ask her to smile for me! I really have bad pictures of her on stage but backstage.. Be jealous! 

Other than the concert, it was also my first time to see the tall thingy where Quezon rests. LOL. We left the concer after Up Dharma Down. Just had dinner and a few drinks after that. What a night though! Thanks for reading.

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Event: Bazooka Rocks 2012

My first music festival ever! I bought my ticket two months before the festival when it was still cheap. Yay :D

I went with two of my awesome friends, Clarence and Ken. We arrived at the concert a little late and missed three or four bands but really, we didn't miss anything. We were still there for ten hours! It didn't feel like ten hours because you forget everything once you get to meet the bands. I went for Mayday Parade and got my hug from the DEREK SANDERS!!! My 14-year-old self would be much more excited than my 18-year-old self but yay!

The Wonder Years

A Skylit Drive

I didn't know this band at all but liked their unique sound because of the vocalist's girl voice. We went in the crowd for this band, and after that we never went in again. Mosh pits weren't a thing.

For their meet and greet I was the last fan (LOL, not) who got to take a picture with them and failed epicly (or epically?) with this.

The food Ken got from Siomai House. Good thing the food there didn't cost above P50, spent all the money on shirts and chance to meet and greet.

Clarence's favourite band, Forever The Sickest Kids.

Johnathan of FTSK. He was so nice to the fans that the security couldn't control both him and the fans! I absolutely love him for that.

I don't have good pictures of Marianas Trench, The Maine and Mayday Parade on stage because I was so desperate to get the magazine we needed to meet Mayday Parade and it was all worth it.

The Pretty Reckless

The crowd was really dead when The Pretty Reckless was on stage. There was noise but the screams didn't last long. Good thing that Taylor Momsen understood that the crowd had been standing for twelve hours.

All pictures are taken by me and my friends.