Fashion Avenue

Time: 9:54 p.m.
Where: In the living room.
Now Playing: "Waste" by Foster the People.

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This is the first I felt so euphoric. So happy when I saw Alodia Gosiengfiao and her sister, Ashley Gosiengfiao very close, in the flesh when they were about to get out of the mall. They were like twins when they were side-to-side in. But first, lemme tell the rest of what happened, starting from the top. We waited to SM Muntinlupa with my friend, for two hours in order to see them in the flesh. So, my long time friend, Cedric, did some soundtripping while playing our favorite pastime, playing Pokemon. I just remember that one of them used to play Pokemon and that's Alodia. LOL.

After two hours of wait, we got to see Alodia and Ashley performed one of their best sessions. They performed one of my favorite songs from my favorite British pop punk band The Ting Tings' "Shut Up and Let Me Go". Ashley sang this song. Not familiar with what Alodia sang earlier but I am sure it was Japanese. Lastly, they performed "Super Bass" originally sung by Nicki Minaj with Ester Dean on the rapping part. I saw their video creating the cover which was good and seeing it live was paid-off, they were good in performing live. Bad start yet, bumawi sila. :)

Here's how my me and my friend captured the performed song. Low quality on the video, long story on how my friend captured it pero the sound quality was quite good.




Now the main focus was on the fashion show for the FASHION AVENUE clothing line and I saw some stunning designs of the clothes that was sorted into different places of the world such as Paris, New York and more. I was still looking on Alodia because she was stunningly beautiful at that night, no portrayals whatsoever, just pure her. I mean, she didn't portray an anime character like the famous Haruhi Suzumiya, one of my personal favorites, but tonight, she was being herself. Ashley was also elegant with her tops and black boots, if I am not mistaken.

After the fashion event, all people were on a ruckus. Just piling and following the two into the new store. Everyone was all going bananas at that point, including me, as a huge fan of both of them. Screaming, bribing those security guards just to let us in. Parang nasampahan kami ng Temporary Restraining Order kanina. Yes, I have scoliosis but I fight to the guards just to have some decent position and somehow to let us in after being bumped and crushed a lot, yes, not good for my health but I kept it clean just to see those human living dolls. Some got lucky because they saw both of them early because they bought some clothes with receipts and they need receipts just to see, meet and greet the Gosiengfiao sisters. If I only knew that buying their products and showing the receipt will make us get pass and get some personalized autographs, sweet greets and some bragging rights. I was so close of buying one of their tees but when one man said, this was the last batch. I was very very disappointed with the organizers. Seriously. I can't blame the guards that were pushing tremendously so hard but with picking only few to barge in to them and more of us got unlucky. Didn't get my dream to somehow have both Alodia and Ashley some autographs, pictures and greets with them. I know, it's such a shame but we got some things to do before they left, we acted like a paparazzi chasing famous stars on the way home. Not exactly all the way to Capitol Hills, but just outside the mall.

I am sure Ashley and Alodia remembered me because I was the guy with the bonnet. I was "moonwalking in front of the two gals". I was wearing a red shirt, a Manchester United kit to be exact, because I am huge fan of the football club, with an "Aon" in front because that's the club's shirt sponsor so I know they would recognize me. Headgears sure are getting the attention, sometimes. This is the proof but I did a stupid move that I can be sure for being disappointed and I cried about this back home. It was like a very suicidal reaction and expression I had. I accidentally deleted Alodia retweeted. She retweeted my tweet and I just deleted it accidentally. Not intentional because I want a retweet really badly when I got home. I was thinking of that. When I go home, I will send Alodia some tweets and she retweeted and then, I was gonna select the "favorite" button and then, there goes, "deleted". I was screaming on the house and getting crazy. That's how crazy I was this day. I kept tweeting Alodia and she didn't respond, probably I spammed a lot for the greediness on getting that retweet once again. I failed. Too much regret talaga. ;(

From having a euphoria from the start of the day, ended with a big regret. September 25, 2009, one of the worst days of my life because of Typhoon Ondoy/Ketsana, September 25, 2010 was one of the greatest days of my life when a huge family buffet and some fun time along. September 25, 2011, one of the best and one of the worst days of my life. Mixed emotions. You can tell by reading this blog again on how my day went through. Good night and I hope I can sleep and move on with this. Being a fanboy of my crushes sometimes kills with too much obsession, like this. Obsession kills. I can be a fan pero with limitations dapat, wag lubos lubos because in the end, you will have a great depression when you didn't get what you want. Chances are pero not this time. :) Time to move on.

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Time: 11:31 p.m.
Where: Still here, alone with the rest asleep.
Now Playing: "Waste" by Foster the People. ("Looping it. Try hearing this song because the lyrics somehow involves my day")

Cheap Shot!

Time: 8:11 p.m.

Where: In the study table.

Now Playing: "Good Life" by OneRepublic.



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What just happened this day? Well, I'll let myself to rewind my day first. We had our family bonding together by doing what we did years ago, jogging, and playing badminton. Makes a lot of work out, fitness and health awareness plus, the bonding time we had. After that, we had a sort of extraordinary breakfast then went to the Church. Then, we went home and my father and I kept talking about the much anticipated bout between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz. Too much hype here though because we Filipinos wanna make sure that Mayweather would win to somehow inch closer to the megafight we wanna see and waited years to somehow manage this bout. Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather. I said I wanted Mayweather to win for that megafight to be negotiated but I root for Ortiz to have a knockdown only so that it may have some preview on what will happen to Pacquiao vs. Mayweather but it never happened. It's such that Mayweather was too defensive and picking his shots.

Here we go and tuned in onto the fight. Rounds 1, 2, and 3 were dominated by Mayweather pretty clearly until the whole world witnessed what Round 4 had. Mayweather was very aggressive from the start of the round and kept his defensive style with the specialty of being an evasive fighter until suddenly, Victor Ortiz woke up and attacked Mayweather, cornered him and onto the ropes on the right side until he jumped shortly and his head collided with Floyd's chin. A clear headbutt. Joe Cortez, the referee of the match, gave a one point deduction to Ortiz for the said headbutt. He went to Floyd and said sorry to him with an expression of kissing his cheek as a sign of sportsmanship that he was sorry for what he did. After that, here's what happened.

Joe Cortez was just staring a the ringside where the judges' table and the timekeeper was, I don't know if he was going to say "time-in" or just doing it silently, or probably just stare at them and Victor Ortiz was just looking at the referee if the fight would continue (the wave-off thing in boxing that signals to fight or engage) and Ortiz didn't see any of it or hear the word "fight". So, he thought Cortez was still communicating with the judges at ringside. So while waiting, Ortiz gave Floyd a hug and said sorry. He was too apologetic and shook Floyd's dirty orange gloves until... BOOM! Floyd started to connect with a powerful one-two that knocked-out Ortiz and dropped to the canvas. I was like, oh, that should be a disqualification. One the slow-mo, I noticed that Joe Cortez was not looking when that controversy happened and after the first power punch, Ortiz was not defending himself anymore and BOOM received the second power punch and down he went.



My over-all analysis is this. Blame three of them. I meant of Floyd, Victor and the referee, Joe Cortez. Why blame Ortiz? Because of the very clear headbutt that somehow enraged Floyd and lead to that dirty cheap shot to him. Why blame Joe? Because that signature phrase he got that "I'm fair but firm" was not seen because he was a blind old man and there should be no excuses for that and he should not be a referee anymore. He didn't even waved off his hand to signal for the fighters to continue the match and he was staring too much at ringside. Now, when the knockdown occurred, he immediately counted Ortiz and he was like oh, a knockdown and didn't realized that he didn't signal for them to fight. It's like WWE that the referees not watching the match or getting distracted by one wrestler to punish the other one (untying the ropes, stalling the referee by having your assistant with you, then one will get a steel chair, championship belt, whatsoever to punish), then, the referee would count 1... 2... 3. Sh*t! This is boxing you old goat! Now, why blame Floyd? He kept telling his fans, "I'll give my fans what they wanna see" and he gave the fans some sh*t. About his alter ago being a douche, a coward, an opportunist. He had NO RESPECT to Victor. Ortiz hugged him for a friendly gesture and said "Oh, I am sorry for the headbutt" and Floyd responded with one-two, and Floyd said, "Oh, yeah, apology accepted" and start jumping on the corner and being a self-proclaim champion while other people thought he was a big asshole.

Many of our boxing analysts thought that Mayweather was very unsportsmanlike. Atty. Ed Tolentino said on Facebook, "Floyd Mayweather Jr. did not violate the law of boxing, he violated the spirit of the sport. For all the violence in the sport, a boxer ain't a thug. Joe Cortez should never be allowed to referee again. He claims he is "firm and fair," but he is also blind. Ortiz forgot the No.1 rule in boxing: "protect yourself at all times." Advance notice to Pacquiao: If ever you meet Mayweather, show no mercy. Beat him to a pulp." I concurred him a hundred percent. I was enraged after what saw and thought that Pacquiao should really fight this badass guy and teach him a lesson about respect and not being a sissy. I also thought that this was a fixed match. I mean, from what I saw, It was like they were all doing a show for us but a scripted show. From the commentators, to the entertainers themselves. Ortiz was interviewed and he was like didn't complain at all and he was so very happy on the outcome. It was like a bribe happened so that Mayweather will win this. Guran-DAMN-teed for Floyd. The commentators thought in the first place that it was legit while the audience kept boo-ing Floyd for what they noticed and that Joe Cortez moment where he showed his personality as an old goat and didn't look on what was happening in the ring. If I were Ortiz, I should issue Mayweather a rematch and as a fan, I would sacrifice another wait for the dream bout between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather because I really wanna see a real fight between them, and not a fluke one with WWE-style of boxing with bribing the the referees and they aren't looking at all or an Edge-like Mayweather, the ultimate opportunist and after that rematch, I just hope Pacquiao will have that no mercy attack on him and beat his black ass (no racism though, just pissed)!



Just watch this arrogant, brash narcissist Floyd Mayweather on what he had to say with HBO's Larry Merchant after the fight.

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Time: 9:29 p.m.

Where: Still here.

Now Playing: "No Surprises" by Radiohead.