It's Been a Fun Halloween!

Last year, I attended two Halloween parties as a Lego. I really spent a couple of days working on the costume myself. And I was glad it turned out well. Everybody loved it!:)

This year's Halloween, I didn't have much time to crate a costume. The night before Halloween, I just rummaged through my closet to come up with one. I got a couple of parties to attend as I have enlisted me and my friends in Prive, Aracama, Urbn, and Hyve. That same night, our CrossFit community also had a Halloween party at Melting Pot somewhere in San Juan.

braids, false lashes, red lipstick (Mac Russian Red)

collared shirt, black dress, high striped socks, pumps

From 10pm to 12mn, I was at Melting Pot with my CrossFit coaches and friends. Almost everyone seemed to put an effort in putting together a Halloween costume. Here are some of our photos there:

Denise as sexy devil; Oneal & Lu-ann as "Wicked"

Bugsy Lising as Zeus

Kim as a boy and she looked like Ian Veneracion (peg: That's my Tomboy haha)

Power couple: Gene and Chelsea as god/goddess

My friend Jigz/Dos really freaked me out!

Khalil also scared me!

The Alvarez family came as zombies and here are the parents: Tito Jino & Tita Annie

Cat is scary too!

the morning crew w/ the zombie fam

father and son zombies

the wicked girls kidnapped a god w/ abs! LOL!

with the Facebook giraffe, Batgirl, Cleopatra, and Zeus

the girls and the fake abs haha

At 12:30, I arrived at The Fort Strip and lined up at Prive. The line for guest list was crazy long. We didn't book a table because we didn't plan about staying in just one bar/club for the night. Good thing, my friend Che came with Raf Rosell so managed to get in at Urbn hassle-free. I heard they already stopped guest list entrance there at 12 but we still made it in by 1:30. It was crazy fun in Urbn. I bumped into a lot of friends/acquaintances there.

bumped into Bianca and Skevie in Fort Strip (also came from the Alpha Strike party)

with Che and Raf (thanks Raf for getting us in Urbn hassle-free!)

our Nth photo together haha! Daniel and co-models as Magic Mike

lovin' the vibe in Urbn

the girls at Urbn

Grace as Ms. Officer

At 3pm, we moved to Aracama. It wasn't as crowded anymore. But at 12mn, it was really full that my friend didn't notice someone opened her bag and got her wallet and cellphone. Anyway, nothing much was happening at Aracama that time so we left at 4am.

group pic in Aracama's photo booth :)

Joshua as Freddie Kruger and Faith as corpse bride

On November 2, my friends and I had a Halloween get-together and we also had to be in costumes. It was just a house party so we were kinda lazy to dress up. But even though we're not in grand costumes, we still ended up laughing at each others' costumes. LOL!

If you've seen, "She's the One" of Star Cinema, you'll know who I am

Cent as Capt America and Maze as Anabelle's doll

Sabs as Britney Spears

Grace as a goddess (our theme was "movies" but she forgot haha)

Pam as Lilo

Pam and Jerik as Brangelina

the famous pose of the South peeps :))

group pic without me (more guests came after)

with my crazy girl friends

Girl in the Rain and the Other Woman (peg: Star Cinema movies haha)

Since Josh and Michael didn't have costumes, they became Maddox & Pax (Brangelina's adopted Asian kids) LOL!

And I really exerted effort finding an app that puts rain effect :))

Halloween is indeed one of the craziest events of the year!:)

La Union Soul Surf Festival 2013

When I saw the poster of this event a month ago, I told myself I would definitely go. In fact, I invited a lot of my friends to go with me. But as the the event gets closer, I was starting to feel it's just a waste of money, most especially because the packages were quite expensive for a quick weekend getaway. So, I decided not to go anymore.

On October 25 (Friday), I saw on Facebook and Instagram that a lot of my friends were already in San Juan, La Union for the event. And luckily, I found out that some of my friends were about to leave Manila early morning of October 26 (Saturday), which I thought was the best time to go because I still had a birthday party to attend on Friday night, plus the Soul Surf main event was Saturday night. So straight from my friend's party, we're off to La Union! We left Marikina at 3am and we arrived in San Juan at around 10am.  I was just asleep in the car during the entire trip. What took us so long to arrive was the traffic due to the roads that were under repair.

We had brunch at the restaurant of Kahuna Resort. I actually didn't like it there because the food was quite expensive and the service was poor; not really worth the price we paid for. After brunch, we headed to Oasis Hotel, which was a 10-minute drive from the beach area. All of the hotels by the beach were fully booked because of the event; and since we're just walk-ins, it's hard for us to find a vacant room. Luckily, one of our friends helped us book a room at Oasis, where she's staying.

A standard room (with two single beds) cost us around Php 4,000, plus an extra Php 550 for extra bed since there were 7 of us to share the room. After resting for 3 hours, we headed out to the beach. We started our drinking session at around 3:30 pm and it's amazing how cheap the beers were: Php 35 for Red Horse and Php 45 for SanMig Light. At around 5pm, the girls and I went around to check out different product/brand booths by the shore. We visited some friends at the Paktor app booth, we had our group photo taken at the Smart Live More booth, and we played beer pong at the Rayban booth. Thanks for the free drinks we got from all of those booths.:))

the Soul Surf vibe

sunset sesh with the girls

lovin' this sunset photo

walking by the shore

Girl Friends Forever (GFFs)

Smart Live More! :)

Beer Pong at the Rayban booth

Team 1 (Me, Farah, and Mikki)

Team 2 (Thina, Grace, Reg)

beer pong champs!

After sunset, we headed to the party grounds. Thanks to Team Paktor PH for giving me a media VIP pass. I've been all over the place trying to join my different groups of friends. Despite having too much alcohol, I managed to survive because of the Monster energy drink my friends gave me. I even forgot to have dinner because we're having too much fun with RAC playing in the background. We grabbed some past midnight meals at Kuyang food cart where I had sisig rice bowl for Php 150. After eating, we headed back to the party for a bit then we went back to the hotel at around 1:30am.

at the concert grounds

and we're drinking straight from the large bottles :))

Team Paktor PH and the birthday girl, Janice

my wingmen gone cray cray

the party scene

Hosts: Raymond G., Nicole A.

sunrise at SCTEX on our way home

When we left the event, there were still a lot of people so I didn't know what time the party ended. Anyway, as I got back to the hotel, I woke everyone up 'cause we had to head back to Manila.

It's one helluvah Saturday! (yeah not weekend 'coz I was there for just 24 hrs haha) Imagine, I only spent a total of Php 700 (gas/transpo, hotel, food, drinks) during the entire trip because everything else was FREE! haha thanks to connections! Anyway, I really should go back next year and stay longer. I super loved the Soul Surf vibe!:)

OneRepublic LIVE in Manila #OneRepublicMNL

So, OneRepublic will be having their Native Tour here in Manila on November 6 at the Smart-Araneta Coliseum; and of course, I wanna score some free tickets! :)

Here are my Top 5 favorite OneRepublic songs:

1. If I Lose Myself

2. Feel Again

3. Good Life

4. Come Home

5. Secrets

I am really looking forward to watching them perform live because it will be their first time to perform here in the Philippines and I want to be a part of its awesome crowd. I'm excited about their concert because their members are very talented and they make really good music. For me, they are not just any other rock band because their music encompasses different genres as they collaborate with multiple artists of other genres such as Alesso (If I Lose Myself), Timbaland (Apologize), and Sara Bareilles (Come Home). They have upbeat songs, sad songs, feel good songs; and most of their songs are something people can easily relate to. Oh, I can't wait to see them perform live and scream my heart out!!! :))

Here's a video of my favorite OneRepublic song.

This concert is brought to us by Midas Promotions.