You guys may not know this but I am absolutely mad about bazaars. I'm not so keen on online shopping so when I hear that a certain online store will have a booth in a bazaar, I'll definitely be going. It reminds me of the days, when I was a kid, when I would follow my mom around the Greenhills tiangges. The most valuable lesson that I learned, in those times, is haggling. Coming from a chinese family (no racism here, please. ), we have this certain mentality that the cheaper it is, the better. My family would do anything for a cheaper price, thus mastering the art of haggling. It's actually pretty useful especially when we travel to dominantly Chinese countries such as Hong Kong and Singapore (which I'll be flying to on Nov 18-22!)
Last week, my grandma, aunt Badj, and I (yes. Grandma. She loves bazaars too) went to one of the Bazaars in Dasmarinas village (my apologies. I don't remember the name of the bazaar. Boho Bazaar?). It was just a tiny bazaar located in the village clubhouse. WHen I say tiny, I mean tiny. There were probably about 20 small stalls? Which was fine. I mean, this isn't like one of those Rockwell bazaars where you have to pay 200 bucks for entrance fee.
See what I mean? tiny. But the stalls were interesting, though. If I'm not mistaken, I bought at least one item from each stall. Even the food stall. HAHA.
For a tiny bazaar, it was pretty jam packed at 9 in the morning. I was scared that the nice items would go out of stock. Big mistake. These stall owners are veterans in the field of bazaars.
"Do you have this in Medium?"
"Oh why yes. We have it in 4 different prints as well".
"Is this still available?"
"Yes. in what color? Blue? Black? Pink? Grey? Oh Olive green matches your skin tone"
Veterans, I tell you. Veterans.
There were 2 food stalls that day. One selling pastas and quiches. The other, (as seen in the picture) sold imported confectionaries and food items. I bought 2 boxes of Twinkies since S&R basically lied to everyone saying that they sold Twinkies (what I found at S&R COngressional were twinkies of a different brand and tasted less, well, less twinkly.
OKAY. OKAY. THIS STALL WAS MY FAVORITE. Their items may have been export overruns but, GOD DAMN I ALMOST BOUGHT THE WHOLE RACK. I can't say that I'm proud for having spent so much money in one stall, let alone it being the first stall that I went to, but I am more than happy with all of the items that I bought here. [Except for that gorgeous black drop cardigan that apparently stretches when you wash it. I gave it to my mom instead]
Many many thanks to my highschool classmate, Micki Olaguer of
Emblem.PH, for this indubitably elegand and beautifully handcrafted citrine ring. It's Sterling silver dipped in 24 Karat (I'm not sure if it's 24 karats) gold.
So anyway. Fast forward to that next Saturday: My mom, sisters, and I went to World Trade Center to visit the FOX Asia Pop Comic Convention. As an avid DC fan (YEAH BITCHES, GREEN LANTERN FO'LYF]
Me: MOM MAY I HAVE ONE IN MY ROOM?
Mom: Fine Arts ka diba? Make your own!
huhu~
Mom and sister with the Hulk. Speaking of hulk, we were'nt able to get a photo with Ironman's Hulk Buster because the line was sooooo long and we were soooo impatient!
Doodle Art Enthusiasts and the SG based group Band of Doodlers "doodled" on 2 MINI Coopers. Don't worry, the cars were covered in white stickers (the stame sticker used for those School Car stickers.
The first love of my life. :(
Oh and did I mention the amazing Star Wars figurines being showcased by Filbar's. I preordered the 2015 First Order Stormtroopers
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They didn't allow us to take photos of Paul Bettany during his autograph signing so I took a photo of the screen instead.
Okay this part I hate the most. No no, not the interview with the Filipino comic book artists. The part where we went to the Stage area early to get seats for the Captain America Civil WAR trailer screening and were asked to leave and fall in line only to be shooed away because the venue was already full.
Fuck you, organizers. You could have given us a heads up that we had to fall in line somewere.
The human Foosball area.
Us with a storm trooper. Minutes after this photo was shot, an old lady grabbed me and said "BILISAN NIYO KAMI NA MAGPAPAPICTURE". I fell to the floor. This Storm Trooper was so nice. He refused to take a photo with her for being such a bitch. The Imperial Officer that he was with (aka the lady who guides him to places) said "Maam. Sorry but we don't entertain such violence here in the Comic Con". It was ironic since they were soldiers, get it? Cuz she's an Imperial Officer and he's a-- nevermind...
CHICO GARCIA OF MONSTER RX 93.1'S THE MORNING RUSH. Mom and I would listen to them everyday since I was in my freshman year of College.
Okay there was one stall that really caught my attention. They were selling prints of the artworks of 5 different artists. My batchmate in the fraternity was one of them! Hello Tristan!!
The New Era South Park Caps. I wanted to buy one for kuya but I bought myself a batman one instead.
Koji and his Spiderman with the Spidermen.
I've got a suggestion for the organizers of the Comicon, please do not hold your Food and Drinks area outside under the blazing sun. And please have a separate area for drinks. I had to buy in the Jollibee across the street because all of the food stalls were out of drinks and food. Think about your clients. I didn't even see an ambulance nor first aid nearby. What if someone had a heat stroke or fainted because of the heat? Negligence, I say!
I would definitely go to next years comic con if there will be any but I think one day's pass is enough.
