Hullo! It's been a while since I updated my personal multiply site. In fact, come to think of it, I haven't really "pimped" (I originally typed "pimpled" :o ) this site since freshman year. In any case, I thought it well to update now because I experience a nice evening yesterday [evening].
I went to the very first MTRCB TV Awards yesterday and I really didn't know what to expect from it. I had already told myself not to expect anything huge because there were just some things that I can't control.
Take the traffic going there, for example. It was so traffic! I wish I could have taken pictures, but that would have just reminded me of the perils that we had to go through and just how much patience we had to muster to get there in one piece and happiness. It took us 30 minutes to crawl through Guadalupe to Ortigas. I assumed that was what it would be like if a trip to Mecca allowed cars. :O
Lucky for my brother though, worry free,
he just slept the whole way.
I not only had to contend with the traffic (mentally, as my dad was the one driving) but the toole fabric of my dress was etching onto my legs. It was uncomfortable. And I was scattering glitter everywhere. It was disturbing. :O I felt like Tinkerbell.
Oh, btw, my brother is now a carbon copy of my dad. Checkit! :D
We had missed the cocktails of the event, surely. And the fact that we were headed North (foreign terrain) made us worry about finding Gateway on time. I kept telling my dad though that we had already gone to Gateway a couple of times because we had watched a UAAP game last season but he just couldn't remember and it kept stressing me out that he wouldn't believe me when I said, "I know where we're going." :O
Longer story short, we got there in one piece and out of the car, finally. I was still Tinkerbell. We trekked through the four floors of Gateway and we weren't (or at least I wasn't) exempted from the stares that I got. They were "what-on-earth-is-she-going-to-the-mall-in-a-formal-dress-for?" stares. I was wondering whether the people hadn't gotten used to it yet because I expected that due to the time that we had arrived, there would have already been a dozen or so people that walked into the mall in similar attire as well. Apparently not. We finally got to the venue to realize that we were actually early. o.o Go Filipino Time.
And we were trying to look for seats. I already saw a lot of name cards of celebrities. Some I knew just by name, others I didn't know at all (sorry) but I at least had an inkling that they were famous people. We were trying to look for our seats and then the usher lady said that I had to sit separately from my dad and bro. No! :c On the bright side, I sat a row behind Eddie and Gloria Romero. And I got a name card on me seat too.
Though, all I kept thinking about was, "I am seriously going to leave my mark on this seat (in the form of glitter)."
Blah, blah, blah. It was forever before the show actually started. Late celebrities. Bad, bad, you. So it started and Marian Rivera came out. In fairness, she *is* pretty. My strange paparazzi brother wasn't able to take proper pretty shots of her though.
Again, long story short, there was an opening and then the hosts came out. They actually decided to award the screenplay finalists first. They read their own-made citation of Fledglings and I was quite surprised. Because then I heard how they interpreted the screenplay. It was nice. I mean, I'm glad that they were able to draw out the essence of the script. :D
Again again, long story short, The Absentee Boy From UST won first place and The Girl Whom I Swear I've Seen Somewhere Before won second place. Guy From PLM and Girl From PUP won the honorable mentions. I and the other two girls that sat next to me all got consolation perfumes from The Gap though. Pretty cool (since I'm kind of obsessed with perfume at the moment). When we were on stage, Edu Manzano said "Smile naman kayo dyan!" and I thought "Smile under pressure? Sure, I can do that. That will make me look crazy though." Haha. It was all good though, because regardless of whether I won or not, I walked away with the experience of being there. And it was cool. The whole thing made me aspire to write another screenplay (which I am actually already starting to do. yipee!).
The rest of the night was for the other awards. The cutest thing was Santino from May Bukas Pa (did I get that right. Sorry. :o)! Because he got up on stage, got the huge trophy which was almost his height. Ryan Agoncillo carried him to the mic and he said,
"Thank you po sa MCTRB"
audience laughs
"hah? Ay, ay, MTCRB."
Ryan Agoncillo whispers it to him
"Aaah, MTRCB para sa pagtankilik nyo sa amin..."
He was so adorable!
More awards and then the ending. I guess the best performance yesterday was by Charice Pempengco.
I was initially very surprised that she was there, because I saw her from the stage already when I was up there and I kept getting distracted by the girl wearing hot pink--which I thought was kind of weird matched with bright yellow (her sash). But she was great---the sound system wasn't---but regardless. My thoughts strayed then, thinking that this was an awesome experience seeing all these people live when you've only seen them on television forever. And then I thought just. how. awesome. it would be if I could finally watch Arashi the same way I was watching these people now. I mean, I was in the second row! That was amazing. If I could get seats like that... but anyway.
I think another nice point of yesterday was when they awarded Gloria Romero with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
They showed clips of all her old films and I thought (my CommArts self clicked in), "I would LOVE to watch her old movies. And I LOVE the quality of old Filipino movies (like the visual quality--not content-wise)!"
Okay moving forward, when it was done, I congratulated the other finalists and went off on my way. I wanted to take a picture near the big tarp of the event, ala-Red Carpet, but Gladys Reyes was there and all these photographers, so I couldn't have my shot. :c
We left and at Mandarin umm.. Cafe? At 11pm! It was yummy! Nasi Goreng-eng-eng :D Dad ate Hainanese Chicken again. I got to eat some :D
All in all, it was great. I'd love love love to be there again next year. I hope to be able to join again. :D I just hope they don't put a theme next year, because that will be hard to force into my brain. :o
Oh, and I was right, I left pixie dust on my seat. My mark.
I left it in the car too, and the parking lot. And all over my room. I'm bound to start flying soon.
"Just remember sa awards night, it doesn't matter kung olats ka sa prize, basta panalo ka sa outfit.:) "
- Sir Groyon
