SIHAE in Manila (TriNoma Activity Center) - August 15, 2012

Finally the special day has come for PhELFs, Super Junior's Choi Siwon and Lee Donghae for Bench event at TriNoma Activity center.

I came early to the venue, knowing that as early as 7am ELFs were already at TriNoma, that's the power of ELF!!!! ^_^

I was there around 11am, there are lots of ELFs roaming around the Trinoma wearing the "Sorry Sorry" tee of Bench in green and blue colors!

The stage is already set up, they are even playing SJ songs and ELFs go crazy!!! Screaming out loud! ^_^ I'm not kidding, lot of ELFs scream to the top of their lungs when they hear SJ songs! haha ELF Daebak!!!

Around 1pm Bench started the entry of the 700 winners from the promo (I'm included of course), it was a long line, glad that I met an ELF in the line. Of course we talked about Super Junior and travel as well ^_^

ELF DAEBAK!!!!

First there were chairs at the venue, feels so relieved sitting after the long line 'coz I'm wearing 3 inches wedge! But then some staffs came and says that to stand up and they will remove the chair, OMG so what happens all hurriedly go to the front stage, who wouldn't want to be at the first row! 

Hours past and Mr Ben Chan was spotted at the event, he's heaven sent for us (ELFs) for bringing SIHAE!

He is really a good man because he let other's enter the event who have the raffle ticket! I know lots of ELFs loves him more ^_^

Mr Ben Chan

At around 5pm the event started (finally!!!!) hosted by Jinri Park, she's gorgeous!

Jinri Park

A mini raffle was conducted, I envy those lucky ELFs who won for signed T-shirts, signed Poster and a group picture with SIHAE. Now I believe that I'm not really lucky with raffle thingy! ^_^ 

After a while SIHAE came to the stage! Of course what do you expect from us ELFs...we.... SCREAM!!!! 

I'm so overwhelmed with the short interview of SIHAE, I'm stuck looking to HAE's perfect angelic face! But of course Siwon is lovely as ever.

These guys was asked what part in the Philippines they want to visit, Siwon's choice is Cebu while Donghae~ah chooses Boracay and wants all the girls to accompany him while jokingly added that Mr Bench (Ben Chan) will shoulder the expenses! Woah~ "Donghae~ah take me with you in Boracay neh?" ^_^ 

They even learned some Tagalog words, Donghae so cute speaking "Na-mi-miss ko~kayo" and "Mahal ko~kayo" (sounds ngongo *lol* ) So kilig of HAE ^_^

Afterwards, signing of Bench T-shirts was given to the winners, followed by the signed poster.

More pics of SIHAE

  "Ooh Ri Neun Shupuh Juniuh- oyeo~!!

Then Mr Ben Chan welcomes SIHAE

*blurry shot*

Can't get enough for more DONGHAE ^_^

So cute!!!

It's pretty obvious that HAE is my bias! Donghae~ah where's Hyukjae? It would be nice if you take Hyuk here in Manila! #EUNSIHAE

I'm EUNHAE shipper, I just love that tandem #oppaoppa

SIHAE's message to ELFs

 yay~ HAE looking at the camera! ~kekekeke~

Their message made us ELFs super happy, promises that they will be back next year (hoping for Super Show 5), of course they are thanking everyone who come to the event and supported Super Junior!

Words are not enough to explain how happy I am that day! For ELFs out there I know you know what I mean! ^_^ We are so lucky that they visit us here in Manila, much thanks to BENCH for bringing SIHAE (Siwon and Donghae). I hope to see them in the near future! Saranghae~yo Lee Donghae!

Oh I almost forgot to mention the 2 ELFs I've met during this event "Carla and Rosanna" , hope to see you again! ^_^

Siwon and Donghae arrives in Manila

Super Junior Siwon and Donghae arrived in Manila August 14 via Korean Air, they will be here for BENCH event to be held in TriNoma on August 15! Lots of ELFs go wild welcoming their arrival at NAIA!

Donghae twitted with this picture:
@donghae861015 We going to Manila ^^ See u soon guys !! With Siwon

I'm so happy that they are updating us on their way to Manila.

Siwon twitted @siwon407  "Im here philiphines. feel so good now!"


Finally they are here!!!! Finally I'll be seeing my OPPAS!!!


Another tweet from Donghae.

Seeing their billboard, "BENCH"

I've read that they are staying at Edsa Shangri-la, if only I could stalk them... I would...but I can't ^_^.

My only chance of seeing them upclose would be the BENCH event at TriNoma,  wherein lucky 700 fans will be given a chance to see them upclose. Luckily I'm included to that 700 fans! The said event will start at 4pm at TriNoma activity center, feeling jumpy already!

See you DONGHAE and SIWON!

SIHAE in Manila Promo Winners!

Finally BENCH posted the list of the winners from SIHAE in Manila Promo, the raffle was conducted last August 10 at Suyen Corporation office. The list was posted then on their Facebook account, they start posting it yesterday by batch. And just this morning I saw some status posted by ELFs that most of the winners were not ELFs, so it means that they already posted all of the winners! Of course I was curious to know, went to Bench page then saw the Final Batch list of the winners and alphabetically arrange (by name), and so happy to see my NAME! Feelin' so good, as I say to my previous post that I'm not lucky to raffle thingy, but hey look I actually won! So great to start the day! Thank you so much BENCH! Save the best for last!

courtesy of http://www.facebook.com/benchtmofficial

I can't wait to see DONGHAE and SIWON! I'm so so so HAEPPY!!!

To add there's a new billboard of SIHAE in Guadalupe, I think they are not yet done posting it I've only seen two giant billboards of them. 

See you ELFs on August 15! See you Donghae-ah!

Thank you again BENCH!

SIHAE in MANILA Promo

SIHAE in Manila Promo brought to you by BENCH!

SIHAE or lemme say SIWON and DONGHAE of the popular Korean boy group SUPER JUNIOR will visit in Manila this August 15 at TriNoma Activity Center.

Now for the mechanics:
SIHAE in Manila Promo (BENCH)

I really really really want to see them especially DONGHAE-ah (my ultimate crush/bias), the last time I saw him here in the Philippines was February 26, 2011 during the Super Show 3 at the Big Dome! How can I forget that night, one of the best night ever and best concert everrrrrr! ^_^ Reminscing my close encounter to MY dorky boys! ~kekekeke~

I'm not really lucky with this kind of raffle, but still... I try my luck as they say there's no harm in trying ^_^ I just wonder if the 700 LUCKY winners will fit the TriNoma activity center, been there for some mini concert activities before like Boys Like Girls, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Secondhand Serenade. Anyways, I'm hoping to be one of the winners, I'm willing to pay just to see them upclose (seriously!).

I'm so excited for this coming August 15! I can't wait to see them again! Donghae-ah saranghaeyo!!!! ^_^

Boracay 2012 - Day 3

July 31 - Day 3

Weather update: Sunny, a bit windy

Looks like the sun will really shine!!! First we buy pasalubongs, of course we stroll along D' Talipapa, wherel else could be the cheapest sellers of pasalubongs.

We only spend little time for buying pasalubongs, as we don't want to waste our precious time (again), 'coz we can see that the sun SHINES in Boracay (FINALLY)! It's beach time baby! ^_^

Loving our last day in Boracay!

As we reach Station 1, we notice that a lot of people is coming to the beach specially in Station 2, there are lots of people in there. They must visit Station 1 'coz this part of the white beach is really awesome! I know they were excited as we are 'coz the weather's not that good the past few days.

After soaking in at the beach and really feeling the heat of the sun, we head back to Station 2 and had our late lunch at Smoke Bar (again), hungry much!!! Managing our time 'coz we need to leave Boracay at around 3or 4pm, our flight is 7pm in Kalibo International Airport.

Done with our late lunch we take a tryke from D'Mall to D'Talipapa, looks like we still have an hour to enjoy again the sun! Beach baby one more time! ^_^ 

It was already 4pm when we leave Boracay Courtyard, we take the tryke at Tabon Port, fare is 100php for the 3 of us. Then we paid 200php for the boat and van fee, it was a short boat ride from Tabon port. Vans are waiting already when you reach the port, a sticker was given to us to let them know that we already paid for the van fare. 

At first we occupied an empty van, then I asked the driver if they will still wait for other passengers to fill in seats,  'coz we are in a hurry and need to catch our flight at 7pm. Then, he transferred us to the other van and we leave Tabon port around 5pm, then the rain begins to pour again! It was an hour and half from Tabon port to Kalibo and we reach the airport just in time! 

My insights

Definitely this month is not good to visit Boracay, it's a rainy month or should I say a moonsoon season! ^_^ If I would compare Boracay from 2009 to present, there's a difference in terms of being too crowded and the cleanliness of the island also differ.

Though some of the areas were just like the same way back 2009, I remember when we stroll D'Mall seems like nothing's changed it that area. It's just the amount of people roaming around the area, oh I noticed that there are really lots of Koreans in Boracay! My first thought is "Is this Boracay? or Seoul?" ^_^

I learned that there is already an airline from Korea straight to Boracay, so no need to be surprise! Actually I love Koreans, they are wonderful people! 

Guess that would be it, I enjoyed this vacation with my friends despite of the bad weather. I'm looking forward for more travels with my friends. I might consider to visit Boracay again, but of course on summer! Some of the reasons to be back here: other water activities that must try such as Fly fish, para  sailing, zorb, etc., other reason is the "paluto", and the braid thingy too! Another thing is to watch the fire dance, will definitely be back here in Boracay! 

There you go, another HAEppy moments for me with my friends!

Boracay 2012 - Day 2

Day 2 - July 30

Weather Update: Still windy, no rain.

Our breakfast courtesy of La Carmela de Boracay, they served two kinds of breakfast per day (a set of breakfast), for this day they have a corned beef and pork steak breakfast set. You can also choose your drinks (coffee or juice). Be aware of the food corkage, I don't know what's their basis, but they did not charge us for a piece of chicken ^_^.

Looks like the weather is starting to look good (I hope so), today's activity is Helmet Diving at 10am and Island Hopping at 1 or 2pm. I already contacted Kuya Ron for our activities, he forwarded my number to Kuya Niño who assisted on our activities. Because of the high tide and heavy splashing waves, all of the water activities were done in Bulabog Beach, this is the opposite side of the white beach. Thanks to Kuya Niño who even fetch us on our hotel. We take a tryke going to Bulabog beach, the fare is 15php per head.

Bulabog Beach

HELMET DIVING
A briefing was conducted first, the proper breathing before going down which I failed to do so, the result "my ear hurts so bad". This is my second time for helmet diving/reef walking, I'm still nervous going down, and as I say I did not do the proper breathing so the first 3 minutes I was like hurting and want to go up, but suddenly it changed a bit. Down there, of course there are corals and fishes, but compared to my helmet diving way back 2009, it was very different. The water is much clearer before, coz' we are the first to take the reef walk, and the fishes were hungry so there are really lots of them.

Finding NEMO ^_^

I enjoyed this helmet diving/reef walking with my friends, after the experience we talked about it and all of us have the same rants about "ear hurts so bad" except from Toyei who managed to breath properly under the helmet! Good job Toyei!

Helmet Diving
200php per head (CD for pictures already included)
Contact person: Kuya Ron ( 09209060466) and Kuya Niño (09158722855)


We went back to D' Talipapa for lunch (Mang Inasal) and wait for the relatives of my friend (the birthday girl) Nice.

ISLAND HOPPING
For our next activity, we are group of 16pax for Island Hopping! Kuya Niño still assist us, we paid 2000php for the boat rent and 300php for the snorkel equipments (for 16pax).

Snorkeling area

Fee: 20php

camera girls!

The only island we stopped which I failed to get the name, we stayed here for almost an hour because it rained!

I thought there is another island to visit, but then the boatman says that we will head back to Bulabog beach, woah the Island Hopping is done with only 1 island and 1 snorkeling area! Okay, I understand 'coz of the bad weather!

After the short Island Hopping we head back to D'Talipapa to Boracay Courtyard. What a tiring day for all of us, but again we don't wanna waste our time, so after some rest we go out again and enjoy the rest of the night! Stroll again in D'Mall area.

We had dinner at Chicken Bacolod Inasal (D' Mall)

pork liempo

Crazy Crepes for dessert

Choco overload parfait! ~yum~ yum ~yum, overload sweetness! If you love sweets, you'll definitely enjoy Crazy Crepes. Be patient when ordering here, it's kinda queuing 'coz there are only 3 crews doing the job.

I thought the night would be over with our food tripping around D'Mall, but then we received a message from Nice, that her dad and bro is already waiting for us in a bar (Deja Vu Resto Lounge).

Happy hour starts at 6pm to 10:30pm, wherein a bottle of beer cost 40bucks!

Whatta day! I'm happy that we did a lot on our second day, it is actually our last night and we really make the most of it, though the weather is still not that good, we still manage to do some of the water activities, we also had food trips and of course we also drink! ~yay~ I enjoyed this day with my friends, chillin' and bonding! Still hoping for a good weather tomorrow, last day in Boracay!