w@w CHRISTmas party ... Fun .... Fun.. fun...

This time last year we attended the same Christmas party, we had fun last year but this year is better. I guess because we celebrated the party with friends and not just mere online buddies. The W@w Christmas party is something that I have been looking for this year. I already filed my leave last August, wishing and hoping that it will be set on the day after Thanksgiving, since it fell on the same day last year. Luckily, it did fall on Black Friday.

The party was at The Pergola Events Place situated in the Boom na Boom complex. It was set at 6:30 PM. The traffic going to the venue was really really bad! It took us about an hour to get there coming from SM Manila. If you know Manila, you know that the distance is not that far!!!! It was not even a payday Friday for crying out loud! The traffic jam faded as Ayeth, one of my w@w sisters, tell her stories about hmmmm... about.... about... hehehehe..... Christian sat quietly in the front listening!

When we got to the venue, some sisters were there already. Fei and Beej were there already. We took our seats and then go around the venue. Took our photo booth pictures and checked out the gowns to be given away. Some of the other close sisters arrived -- Kristell, Che, Elaine, Shens, Mafeth, Tin, everyone. It was fun to be seating with friends.

The program started at around 8 PM. Francis Day was this year's emcee. The suppliers were there as well. The top 10 suppliers of the year were present except for Ms. Chi of Once a Bride since Fei told us that she has a wedding that day. The yearly Christmas party of W@W is also the time when the Top Supplier of the Year is announced so everybody that night was making guesses of who will take home the much coveted trophy.

Before the announcement was made, dinner started after a few games. The food was abundant specially the dessert... love love love the red velvet cake... The mongolian bbq was good also! Missed the mongolian bbq from the canteen at UP. hahahaha... Josiah's provided the food and the dessert bar was from Joy San Gabriel.... the cupcakes too.. love it!

There was an on-the-spot caricature... it was fun to have our faces drawn in an instant! We got a few prices as well.. nothing major though unlike last year where I won an engagement ring from Vgem. Hahahaha... The party was really great and so much fun. Christian cannot stop saying that he enjoyed the party so much and it was better than last year. He was also asking if we will be able to attend the party next year! hahahaha... Calling Ms. Benz.. pwede pa ba?

the circle of friends with ms. benz and her lovely daughter Kite

winner of supplier of the year 2010 --- Elmer of Rejectkrew
i dreamt of this scene around the last week of October! i told some w@w sisters about it... watching the video of the announcement of the winner made me shiver!

me & xtian with one of our videographers... Chug Cadiogan, one of the top 10 suppliers of the year! hehehehe

inom inom inom!!! hahahahha

Christian did not want to waste the opportunity to have his photo taken with the Supplier of the Year... hahahahha! Rock On!

our table mates! the noisiest table of all .. hahahaha

more pictures.... posing posing!

this time with paul and ayvih... love love love these guys!
pero di pa rin naging totoo ang wish kong magkapicture kami ni xtian with the whole pv team!

posing again!

with all the other w@w couples
Xmas party 2010!!!!

It is definitely true.. once a w@W always a w@w.... I learned a lot from the group during my wedding preparations but I gained more than knowledge about the wedding industry.... I gained friends who will be friends forever!

pager.. beeper... vibrate mode! hahahaha

My sister was looking for my college class cards in my old study table to look at my grades since I was boasting that I have better grades than her during my first year in college... when she stumbled upon this chunky but cutie piece of old technology. She knew that it was a pager because she saw the same contraption from Grey's Anatomy. She however does not know how it works.

We tried to put a triple A battery on my old pager... Voila.. it still works! hahahaha... with the yellow backlight on.. the tones working... it have the "Under the Sea" melody! Alarms working. It was too bad the messages were not saved.. well it has been near a decade since the last time I used it! I told her how the messages comes out... how it scrolls ... and that she can control how fast the scrolling will be. My mom told her on how she will message me by calling the number.. and an operator will answer and type in the message to my pager number! Hahahaha... Classic!!!!

Gosh... technology do upgrade sooo fast! I had my pager during my 2nd year in college... Got a SMS abled phone by 4th year... Load was sooo expensive then but text messages were free but who to text back then? hehehehe Hayyy

my old old old pager.. scratches all over it and still has the YFC sticker!

Infopage was my provider... 127.127.127... pager number please.. hahahaha

the w@w primer.. still having the wedding preps bug

I do not usually wake up early anymore... I sleep almost all day until 4 or 5 pm but today is different. On my way to the washroom at around noon today, I noticed a bright pink package pouch... Hmmmm.... On my way back to our room, I checked it out and it had my name on it... Liberty Palomo-Quiambao... I really love it when someone uses my hyphenated name. I have a feeling what is inside, since I have been reading about it in the weddingsatwork.com egroups...

My gut feeling did not disappoint me. Inside is a copy of the 2010 W@w Wedding Primer! Hehehehe.. My 2009 copy is really really trashy.. since I read it over and over again during our wedding preps.

Yebah... I just love how some people address my preferred surname!

Nice envelope with the bride & groom logo of w@w

Sweet sweet sweet....

Upon reading this one... I immediately opened the primer and browsed every page looking for our names!

Yebah.. page 66... this quote is in memory of something I wrote on my friendster blog before.. imagine friendster blog.. hahahaha

Many many thanks to Ms. Benz and Sir John for creating w@w and for the primer. It is definitely an honor to have my name printed on something special.... I guess w@w will always be part of me.

Celebrating 6 months!

10.17.2010 --- We were never the mushy couple who would celebrate our monthsary during our earlier years as a couple. Well, Xtian was never mushy and I guess he will never be. However, just to make a change, we decided to celebrate our 6th month as hubby and wifey!

To start of the day, I got myself a new pair of eyeglasses from SM Centerpoint and waited for less than a hour to get it... voila new glasses! clear and shiny! After that, we were off to Pope Pius XII Catholic Center.... the place where our history began. We attended the noon mass. We just love hearing mass there since it is really quiet and solemn. It is not jam packed with people and there is airconditioning. If only it is more accessible to public transport, I guess we will opt to hear mass at the church every Sunday.

After the church, we went straight to Pearl Garden Hotel.... hehehee.. yes we went back to our reception venue. Spent the night and just drink... cuddle and had a good night sleep. We just reminisce the wedding day and how fast time flies. Sooner than we know it, we were talking about what to do for our anniversary... hahahaha!!!

The sisters preparing the church.. i guess there is a wedding at 2PM. They allow Sunday weddings!

A shot for prosperity's sake! Nice glasses right?

Crazy crazy Forever 21 sale!

Last 16 October 2010, me, my mom and Andie headed off to SM Megamall to check out the Forever 21 sale. We were supposed to meet up with Sharleen but some changes happened so she was left out.

We arrived at SM Megamall around 11AM. We went straight to Forever 21. My sister kept on saying that she needs to go to St. Francis Square afterward to get some clothes for herself. When we got to the shop... OMG! There are people around... Ladies, women, young girls... grabbing clothes, going through the racks... it was crazy. I have been to 3-day sales and I expected it to be full of people but I haven't seen anything like it. It was chaotic! People were already fitting the clothes right there and then since the line for the fitting rooms was crazy!

We spent a good two hours I guess inside the store. I got myself a new pair of jeans. My mom got herself two pair of pants. My sister.. Hmm... I don't know how many stuff she got. We got my sisterette a really nice romper... a couple of spandex shirts. The sale is worth it if you will be buying sooooooo many stuff since it was 10% off on all regularly priced items but if you went there to buy just an item or two... forget it! I think I save a near 1000 pesos on all the things I got. Not bad!

This is the crazy crazy line for the cashier! Can you see the end of it?

Ahem.. ahem... mama.. enough with the picking.... overbudget already!

see how the line of heads turns... that is almost the end of the line!