shawarma is my secret lover
February 27, 2008the following post was written while i was sitting last tuesday in our booth waiting for 6pm to roll in. today’s already saturday. bleh.
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its 5:30pm and its raining and its freaking cold. and im sitting here at our booth. Its the Session in Bloom, the third of the three main events for the Panagbenga (Flower Festival). Its when they close the whole stretch of Session Road to make way for food stalls, arts and crafts booths, face painting and henna tattooing, bar and resto caterings and endless free concerts and street parties. for one week. i love.
i almost killed myself trying to get a permit for our own information booth. thing is, the big boss had second thoughts about putting up a both cuz the fee is ridiculously expensive for a 1-week stint. but since we badly need to do this marketing move, she agreed in the end…when the application for booths at the Panagbenga Secretariat is already done and over. i had to resort to asking our building administrators to let us open a booth infront of the building since we’re their tenants anyway. so a mere 5 days before the Session in Bloom opens, i was able to get a contract, lay-out and printed the tarps and flyers and Panagbenga-themed bookmarks (freebies) to be used. i drew blood. cut my finger while cutting flyers. yech.
but now, im actually enjoying myself. enjoying the sights, sounds and smells.
im on the my third chicken and beef shawarma, watching a gaggle of koreans oerusing over items sold at the crafts store while i listen as some guy painfully belt out a lovesong for a singing contest sponsored by a local radio station.
its still 5:30pm. its still raining. and its still freaking cold.
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have tons of pictures. have no time to upload and edit…yet. pictures next week promise!
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Ohhh yeah. Shawarma is love.
Posted by Ade at March 4, 2008, 5:01 pm