{"id":327,"date":"2005-07-03T22:08:06","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T14:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2005\/07\/2005_07_03_2208.php"},"modified":"2005-07-03T22:08:06","modified_gmt":"2005-07-03T14:08:06","slug":"yesterday-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/03\/yesterday-3","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to congratulate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bukaspalad.com\" title=\"visit blog\">Bukas Palad<\/a> for a well executed Choir Convention yesterday. A pat on the back for everyone is very much deserved.<\/p>\n<p>The facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Easily<\/em> over a thousand participants. 700 pre-registered, and 600 or more additional registrants showed up on the day itself.<\/li>\n<li>We started promptly at 12 noon, and the &#8220;convention&#8221; part ended at 8:30pm, then we had a mini-concert with special guests, which ended 10-ish. I hope Les (our photographer) was able to get a picture of the people at the the very end of everything because I kid you not that there were still <em>a lot<\/em> of people who stuck with us till the very end.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What does this imply? It&#8217;s obviously a successful <strong>10-hour<\/strong> event! What are the other &#8220;extremely long&#8221; Catholic gatherings one can think of? World Youth Day would be one of them hahaha. Which is why we&#8217;re so proud of pulling it off.<\/p>\n<!--more-->\n<p>A couple of shouts are in order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nono.felipe.ph\/blog\/\" title=\"visit blog\">Nono Felipe<\/a> for lending me his 20D and wide L lens. I can imagine how hard it was to part with your baby, and that you trust a few people with it &#8211; so I made it a point to be the one to hold on to and use it most of the time when I wasn&#8217;t on stage.<\/li>\n<li>Lester for being our official event photographer, who even got to borrow a 580EX flash and 70-300 L and for taking care of all the equipment.<\/li>\n<li>All the volunteers from different choirs and organizations.<\/li>\n<li>That Hail Mary <em>something<\/em> choir early on in the program (I forget their name). You girls (I think it was an all girl choir) were <em>AWESOME<\/em> to say the least. I can honestly say, that aside from Noel Cabangon, you were the best sounding performers of the event.<\/li>\n<li>Soulsearch members from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hangad.com\" title=\"visit site\">Hangad<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/x-marks-this.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"visit blog\">Chrise<\/a>, Elaine and Joy) for awesome performances of their respective &#8220;tasks.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>BPOCC, for finally getting to perform in an official Bukas Palad event (unless I&#8217;m forgetting something that is). Your group&#8217;s presence in that event is extremely significant as it was a perfect example of how dedication and purpose can bring people together&#8230; which was basically one of the very reasons why there was a convention in the first place.<\/li>\n<li>Noel Cabangon&#8230; IDOL!<\/li>\n<li>Fr. Manoling, who never ceases to amaze us. Even in his lecture on the day itself, we still learned something new (even if we have been planning this convention with him)<\/li>\n<li>And of course the BP committee(s) which spearheaded the convention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socathartic.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"visit blog\">Kenneth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/~t1moune\/\" title=\"visit blog\">Jowi<\/a>, Erwin, Oliver, etc. You know who you are and we are all proud of you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also got to experience another &#8220;first&#8221; in my life: A couple of fans stole kisses (on the cheek). Now the group and its members has had its share of &#8220;admirers,&#8221; but never had I expected anything more than being asked for an autograph, or for my email, cell number, etc. etc. Those girls really took me by surprise. If I were a girl, I&#8217;d probably freak out, but since I&#8217;m a guy, it&#8217;s flattering&#8230; and any form of flattery is of course, appreciated. Besides, I was all sweaty and stuff, I should be honored that people even considered taking a shot at me hahaha.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just relieved that it wasn&#8217;t <em>guys<\/em> who did it hahahaha.<\/p>\n<p>Also got to hang-out with Soulsearch people after the concert. <a href=\"http:\/\/x-marks-this.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"visit blog\">Chrise<\/a> was kind enough to wait for me till the end so I could hitch with her as we went to <a href=\"http:\/\/major9th.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"visit blog\">GP<\/a>&#8216;s house where the rest of the soulsearch people followed (well actually only Elaine, followed). Enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/major9th.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"visit blog\">GP<\/a>&#8216;s famous <em>tapa<\/em> and deadly <em>chicharon-smothered-in-it&#8217;s-own-fat-oil<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As much as yesterday was fun for the most part, I had my share of horrible moments. First of is that I lost my Powerbook&#8217;s powerblock\/adaptor. I visited the apple center today and it cost 8.5k! It&#8217;s normally 80USD though, but still, it doesn&#8217;t make things easier at all. I just lost an <em>expensive<\/em> component which I&#8217;ve taken for granted all this time.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why now, I&#8217;m once again posting though the web interface of my site&#8230; and which would be the reason if you should find <strong>more<\/strong> than the usual grammatical\/spelling errors.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to congratulate Bukas Palad for a well executed Choir Convention yesterday. A pat on the back for everyone is very much deserved. The facts: Easily over a thousand participants. 700 pre-registered, and 600 or more additional registrants showed up on the day itself. We started promptly at 12 noon, and the &#8220;convention&#8221; part &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/03\/yesterday-3\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yesterday&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[183,196,243],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bp","tag-bukas-palad","tag-choir-convention"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}