So earlier this week, my gay officemate mentioned that 2NE1’s Dara Park was coming to Manila by Thursday. I mean, if I wasn’t in a meeting for 12 hours and 8 hours on two consecutive days respectively, I would’ve went “YEY! Whoo! Win!”, but I had work up to my nostrils and I just… couldn’t get myself to show excitement. Afterall, she was an artista for 4 years here and I didn’t really care that much.
But yesterday, while on a shoot, I thought it would be a good chance for us to meet with her and talk about the Kpop Con. And with that realization, I pulled all the strings I can to get me and the girls to meet Dara.
I called a good friend and blockmate from ABSCBN Interactive to get us in. I threatened a friend from MYX and told him he’s dead meat if we don’t get in. I called up friends from the ABSCBN local prod dept. and asked if they could throw their weight around and well, get us in. Needless to say, my efforts paid off.
This was Wednesday afternoon. That night, I met up with Mishi so we could buy gifts for 2NE1 in behalf of Cass Ph (the Kpop con organizing commitee) and I bought personal gifts, too for BIGBANG, which I thought I could ask Dara to give them. Fangirl fail!
However, let me bring you back to reality and remind you again that I HAVE A JOB. A CAREER. As much as I like to froth my mouth and spend my time ogling idols, I seriously caught my self stopping and asking why the hell was I spending precious time on this. I mean, c’mon, we are preparing for Macau this Sunday and here I was thinking about what gifts we should give the YG crew. -______-
Anyhows, so I asked my boss if I could leave early from work to you know, MEET SANDARA PARK. I expected him to say NO WTF YOU CAN’T WE HAVE LOADS OF WORK TO DO so imagine how hard I fell off my chair when his eyes lit up and he asked, “OMG CAN I JOIN!??!?!” No shit. He did. And I was like “OF COURSE NOT! I’LL BE WITH FANGIRLS WTH!!!” And so after a petty argument, he was just like “Well, whatever. Just make sure you get me a personal greeting. With my complete name.”
WAT. He listens to 2NE1, btw and is crushing on Bom. I LOVE MY EMPLOYER. ^_^
So let’s go back to me and Mishi buying stuff for the 2NE1 girls. One thing you gotta know about me and that friend is that we’re as similar as a leaf and an iPod (me being the iPod, of course). We were bickering with each other 15 minutes before the mall closing because we couldn’t decide on what to give them. She wanted a bag, I thought it was gay. I wanted to give a coconut-summin’ summin’, she said it doesn’t fit their image. WHAT. THE. CRAP. I don’t even know how we managed to even finish shopping!!!!!! In the end we ended up getting them these:
DARA: A lacey wallet kinda jewel holder thingy. Something Filipinas used a long time ago when they’d go to church. I think. (Shuddup we bought it in a Filipino crafts store).
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