CNBLUE Live In Manila - The Blue Moon World Tour [★]

[UPDATE: I'm totally revising this post from last night. The original post was more of random spazzing (because I was still fresh from the concert and still high with adrenaline xD). Here's a more formal and more detailed fan account of the very fun concert last night!]

Read here their presscon at SM Megamall a day before the concert.

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The Awesome Stage
Upon entering the venue, the first thing noticeable was the superb stage. It's a wide stage with lots of lightings set up at the top of it (and we clearly saw shortly after what those were for -- lots of lights, confetti, and even fireworks!!). There was a big screen behind them and two LED screens on both sides. There's even a ramp way on both ends also of the stage.

At the start of the concert, they played trailers of each of the members. The video was blue-themed and literally they flashed a full moon on the screen. xD A few minutes later, a hole opened up on the stage, and there emerged the band members! The crowd went wild!

The "Blue Moon" trailer at the start of the concert

CNBLUE Holds Presscon for 'Blue Moon World Tour' Concert Stop in Manila [★]

Korean rock band CNBLUE has arrived in Manila on June 13 for their concert that will be held on the next day at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. They held a short and brief presscon at SM Megamall Event Center wherein they were welcomed by hundreds of fans who went to the venue to see a glimpse of them.

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I guess this is my first official fan account eh? I began to connect with CNBLUE after watching them in We Got Married (Yongseo episodes) and Heartstrings. That's why when I heard that they were coming here, I pushed to purchase a ticket to see them live in concert. :D

I really did not know where this Event Center was located inside the mall. A few seconds upon entering the building, I saw two girls and one of them was wearing a CNBLUE t-shirt. I knew then all I had to do was follow them. *Hehe* A few seconds later, voila -- a stage draped with the boys' faces greeted me from a distance.

The press conference of CNBLUE was scheduled 2-5PM. However, as early as 11AM (that's the time when I arrived) there was already a crowd on the LG, UG and 2nd Floor around the stage. I've heard that even before the mall opened (at 10AM) , there were already people lining up outside to go to the Event Center. 

The Liebster Award [★]

I first encountered this "award" on one blog site that I follow and I found out that it's like a chain award that you pass around fellow bloggers with the aim of getting to know more of each fellow writer and discovering their sites.

But what does liebster actually mean?

According to http://www.dict.cc/,

Liebster is a German word which means darling, beloved.

Apparently, this award is given to bloggers with less than 200 followers. Receiving this award is like a boost to your blogging reputation.

Shoutouts to bluetsukky for nominating my humble blog for this award. :D

Food Trips: Woori-gohyang - Korean Restaurant [☝]

A week before our planned Baguio trip, me and my friends visited a Korean restaurant in the North - Woori-gohyang (previously known as Woorijib). Xan (one of my friends) highly recommended this place so we decided to make a visit to this restaurant.

Actually, this is my second time to eat at this resto. Back then it was still 'Woorijib'. I really loved their yuk gae jang. It was the best one I've tasted so far.

Today, Woori-gohyang is located along Matalino St. in Quezon City.


Eating Buffet-Style
The side-dishes are served on a table just like in a buffet and it's self-service to get your own plate.

There were several side-dishes already at the table and they serve new ones as the hours passed by. I really don't know what each them are called, but I am 100% assuring you that each one of them is delicious!!

Trip to Baguio - The City of Pines (Day 3)[★]

Read here our first and second day at Baguio. :)

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Our third day was the day of departure and travelling back to Manila so the plan was to spend the first half of the day buying pasalubong items. 


The Morning View of Baguio
I was the first one to wake up. Since everyone was still asleep and I got nothing to do just yet, I decided to take a walk outside of the house.

I took a few pictures of the morning scenery and we could see that Baguio is really a mountain that was just builded upon by houses and houses upon its steep slopes. The roads here are really sharply inclined. It would be a nightmare to attempt to ride a bicycle along its streets.

When finally everyone was awake, we only had little time left so we decided to divide the group to buy items at two different locations. Xan and her mom were to go to the strawberry farm to buy some of the fruit while Dani, Ruby and me went to Good Shepherd to buy jams, cookies and other local delicacies.


At the Good Shepherd 





Our first stop was at Good Shepherd to buy the items that we wanted to bring home.






There were a lot of tourists buying in the store. Good thing the price of all the items are already displayed on a glass window. 






We were also already provided with pen and paper to list down the items that we wanted to buy. It was quick for us to purchase all the items that we needed.

Trip to Baguio - The City of Pines (Day 2)[★]

See here our first day in Baguio post.

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To the Beach
Our second day was planned to be spent in a beach in La Union. But before we headed on to the shores, we went to a nearby church (because it was a Sunday). Then we bought some mangoes among the locals to bring to the beach trip.

It was almost a 2-hour drive to the beach. Good thing the weather was perfect. The sky was blue with the sunshine blazing among the scattered white clouds.

Aside from the seashore, there was an infinity pool in the resort. We first went down to the beach to enjoy the waves and then swam in the pool afterwards.

It just came to me that I haven't been on the beach for the longest time! I was happy because I was able to successfully do "floating" on water and learn the basics of breast stroke swimming. :D


Rainclouds, Rainbows and the Sunset
I was not able to take much picture throughout the day because we were busy swimming, so I just took the chance to snap some photos of the scenery after our dip into the waters.

Trip to Baguio - The City of Pines (Day 1)[★]

It's been more than a decade since I last went to the mountains of Baguio that's why I was so thrilled when our barkada (circle of friends) laid out a plan to spend a weekend vacation in the mountains.

It was a 3-days-2-nights trip and here's a rundown of our first out-of-town adventure. :D

Six Hours (Almost) of Travel
Straight after work on a Friday, we went to our scheduled bus trip at Victory Liner, Cubao. It's been a long time also since I got to ride this provincial bus and I must say, their transportation system is very organized. The departure schedules are strictly followed that's why you need to come early to catch the bus, or else you'd be rearranged to another bus but with additional charges and less possibility of actually being accommodated.

What's more, there's free wifi in the bus! YAY!~

Mostly the trip was spent sleeping with music on my ears. Thanks to Soniyah for providing Mellow music for me (via its SensMe™ Channels feature). :D

We were in the zigzag route up to the mountains of Baguio by sunlight and it's such a daze to see the mountains in the morning sunlight.