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Celebrated my birthday with some friends recently… I’ll be editing photos and will be updating you soon! :)

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Boracay 2017

It’s my first time in this beautiful paradise. Boracay is one of the most famous beaches in the Philippines. It’s known for its white sand and crystal blue water. Just look at the photo above and you’ll see what i’m talking about.

I visited Boracay with my sister’s friends, which are also my friends now. Here’s the squad in Puka Beach!

Honestly, we didn’t swim much in Boracay. We only went for a swim on our second day. In most of our time there, we just eat (especially in Andoks because everywhere else is a lil expensive), party at night, roam around Boracay, and admire the beauty of the island.

Allow me to post this selfie because I really liked my swimsuit but we didn’t swim on the first day :( We spent most of the first day looking for places to eat and settling down on our place. We booked a casa which is already big enough for the six of us. It’s in Station 3, it’s really peaceful in there compared to Stations 1 and 2. Also, the water is clearest in Station 3.

Of course, a night out! One of the things most people do in Boracay is to party all night (haha)

Group photos!

For the second day, we went island hopping. I’m the only one who really wanna go island hopping since it’s my first time in Boracay. They didn’t wanna go but I forced them! I’m the youngest so I’m their baby and it’s hard to say no to me (hehe)

Photoshoot? Haha!

photo for instagram... achieved! look how beautiful the place is!

Resting in front of our casa, getting ready for another night out!

Around Boracay, you’ll see locals building sandcastles every night. You only pay 20 php each if you want to take a photo with it, unlimited shots already!

it was supposed to be a dab pose, oops

I gave in haha

For our second night, we partied until 4 am! The party was in Station 1 and when we got home to our casa, I can’t feel my legs already! It’s normal to walk along the stretch of Boracay beach but I’m not used to walking long distances... I kept complaining but I can’t do anything and i’m also enjoying the company. We’re still hyped from the party!

On our way home from Station 1!

In our third day, most of us are tired.. we stayed in the casa most of the day. I know, very tita and titos! We just bought drinks outside and drank it in the casa. I also got sick on the third day, maybe because I’m not used to partying all night anymore! :(

We still went outside during the night, but only for a chill night.

Chill night for the last night. I didn’t drink anymore because I’m still sick.

needed to wear sweater for the last night.. i don’t want to stay home since it’s the last night.. so i still went out... in a sweater... in summer... in Boracay.

For our last day, my sister and i went out early to take photos around the island.

Station 3 is the best place for me! not crowded, clearest water..

Boracay’s Grotto. I need to see it (in daylight) before we leave. Station 1′s water is also clear but there are some green algae. Still beautiful!

Must try shake in Boracay! Beach Hut shakes! If you have more space in your luggage, you can buy cute tumblers and take them home!

After buying shake in Beach Hut, we bought some pasalubong then went home and fixed our stuff. We decided to just eat near the airport but we found out our flight got delayed. We saw a really cool restaurant on a tree house!

Last group shot!

Until next time, Boracay! I’ll definitely be back.

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My favourite person in the world has an album out. Go get it!!

It’s really good! Hope you try listening to the album! I like everything but if asked what’s my favorite, i’ll list On My Own, Paper Houses, Mirrors, Too Much To Ask, and Flicker.

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#DangerousWomanTourManila

I always label myself as a lowkey fangirl, but honestly, I fangirl a lot. Although I tweet a lot about Niall Horan (yes, that guy from one direction) and the pop culture, I have a separate twitter fan account dedicated to Niall Horan (oops, can this be our secret haha). I only became a true pop culture fan girl recently but I don’t think I’ll get out of this soon!

Watching Ariana Grande Live in Manila WITH the Smart Music Live experience is one of the best days/nights of my life!  What is Smart Music Live experience? Glad you asked. Smart Communications, Inc. gives fans the chance to watch their faves’ concerts live and have the ultimate fan experience, ALL FOR FREE! To get passes for Smart Music Live, fans need to join Smart’s Twitter Parties that are usually held few days before the concert. The winners will experience riding the exclusive Smart Music Live party bus and do some of the artist’s favorite things to do before the concert! The chosen fans also get two concert tickets each. Every Smart Music Live is different but here’s my #SmartArianaGrande experience:

Taken in the Smart Music Live party bus lounge.

The Dangerous Woman Tour Manila leg happened on August 21, 2017, a holiday here in the Philippines. Since there is no work, I brought my sister with me. The meeting place for the Smart Music Live experience was in Greenbelt but since we brought our car, we had to secure a parking space around MOA Arena first and just commute to Greenbelt. We arrived in MOA really early so the event area was still peaceful, no fans around the arena yet. I saw the Smart balloon outside the arena, I just have to take a photo with it!

It’s Ariana Grande’s concert so most fans are wearing cat or bunny headbands, or are in space buns, or are in the signature ariana high pony hairstyle (ofc it’s not required haha)

We arrived early in the meeting place, most winners are already there. Everyone’s obviously excited! My co-winners and I are already friends because we made a twitter group chat before the event.

The exclusive Smart Music Live party bus arrived not long after. You can already tell it’s a luxury bus from the outside, and even more when you’ve seen the inside. It’s very spacious, there are sockets both sides in every row, there’s wifi (yay) and someone is on standy if ever you need something. Drinks were also free, just ask. We’re just going to Rustan’s for lunch and for an activity so it’s just a short ride. Here’s the bus:

You can see us in the right corner haha

During the whole duration of the Smart Music Live experience, everything was documented. There were around five camera crews constantly around us, we felt like celebrities for a day! There were interviews, how much we love Ariana, how we won passes, how excited we are, etc! Look at me trying to act like a vlogger:

The camera is really heavy, btw

We had lunch at the Bunny Baker. I didn’t even know there’s such store inside Rustan’s where you can eat and bake!

The Bunny Baker is the cutest store, it’s so “instagram worthy”

While we were waiting for our food, the Smart crew already gave us our tickets! Everyone was shy to ask for the section of the seats, we just waited until they give us the tickets. They’re lowerbox, and the seats are really good! :D

The tickets (yay!) and the lunch menu. Everything is Dangerous Woman-pink!

Food! I think we ate for more than an hour because we’re all so talkative about our different concert experiences haha!

Our food! Truffle Crisps, Party Spaghetti, Pink Lemonade and..

Bunnylato! I got Bubble Gum!

Ariana loves to bake so our activity is to decorate cupcakes! Well, you might think we should bake but we will be late for the concert if we bake! It took us a long time to just decorate cupcakes, what more if we baked! I thought it was easy to decorate cupcakes, kids love to do it, but nooooo they’re more complicated. We need to transfor the cupcakes to unicorns. I had so much fun, I showed my competitive side but my cupcake looked like a cat, instead of a unicorn...

The decorating session, in our Smart Aprons of course!

Our final output! Mine’s on the right, my sister’s on the left.

After the decorating session, (and after official photos have been taken), we rode the bus again. We were already on our way to MOA. Of course there were still activites on the bus! We stayed on the party bus’ lounge. I couldn’t believe there’s also a lounge in the bus! 

I couldn’t take a photo of the whole lounge haha but this is the back of the lounge (at the end of the bus too)

Ariana loves Starbucks and cocoa puffs (cocoa puffs make Ariana crazy!) thus we had them while on the lounge! I know we just ate, and now we’re having more snacks. 

It was so hard to get decent photos because the bus was moving and we’re on the back part of the bus.

In the lounge, we also had a karaoke session! Uhm, more like a singing bee one! Everyone was having a good time and was singing along, even on the high notes! Here we are trying to squeeze ourselves for a picture:

.. and holding out drinks because it can fall down anytime

Here’s the a photo of the lounge (with me haha). I tried to get a photo of the lounge but we were in a hurry because we were in MOA and we need to go down already.

This was the best photo haha

It’s now a goodbye to the Smart Ariana Grande party bus!

My sister and I brought lots of things. For Ariana’s concert, the organizers are very strict. You can only bring a small, transparent bag inside. If you have a bag, you have to surrender it to the baggage area and they will give you a ziplock bag where you can put your important belongings. For our case, we left everything in our car and just brought a transparent bag (the pink thing I was holding, it’s transparent). We part ways with our friends for a while.

Since it’s really very strict, it took us almost an hour to enter the venue. The security needs to make sure everything’s safe so they really check every concert goer’s stuff thoroughly. When we were in, we met our friends near the Smart Booth. We still have to take official photos and they also gave us some goodies!

Yay, finally inside! There were lots of fans trying to take a photo here so I need to be fast.

We’re inside! We’re so hyped!!!

The Smart crew weren’t able to take their cameras with them so they just used phones for all the documentation.

Photos in the Smart booth!

I wasn’t able to buy merch because the lines (both floors) were really really long already. I wanted the dangerous woman cap and the zero effs sweatshirt. Maybe I’ll just get them online.

Merch!

We were then given the signal that we can go inside already, so we did! Most of the people are still outside the main arena, but once the dj played his set, everyone rushed inside.

View from the lowerbox. We’re really close!!

I brought my Smart Bro Pocket Wifi with me, so I’m connected the whole time, from the Smart Music Live party bus to the Dangerous Woman Tour concert, (even after).

Thanks for the good connection, Smart!

Even though I wasn;t able to buy any merch, I am one happy Arianator because I have a Greedy Money!

Greedaaaaaaaaaaay!

For the main concert, I don’t really have much photos. It was an awesome and surreal concert experience. Ariana performed 20+ songs, it’s really really worth it! I’m also proud of the Manila crowd! The Smart crew also recorded us having a good time during the concert. If you would want to see some videos I took, you can find it here in my instagram. (I posted less than minute to a minute videos of the countdown, one last time, side to side, bang bang, moonlight, love me harder, break free, ariana’s mahal kita, into you, and dangerous woman)

Countdown before the concert, everyone is really getting hyped out, especially on the last minute!

After the concert, most pink balloons and greedy money dropped in the VIP section only though.

That’s it! That’s the #SmartArianaGrande and #SmartMusicLive experience. Everything’s so surreal. I’m really lucky to have experienced this. Whenever I think about this day, I still smile and feel so happy and I want to relieve it! Thank you Smart for this incredible experience! It’s really an experience like no other!

Thank you for the Smart Music Live experience, the Smart Ariana Grande concert ticket, and thank you for all of these freebies! I love you Smart!

Here’s the video Smart made for #SmartArianaGrande:

Video from Smart Communications, Inc 

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Pilot

Finally, an official blog! I’ve been wanting to blog seriously for years, but failed lots of times. I think I have around five blogs with less than ten posts in them because I always fail to update them. Maybe the main reason is I don’t have a main theme or focus. So today, I’ve decided to have my own domain and enter the blogging world, for real this time!

On this blog, I will post personal experiences and random adventures involving travel, lifestyle, music, and celebrities. I can say I easily like random stuff so I’ll blog about these random things whenever possible.

I hope you will have a great time while you’re here!