Art & Music Festival and Trade Fair

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Last Sunday morning, we decided to go to the last day of the art and music festival in Megamall. We wanted to finish up all the unused films in our manual cameras as well, as to breathe in some needed fresh air after being cooped up in the house the entire Saturday. We had lunch at Tia Maria's, and went to the festival. (Entrance was P100. For a few minutes as we waited for our bill, we had second thoughts about it. Tickets for these kinds of events are usually priced at Php40-60.)

The exhibit was in a large room annexed to the event area, and had excellent pieces. My favorite was this comic strip of two guys, one of which found an old helmet of Darth Vader. The booths were very interesting, but we found the one booth we liked: they sold DVDs of vintage and current anime series. Giddy! We landed a goldmine, so to speak! They had the complete series of Voltes V, Voltron, Mazinger Z, Daimos, Bioman, Ranma1/2, Transformers, Macross, the list goes on and on. After much deliberation, we bought Voltes V, the first season of Ranma 1/2, Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, Onimusha 3 Movie, and the complete Samurai 7 series.

By the time we paid for the DVDs, we could hear Noel singing his opening song. We hurried to the stage area and was on time to hear the rest of Ang Himig Natin. He sang a few more songs, and entertained questions from the audience about guitars. He was followed by Buddy, who gave basics on bass guitars, and also answered questions from the audience. After that, there was a few numbers from Bigkas Pilipino. Then the series of ballet dances from students of Halili-Cruz School of Ballet.

We ran into Rain (great photos by the way!) towards the end of the ballet segment, and he said that yesterday, they had body painting and cosplayers. Missed it again! (There has to be one cosplay event I can attend before the year is through. It's frustrating to keep missing it!)

I wanted to attend the calligraphy workshop, but we were told that there were two more events before that, and I didn't want to wait for it anymore. (I was impatient to go home and start on the DVDs we bought!) So we went home instead.

Not a bad way of unwinding for an afternoon. :)