I am back!!! After a month-long blog hiatus… :)

Last weekend, I came home for the APO Hiking Society’s farewell concert at Music Museum which we attended on 29th May 2010. We got so lucky with our chosen date and seat location because President-apparent Noynoy Aquino was there!!! We were seated a row apart from him and his girlfriend Shalani. As what Jim Paredes replied to me on twitter, “You had a lucky vantage point sitting behind Noy. Great. Sinwerte ka!” You can just imagine how excited I was the whole time. Not just because I voted for this man, but because it’s my first time ever to meet a President of the Republic of the Philippines. I may have raved too much about it on facebook, but I just don’t care. I love the Aquinos and I’m proud to say it. :)

I will forever cherish this picture of me and Mr. President smiling at each other. Thanks to Ms. Kay Bunagan for giving me permission to post this.

I am not ashamed to say that I am too star-strucked that night! Majorly on fanmode! Besides Noynoy and Shalani, other celebrities who graced the concert were Juday and Ryan, Kuh Ledesma and her daughter Isabella, Gary V and his wife Angeli, Agot Isidro and her husband Manu Sandejas, Virgie Ramos, Girlie Rodis, Leah Navarro and former Isabela Governor Grace Padaca. The only excuse for my behaviour that I can think of is because I’ve worked in Singapore for almost three years now, any contact with Pinoy celebrities would be a delight to me. Or trash the excuse! Hehehe. :D

After delighting ourselves with appetizer and desserts, let’s proceed to the main course! I cannot find the words to describe how happy I am that I decided to come home for the APO concert. As I said in my facebook status, “APO Concert is worth going home for! Watching APO perform live for the first and last time made me realize that their music is (and always will be) a part of me and every Filipino.” They were so fantastic and timeless!!! Great songs, perfect rapport among Jim, Danny and Buboy, timely and witty jokes, impressive arrangement of medleys and engaging audience. :D

Instead of posting the videos I took from my iPhone here, I would like to share to you the video they were showing after the final curtain. Everyone got teary-eyed watching this… Because APO feels like family, we’ve heard of them since we were young and we still enjoy them up until now. And it lives on…

Is it too early to ask for a reunion concert? Hehehe. Thank you APO! Wala kayong katulad… :)