Saturday, May 18, 2013

The Wedding Enterprise

So one of my closest friend is getting married soon and she promised me that regardless of the groom I will sing for her wedding. But good friend that I am, I am going to the full extent of creating the perfect wedding for her. I am making these very brilliant suggestions for her inspiration. This friend likes things simple so I believe her wedding should have that motif.

Starting off with the dress that she will wear, I think no other than Sagada Weaving can craft the best wedding dress. I would suggest that they will make a dress that is of a jumper type and using the usual weaving designs common among the backpacks of the locals. The designer is free to add pockets if she so desires so that the dress will be fully functional. Friendship can wear that dress to the market where the pockets can serve as her basket or the pocket for the collected money. Oha being environmental at that since you are bringing your own eco bag. Very brilliant indeed. Or if friendship thinks of cutting the fabric and making it into purses or bags or slippers, that would be a great way to get back what she invested on it and maybe more. Very convenient to sell it to tourists at a high mark up knowing that her sister has a stall for such purposes. Very brilliant really. Not only is the theme very central with the ethnicity of the couple but also with the dress code that the elders of the community desire to see despite the movement of the wedding ceremonies to modern terms. Oha oha. Better yet, we can strike an xdeal with sagada weaving and ask for a cheaper price for the dress since we will be featuring their logo on the invitations and on the dress itself. Imagine that, after the celebration, Sagada Weaving will be on its way to garment production ahahhahah charot oha!

And of course, we must not do away with the three day wedding celebration in consonance with the tradition. Regardless of the menu, people near and far will come for the food. To save up on the expenses I would suggest that instead of giving give aways, we will be erecting stalls that will be selling souvenir items from the wedding. The usual prints on tourist shirts can be used like; I got this shirt from chevas wedding, I conquered chevas wedding, my son went to the chevas wedding. Very brilliant. We can also invite concessionaires to set up their stalls around the venue (of course at a commission from their total sales). If we ever do that, I suggest we serve bland food so that they will be forced to patronize baba shawarma, rodics, liklik silog, bentelog and the likes. The lot beside the reception venue is big so it would not be a problem if the wedding would look like a bazaar. I bet the stall variety would beat the offerings of the midnights market in the metro. Very brilliant.

To entice more people, we can strike other  xdeals from other companies for gift certificates; one month supply of kimbies or durex or ky jelly or so-en. Who would not love that especially at this age of tag gutom? We can arrange a guest speaker or a performer every night to motivate the people from pouring in. That is very very much convenient since the community is expecting pasayaw every night. The raffle draws will be something to look forward to. I am sure that friendship will not take it against me if all the gentlemen will be inviting me for the dance. I am making it clear this early that I have no intentions of upstaging the bride. As a matter of fact I am having my dress made by Rajo Laurel so that it will be no match to her Sagada Weaving regalia. Maybe to make the event more profitable, I can allow friendship to place one of my provocative pictures on the tarp and invitations to entice the rich miners from the barrios. I am sure that the miners will fill the coffer for days.

In the event that this will prove successful in 3 days, we can always extend it up to a month with tags such as NOW on its 3rd week. Oha oha. Once the spectacle is waning, we can also venture to selling DVD copies of the event. It can also include a documentary of the lives of the bride and groom prior the event.  They can include special tracks of my songs to boost the sales. So much for humility hahahhahaha. Wow let me think of over brilliant ways to make your wedding wonderful.


Thursday, February 21, 2013

Sosyal

Dear Kimmy,

I am hoping that this letter would sound interesting to you, interesting enough to deserve a reply sa blog mo. I am so much like you sa pagiging echosera. I am sure na pag magkakilala tayo ay magiging close na mag mars tayo. My story is all about a workmate of mine na malakas maka social climber. She is extremely inggitera kaya naman she is living beyond her means. Kapag may nakita siyang mga sosyal na kagamitan ang mga katrabaho niya, sige at bili siya. Pero most of the times she can not afford it. She also pretends to have a rich boyfriend who can supply her luxuries but I doubt it. She is a pretentious user nanakikipag kaibigan lamang sa people in power. Ambisyosa, nagmamayaman, nagmamaganda at napakalandi all rolled into one at siya nga yun. Nakakairitang kasama sa opisina ang ganun. Give me good tips para maayos ko ang discomfort ko na to.

Thank you in advance mars.

Vinvin Bakla

Dear Beks,

I can completely relate to that kainisan levels darling kasi I know someone na ganyan din. Well for me, let them be. It is how they live their pathetic lives. They are practically leeches. If we allow them to suck away our enthusiasm off our jobs- hinahayaan lang natin silang magtagumpay sakanilang misyon. Angmisyon nila dito sa mundo sakaling you might not be aware of ay maghasik ng insecurities. Hahahaha If you are secured sa sarili mo at confident ka sa kakayahan mo, do you need to do that? I believe that aggressive people work their way to success faster but I do not personally endorse that type if kaepalan is a better word to describe it?

I do not think I can give tips  na makakatulong upang iease yang discomfort mo kasi dapat that is something personal. Mindset lang yang nabobother ka sa ibang tao. Ako I do not let those low level bitches get into my systems. Ganda ganda ko papalaspag lang ako sa mga kagaya nilang mukhang multo? Puhhhlease lang. Binigay ng Lumikha ang kagandahang ito upang ibahagi sa mga mas may kailangan.

Maiba ako.I can sense that the bitterness is deep rooted kaya ang hinuha ko ay naagawan ka ng booking ng climber na ito. Doon mo ba hinuhugot ang galit na ito? ahahahahha Mamatay na silang lahat na social climbers. Sabihan mo yang friend mo na magtatag ng special interest group at tawagin nilang the social climbing group. They must aim to climb the Everest level of kasosyalan kaya try and try until you run out of money. Try and try maging sosyal hanggang sa kaluluwa niyo naisangla niyo na din sa demonyo. ahahahha Wag naman tayo selfish teh kasi echosera sila kasi gusto nila mareach ang goal nila sa buhay na magmukhang sosyal kahit sa katotohanan ay hindi. Sabi nga ni Maslowe ay self actualization ang rurok ng mga pangangailangan at sa kanilaay ang katuparan ng social climbing nila ang self-actualization nila.

Hayaan mo lang silang mamuhay sa mundo nila ng price tags, ng mga brands, at ng mga minsan minsan nilang nakakainang sosyal na restaurant.  Minsan lang sila masayaran niyan kaya yaan mo na. Live and let live.