Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Event: "Pinoy Games"


I was supposed to attend an artist talk that was required to be blogged about but I wasn’t because I had to participate and facilitate an event which is of the events handled by Bahay Bumbilya an organization that I’m part of. Since I wasn’t active for the past 2 terms, I had to make up for the days I’ve missed and to handle Pinoy Games is my chance to participate. We were give a head facilitator who would instruct us and assign us with the things needed to be done.




                 We had several meetings to plan the event and come up with twists for the pinoy games. The pinoy games that are played on the first day was Agawang Base, Patintero, Agawang Buko and Tamaang Tao while on the second day the games that was supposed to be played are Piko, Bete Uno, Chinese Garter and Tumbang Preso. While planning and preparing for the event we had a hard time looking for players but thankfully we had several people that joined on the first day most of them are members of Bahay Bumbilya who went to support the event. It was fun watching all of them play and be confused about the games played since all of us facilitators of the event does not know how to play some of it but the President of Bahay Bumbilya came to the rescue and hosted the event and helped us facilitate which made it more fun since he uplift the mood with funny comments while the players play. As the time passes a lot of the members of Bahay Bumbilya visits and helps us out as well. The first day finished successfully but the second day was already cancelled since we decided that no one was interested to play anymore.


                It was my first to handle an event but I learned a lot from it, seeing the officers of Bahay Bumbilya do everything they can to make all the events successful makes me motivated to work harder in school. 

Event: A visit from Bejamin Alves


I was impressed by the film called Sana Dati which got stuck on my head for several days made me curious about the casts who played the main characters. I followed them in their social networking sites like instagram and twitter. Now, when our professor announced that ERC will be holding an event which one of the actors of Sana Dati will be a guest we were excited to meet him. The actor is none other than Benjamin Alves who played Andrew Cesario the love of Andrea Gonzaga who was played by Lovi Poe. The event was held on March 18, 2016; it started at around 1:30 pm and the venue was at MPH1. Benjamin visited and celebrated his birthday early with us!



                The venue really prepared, with cakes, cupcakes, and other food. The stage was decorated with an artsy background.  A host officially opened the event and asks for some representatives to play a game which didn’t turn out really well... they didn’t win since none of them knows how to properly play the game or maybe they were just confused because of the host’s outgoing personality. After the game, Benjamin was introduced, the room was filled with applause and screams, didn’t know he graduated Summa cum laude at the University of Guam with a degree in English Literature. After being introduced, the top 3 winners of the Slam Poetry performed their piece and Benjamin has to choose the best of all of them but he announced that he liked all of their performances and chose all of them as winners. Benjamin also performed his personal piece in front; it was inspired by his past love. I have to admit, I really liked his poem, and it’s really going to struck you in the heart because you know it was well written with true feelings.