LIBERA MEET & GREET, oct. 23, 2011, SM d'block atrium (PART ONE)

---bear with me...this is looooong, hah hah... i opted to do my blog now as i'm already having a case of "poor memory" aka memory gap suffice to say. so while i'm still high with euphoria, might as well hit it.

---i already knew about libera's plans of coming back to the phils. from romina who had connections inside the BAA. although this was taken lightly by everyone, there was also reason to believe because of their sked concerts in canada & USA (can asia be far behind?). and so it was finally confirmed after their canada/USA tour.

---my fondness for libera was "halted" for a while when i became occupied with a teener named damian mcginty whom i chanced upon while watching the glee project. this 18-yr old is a crooner (bet he'll have a bite on his career if he just sticked singing contemporary songs. why, he can duplicate michael buble- or even better. damian is with a group, celtic (pronounced 'keltic') thunder. well, all's well that ends well - he got top spot (together with samuel larsen) & will appear on 7 episodes of glee. so now, i'm back with libera.

---and so the announcement came - libera is coming back with PICC & cebu concerts. no meet & greet? IMPOSSIBLE. hell will break loose if they won't hold a M & G on both concerts. and so the waiting starts....


i must admit having financial difficulties starting in early august when my daughter lost her job but was good enough to have found one by end of the same month. an angel from san francisco, also a libera fan whom i met at lexi's mini angels site (she was the same person who mailed her extra canada & US programmes to me) came to my rescue. i told her maybe we can't go to the concert as tickets were a bit expensive & was way out of my budget. well, we could but probably get the cheapest - which was at 515 pesos. since it was my b-day in august and carmela's on sept., she sent me a message on facebook telling me our tickets were her birthday gifts to both of us.. WOW! a few days after, there were our online tickets posted on my message box. i wanted to make it public but she didn't like it so i promised i'd mention about it after the concert. and i guess it's best fitting to thank LALA SEGISMUNDO for our best birthday gifts ever.

then news about the M & G came out. hah hah - filipino fans will revolt if they don't hold one! i was hoping for the podium again but SM d'block? i think i mentioned about how chaotic this mall is during weekends. nevertheless, it was accessible from all points unlike the podium where some were not familiar with.

i went to check the atrium of SM d'block last wed., the 19th. my golly, libera music filled the entire mall. it was a joy to hear x'mas carols in october and
made it more exciting because it was libera singing - awesome.

another TV appearance. this time on ASAP. i knew this would happen - just when did these kind of program's audience become appreciative of choirboys, huh? they were a hit last year when they sang 'bayan ko' on showtime BUT singing a x'mas carol in october? they practically sang to a dead audience!!! and just as their number was done, it rained... awwww. i knew we were only minutes apart in reaching SM. we're like just 5-mins away from ABS-CBN. did i see an orange bus entering the SM premises? my husband decided to go straight edsa than turning right towards trinoma ***sad*** i somehow had this feeling it was them on that bus...