If I’m going to draw a Venn diagram of what has just happened the other night, October 15, there would be a set called PLDT Watchpad, another set labelled QTube and Rhian Ramos is an element of the intersection of these sets. How gleek!

Earlier that night, I flew all the way to Mag:net Cafe at Bonifacio High Street to rockeoke my night as PLDT launches Watchpad, the country’s first broadband entertainment portal, to the bloggers. I had ideas about this new tambayan since I already signed up for the service few days before the bloggers event. And later I found out that there’s actually more from Watchpad that I haven’t discovered yet.

Aside from knowing more stuff about Watchpad, I was really excited to attend my first Nuffnang event and to personally meet the gang. I heard they are cool folks. Well, they are. Where in the world you can find a crew resolving my ticket and telling that he’s a big fan of Facebuko. Mr. Vader really knows how to do the trick. Hehe.

I also wanted to see more faces behind the prominent Pinoy blogs. And since the event’s a Rockeoke (rock + videoke) night, I was expecting gimikeros and gimikeras and more daring crowd of bloggers. Wordcamp 2009 is a serious kind of eyeball and I was really hiding at that event. And I gotta feeling that Rockeoke’s gonna be a good good night to introduce myself as the manong behind Facebuko.

After the success of my first mission, that is to connect to the Internet and to broadcast my first observations via tweets and plurks, Sir Eric Ramirez of Nuffnang approached me. Introductions followed. ‘So, ikaw pala ang Facebuko owner?’ Then, he waved and tried to get the attention of his fellow Nuffnangers. More introductions. ‘Ikaw pala yun!’. I felt the warmth from their smiles (and not like they’re expecting someone else to show up as Manong Magbubuko. Lolz.) Feeling VIP, amfufu.

Four paragraphs and there’s still no Rhian Ramos in this post, right? Of course, it’s because I was not expecting celebrities to come. I don’t usually eat much at an eyeball event but seeing her, the Rhian Ramos, I was already full. Burp. Play the Stairway to Heaven background music now. “Langit ka… Buko ako…” She’s pretteh.

I’m skipping here the technical details of PLDT Watchpad as the entertainment tambayan will be explained further at another post. This is just for you, Rhian. Well, she proved to the crowd that she can actually sing with the anthem-of-the-night “With or Without You”. The bloggers took their SLR’s (Damn, when can I get one for myself? After some x Nuffnang ads maybe…) and captured how the star of the night shines. It’s not being torpe but there’s something that controlled me and not to approach Rhian after her number.

Ibinihos ko na lang ang beer sa aking la-la-mu—-nan… and had just chosen to interact with other Nuffnang event first timers – Cris, who got my first pic of the night, and the couple (ooops, to be confirmed yet), Angelo and Christine, the partners behind Hit A Bargain to whom I shared the beginnings of Facebuko. I had also the chance to catch fellow ambigram artist, Jinoe of Takbo.ph. No, he’s not running that time. I also bumped with my fellow Parser alumnus, Jonel.

Meanwhile, it looks like you should have the singing skill before Nuffnang hires you as an employee. The uber-talented crew brought down the house (it’s an idiom). They actually put the bar higher that normal videoke singers may not be able to reach. The bloggers were then stage-frightened to perform right after these rakistas. Judd, one of the rockers, is a Facebook friend of my high school classmate. I wonder what their relationship is. Evilsmirk.

Maybe if they insist next time, I will sing and I’ll put my name to fame… but only after Makimodo performs. Or maybe we can do something like Blogger-Nuffnanger Celebrity Duets.

I wished I could stay at the Mag:net longer and gatecrashed for the next event but I had to catch up QTube’s episode because they’re airing their feature on Facebuko.com! It was my first exposure, er, public appearance on TV. I hopped across Krispy Kreme store and tuned in to Q Channel 11 via online streaming.

10:15 and QTube started. Facebuko’s segment is one of the last features of the show. My friends and fans are plurking, Facebook poking me to tell that they’re also hooked on QTube. But, at that very instance, when Facebuko was just about to be broadcasted, the WiFi at Krispy Kreme reset. WATDAEF. I just missed the whole segment.

I just ended up reading the plurks of my friends on what they have seen on the tube. I did not know that the show interviewed some Kapuso stars on what they can say about the viral site. Ogie Alcasid, who portrayed a spoiled bratinella named Angelina and one of the most-liked characters in Facebuko, recognized the site as a nice help in their movie promotion. Rufa Mae Quinto, once featured in the site, quite liked it and thought that I might be bored with Facebook and ended up with bringing this one up. And guess what — Rhian Ramos, who was not yet featured in the site, said something like “Hinay hinay lang sa jokes para iwas gulo…” Haha… And yeah that explains the something earlier that hinders me to approach her. Flash Forward, eh?

To be continued…

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