Twelve days ago, I went to a barbeque partey slash art exhibit slash culture fair slash donation drive billed as First Dibs! The event features the celebrity graphic artist Christian San Jose and his winning shirt design, Mechalabaw, for Design by Humans. The $10,000 richer kid is the first believer of the powers of Facebuko advertisement as he plugged his entry to the contest. As an instant fan, I posted some carabao-related statuses in Facebuko to campaign for his design.

I thought of inviting my best friend, May, to the event because she likes Team Manila and I’m sure that she’s going to like the entire culture fair and boom-boom-pow surrounds. But she’s busy on her wedding preparations.

I also knew Maki’s going and I wanted to greet her personally. We were some inches closer the last time we “met” but we did not talk.

I went there all by myself. I didn’t bring my camera thus this post without pics. I enjoyed the event. If I’m to buy something that day, it should be a striking red. I searched for red items, particularly red shoes but it wasn’t my lucky day. Yet, there’s really a wide range of interesting items out there. Commune MNL and WYD, Delivery One, Longboards MNL, WipCaps and Gnarly caught my attention. And of course, CSJ’s latest offering Of All Time! It made me LOL big time. Barbeque is delicious. I love the peppery taste!

I saw CSJ actually but I was kinda starstruck. Lolz. He’s being followed by CS9 crew. I did not see Maki though. She arrived few minutes after I exited. It was later at home when I read her tweet that she and CSJ were looking for me.

The rooftop event was a topping to something that happened to me before that night. It’s still related to Dibs though. Remember, the event’s also a donation drive. So I bought these stuff from Landmark Glorietta to have something for the Ondoy and Pepeng survivors.

I was familiar to the place since I have worked at Makati for two years so when the map to the event was given, I was confident and did not pay attention. Yet, I managed to keep the 6805 building number just in case. The image that registered to my mind was it is somewhere close to Enterprise Center (HSBC).

Since I’ve been walking from Enterprise Center to Glorietta before, I estimated that I can still carry my donations from Landmark to Building 6805. But it was only when I was at Enterprise Center that I’ve found out 6805 is farther that I thought and I have to pass a lot of underpasses and a overpass. Yeah, up and down, left and right, carrying my donations and looking for 6805. It was a weekend and escalators are not working.

And finally after some minutes of searching and walking, I’ve found the building. To end a kilometer quest, I took another stairs from the 23rd floor to the roofdeck.

I was thirsty and yet so relieved that I’ve finally reached the entrance. Guess what? My donation is a box of 24 bottles of 530 mL purified water. The irony. My biceps and triceps for the win.

I paid visit to Mechalabaw and thank him for the power he bestowed upon me. LOL.

Dibs, Christian San Jose, Mechalabaw

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