LAST SATURDAY NIGHT OF 2012     

As some of you know, Sunday’s my day-off. So, I always make sure if not to party at least treat myself to have fun, may it be a bar, a new restaurant, a good cawfee house, or even a nice massage spa, on a Saturday night. But what was meant to be attending an event at one of the city’s reinventing clubbing plus style party bars turned into sitting together and having your favourite cawfee at Starbucks with good folks who are based here in queen city of south but originally from land of promise as well. I certainly dunno what happened. Maybe t’was truly meant to be a coffee night. Though we already had our name on the guest list via one of the organizers of the event, we still opted not to attend. MIRACULOUS!

So, after that good conversation over cawfee, I dropped them off along the highway and VOILA! explored the city at crack of dawn around 2 o’clock in the morning. YES! I was just inside the cab all the time when I toured the city trying to find the bar where I may say “I BELONG HERE! I FINALLY FIND MY SOUL MATE BAR!”, with the exception of PentHouse, well, let’s say, I also love to be there, of course.

After an hour ride inside the cab around the city, I ended up going home and paying this:

Photo taken via mobile 

#nuffsaid

I love Cebu, I really do, but gimme some more queen city of south next time!

So, how was yours? How was your last Saturday night of 2012? I WANNA KNOW!

Keep posted. I love y’all!

LE FAREWELL CATWALK 2012     

Only hours to go and we are about to finally leave Year of Dragon. 2012 has been so great to me! I SWEAR TO GOD! It has been so generous to all of us, most especially to your gayest bestfriend! 

February of 2012, I passed the Philippine Nursing Licensure Examination, the following month? I was able to discover the beauty of Cebu City and amazing Island of Bohol, April of this year, I started my humble blog and continuously gaying around the blogosphere, and the succeeding months went so fast that it actually made me savored every single momentous event giving so much emphasis on my first ever Philippine Fashion Week attendance and lo & behold, my first ever television exposure, and to set the standards of GREAT 2012, VOILA!, I GOT MY DREAM JOB! 

Sunnies by Mango, Top by Segreta,, Bag by Luggage Label, Trousers by Ralph Lauren, Shoes by Milanos

So, to Our Almighty God, He ultimately knows how I praise and glorify Him each day of my life, to my family who never failed to support me in my new career, to my love life which cannot be found as of this period, please just stay there (HAHA!), and of course, to all of you, YES! YOU!, a million thanks! For without you, I wouldn’t be as gay as this! HAHA. Take that!

ALTOGETHER, LET’S MOVE FORWARD IN THE SAME RIGHT DIRECTION! CONTINUE AIMING HIGH & ACHIEVE IT!

SEE Y’ALL, GAWJUSS, IN 2013!

Keep posted. I love y’all!

CHRISTMAS SEASON FROM UP NORTH DOWN TO QUEEN CITY OF SOUTH     

As I am talking to you right now, I am currently listening to Adele’s Hiding My Heart song sent by someone whom, let’s just say, I miss so much way back home. Okay, enough. Lemme take these earphones away…

Anyhow, how was your Christmas, everyone? Was it gawjuss, naughty, or nice? HAHA. Mine was the simplest. I tell you, from working on a holiday (CHEERS TO THAT!) to very rush grocery shopping to late at night going home to hearing holy mass before midnight down to preparing for Noche Buena, everything was nothing but just a simple yuletide celebration. I was with my lovely folks from work at our staff house; two kids visited us, and endless hearing of fireworks around the vicinity. Oh, I miss seeing fireworks display for real!

So, allow me to take you to places where I have been seeing holiday decorations, may it be a Christmas tree, a reindeer, lights, gift boxes, and even a village of hope this Christmas season from up north of Luzon Island down here in Queen City of South!

ENJOY!!!

Newport Mall, Resorts World Manila

Makati Stock Exchange, Ayala Avenue

CLICK FOR MORE PHOTOS!

HUMBLED 23^rd BIRTHDAY

An already grown up person is talking to you right now.

T’wasn’t that shining, shimmering, glamorous and all birthday party. I tell you, t’was the most humble birthday ever.

Woke up at 7 o’clock in the morning, had pasta for breakfast, prepared myself, and VOILA! said hello to my workplace. YES! I was working the entire day of my birthday and needless to say, worked over time until 10 o’clock in the evening, then went home, and just a couple of minutes t’wasn’t my  birthday at all. Take that!

Some said, “Oh, you should take your birthday leave”,  “Treat yourself somewhere good”, “Shop a lot, dine at buffet area, and party ‘till you drop”, blah, blah, blah. Well, all ended up working my ass and doing my responsibilities as an employed individual. I almost wanna puked, I mean, cried. Y’know, just to express how you miss that ‘ol great themed-up glamorous birthday parties while dancing on the floor with your bitches-best of friends all together holding glass of vodka and singing to the loudest scream...ever. Ah, I miss all of those!

Moses knows how I missed planning out my birthday parties even a year before it, scouting for either the hippiest bar or the coolest hotel restaurant in town, sending out my personalized birthday invitations, trusting every new fashion designer each year for my birthday suit, conceptualizing theme, and most especially, choosing only the best of the best people whom will be my guests. I missed every single drop of vodka that runs through my esophagus and let the house music take you somewhere you have never been before. Don’t judge me now. I am not saying somewhere else’s bedroom, I mean, somewhere in the middle. HAHA.

Jacket by Zara, Top by Topman, Jeans by Oxygen, Shoes by Franco Cobbalin

All stying by Dong Olmedo

Now, the most down-to-earth moments were: I cooked pasta, prepared fruit cocktail, toasted bread, sliced ham, and a bottle of wine, I did all of those a night before my birthday to spend counting minutes to seconds down on 19^th of December. Also, I had a pizza party with the two Mango –Cebu stores and please don’t ask me now…I never got to treat myself out. I was so exhausted after a day’s set-up for the end-of-season sale at work and worst thing? too much exhaustion that even my family way back home and my mama in Israel, I wasn’t able to make a single call nor responded to their messages but the crack of midnight calls, messages, e-mails, tweets, posts, and personal birthday greetings, they were all reminded me, not just that I am already 23 years old but most especially, I know that I am well loved.

I remember when someone from the staff approached me asking what was the best gift I received on the day of my birthday…I smiled and replied, my dream job :)

Above all, God knows best and oh, also mom. HAHA.

Everything happens if not for a great reason, greater reason!

Keep posted. I love y’all!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS     

I know you are getting ready for tonight’s glamorous party. Well, wherever you are in the world and whatever you will be wearing, let us always remember that Christmas is all about, Our Savior, Jesus Christ! HAVE A MEANINGFUL CHRISMAS SEASON, EVERYONE!!!

Sunnies by Mango, Top by Bang Bang, Jeans by Oxygen, Shoes by Isaac Mizrahi

Let Him be the One to guide us as a happy new year starts and may the spirit of Christmas be always in our hearts.

HOLIDAY GREETINGS FROM YOUR GAYEST BESTFRIEND!

Keep posted. I love y’all!

WELCOME TO QUEEN CITY OF SOUTH     

I must say, free time is so hard to find these days. I arrived here in City of Cebu late at night last Friday, 14^th of December, and then went to work the next day. Huh!

So, the lovely folks at our staff house welcomed me by having a very sumptuous buffet midnight dinner at the Port Restaurant in Waterfront Cebu City Hotel and Casino!

CLICK FOR MORE PHOTOS!

DREAM JOB     

Who knew all roads lead to Queen City of South? Never in my life I thought I’d travel and work miles away from home to live a life that’s a dream to many. YES! Peculiar may it sounds, here I am, blogging from my new home here in Island of Visayas. I have relocated in City of Cebu, one may perhaps say I am a Cebuano now; a Cebuano who doesn’t understand profound Visayan dialect, TRUE!, like that of a deep throat! HAHA.

It has been my childhood dream to work (Okay fine. Not as a nurse but God knows how thankful I am to become newly registered one) in a fashion industry. But who would have thought I’d end up in a company where both my mama and I love since primary years, Mango. I can still remember my first Mango item I received as a gift from her, red quilted leatherette backpack sporting along the hallway of our school like t’was already end of the world and don’t judge me now, I was just in my 6^th grade that time. HAHA.

I LOVE FASHION, I REALLY DO! As I always say, I inhale fashion and exhaling style. And it’s not a doubt, I am now working in a fashion industry.

Two months of staying and having my exclusive training in Manila has been such a wonderful journey, some of you are living proof how  t’was a good foundation of ladder in working my way up here in this position. I handle both visual merchandising and window dressing departments here in Cebu Mango stores, Ayala and SM. Alright, hold your breath now. I AM INTO MERCHANDISING!!! Who the person on earth can imagine shifting career from being a registered nurse to becoming a merchandiser? No one but only your gayest bestfriend! HAHA.

My unparalleled experience for being a freelance fashion designer and stylist way back in Davao was truly a great help to me in pulling this all out into window dressing. YES! The one that you can see in Mango stores parading mannequins in their most glamorous outfits and positions facing y’all from inside the window...THAT’S ALSO MY JOB!!!

Crazy weeks have passed by and yet I am still on cloud nine. Traveling city to city every day during my stay in Manila and now, here I am in Cebu, FINALLY LIVING MY DREAM JOB!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, this is something that you are so excited to get out from your bed, hit the shower, put on your most fashionable clothes, and VOILA! hit the runway!

Take it from me, don’t just go to work for the sake of having a work, go to work because you enjoy and you definitely love going to work. After all, we should be growing while working to say that we are living our life to the fullest. Why settle inside the office getting yelled by your boss? Why stay up late at night answering international calls even if you don’t even like it? Why serve those bitches in the malls? Why assist such complaining whore inside your store? not unless you want these things happen to you every day, then, go with it. IF YOU ARE NOT HAPPY ON YOUR JOB, LEAVE IT!

IT IS JUST SO HEAVEN TO FINALLY LIVE THE LIFE I WANT! SEE? I SAY TO YOU, DREAMS DO COME TRUE!!!

Wish me luck! I love y’all!

Keep posted!

FIRST TELEVISION EXPOSURE     

I AM SOOOOOO HAPPY! HAHA. DREAMS DO REALLY COME TRUE! TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY!!!

Alright, let's settle down. That was it! MY FIRST EVER TELEVISION EXPOSURE!!! HAHA. 

To my lovely folks in Rated K, to my H.E. by Mango family, and to all of you who has been there for me, for all the love and support, A MILLION GAYEST THANKS! WHO KNOWS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT? HAHA. 

Here's a video clip of my appearance earlier in Rated K:

Video credits to Louise Capuyon

You can also watch it on line: HERE and HERE

Ladies and gentlemen, KNOW WHAT YOU WANT, WORK TO GET IT, THEN VALUE IT ONCE YOU HAVE IT!

DO WHAT YOU LOVE BECAUSE AFTER ALL, EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO A BEAUTIFUL AND GLAMOROUS LIFE!!!

Keep posted. I love y'all!

JUSTJOVITZ IN RATED K     

Great opportunities are momentously transpiring since I arrived here in Manila for my exclusive training. Fashion editorial styling for Cosmopolitan during my second day of the first week, attended my first ever Philippine Fashion Week experience, photographed by Status magazine and newspaper press and media, done opulence styling for Shangri-la Plaza Fashion Show and of course, became a part of the newly recorded Biggest Fashion Show on Earth by Guinness Book of World Records during Glorietta Vibe Fashion Show and NOW? (inhale and exhale) MY FIRST EVER TELEVISION EXPOSURE!!! 

Ladies and gays, someone from heavens above sent me down this holy drug making me feel like a natural man. HAHA. Okay fine. Don’t judge me now. Your gayest bestfriend did modeling men’s collection of (ehem…proud to say) H.E. by Mango for Rated K Special Holiday Episode!

I tell you, the experience of being placed on a spotlight, video camera, lights, pampered by fashion stylists and consultants, and unquestionably, production staff of one of ABS-CBN’s (Philippine national television network) top most caliber shows, Rated K, was hugely incomparable!

ENJOY!

All styling and garments by H.E. by Mango

SEE? BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS AND PURSUE THEM BECAUSE, LADIES & GENTLEMEN, DREAMS DO REALLY COME TRUE!!!

SO, SEE YOU ALL TONIGHT IN RATED K @ 7:15pm (Standard Time +0800 UTC )! IT’S A DATE!!!

Keep posted. I super duper love y’all!

JAW DROPPIN'     

Again and again, Anne Hathaway is one of the few Hollywood stars I admire most. And here she is, once again, wearing a Givenchy Haute Couture by Ricardo Tisci Spring - Summer 2012 outfit to the Les Misérables World Premiere in London!

I CAN'T WAIT TO HIT THE CINEMAS! SEE Y'ALL THERE, GAWJUSS!

Keep posted. I love y'all!

THE Hermès SCARF BY Comme des Garçons

YES! You heard it so right, my gawjuss readers!  A self-confessed fan of Hermès' craftsmanship, the Japanese's designer Rei Kawakubo, founder and creative director of Commes des Garçons, created new models of two original collections for the French luxury house, titled Black & White and Color.

"Like Squares" collection "Black and White" available from February 6th in the shops Comme des Garçons in Paris Collection "Color" from February 8 to Dover Street Market Tokyo, and from February 12 to Dover Street Market in London.

I CAN'T WAIT! Knowingly Kawakubo's work partnered with Hermès' artistry, IT'S GONNA BE PHENOMENAL!!!

Keep posted. I love y'all!

SWEET GUY FROM LAND OF PROMISE     

YES! OH MY GOSH! My gawjuss readers, some one from City of Davao sent me this all the way here in Manila! "Let my hair down..." HAHA.

Whoever you are, thank you so much for the sweet thoughts! This is my first ever early birthday gift, eh. HAHA.

Keep posted. I love y'all!