Animé Overload Festival

I sent text message to my friend Mel two days ago. I asked her to see the Animé Overload Festival at the SM Convetion Center at Mall of Asia. I'm not really a fan of animé or cosplay and I guess neither Mel too. The first cosplay that I attended last September was in SM Megatrade Hall. A friend invited me to take photos. I kinda like it because of the colorful outfits that really look nice in the photos. So this time I tagged along Mel to experience the same. This is Mel's first time to see cosplay.

The girl in the picture is Lain. I met her in Cosplay Mania a couple of months ago at SM Megatrade Hall. She cosplayed Baiken of Guilty Gear. This time she's portraying Nyuu/Lucy from Elfen Lied. To see more of Lain as Nyu please click this link : Nyuu.

I've also posted other cosplayer pictures. Please follow this link: Animé Overload

Related link: Cosplay

Pyrolimpics at MOA

Skate Asia'07

Skate Asia'07 started last Aug12 and ended today at Mall of Asia (MOA). Alvin invited me to join this photo ops with sir Ador, whom covered the event for Fuji Film.

It was raining hard this morning. I was feeling lethargic to wake up and hesitant to join today's photo shoot. Alvin texted and told me "bangon ka na, kita tayo MOA ha" (please get up, i'll see you at MOA). Alvin just bought a SIGMA 50-150mm lens and excited to use it today. Okay, I got up reluctantly, prepared breakfast and took a bath. The rain hasn't stopped. The event starts at 9:00am and am I still home waiting for the rain to stop. Alvin together with Charina were already at MOA. It was past 10:00am when the rain stopped and so I hurriedly got my bag and camera and went to MOA.

The competition was ongoing, I arrived 11:15am at MOA. I texted and called Alvin on his mobile phone but no reply from him. Alvin may have not noticed his phone ringing because of the loud background music. It wasn't really hard to locate them because their apparatus are so obvious. The mere flash would lead me to the photographers' corner. I first saw sir Ador with his 70-200mm lens from the opposite side then Alvin and Charina.

I'm also excited to see the new lens that Alvin recently bought. I joined them and had a great time taking photos of the young figure skaters. It's good to have a telephoto lens specially when shooting moving and far subjects like this situation. Here are some photos (link: Skate Asia'07) I managed to take with my 24-70mm lens.
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Mall of Asia

The SM Mall of Asia is the largest shopping mall in the Philippines and the 7th largest shopping mall in the world. It is owned and operated by SM Prime Holdings, under the management of Henry Sy, a Chinese-Filipino business tycoon. It opened on May 21, 2006.

The Mall of Asia was constructed within the reclamation area, west of Roxas Boulevard in Pasay City, aptly nicknamed "Bay City". It is built on 19.5 hectares of reclaimed land and has a gross floor area of 386,224 square meters. The mall is located at the southmost tip of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue.

One day is actually not enough to roam around and check out every nook of the mall especially if your knees are weak.


Incidentally, this is where RCBC held its annual bowling tournmament. The company that I worked for is an affiliate, so we were able to experience a very nice venue. Last year, we held it at SM Megamall. The bowling area has 42 lanes and automatic scoring screens.

A giant globe, one of the attractions outside the mall The mall's front view at night.
with my nephew,Christian

Aside from the mall's main attraction, IMAX theater, the mall features the Philippines's first Olympic-sized ice skating rink. At 61 by 30 meters, the rink is described as the biggest of its kind in Southeast Asia. Whoa! =)