PHFW Albert Andrada Holiday 2013 Finale
The spectrum of grandeur did not illuminate much. But the magnificence of the artistry combined with opulence and transcendency turned the spotlight to Dubai-based Filipino designer Albert Andrada — making his collection a fitting finale to this season’s Philippine Fashion Week.
“More feminine, more elegant, and more to the Manila crowd taste,” that’s how Andrada described his collection in an interview with the Style Monger TV. More than that, he mixed the temper well in reviving the glamour of the medieval age.
It was a parade of immortal wearability. Each look was an imminent interpretation from the Byzantine era. Andrada abandoned reality in favor of a more symbolic approach.
Andrada showed modernity in his collection. An enticing gold number of a kaftan, metallic trousers and platforms opened his collection. The recreation of looks was done in a spirited manner. There were dresses in crystals and sheers, tailored jackets and chiffon skirts in an imperial purple color, floor length gowns in different cuts, brocade jackets, towering crown, and gold embroideries to cap off for finale’s austere but elegant ensemble.
It was a journey of memories past. Andrada took us to a trip showing how a finale should be done: not of resplendence but more of feeling the narrative, a more powerful way to end this season’s Philippine Fashion Week.
ABOUT TRIUMPH
Success, like death, is inevitable. Today, I landed 7th place in Sports News Writing – English category (Secondary Level) out of the almost 300 students who participated. For me, it was an unexpected victory. I don’t really like sports. If people ask me about basketball, the only name I can mention is Kobe Bryant. But knowing Kobe Bryant isn’t enough. I don’t even have any “favorite” players in any sport. But because writing requires versatility in most conditions, I tried and I came up with a “mediocre”, if I may call, sports news article. That mediocrity made me taste the first apple of discord in my whole life.
Writing a sports article is not my cup of coffee. But because I have a background in story writing, I think I managed well the flow of emotions and descriptions but failed to bring in the jargons of the live sport we covered which is basketball. After the three day National Sports Journalism Congress, I found my new love: sports feature and news writing. I was disqualified in the Sports Feature category because we arrived late. It saddens me most because aside from news writing, I also have a strong ability in writing a feature story. Besides my extreme love for fashion journalism, I think I can do well in both fields of writing. All the speakers inspired me, which is very rare in a congress like that.
My triumph was eye-opening for me. I’m not going to cry because I wasn’t proclaimed the champion. For me, doing something that I am not really used to is already something worthy. The feeling was like I got 95 in Trigonometry which is extremely impossible for me to attain! I’ve drawn a good match to my capacity. Even if I didn’t win, I learned much more than the surface level of sports writing. I learned how to value the sport industry in the Philippines. Now, I understand how hard it is to be a sports journalists; the ups and downs and the predicaments that one can face through his way of chasing the dreams of other people.
Albeit unexpected, I still dedicate my triumph to God. I’m not trying to sound like a Catechist but I know he guided me that very moment I was writing my draft entry.
I’ll leave my entry with this quote by Dr. Burns:” Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.”
ABOUT EMOTIONS
It’s been a long time. A hiatus, perse. Today I want to talk about emotions. One may perceive that emotions drives a person either to excel or to degrade his or her being as a human. Emotions are so powerful. It can make a person successful, and it can be a reason for somebody’s demise.
It depicts and captures the innate feelings of man. Either grasping euphoria or dysphoria, emotions tend to let us venture to the unknown. The unknown which is something more than skin deep. Emotion can be like a palace. A palace, perhaps if it makes you shift into the paradigm of utopia. Or, it can be hell. Emotions can slide and go down into the underworld where one meets Hades. Sometimes, it skips Charon, and the angry dispute will swim in the temptestous pool and burst the clasping emotion of anger.
Sometimes, we opiate and cage ourselves from emotions. We drift into our emotions and solely rely on it. We contribute to the faint of heart and consign to the oblivion of our mind. Sometimes, what you’ll be reading in the local dailies would be about a married woman killing her husband because of third party. That explicates how emotions can lead to a very unfortunate demise.; a woman felt enraged and stabbed her husband 20 times. Can you imagine that? 20 times! Emotions are so dominant, controlling and sometimes wicked!
Frequently, when people tends to be nervous, they would blabber and tatter a lot. They will talk about random and awkward things that are not related to what he or she is being nervous about. During declamation speeches or anything that will require someone to face a multitude of crowd, he or she will put a coin under their feet and believe that all negative energies will be there and that there will be a constant flow of energy in his or her body which will make stagnant of their emotions.
Emotions brings life to a dead and pale soul. Laughter and happiness has been proven to prolong a life of a person. Happiness can be an instrument in slowing down the development of unwanted wrinkles in your face. A smile takes only few muscles to move, and a thousand for a frown.
I was urged to write something about emotions today because first, its the most important thing in writing a sports article. A sports writer should make the reader feel like he/she is in the game, feeling the same fete of the crowd and even the players. Second and lastly, because my dad was enraged and so much driven by his emotion today.
Intermittently, only a few would understand how emotions function. On how to understand what people feel and on how to decimate the right words to tell to someone who fall into the chasm of chained emotions. But always keep in mind that is should be the brain that should function the most when we commit an action. It is placed in the top part of our body because it should govern and guide ourselves as a whole, and our heart, in the center, for it will serve like a moral judgment of our action.
Left with undying desolation
[20:29] nemo_0027: congratz. gnda ng scorpion mo. :
[20:29] nemo_0027: :d [20:29] narris.carmilla: hehe thanks
[20:30] narris.carmilla: hindi na po ba malaulaunch ung aquinian?
[20:30] nemo_0027: nope.
[20:31] narris.carmilla: oh. aw
I have read Kuya Nemo’s blogpost once more in his multply account.
Today, Duddy left a letter
Daryl, this is daddy. Parents, in their love and great concern to their children, dream big, far and wide that their children may become the best. Indeed, law or medicine is something I look forward to, and perhaps this is just sublimation—trying to impose to you what I or your mom have not personally achieved. Seen in this perspective, it is indeed violence, a dictation which negates what we truly fundamentally believe upon: freedom of self-expression and self-determination. As parents, the tendency to dream for their children is natural, in fact, it is this dream that drives us with your mom, that encourages us to climbs mountains to mountains and turn nights into days that we may be able to provide the way for such dreams to become reality. However, as you well know, our dream may not be your dream, and we are very much aware of that. Let me tell you my dear son: follow your dream…. Sometimes daddy may not fully comprehend why and its meaning… because he tends to be so biased with his beliefs and prejudices… the art of living is in being able to struggle, through ups and downs and in a creative way, the realization and appreciation of others of the dream that you aspire for. To work for it and be the best that you can be while gradually making people realize (though they may initially do not agree) that this is what God wants you to contribute in adding meaning and colors in this already suffering world. Daryl, indeed, you are unique too like daddy, mommy, micco, angel and kim. It is in this relationship that such uniqueness shines…. How it will shine is also a strategy you have to make…. Sometimes as I have said we may not understand, but this should not hinder you from proceeding. Remember, the greatness of life is in being able to show your place, that others may live life more meaningfully because of the place (time and space) you have carved out with your sweat and blood. Finally, go where your heart is. From dad
Tomorrow is only a vision. 