In September 2007, I jokingly blogged that I want to be in a billboard. If not along EDSA, maybe one along Bangkerohan Bridge, one of the main bridges in Davao City that connects the south to the north. And I reiterated this wish in my Feeling Ko Sikat Ako post.
Imagine my excitement when Ms. Victoria Evangelista asked me to be featured in a billboard for Crepelato, a local gelato and dessert shop. I was to be featured with some other Davao personalities and two of my cousins (who shall remain unnamed since they might kill me). Among those to be featured are DOT XI Director Art Boncato, local TV personality and magazine director Ian Garcia, and photgorapher/events host/magazine contributor and consultant Jojie Alcantara. I’m a camwhore and wannabe celeb… I immediately said yes.
So one fine day in January 2011, I went to Envy Me Salon to have my hair done, went home to put make up on myself, dress up, and went to Crepelato for the photo shoot. I was a bit bigger than I would have wanted, but I trusted that my hair and my face would distract the public from noticing my ginormous arms. And yeah, I chose a black dress to camouflage my tummy.
After about two weeks, a billboard somewhere along Governor Generoso Bridge aka Bangkerohan Bridge included an image of me talking to somebody on the phone while enjoying a cone of Capuchillo Gelato:
Don’t I look fab? I’d like to think so. And in case you think I was photoshopped, my large arms should make you think twice. Haha! And yeah, here’s the original image used for that billboard.
I guess… if you blog it, it might just happen? I’d like to think so. 🙂 Live you dreams.
I’d like to thank Mr. Gerry and Ms. Victoria Evangelista for the wonderful opportunity of representing Crepelato! 🙂
Many thanks to Envy Me Salon for my hair, Archie Tolentino and FiDA for my make up skills, cousin Marianne Bonguyan for the cosmetic products and tools, Ate Jojie and Kuya Rhonson for the photos, and to my other sponsors who have made me fab through the years, SOUL Lifestyle and CACI Face and Body Care Centre! 🙂
Live. Love. Learn. <3
Wow! Totoong billboard shoot pala siya! 😀 Congratulations Ate Ria also to Ate Jo and Koyah Drew! 😀
Sana pagpunta ko sa DFAT up pa rin yung billboard! Congrats again! 😀
Thanks Mica! 🙂
hahaha hinanap ko talaga kung san banda nung napadaan ako sa may bangkerohan bridge bah… Congrats! 🙂
ngayon lang ako nakikita ng behind the scene ng isang billboard ok to ah
Ang taray mo, badet! But Andrew doesn’t love the spotlight, I think? Hehe! Congrats! Lemme blog nga about having Phil Younghusband as a smex slave. Who knows? It might come true! Hahaha!
Miah, hehe! 🙂
Event Lover, it’s a very memorable experience.
Badet, IKR?! If you blog it, it might just happen. 🙂