The Journey Continues...

We promised Lance last week that we will go to SM if he comes with us to Batangas. So he agreed with us and went to Batangas last week and to fulfill our promise, we went to SM today. We decided to visit SM Masinag since it is new and it’s near our house. I liked it more than SM Marikina, it’s bigger and the establishments are better than what they have in Marikina. There are still some shops that are closed but most are open already. They also have Yakimix and my sister and I were thinking of going there maybe next weekend together with my parents. Here is Lance enjoying one of the play areas:

Looks like we’re going to visit it more than SM Marikina. We just hope that there won’t be traffic when we visit it again. :)

As mentioned in my previous post, the contractor did not make it on the scheduled ingress yesterday and so my staff and I met at 3am to be at SMX at 4am for the set up. Fortunately, the contractor was there already and was just waiting for the venue to open. Sadly, they opened at 5am which made us wait for more than 1 hour and less time to set up. I was once again stressed when they were setting up because the height and the width of the backdrop are not exact with the height and width of the booth. Plus they used a thick cintra board and brought only few double adhesive tapes that I’m not sure if it can hold it for 2 days. I just advised them to use the scotch tapes they brought to help fix the board. Thankfully, they were able to set up just in time before the expo opened. Here is what it looked like:

Today is a very stressful day. We are scheduled to set-up our booth today at SMX for the CSR expo. The contractor we assigned to design the booth picked-up our units this morning and we told them that we will meet them at the site at 4pm. We were not able to leave the office right away because there’s no available driver that can bring us there. We have a pole for the solar street light and my water filtration unit that’s why we need a big vehicle. We have the L300 but there’s no one to drive and I don’t know how to drive it. Hehe! Thankfully, one of the purchasing staff arrived earlier than scheduled and he agreed to take us there. We left the office at 4pm and got to SMX at 5pm. The ingress is scheduled at 12nn-8pm and when we got there, most of the booths have already set up. We were expecting that our contractor is there already but unfortunately they are not done yet with the printing and are still in their shop in Valenzuela. Our President is calling me because he was alarmed of the situation and at the same time, Raffy Alunan is also calling him for follow up. Our booth is beside Lopez Group Foundation and he’s bothered that it will look bare if we won’t be able to set-up on time. They already made a Plan B just in case the contractor will not be able to deliver. At 7pm, we were informed that the contractor is still in Valenzuela so we told them not to come anymore and just set up in the morning since there’s also an ingress scheduled at 4-7am. So we left SMX since there’s nothing we can do. I went to Greenbelt to meet Paul and my sister to watch Harry Potter and I’ll just come back in the morning to oversee the set up of the contractor. Thanks to Harry Pottter, my stressful day turned out great in the end. :)

I joined Daphne Osena-Paez’s contest last week and I was surprised and happy to see that I was one of the winners. Her prize is the Kor Aura bottle which was used by Robert Downey Jr in the Iron Man movie and also by David Beckham as shown in the picture. :)

I first saw my name in Facebook when they congratulated the winners and when I visited her blog again, this is what I saw.

The winners are:

130 Toni Tadeo

128 Reejane/Joanne Randiej

117 Clara Garcia Ocampo

257 Len Perilla-Jardenil

394 Lulu Eugenio

Wee!!! Last Saturday, I got an email from Ms Daphne herself asking for my details for the delivery of the bottles. Will blog about it again once I receive it. Thank you Miss Daphne!

*photos grabbed from Ms. Daphne's blog.