Friday, March 07, 2008

Panagbenga 2008 (Day 3)

The main event! Sunday, Feb 24, was the parade of the flowers. Although, there was a little rain, the parade will still go on. The rain gave us a hard time because we didn't want to get our gear get wet and we were just standing under the overpass when the parade began. As soon as some of the floats with tons of flowers came down session road, even though it was still drizzling, we went closer to the float and clicked away! Master Aaron and Master Randy showed once again their ingenuity by improvising on covering their lenses. I really didn't fear much for my lens because I trusted Canon when they said that their 70-200mm f/4L IS lens was weather sealed but I knew that my camera wasn't so I had no choice but to just pray that the rain won't get inside my camera. I just had to constantly wipe off the water on my lens and camera..while silently praying.Ü

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Master Randy and Master Aaron showing off their supreme ingenuity.Ü

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Chowking and their models

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GMA Network with some of their stars, Ms. Iza Calsado, Ms. Iwa Moto and Ms. Jewel Mische. (Mr. Alfred Vargas and Mr. Richard Gutierrez were also on the float)

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SM

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Nescafe's flower float

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The winner: SMC's flower float

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Here are some more celebrities who joined the parade.From Top-Bottom/Left-Right, Ms. Angelica Panganiban, Mrs. Jodie Santamaria-Lacson, Ms. Kim Chiu, Mr. Jomari Yllana, Ms. Melanie Marquez and Mr. Gerald Anderson.

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I had such a blast while I was in Baguio. Hopefully, next year would be better since it's Baguio's centennial as a city. Karen should be with me by then.

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