BDJ Fair 2013

This post is so last year.  Hehehe!  It literally is.  I found this sitting in drafts and I thought of posting it anyway.

At some point, I'll get the hang of planning.  That's the reason I still get planners even when I end up with dozens of blank pages by the end of each year.  Gotta keep trying.

For a few years now, the company behind the Belle De Jour planners holds an event they've dubbed the BDJ Fair.  In these events they sell their planners at 20% off so that's a good enough reason to go.  There's a bunch of other activities too like tarot reading (which seemed like a big draw judging on the lines from the previous fairs I've been to), wall climbing and bungee jumping.  

From the two times that I've been to the fair that was held in MoA, I'm confused at the wall climbing and bungee jumping thing.  It's a mall so obviously there are a lot of people from all the floors around the area just gawking.  But it didn't seem to bother the participants so who am I to talk?  I did notice that some girls on the bungee jumping area were self-conscious about flailing in the air. 

Because we arrived late, I missed the talks my sister signed me up for and a lot of the booths had already closed.  We tried our hand at the DC booth.  In the time I was in line I saw two people get free shoes.  How many other people got free shoes this whole day?  The game was to toss ping pong balls in three shoes.  My sister got two balls in and got a sticker and sock.  I was awful, I didn't get anything in.  I didn't even get a sticker.  Wtf.  

I tried another game.  In this game you smell the contents of the bottles and remember the name of the scent of each, turn around while they mix it all up, then you try to rearrange them back by associating the name with the scent.  You're supposed to get four of them correctly to get a chance to draw a prize.  I got three.  *sigh*

So I walked around to the talk area to listen to the guest speakers.

At the end of the talk they announced winners of another round of raffle draws among the seated audience of the talk.  There were a lot of winners, so many that I was yelling in my head to my sister, "Ang dami na nyan, pag hindi ka pa nanalo!"  She had two namesakes, that made me freak out more, then they called her name!  She got free shoes!  More yelling inside my head!  

DC was awesome.  So many free shoes and stuff!  

After the talk I took my sister to the scent game booth.  She tried it and got 4 scents correctly.  She picked a prize and got one bottle.  

Wow.  I didn't get a single thing.  

The loot bag wasn't as good as the previous year's

We met my sister's friend who was with her friend and eventually ended up in Bulgogi Brothers and got to avail the discount voucher my sister got in the loot bag.  

No pictures of the food though but we did get the pork belly and bibimbap.  At least now I know what kimchi tastes like. I've been afraid to try it because I thought it would be gut-wrenchingly spicy.  And the pork belly was good, like how in the world