Apologies for not making any post these past few days as I went to Bacolod City to attend an SEO Workshop and joined the Digital Filipino Bloggers get together which was sponsored by the Casino Filipino Bacolod.
The two events were spearheaded by Janette Toral of Digital Filipino. The SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Workshop is actually more of a refresher course for me, since I already have some background regarding this topic.
But the much awaited event was the bloggers fellowship night at the Casino Fililipno Hotel. It was actually my first time to meet most of the Bacolod-based bloggers since I only knew a handful of them before this grand occassion. I am also happy to see some Iloilo City bloggers who joined the party.
Twas nice seeing Glady again. Last time I saw her was last April when we met in SM Bacolod after I gave her Media ID for the Panaad sa Negros Festival. I am also happy to meet Annie May Valdez, got to her through the Skyscrapercity forum, but its actually our first time to meet face to face.
I’m also happy that Marc and Junnjun in in Bacolod. Both of them stayed with me for a night in Tangub. Junelle gave me an Iloilo bloggers Tshirt. Yey! Thanks Junelle, kitakits next time.
I was so surprised that Ajay who works for Pagcor is also in Bacolod for the event. She flew from Manila Friday, while I arrived in Bacolod, Thursday. She also didn’t know I’m coming. Had I known that she is in town, we could have toured the entire city and feasted on the great foods Bacolod has to offer!
The night started with the usual introduction of the name/URL. then after dinner we did the table hop to make new friends and of course, photo op!
Sorry lang I was so tamad last weekend to get my camera out of the bag! HAHAHA
There were door prizes raffled of to lucky blogger! I won 500 first bet voucher at the casino. So I tried my luck in Baccarat and I won PHP1,000! not bad, since I didn’t even did a cash out.
After the event, Audrey, Marc, Junnjun Ajay and I all went to Cafe Bobd in Lacos Street for another round of Chismis and coffee and Cakes! I paid for the coffee, thanks to my casino winnings! LOL
That weekend was really a blast. I hope I’d get to see the Bacolod Bloggers again when I return October 14 just in time for the Masskara Festival 2009
Many many thanks to Janette Toral for bringing this great event to Bacolod. Sa uulitin!
I’d also like to thank Alvin Chua and Hunt Key for the plane ticket!
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