Lyka Made My Day

Quick post!

I was having a calm Friday morning, reading on meta-ethics and moral relativism, when suddenly Lyka Bergen, the La Toya Jackson of San Francisco, chatted me up on YM. Of course, there's the usual binayot achuchu and some beauty pageant and Project Runway talk.

Things took a tragic turn though when he sent me the link of Preview magazine, one of the top fashion magazines in Las Islas Filipinas. The discussion of the day is the red carpet pictures of Preiview's Best-Dressed Ball 2009. So we started exchanging comments on the clothes of the celebrities who made it to the list.

Below is the minutes of the meeting... with minor editing on grammar and typo and to make it more concise and coherent, but the rest is exactly how we reacted the moment we saw the pictures.

All photos are from Stylebible.

Divine Lee wearing a Balmain jacket, a dress by Rajo Laurel, and Lanvin heels.

kawadjan: si divine lee!!!! kainis. balmain!!! i wish divine ang name ko.

Melissa Dizon in a dress of her own design and Alexander McQueen boots.

Lyka Bergen: and Melissa Dizon. Kalokah. Alexander McQueen ang boots ng Melissa Dizon!

kawadjan: OA sya sa sunburn ha. OA sya sa tanning spray. nag-tanning siguro sila sabay ni jez patel.

Bea Soriano wearing Randy Ortiz, an H&M vest, and Gareth Pugh platforms.

kawadjan: si bea soriano in gareth pugh. nag tumbling ako. pero ang laki ng hair ha. di k o bet. as in gusto ko syang sabunotan!!!! kainis sya!!! she needs a proper stylist. best dressed na yan??? haler! *poot mood* besides, you should not wear H&M in a function di ba? Ewwww... di ko kaya.

Lyka Bergen: tawa kami ng tawa ni Mama O

kawadjan: if i wear an h&m vest i would not give the brand name to the magazine. sasabihin ko na lang na vintage. mas romantic pakinggan.

Pam Quiñones in an Ivarluski Aseron gown and Acne booties.

Lyka Bergen: bilisan mo na kay Pam Quinones

kawadjan: pam na now. oh. it's a poor imitation of some balmain gown and the f/w collection of gucci. it's bad. the gown is shapeless.

Lyka Bergen: true

kawadjan: omg, ang cheap ng fabrique! lalo na yung lining! omg, divisoria? colon sa cebu? tutuban? omg.

Lyka Bergen: hahahaha

kawadjan: and acne boots??? gosh, refer to the h&m comment

Lyka Bergen: gagah ka talaga

kawadjan: some celebs in our country can be quite delusional.

Lyka Bergen: oo nga. basta may pangalan lang ang sinusuot... pwede na

kawadjan: korak! di nila alam ang relative importance nito sa fashion industry

Lyka Bergen: at Preview pa to ha

Maricel Soriano in a Lanvin dress and Viktor & Rolf heels.

kawadjan: gusto ko si maricel. classy. but a bit boring.

Anne Curtis in a dress by Eric delos Santos and Christian Louboutin heels.

kawadjan: omg anne curtis. i closed the window na. i died.

Lyka Bergen: hahaha

kawadjan: i puked sa coffee mug ko. gosh. i might take a sick leave.

Preview Best Dressed 2008: Mai Kauffman in an Estien Quijano dress and Zara heels.

kawadjan: OMG... mai kauffman... i died the second time today. everything's just WRONG about her, starting with her make-up!

Lyka Bergen: true girl

kawadjan: zara heels! groundbreaking! as in zara!!! refer again to h&m comment.

Amina Aranaz-Alunan in a dress by Jan Garcia, Aldo heels and an Aranaz bag.

kawadjan: amina!!! omg, omg, is she pregnant? even if she is pregnant there is no excuse for wearing something so bad!!! saan galing ang tela?

Lyka Bergen: very Ms Colombia

kawadjan: i know!!!

Ria Bolivar in a Tina Daniac dress and Nine West wedges.

Lyka Bergen: I lyk Ria's. kasi Model sya. kahit ano... carry nya.

kawadjan: hmmmmm.... di ko bet ning. i'm sorry. ang gulo ng damit nya. and the shoes are sooooo wrong for the dress. too much.

Lyka Bergen: yun nga lang ang shoes

Preview Editor-In-Chief Pauline Juan in Mich Dulce.

kawadjan: ay sino itong si pauline juan? sya ang love ko.

Lyka Bergen: yeah Mich Dulce

kawadjan: she is perfect... well, she could have made the skirt shorter but she is divine as it is. winner! what do you think?

Lyka Bergen: true ka about the skirt

Preview Fashion Editor Liz Uy in Joey Samson and YSL Tribute pumps.

kawadjan: i love liz uy ning. what do you think of that black thing?

Lyka Bergen: safe.

Preview Best Dressed 2005 and Preview Associate Fashion Editor Daryl Chang in an outfit by Cary Santiago and Stella Luna heels.

kawadjan: daryl chang is the new bai ling?!



And these are already the best-dressed in Manille???

Hay, I need to see a psychiatrist now. I'm traumatized.

Lyka, I hate you. Beso, beso. Tse!


Post-script...

After posting this entry, I got comments from both Fuchsiaboy and Mel Beckham that the theme of the party was Barbie (thanks, bitches), hence probably explaining why the colors were a bit too bubblegum for our taste, ditto for the make-up and the hair.

I just feel that I need to mention that so that the readers would have a better understanding of the event in connection with the fashion of the evening.

Besides, that shows how we can easily criticize people without knowing exactly the context, and in this case, truly, that is my weakness.

Processing: To Blog or To Date Edition

Agent BangCock: did you not notice na halos lahat ng bloggers na bading eh single?

Celia Rodriguez: hahhahaha

Agent BangCock: well except sa yo... but most di ba? tama ba ang observation kez?

Celia Rodriguez: oo nga

Agent BangCock: why kaya? there should be some correlation between being single and how much time you spend blogging or dating

Celia Rodriguez: kasi nga in your own words... ang taas!

Agent BangCock: ang taas talaga natin ning kase cocooned tayo in our own little, idealistic world.

Agent BangCock: in fact, it might not just be idealistic, but more of narcissistic. scary!

Celia Rodriguez: kasi i think blogging is almost a dead giveaway na ang tao itong has a tendency to intellectualize experiences

Agent BangCock: ay tama!!! korak.

Celia Rodriguez: kaya hayun

Agent BangCock: kaya nawawalan ng sense of adventure, ng sense of spontaneity

Agent BangCock: kawawa... or maybe not

Celia Rodriguez: hindi naman. mas nagkakaroon lang ng doktrina, ng dogma on what should and should not be; lalo na sa relasyon

Agent BangCock: hmmmm... korak. kase iniisip natin ang pag-ibig ay isang blog template. nahuhulog lahat ng tags sa tamang post at ang right column ay always expected to include the links.

Celia Rodriguez: hahahaha! winner

Agent BangCock: kaya feeling natin ang pagibig ganun din, pwedeng i-align at i-classify nang ganun kadali

Celia Rodriguez: cut and paste mo na lang yang linya na yan. sooo bloggable

Agent BangCock: salamat. ikaw ang may sala nito. ikaw ang catalyst ng mga walang kabuluhang paguusap na ito. talk about intellectualising mundane stuff.

Celia Rodriguez: naman. nailabas ko na.

Processing: Selfish Edition

Agent San Franciso: a friend said we are good at convincing ourselves that what we did is always right

Agent BangCock: hahahaha. well ganyan naman talaga dapat!

Agent BangCock: everything is an illusion anyway. so we have to create the illusion that best serves us.

Agent San Franciso: i totally agree.

Agent San Franciso: what is difficult is to convince other people. but who cares no?

Agent BangCock: yeah! deadma na yan.

Agent BangCock: you are only accountable for your own sanity. other people can take care of themselves

Agent BangCock: selfish ba? but who is not selfish these days?

Agent San Franciso: not really. there's nothing wrong with taking care of ourselves

Agent BangCock: very much so. coz nobody else would.

Agent San Franciso: indeed

Agent San Franciso: at the end of d day, if everything fails, you only have yourself as your refuge

Agent BangCock: korak

Processing: The Pursuit of Happyness Edition

Agent San Francisco: ikaw, how are you? kumusta ang bkk?

Agent BangCock: i'm ok... i realized last night that i'm happy and satisfied with my life... surprising coz i've always been restless

Agent BangCock: last night it just dawned on me that i'm feeling serenely happy OR happily serene these past months

Agent San Francisco: winner naman ang realisation na yan

Agent BangCock: i know! hahahaha. weird nga. i don’t know where it came from

Agent San Francisco: ang basic question pa e, how did you end up in the mode of thinking?... as in u asked yourself?

Agent BangCock: wala lang... i was looking at the painting on my wall and the thought just came into my head... "hmmm... i'm actually happy and contented after years of restlessness". yun lang

Agent San Francisco: ay kaloka. when will i have that moment kaya?

Agent BangCock: baka it would dawn on you in SFO

Agent BangCock: or maybe coz you don’t think of happiness... you don’t even have to will it... it just happens.

Agent BangCock: you need to be calm for once to listen to your self, i guess

Agent San Francisco: maybe maybe maybe

It just happened on its own.

For the first time in years I'm free of the need to have something to look forward to.

For the first time in years I wholly appreciate the present and can truly be content with it.

Perhaps it has something to do with feeling settled in BangCock, of the certainty that I don't need to be any where else right now.

Perhaps it has something to do with the comfort of having really genuine friends in the city... and beyond (Star Trek isdatchyu?).

Perhaps it has something to do with the balance that I've achieved in many aspects of my life and that makes me feel more whole.

Oh, it might even be just hormones.

Processing: Delusional Bayots Edition

This is how two bored (and probably drunk) gay men talk in the chatroom.

Agent Siem Reap: tama na muna ang mags... didnt buy na nga paris vogue

Agent BangCock: baket???

Agent Siem Reap: save muna ako pera

Agent BangCock: meron ka pala nung save save na concept? those are only for poor people dahling

Agent Siem Reap: ang gastos ko na. ewan ko, i feel guilty sa recession

Agent BangCock: when you think about money you are not rich enough, i'm disappointed

Agent Siem Reap: oo naman they are for poor people

Agent Siem Reap: pero di ba bad taste yun

Agent BangCock: bad taste?

Agent Siem Reap: ayoko namang maging crass

Agent BangCock: it's not your fault that they are poor... why should you be considerate of their plight?

Agent BangCock: being crass is soooo now

Agent Siem Reap: i mean i just bought $20 worth of magazines habang ang iba dyan ay nagugutom

Agent BangCock: well they can eat your mags if they want... they can mix it with rice and vinegar

Agent Siem Reap: or air

Agent BangCock: or air!

Agent Siem Reap: well it's in to be a recessionista now... so im being a recessionista

Agent Siem Reap: hay i envy the poor though, they have no choice but to be thin

Agent BangCock: i know! mga bitch sila

Agent BangCock: the feeling is mutal it seems... they envy you too

Agent Siem Reap: what is there to envy sa akin? the obese me!

Agent BangCock: ang haba daw ng hair mo!

Agent BangCock: poor, obese you.

Agent Siem Reap: oh if they only know the agony of balenciaga

Agent BangCock: korak!!!

Agent BangCock: kung alam lang nila kung gaano kahirap na harapin ang publique mo all the time... your very exacting publique who want to see you in your best ALL the time

Agent Siem Reap: at least sila wala silang choice, if they go out wearing gulanit clothes people understand

Agent Siem Reap: eh tayong mga may publique they expect us to be perfumed, coiffed and polished

Agent BangCock: indeed!

Agent BangCock: they dont know how it's like to face the paparazzi

Agent Siem Reap: and the press could be a bitch... heartless... unmerciful

Agent BangCock: the publique needs their fantasy... and we have to represent that for them. they need their escape!

Agent Siem Reap: of course. we are the paragon of what they want to achieve

Agent BangCock: and that's very difficult ha, you have to meet their expectations all the time

Agent BangCock: you are their picture of hope, and the truth, and beauty...

Agent Siem Reap: we could not afford to disappoint them

Agent BangCock: no way

Agent Siem Reap: hay.. life in the echelon of riches and power is so lonely... hay

Agent BangCock: in fact we drive capitalism. coz we represent the middle class' aspirations... and without aspirations, people would stop buying

Agent Siem Reap: naman

Agent BangCock: that's why we need to be more ostentatious during these times

Agent Siem Reap: we drive the economy

Agent BangCock: coz we have to encourage the people to buy... to keep business grinding... to keep the small and medium enterprises thriving... to keep LVMH surviving

Agent Siem Reap: I’ll just wear regular chanel than do couture... para naman keri lang

Agent BangCock: and when times are hard, the middle class and the poor have to have an escape. we are their only hope. we cannot let them wallow in despair, love

Agent Siem Reap: thats why im using a lot of japanese brands na. para discreet elegance lang. the likes of yohji. i mean one pants is just like $1500

Agent Siem Reap: that’s discreet no?

Please, for the love of God, do not Malu Fernandez us.

Processing

Agent Siem Reap: di ka ba natatakot na wala kang makasama pag tanda mo?

Agent BangCock: where does this question come from?

Agent BangCock: so Little Miss Philippines

Agent BangCock: "anong gusto mo pagtanda mo?"

Agent BangCock: "magind doktor po"

Agent Siem Reap: hahaha

Agent Siem Reap: (pasting a conversation he was having with Agent Penang in another window)

Agent Siem Reap: di ka na natatakot na wala kang makasama pag tanda mo?

Agent Penang: ako? hindi, may pera naman ako

Agent Siem Reap: hahaha

Agent BangCock: wonderful!!!

Agent BangCock: hahahaha

Agent BangCock: where the fuck did this question come from?

Agent Siem Reap: (pasting another message exchange between him and Agent Penang)

Agent Penang: process oriented talaga ang Agent BangCock, kung Ms U yan, talo na sya

Agent Siem Reap: oo nga

Agent Siem Reap: yes or no lang naman ang tanong

Agent Siem Reap: hahaha

Agent BangCock: so anong sagot mo sa tanong?

Agent Siem Reap: napaisip lang ako nung umiihi ako. it must be my mood.

Agent BangCock: punyeta