Louie

My sisters and I went to the Boys Like Girls show at Glorietta last Saturday. I have been looking forward to that because I needed to escape from the stress I get from work. Work is stressful especially when you're required to submit two stories  per day about released reports and approved projects of development agencies and multilateral institutions and such are not available on a daily basis. Anyway, to our disappointment, my sisters and I lost our reserved seats in the so-called VIP section and we only found out when we arrived at the mall which was at 3 pm. The show was scheduled to start at 5.

So what exactly happened? My sister's friend said that some important people(i.e. kids of those with greater connections with the organizers) brought so many friends and our seats were given to them. The VIP seats come with photo op stubs and we missed that. So much for my great escape. I wish we were informed earlier so we could have gone to the mall earlier to have the receipt of shoes I bought the previous day for seats. My receipt would have given us 6 seats which was more than enough since there were only 3 of us.

Despite losing our seats, we still decided to stay and watch the show. That was the last show of the band's tour in the Philippines and nobody really knows if the band would be back.

I had fun even if the person behind me used my head as a substitute for a tripod of her camera. Not exactly a tripod but she was leaning on it. The band played 9 songs which included my favorite which is Learning to Fall. I was not expecting them to play that since only a few people consider it their favorite according to the poll in the band's website. Martin even sang a few lines of Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love which was cute. I had no story idea for the following day but I totally forgot about that during the show. I had to enjoy the BLG moment. I especially liked the part when Martin introduced the last song. 

"I don't care if you've never heard of the band Boys Like Girls. I don't care if your best friend just grabbed you here. I don't care if you were just doing your shopping. What I want you to do is go crazy as we sing The Great Escape,"

Martin said that they plan to come back here. Bands say that all the time. Anyway, I hope it happens for real because we did not get to meet them. Who knows, maybe the next time they're here, I would be able to meet them not just as a fan but as an interviewer whom they have to be nice to. Haha.

Until next time. My great escape and groupie adventure ends here (for now).