The year that was...2013

I owe this blog many many entries and I don't think I'll be able to post a lot soon. My laptop is still sick so I'm struggling with an older (but stronger) laptop. It just won't let me do more complex things so all those pictures I've been taking related to my idol may just have to wait to be posted errrr next year? I dunno! Haha!

Well, I'll just highlight 2 of the most important events that happened to Chris this year, and these are considered highlights in his lifetime!

Tiu-Ong Wedding

 

Congratulations again to Mr. Chris and Mrs. Clarisse Tiu!!! Best wishes to your married life!!! (^_^)

Photos were posted on Chris Tiu's own Instagram account!

The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) 2013 Awardee

Fr Malacanang photo bureau as posted on Interaksyon

Here is an article related to the event:

PBA Congratulates Rain or Shine Guard Chris Tiu for TOYM 2013 Honor

Kudos to idol Chris! Continue to be an inspiration for all of us!

Here is a blog entry by the awardee himself. He posted his award acceptance speech!

TOYM Acceptance Speech 2013

Wishing for more achievements for idol next year! God bless!

Happy 28th Birthday Chris!

Another year has passed and it's his birthday again!!! Yeyyy!!!

So I have a new blog design! Yeyyyy!! Hehe! Hope you'll all like it!

Sorry I haven't been able to update this blog in these past few months. Hope to get back on track soon. So much more to share!

Happy birthday again Chris!!! Thanks for being an inspiration to all of us! (^_^) God bless!

   

Chris Tiu's New SMART TVC: Get More Than a Day With Smart Prepaid AllText 30 Plus

I super duper mega love this new commercial of Chris! Can't help but press the replay button over and over again. Teehee!

Nice to see him in one commercial with athletes from different schools too! All can be united with one purpose!

All of his commercials keeps getting better and better! (^_^)

Love love!

I super love the background song too!

Now I know...the song in the background is "It's Time" by Imagine Dragons! Niceeee!!!

Update: 05-19-13

Since the start of my trip abroad I've been hearing this song two times already on the radio and I don't get to tune on the radio that much. How nice! I suddenly remember this commercial every time I hear it. :)

Source: SmartCorporate on Youtube

Do you know him? If not...you should, now!

I was arranging some old files a while ago and then I saw this picture above. I remember how I saw this pic way back in 2008. My friends and I were walking at the Senado Square in Macau when I saw this in front of a shop. I knew he was Jay Chou, but wasn't 100% sure that time. But I took a pic of it anyway (my reflection is seen in this pic haha) and the reason I took a pic of it was because Jay Chou is Chris Tiu's most favorite artist! Hihi! Well I got to confirm it was really Jay after. Hehehe!

Glad I saw this pic so I can place it here in my blog for Chris. Hihi! Nice pic of Jay right? You see the connection...basketball...watch endorsement...something in common between Chris and Jay! Hihi! I am sure Chris would want to appear in an ad alongside Jay Chou! That would be so cool!

Chris Tiu in the PBA Finals

I have sooo many things I want to share (especially on the games I have watched live) but since my laptop is beyond repair, will wait til I get a new one (oh bother...). So updating will take a while. (-_-)

Chris Tiu and the rest of Rain or Shine are currently fighting in the finals against TNT! I wish them all the best! Go Rain or Shine!!!!!!! Fighting!!!!

UNIQLO: Made For All

Chris Tiu is jumping? I like his shirt! I like Nikki Gil's shirt too! (^_^)

Source: Uniqlo brochure inserted in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (November 14, 2012) 

Sorry it's crumpled...(-_-)

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer (October 12, 2012)

This is now my most favorite UNIQLO photo of Chris! Ayieee! Kawaii!!! Wallpaper-worthy, ne? ^^

 

Waaaaaahhhh!!!!

 Source: Thank you SM Mall of Asia!

Not in our School: The Anti-Bullying Campaign

 

Don't you just wish bullies in schools (or anywhere else) just exist in TV dramas or movies? But that's not the case. Help the bullied! Fight the bullies (but don't be bullies yourselves...)!

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer (October 30, 2012)

Chris also posted about this too on his own blog: The Bully Project

I always see the commercial on Jack TV.  (^_^)

Here's my photo of Chris Tiu wearing a shirt from the Anti-Bullying campaign in one of the events we were able to attend. Uhm...okay with a snobbish llama. Hehe! Will share more from that event soon in another post!

Chris Tiu and Llama the Snob (>_<)

Where Anne Curtis and Chris Tiu Get Their Fave Jewelry

Sale is over. (-_-)

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer (October 26, 2012)

My Diamond store in Resorts World Manila

Chris Tiu for Sarabia Optical

This is taken by my friend Emay in Glorietta! It's the one in front of Happy Lemon! :)

Chris Tiu for UNIQLO

One Friday morning I saw this inserted in our newspaper. YEHEY! Haha! Love this new picture of his! I believe it is also the one used now in front of the UNIQLO store in MoA. Haven't been there for a while.

And yeah, here's my Hello Kitty with Chris Tiu's picture! She's also a fangirl of his. Haha!

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer (Insert, September 14, 2012)

Yeah, she wanted took a picture in front of UNIQLO Myeongdong because of Chris Tiu. Hihi!

UNIQLO Myeongdong

Okay, there's no picture of Chris Tiu here, but UNIQLO is definitely related to him so Hello Kitty really wanted to visit the big branch in Myeongdong. Unfortunately when she got there, it was already closed. Hello Kitty cried buckets of tears, and had a picture in front of the store instead. It was really huge! 3 floors or more? Would love to have a store like that here in Manila with Chris Tiu's picture! Teehee! It would be nice too if you get to see his picture in other UNIQLO stores worldwide. （＾∇＾）Hope I could take a pic of it when it happens! ＼(^o^)／

Chris Tiu says "Hello PBA :)"

He'll finally grace the PBA with his presence. The excitement of fans are all over Twitter! I wish him well in this huge career move! All of us will continue to support him in the PBA! Go Chris Tiu!!!! ＼(^o^)／

I Build Champions. What Will You Build? (Chris Tiu's Habitat for Humanity Ad)

This is displayed at the Ayala under pass. Thanks to my friend Emay for taking a photo of it! Chris' ad is displayed along with other celebrities' ads for Habitat for Humanity.

EcoWarriors Tree Planting (June 12, 2012)

Chris Tiu already posted his own blog entry about this event, and I really loved how he wrote it. I was inspired again. Haha! His words brought me back to that day. It's nice to see our pictures in his blog too! He took most of the pictures himself. :)

So now here are my own words. 

One rainy Independence Day morning, our adventure to Rizal, Laguna started.

This was my 2nd outreach with Chris Tiu and fellow TIUnatics. Yey! (^_^) I also got to meet more people this time around. Everybody at the back of the bus! Hello! Haha! Yey again! This was also my first time to experience a tree planting activity...and hiking! Whoah! (^0^) Or do you call that trekking? Haha! Basta ganun!

It was a long bus journey compared to the other outreach activities. It was as if we were going on a school field trip. Hahaha!

The road to the site was not smooth at all. We had to transfer from our bus and board jeepneys just to get to the actual site. It was really a long...long bumpy ride uphill. It was as if we were on an amusement park ride. I could say it's like the Indiana Jones ride in Disneyland ♫ Tantarantan...tantaran...♫. Then what happened when we got down? Weeeeeeeehhh!!!!! That was fun. Haha!

Group picture before we hiked to the top!

Do you think our journey stopped already in that picture above? No it wasn't the end...it was hiking time! But no, we didn't climb a mountain. It's a hill. ♫ The hills are alive, with the sound of music...♫ Okay, so off we went. Wow, that was really tiring. Good thing the sun wasn't really shining brightly that time, thanks to the clouds overshadowing the sky that time. But the good thing was when we reached the top, the view was sooooo beautiful. Our energy was replenished because of that! The wind was blowing hard too! Hahahaha! Another thing to be thankful about...it wasn't raining in Laguna! It would have been really really hard if it did!

The difference in distance between our first stop and last stop. The sign was so far in the 2nd pic. Haha! 

♫ Heal the world...make it a better place...for you and for me and the entire human race...♫ (^_^)

First stop, all volunteers gathered around. Nice view from this spot.

So we saw lots of lots of volunteers probably from different organizations. Then afterwards, the continuation of our hiking adventure began. We went down and down...walked walked walked then....waaaahhhh climb again? I think by this time we really felt the heat and humidity. I now could relate to what the guys of my favorite show 1박2일 (2 Days and 1 Night) felt when they climbed mountains, although we only hiked on a hill. So the journey got harder. Some of our companions were able to ride an army truck to go to the tree planting site, while some us got left behind. Yeah, us on the pic below. Hehe!

I remember Chris asking us if we were still ok, then I said "Puwede bang lumipad?" Hahaha! That's what I  really felt! Wish we could fly like a bird and swoosh to the planting site. Anywho, since we don't have wings...we walked again. Haha!

Off we go to plant trees!

Finally we got to the planting site! Yipee! We saw some other volunteers planting already. Wow...I was wondering why other people got to plant more than 1...I was holding only one plant! Waaaaaaahhh!!! I wasn't able to get more plants along the way. I seriously thought 1 is okay. Okay hit my head. *boog*

Chris Tiu digging for gold...este digging a hole for the tree.

Chris helped me find a spot for my little tree, because I was like lost in space already and Manong soldier helped dig a hole for it. Yey!!!!

It was really nice to see Chris taking pictures himself! Thank you again Chris for the pic above! (^_^)

Hello Chichy! Please grow healthy and strong!

I do hope she grows into a strong and healthy mahogany tree! Go Chichy! Fighting! Haha! May the rain and sun shower you with more nutrition and may you bring us more oxygen and shade. (^_^)

After planting trees, we all journeyed down. Yeah, now we had to go down. In that dry condition I remember slipping once and almost slipped for a few times. Imagine if it rained...thank God it did not really rain. The weather was really on our side. Thank you!!!!

So the journey down continued. We rode the jeepney ala Indiana Jones and went back to our bus. Then we journeyed to Ultimart San Pablo for our lunch in Greenwich! When we saw the mall we were like WOW! That mall looked really really nice. Then it was time to eat! Yeeeeeeyyyy! Hahaha!

Group picture before eating! :)

Our food! Nom nom nom! There was also pizza, of course!

Autograph session with the fans! :)

Group picture after eating! From Chris' blog too! :)

We came. We saw. We conquered Tayak Hill. Haha! That was one tiring but fulfilling activity once again! After all the ups and downs that happened, at the end of the day we were all happy. We got to do something for the environment. Being an EcoWarrior was really fun and fulfilling! We can continue being an EcoWarrior at home or any place we go to. Let's do it! :)

Until next time! (^_^)

Habitat for Humanity Build (July 17, 2011)

How fast time flies! This was actually 1 year ago! I'm a year late for posting this! Haha! Well, I really waited for the 1 year anniversary. Teehee! 

Ok...forgive me. LOL

Before I share my own insights, let me share 2 articles written about the event, the first one written by Mr. Chris Tiu himself!

Source: Meg (December 2011-January 2012)

Source: Inside Showbiz ( September 2011 )

It's nice to see our group picture included in both magazine articles! Something to treasure forever! :)

The Habitat for Humanity build was the very first outreach I was able to join with the TIUnatics. :) I have experienced a Habitat for Humanity build before way back in college, but not with Chris Tiu (yeah, there's no way he'll be there if it's our school's activity, haha!). Thanks to Cielo, Anna and Mike for helping me get along with the others in this activity. I was really happy I was able to join this. It was really a very fulfilling event!

I experienced doing two types of jobs.  The first one was carrying sacks with gravel and passing it to another volunteer. No, not a sack-full of gravel. Haha! It won't reach the top if it was! It was like we helped transport gravel from below to the top of the house being built. Something like that.

The hardest was the second task we undertook, installing the rivets (yeah, I think that's what you call those type of nails) to connect steel frames together.

Anna and I trying to install the rivets into the steel frames.

It was hard at first that's why Anna and I supported each other for a while, then after getting used to it we got to do the job alone. Yahoo! That was fulfilling! Whew!

Chris also roamed around the site and greeted the volunteers.

Staff from GMA News TV's Good News program were also at the site and interviewed Chris and other volunteers.
Here's my video when he was being interviewed, Well, you won't hear a thing though because of the wind. Haha! The wind that day was blowing strong in that area.

The TIUnatics being interviewed too about the Habitat Build.

This is the actual video shown on TV, although this is not the clearest version. I recorded this myself just using my camera. I couldn't find the clearest version I saw before.




Photo session! :)

Group pic with all the volunteers!

This was actually a birthday celebration for him too because his birthday was 2 days ago before the activity date. Yey!

Chris and his birthday cake from Greenwich! Of course, shaped like a pizza!  View from the back. Haha!

Here's my own video during the photo session with his cake. I should have gone to the front. Haha!

Lunch from Greenwich! Yum yum yum!

Autograph session! :)

We were all tired afterwards because of the heat and hard work we have done. But it was all worth it. We know all the work we've done is for a better cause. It will help shelter families in need. What we have done is just a small portion of the whole process of building houses, but what we've done will surely go a long way.

Thank you to Chris for uniting us all for this activity, and for celebrating his birthday with us! I'll never forget this day! :)