Wysteria Blend
Monday, July 17, 2006
A Night With Michaela at Fully BookedLast Saturday was The FIRST Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards at the Rockwell tent, hosted by Neil Gaiman. We (Bam, Hope and I) were there because Ma. Michaela Atienza was a finalist at the prose category.
But first off, we met Arnold Arre! Haha! Yeah, we did! And it was even such a comedy since we were told that Mr. Arre was in red and his wife was in pink, if we wanted to get an autograph. So we've been asking people around if they knew who he was, which apparently only one person did... the one who told us. Suddenly, while getting rid of Mikey's jitters, we see this guy in red approaching the action figures section with his wife who was in pink. And Hope runs to ask for his autograph. Simultaneously, the one who told us brings Arnold Arre and wife to us for an autograph. Haha! Poor Hope! A comedy of sorts.
Time for the awards! 6 finalists, only 4 winners. And well, 4 honorable mentions. And who cares about the rest because MIKEY WON 3RD PLACE!!! Which means Mikey will treat VOSA to dinner! Yay! Or to make it fair, she can treat only those who were present to see her go up the stage, get photographed with her giant dreamcatcher for some magazine, and get interviewed for Hero TV. Mikey's a star! Oh! And Neil Gaiman said that Mikey's work was "beautiful written". Did not say that about the other works. Had he judged, Mikey would have won FIRST, which the rest of the Fully Booked staff agreed should have happened. They said that for them, "Atha was a runaway!"
