BEFORE YOU SCROLL DOWN, let me just sayyy.. I love beautiful accidents. Lately, I've been drooooling over *imperfect* photos, that's why, even though I've been using a DSLR, I have a tendency to post-process my shots to look faded, and grainy, and blurred, and vintage-y. There's just something beautiful about imperfection, don't you think? :)

Tonight, I went to watch David Cook and David Archuleta's back-to-back concert here in Manila, by accident, just coz Ninang Sweets (and a bunch of teenager-nieces who are crazy about Archie, lol) asked me last minute if I want to watch with them. So I went, and I happened to have carried with me a defective Sony Cybershot (incidentally, I found out a few months ago that I was one of them lucky Sony customers to have in possession one of those defective Sony cameras that has abnormal internal vibration, how lucky serendipitous is that, IKR).

But what do you know, the internal vibration actually kinda worked to my advantage tonight. I loooove all the messy, overexposed, blurry shots I took, it looked as if they came out from a roll of film, or a lomographic camera. Which is probably how I'm gonna remember this night. Blurry, serendipitous, beautifully accidental (or accidentally beautiful, take your pick).

Sure, I'll always remember that I got to do something really special with these people I love one summer day in 2009. Sure, I'll remember Koreen's 15th birthday, and Yna spending her summer here in Manila. Sure I'll remember David Cook and David Archuleta, and their anti-climactic concert ending, and how of-all-songs they chose NOT to sing Time of my Life, which would've made Yna and Koreen's day. Sure, I'll remember dropping my wallet sometime during intermission (ahhh, the awfuuul feeling of having lost all my important Identification cards!), calling my Mom to block my credit card in case my wallet was snatched, and, after taking my chance at looking around and re-tracing the places in the huuuuge MOA concert grounds that I've been to, getting my wallet back. Thank God!! (To the angel who came to us to return my wallet, I never got the chance to know your name, BUT THANK YOU. You are heaven-sent.)

Well, the rest will all probably be blurry. Like the photos in this album. And yay I didn't have to post-process them anymore! SOOC!! ;)

Sorry you won't see any of the two Davids in these photos, but I think that's kinda the point. The night was for Yna, Koreen, Hazel, Bea, Ninang Sweets and Moi. Not some David-person. (David Trinidad nalang, pede? LOL.)

I talk too much.

Okaaay, you can go on and see the photos now. THINK LOMO. :) (And think that there were a lot of beautiful things happening from one photo to the next.)

Happy birthday, Koreen! :)