NIGHTmare on high street

i just have to say this. 

i love bonifacio high street like i love puma but last sunday night was just plain terrible.

it suddenly felt like it was divisoria during school opening and christmas shopping.

it was packed. people were just busy loitering around and making papansin. that or just sitting right at the corners where they should not be sitting on in the first place.

queues were mightly long. my favorite coffeebean had long lines. brothers had a line extending all the way to the next store. need i say more about starbs and krispy?

here's the height of it all: even the male restrooms had line. 

how ridiculous was that?

oh yes. the mad dash was due to rihanna and chris brown.

oh yes. about 70,000 fans and oglers went to BHS to watch the "biggest concert" of the year.

oh yes. people were just excited to show off and be seen.

 

I don't know what's worse: having to line for a good 45 mins just to get inside the venue, or having to endure the 4 hour standing time to watch rihanna do her back bends. or endure the sweat, grime and lagkit from the other singing fans? 

 

or worse yet, standing behind this uber-annoying ten year old kid who kept giving his inane commentaries and blow by blow account of what's happening on stage (kid - i could very well understand and see for myself that the show has indeed not started, and that we had been mercilessly subjected to gross waiting hours).

 

that or being pushed all the way back because no one said it was going to be this full, that concert! It was like watching tv nalang, on a large screen.

 

i don't know. to me the whole show was just kind of ridiculous. it was half baked in so many ways. if it weren't for the fact that rihanna is just so hot and sexy i probably wouldn't even be there anymore.

 

chris brown was lipsynching some of his tracks. he just kept imitating the king of pop (well, after all, he is being touted as the young MJ). and well, can i just gush and say that the DJ performed better and carried the whole show. obviously, i am not a fan of CB. oh, and that looked to very ASAP to me. so variety-show like!

 

rihanna on the other hand consistently kept the show somewhere between mediocre and high. it was yummy and yet nakaka-umay. her singing disturbia, shut up and drive, hate that i love you and umbrella were okay. but unfaithful was above perfect. the rest, uhm, umay.

 

were people just tired, plain awed and struck, or bored that's why they wouldn't budge to rihanna asking for a holler from the peeps? that she had to say "mother-fucker" to agitate the guys. the whole show ended on a good and rather high note naman especially when real-life sweetheart and co-performer came out to sing the last few lines of umbrella.

 

still, though, it felt kind of amateurish. those dance stunts were nothing great, except for those really agitating back bends and hand to head dance steps. the entrance was cliche. the exit was more cliche.

 

going out of the concert venue was all the more crappy! we had to inch our way out, manage to strategically find a spot where traffic wouldn't be as heavy and then finally inching our way to horizon.again, i've never seen BHS this packed that it really seemed like horror and nightmare to me. 

 

and at 11pm, at that late an hour, all restos were filled up. we ended up eating (and SUPER LOVING IT) at HOSSEIN's. 

 

If there was anything substantial from that trip, I've discovered that food at ZAO was actually good. And it always is nice to say hi to people you know.

 

ER said she had to endure 1.5 hours to get to Dela Costa from the Fort. Need I say that logistics, traffic, parking and queuing ARE MAJORLY HORRIBLE? the one-way traffic leading all to the convergence points was not brilliant.

 

on a no car passing zone, there were occasionally cars passing by to drop off these celebs like Bea Alonzo. Uhm, then she strolled all the way back to her entrance with entourage that could pass of the PSG's. Honey, no one here would like to crowd you. We're here for Rihanna, not you. But hwaytaminitkapengmainit, then again, this girl beside me kept chuckling, gushing and pointing at her trying to get her attention. Betty La Fea was loved by that girl.

litters everywhere.

hi-jack taxi cabs were preying on commuters.

resto service was all time slow.

wouldn't you agree with me still?

All I can say, we are SOOO not ready for a standing only concert. not yet. not here. not in this climate.

But I am still so going back to the BHS  I always knew. See you soon.

(photo credits from Yahoo, MTV Phils and BonifacioHighStreet.com)