Style and Soul

Smart threw one of the biggest parties this month to celebrate its partnership with a mobile phone company HTC and presented the fruit of their collaboration - the newest "it" smartphones (android phones exclusively distributed by Smart).

Opus, located in Resorts World Manila was jam-packed with bloggers of all kinds, local celebrities and well-known personalities. I was seriously surprised how many guests went. Funny, I'm really not a Smart subscriber and have been with Globe for most of my [cellphone using] life. I came to see my blogger friends whom I haven't seen for a while and of course, got curious about what Smart has come up with.

The party was really bongga! Bongga in such a way that they had an organized program flow [Smart executives speech, toast, AVP presentations, mini fashion show, intermission numbers etc.] hosted by the gorgeous Sarah Meier-Albano with DJ Slick of Magic 89.9 on the side interviewing the people on the floor.

I tweeted that it was a brilliantly organized event because of the overwhelming attendance of guests including various personalities and press (media) people. Props to the organizers for that. Later, I found out that there's a catch. Most of the personalities (esp the celebrities) all got free SMART X HTC phones and that's what they were using to tweet and post on their FB walls during the event. A couple of bloggers were lucky enough to get a hold of those too like Reg of Heyrocketgirl, Ms. Earth of Earthlingorgeous and Krissy of Krissyfied. Sana kami rin diba. Hahaha!

Check out some photos from Liz of Project Vanity (click here and here) to see some of the celebrities showered with smartphones.


Meanwhile, I enjoyed the food (sarap!) and as usual, taking photos.

If you want me to say something about the SMART x HTC phones, well I can't because I haven't tested it. The press kit basically contains information you can already read on the Smart & HTC websites respectively. If you want a review, I recommend you read Jayvee Fernandez's HTC Chacha: The Facebook phone you've been waiting for. Since I already posted my all-stripes outfit on my previous entry, just hype it on lookbook if you want to! :)

Top Greenhills | Cover F-STOP (Fashion Stop) SHOP VINTAGE | Skirt Thrifted | Belt Landmark





Bag courtesy of Tomato Ph! Honestly, one of my most favorite brands :)

One day, I woke up and out of impulse decide to wear all stripes.

Went to school and reported my assigned topic wearing it. Then right after, changed into these leopard booties and headed straight to the SMART x HTC launch held at Opus in Resorts World.

The event happened a couple of weeks ago but my backlogs and mandatory posts have piled up immensely. Haha. On my next post, I'll show you my photo diary of the event. It was brilliantly organized. Well attended by local celebrities and personalities who ALL got FREE (Smart HTC phones) PHONES. Plus 8 bloggers got some too!

Wow. The telecommunications brand is truly generous ha?!

Anyway, I would like to thank Aivan Magno, one of our blogger friends, for being my outfit photographer that night! He has put up with all my requests and I can't thank him enough! :)