Am currently at Subic Freeport to attend the 20th Philippine Ad Congress. Subic is host to this every-other-year celebration, gathering and recognition of marketing and advertising talents and innovations.

Level Up has a booth at the Ad Congress where we aim to spread the word about advergaming and its huge potential for other companies to reach out to the youth through our mediums (games). I’ll be here together with some Level Up managers and big bosses until Saturday (November 24).

Oh, one more thing, Neil Gaiman is is here as a special guest.  He’s scheduled to give a talk tomorrow morning at 9:00am about “Imagination and Creativity in the Contemporary World”. I don’t think he can sign books if you bring them to him, you’ll have to fork out P1,500 to get in line and get a Beowulf manuscript signed by Neil. Do check out his blog since he’s now writing about just getting here and preparing for Ad Congress.

Anyways, I just got back to our “HQ” – we rented a house belonging to good friend and high school classmate Kenneth Peralta since all the hotels here at Subic are fully booked. Highlights of tonight were the opening, the great inspirational talk by taipan John Gokongwei Jr. where he told his own life story and challenged everyone to bring a Philippine brand to world standards. Another highlight was the dinner hosted by Philippine Daily Inquirer where they unveiled a new logo and also raffled off tons of stuff including iTouches and a brand new Ford Ranger pick up! Acck! I wished I won. Sigh. Not to worry, there’s still some cars to be given away during the next couple of days.

I still don’t have nice pics to show you. But tomorrow, I’ll be bringing the camera and show you how the event area looks like and also our booth together with Caren, our cute model dressed as a Fashi from PW!

It’s off to sleep for me…. I’ll seeya all tomorrow.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

GM T