Hello hello~ I am back again with another adventure for the day XD I went to the Manila International Book Fair! (MIBF) it's a yearly thing that used to coincide with this anime convention I used to go to. But since I haven't Ben that in tune with anime lately, I thought of just going to the book fair then just enjoying myself for once. This was the only birthday celebration I wanted this year aside from sleep, honestly XD because usually I would take my family out but these days, I've been wanting to be selfish and I just wanted to give myself space around things that I like and things I like doing when I simply want to exist. And I never really realized how nice it was to just be alone, to just do my own thing and to not worry about whether I lost someone or that I'm boring someone so I think I might do this more often and have more conversations with myself because this was one of the things my therapist suggested for me too. I needed to live for myself too sometimes and I honestly thought it was easier said than done, but apparently it's not that hard to do either and I appreciate that little push she gave me to actually pursue this for myself.
So going back, I actually got lost trying to get to the convention hall because it has been so long since I've been to Mall of Asia and it has also been so long since I attended a convention. and it was the first day of the fair too so I wanted to get a really good haul this year.
This was the stalls that I could take photos of and the kind of books really varied depending on which section you went to and which floor you went to. And mind you, it was a 2 floor convention. A whole lot bigger than it used to be in the past few years.
Like for the first and second floors, I easily ate up 3 hours on each floor because I really took my time checking and asking about the publishing houses, the authors too because there were a few present authors then I also asked for some books that caught my eyes but we're sadly to expensive for me to get, or they came in a series and I wasn't sure I could manage reading a series right now when I couldn't even finish reading my porn books yet ;;-;;
I did take photos of books I wanted though
This was part of the books on my list ;;w;; I wanted to get the set but like... the set had 3 sets and each set was like at 500 each. So that was 9 books in total for like 1500. Sounds pretty good but I wouldn't know when I'd be able to finish reading all of those XD and honestly, I have a leaning preference to the Alex Flynn fairytale twists butttttt her books are so hard to find now ;;-;; IDK maybe I'll do another book haul one of these days in Tagaytay then have a little adventure to see my coworker on a long weekend. We'll see when I can schedule that but I'd give it a go XD
Then I wanted Manga for obvious reasons but I'm just thinking, what tf would I do after I finish reading all oof it, and can I even carry everything home???
On the 2nd floor, there was also a little art material and stationary section at the far end plus a little food area and I definitely thoroughly enjoyed myself there. I did have a weird experience of some gentleman in his mid-40s paying for my coffee and said he just wanted to treat the pretty lady UwU I felt very pretty then indeed XD I wish he would have bought me a book too but he walked off as soon as I thanked him for the coffee, so I was left exploring the stationary area by myself again
Then of course, where there is a convention, there will be trinkets and art prints! And I have seen this art print shop before ^^ in a different book fair but they sell the same things. I wanted to get the cat art book but it wasn't the full art book so I put it back down
All in all, that was 6 hours well wasted, a few people I exchanged fascinating conversations with, and I think a day will spent ^^ I think I'll do this for my birthday again last year. Sadly, I only got 4 books for my book haul but I think these will last me until the year ends, and maybe my sister's will borrow them too.
But that was a fun day! How did your Wednesday go?
