Doing Groceries with Jodi Santamaria in SM Southmall

I was on hurry buying (I still need to get some sleep for work later) some ingredients in SM Southmall for the pork adobo I'll be having for dinner when I felt something strange with the people around me. Everyone seemed uneasy and are checking all the gondolas as if looking for something. They seemed to have the same thing in mind. Then I soon found out-- the "socially aware" side of me just can't let it pass-- that almost everyone was trying to catch a glimpse (as if they were able to even get close) of a female celebrity doing her groceries with her son and husband Pampi Lacson.

Yup, it was the pretty Jodi Santamaria-Lacson in a green polo shirt and jeans but she looked lovely. Her husband was tailing her but on the phone almost the whole time while Jodi checking out almost each gondola.

Most of the time I get starstruck when someone famous or almost-famous person is in front of me, and tonight is no exception. Pathetic as it might seem but I've been deprived of such opportunities to catch glimpse of our own stars. I can just still count with my own hands the stars I remember getting a chance to see in person.

But the stupid thing is, I was so busy checking her out but didn't even get to snap a shot with her (but with her husband around, a stolen shot could have at least compensate). Now, the whole experience will just be one of those I-should-have-moments in my life. Silly me, huh?

But since it was one experience I would want to recall, this post must come to be. And probably, this photo will picture how she looked like that night I saw her. If only her husband wan't there, I could have braved through to get a shot (picture, I mean) at her.

Though I failed to "capture" Jodi Santamaria with my Samsung G800 with all its 5-mega pixels, the night still went well. The pork adobo was yummy.

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Next time, I won't let such a chance to slip pass my camera.