Wish I was here.
Philippine Bonsai Convention. Large heavy bonsai and armed security with AKs, bonsai thieves will probably not make it very far.
The 2016 Philippine Bonsai Convention & Exhibition is being held on March 16-20, 2016 in Makati City/Manila. Bonsai Clubs International (BCI) is now holding regional conventions, like this one around the world.
Today is the set up day for the exhibition featuring about 300 bonsai and many suiseki in a private park. There were many restrictions in setting up and the Philippine Bonsai Society worked through them well. They had to set up the exhibition between 11pm and 5am, and the lights were turned off during that time. There was an “unloading fee” to remove the tables from the truck in the amount of $1,800. That’s just to unload the truck, not to park it. The convention hired eight armed security guards 24hours a day. Like everyone I’ve encountered here, the security guards are very friendly and helpful.
I visited the exhibition today, during set up and was quite impressed…
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Nice, just wanna say, the security guard have M16 not AK :), intimidating anyway 🙂
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Thanks for the correction! Obviously don’t own neither one of those.
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🙂
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