weekend summary...

saturday with emms and rm

edsa people power's 20th anniversary, but it didn't stop the three of us: me, emmsky and rm from going to ortigas. u see, edsa anniversary, plus relentless coup plots/attempts, not to mention that the country is under the state of emergency (a prelude to martial law?) -- anywhere within the boundaries of the edsa shrine (or just practically anywhere within the streets of the metro) is a picture of a perfect chaos. we have actually backed out a few days ago, but only decided to go on friday night.

fortunately, none of my assumed chaotic display was found, except for a few uniformed men scattered. nakakapagtaka talaga. traffic from my place to edsa was smooth sailing, i felt it was like sunday morning. nakakapagtaka, nakakatakot.

anyway, we went to this agency that provides training for teacher wannebes who want to set foot in the US. the package presented to us was very inviting. however, when the discussion shifted to the fees, my mind shifted too.

after the orientation, the three of us to a cab to megamall. and there goes, three kikays plus a camara.. u know the drill!

sunday treat

call time was at 11am, at starbucks greenbelt3, in front of landmark. riccicutie and dodantot was at greenbelt3 a few minutes after 11am, both baffled and worn out from looking for the starbucks in front of landmark. we texted ria, she replied that she's already in glorieta, but still finding her way to the said starbucks. hay sus. we told her to stay wherever she is, and we'll just come over. we met up at the 'playground' near the customer service booth. and the surprise guest, well,, hhmm, surprised us! it was andrew, all the way from US! soon enough, owsi and doodles followed. then danny and grace. all of them got confused with our whereabouts, this time, the 'playground' is the culprit. as per ria: "hanapin nyo yung playground, nasa landmark yun". despite the mixed-up directions, all 8 of us managed to land at the 'playground'.

(*starbucks in greenbelt is located near the church, but NOT in front of landmark. *there is no playground anywhere in landmark, what ria meant here was the playground in the center of the glorieta)

we had lunch at northpark. anna called afterwards using her 10$ callcard given by the very generous surprise guest. since the surprise guest had been gone for a long time, we needed to tour him around. several suggestions came in until the group agreed to go to music21 in pasay. unfortunately, the bar was still closed when we came, so off we go to robinson's place. we settled at gbox, located at the 3rd floor. belted out to our hearts' content, made eye contact with some gay exhibitionists on the next room, aimed for a perfect score (which ria did effortlessly!)

after our tokens have ran out, we hiked to the baywalk for the sunset. dinner time came, everyone agreed to eat at max's. dinner was ria's treat. we ordered for meal letter c (the same order on our past reunion last december '05) notice a cycle here?

jeff called out for coffee after dinner. we had coffee at the nearby figaro, just across the street. over coffee, just like on every reunions, we reminisced our college days, and how our classmates changed over the years.

the group parted at around 10am.