3 posts tagged “friends”
sometime in early may, earlier than the sm cebu parking lot shoot, carlo bid cebu farewell and decided to return to manila for the meantime. kimee wanted a last lunch followed by a karaoke for the remaining pioneers. carlo was part of the 20 guys who volunteered to transfer here in cebu with me and win. we'll miss you carlo... well, not really. hehehehe.
l-r: win - the original pinay poptart, me feeling new york
l-r: can you spell diva?, and me turning the camera, um, manual to asfer
our version of the GRO scene wherein win was spot-on being a naive probinsyana who has ventured the city life in hopes of self-supporting career. we were just happy to be in the picture.
what's left of the pioneers: from 22 down to 10
it was see yah later more than goodbye carlo for me.
what was originally planned as karaoke night on saturday became a 4+1 rounds of redhorse at this new bar in one mango square. we sat outside and the bar's all white furnitures reminded us of breakfast, instead of alcohol. rui in a bit later, fresh from his severe mix up with his german prospect and the doctor he was supposedly dating. tsok came in last. he was actually bringing us to this bar called numero doce. apparently, it was the closest that we could get to malate. and tsok was right. it was alfresco, house/dance music playing, cheap drinks on the bar and a horde of gay people dancing. win and i as usual stayed at the bar and decided to just have fun by dancing with the straight guys. i swear i could not stop laughing because the other guy that trying to be cool and all, keep on telling to "shake what your momma gave yah". like three times. a couple of drinks, remixes and exchanging of names later, i was starting to feel dizzy and dehydrated. i went out to get a smoke and ended up inside a cab. we woke up this afternoon with a huge headache. we were still trying to figure out which drink was responsible for this. i wasn't able to take pictures from numero doce since it was packed inside but we had plenty from first bar - yo.u - where we had redhorse for starters.
silly little girls clowning around.
oh yeah. we survived Sinulog. the long walks, the massive crowd, the heat, the rain, the heat again -- we survived all the madness that was Sinulog 2008. it was the most fun Sinulog i ever had. me, Win and Roan headed to Mango Ave. at around 10 AM. the cab couldn't take us to the exact location of the parade since certain streets and roads were closed for the event. we had to walk and little miss sunshine was not exactly cooperating. Win had his eyes on the buri hats and really wanted to buy one. he did bought one the fit his head but was not that excited to shell out 15 pesos for it. we were to convince him but along the way, he saw several colored hats that he also wanted. she ended up with the hat that looks like the staple getup for senior Japanese tourists. we met Honey, Naina, Pat and Bossing an hour or so later in front of Yellow Cab. we walked to and fro around the area for the next 5 hours with a snack break at Yellow Cab of course. we decided to go to Ayala at around 4 PM because we were too tired and we wanted to wait for the fireworks display. and there they where, mass and mass of people were walking towards the same direction - the Ayala Mall. we ended resting in Starbucks, Ayala since the mall may just as well collapse any minute. and the airconditioner was not probably briefed with the tons of visitors they were expecting. we went home at around 7 PM and never saw the fireworks display. we were just too tired and too lazy. the caffiene never kicked in.
*the parade that never wanted to end
*the survivors
*the Japanese retired tourists delegation
side note: roan was so starstrucked with Jake Cuenca, who she was not aware of prior to the time that the float of ABS-CBN passed by. she did manage to collect herself and attempted to take a snapshot of Jake. she ended up taking a picture of Dennis Padilla.
