k1 with j-ann

last night the ateneo was filled with music for its annual awitenista. for the first time, i wasn’t there to watch. rather, i made my own music a.k.a. noise at k1 videoke care of the birthday girl j-ann. with us were maan, noel, chimie, and mam – (omg, i forgot the name).

the sisig was suprisingly yummy, and the chimichanga i ordered was very much engrossed in veggie grass. it was still good at least.

we left at around 1:30. maan, the girl with the car, again fetched us home.

maan’s bday treat

maan’s birthday was fun. we dined at harana’s and maan’s credit reached a whooping 2000 bucks. that may be a big amount, but i think that’s good enough for the 20 mouths who were there, which includes the gang of UP amath intellectuals and one pogi atenean, who simply happened to be me.

i gave maan ‘love story’ as a present. it was not the book, but the original movie that made it a phenomenon in the cambridge campus years ago, written by the famous author Erich Segal.

after that great dinner, we went to the neighboring cheesecake store for the dessert. from 20, we were down to five – maan, j-ann, chimie, noel, and that pogi atenean i told you about earlier.

cheescakes are quite expensive, i think, though they’re not really delicious. i even found maan’s strawberry toppings more sumptuous than her cheesecake, that tempting vermillion syrup wrapping the cheescake like royalty – really yum yum.

the place was comfortable enough. the chairs were not an ache to the butt, there was a pile of mags to devour, most of them about fashion and celebrities. one bad thing bout the place is that the music keeps on playing again and again. at least they were bossa and were good to the ears.

can’t decide which of the not delicious food to eat, i resorted to a spiked coffee. it’s a coffee with bailey’s and it tasted good and at the same time weird. noel and j agreed it tastes like coffee (j-ann, who, upn realizing it was coffee, bulged eyes in disbelief), but a coffee addict myself, i think the bailey’s taste was more dominant. maan didn’t taste it because she doesn’t like liquor.

there we chatted for over 2 and a half hours, the UP guys talking about their bloopers in school, i listening to their blabs and laughing heartily at them laughing at themselves. then we took several pictures, which i already posted in my multiply.

we took off at a little above one-thirty am. maan thoughtfully dropped each of us to our respective places, and then the night was off.

sir paul’s spag treat

sir paul’s ateneo de davao’s hands on infrastructure development. he builds gates, assures clean and working toilets, supervises all the gurads and blue collar personnel, improves the avr, plans new buildings, and shares coffee with the university president. best of all, he is our unit operations professor, and we all love to ask him a trip to the foodcourt everytime we pass by his office (which we often do during breaks). this time our sweet puppy-eye plea was heard by the heavens.

check more of our photos at: http://rhapsodex.multiply.com/photos/album/23

the return of the sherman

at last, sherman is back, and he’s back with bucks in hand. our dear friend here, who’s now one of the valued pioneering agents of a call center in damosa, has finally come to fulfill his promise – a trip to the yellow cab.

but before that, the gang first fancied a studio pictorial at new jersey’s. for the first time, all 12 of us were there, although sadly some were no longer of the che family.

after which which we went to the yellow cab for our pizza grabs. we ordered 3 large pizzas there, and in just less than half an hour, everything were wiped out, which only proves that engineers really have a voluminous stomach and a monstrous appetite.

although it’s sad not to have cyrus in school (because it would be difficult to handle a regular(over)load vis-a-vis a graveyard shift in work), we’re still glad this man is doing pretty much well in his job. from a complete tyro on computers, he’s now a world-class troubleshooter of a number of computer problems. on top of that, he already speaks like an american.

salamat sa libre cy, next time ulit. sa disneyland naman sana. hehehe.

1u party!

it has become a tradition for the 1u pips – addu’s first ever engineering section composed of the highest marked freshmen (naks!) – to party every christmas break. though it was pretty hard to gather everyone, a number managed nevertheless. and it was really fun to spend a noisy wild night again with some of the people whom you’ve spent your most innocent days in college with. to mench, pao, toto, muj, mobi, miller, mark, cyril, anton, paj, mancho, birit kaayo oist.