being in tagaytay

the invitation for a tagaytay overnight has been tossed around even when we were in galera and we were finally all set to go may 13-14. it started raining, a bit heavily at that, the whole day friday and the rain was replaced by strong winds saturday morning. that was a clear sign there was a typhoon and it wasn't particulary a strong one but was enough to litter the street with leaves, plastics and stuff and bring down some of the smaller trees. we should probably have canceled the trip but most of us were too excited to get together again.

we should have met at jollibee along sucat road at 7am but eric was late, not because of the typhoon, but because he had to go back and fetch playing cards he needed supposedly for his program. i should have slapped him for coming in 45mins later but the weather was windy, it was cold and i wasn't a good thing to spoil a promising morning. we met up with dada (whose sister-in-law actually owns the house) and her family at mcdonald's at the newly opened caltex gas station along the hi-way. we had a fairly decent american breakfast (except for eric who is a total rice queen, no pun intended!) and we had a good drive to tagaytay - eric riding with me talking about his recent escapades, annie riding with jm, and dada & her family on their car.

the house in tagaytay was actually perfect, it was big and spacious with a to-die for gas range. dada later told us that the owner actually belongs to the clan that owns the max's restaurant chain. yeba! a couple more people came around noon, maria and jim. this was a surprise to us, especially me since i know jim and before this out-of-town, i wasn't that fond of maria. it turns out that jim & maria are together and much later on, as i got to know more of maria, she turns out to be okay, actually really nice is more appropriate. suffice it to say, the people who went to tagaytay were actually bonding pretty well. jim & i had a lot of catching up to do and we talked about a lot of stuff, from them making fun of dino during their cebu trip down to the gym buff pig.

notty joined us later in the afternoon when we went to a clubhouse to play badminton. we played for more than an hour and decided to go home after rather than risk having pneumonia swimming in the ice-cold water with the typhoon still raging. we passed by 7-11 and got a bottle of red wine for later in the night.

dinner was a feast. we were completely stuffed with little room for dessert so we all just took turns freshining up and changing to our sleepwear. the real fun started around 10pm when we decided that it was time for some beer. damn, the beer was ice-cold, it was perfect at a night like this. we opened a couple of doritos and it would have been perfect if we had sisig, or something else for the beer .... ok, next time. jim introduced us to a game called "destiny" which basically lets one person choose any category and each person takes turns saying a word that belongs in that category. whoever fails must drink a half-glass of red wine. i guess after a few drinks (of red wine and beer later), people tend to lose hold of their wisdom and says stuff that are downright funny. that's what's great about the game, people are bound to say something stupidly funny and everybody just cracks down laughing. i think annie was the clear winner in the game, probably because we wanted her to get drunk but she was such a good sport.

sleep came around 1am. it was actually pretty early but beer ran out already and we were kinda beat from all the going around during the day. i woke up without any hangover, which was a clear indication i didn't get drunk last night. we all had a hearty breakfast of mostly leftover food from yesterday plus eat-all-you-can watermelon. after taking a few pictures, we left the house before noon. it was still a bit cloudy that sunday but the wind has subsided so the weather was quite cool. all in all, the tagaytay gimik was super fun, the people who went were awesome. it was one hell of a gimik that those who were not able to go will surely envy.

my mba friends sure are fun to be with.