fill my little world

we made some tentative plans to hold a sort of gathering at eric's condominium some two weeks back. annie, as always, was our designated ocp (Organizing ChairPerson) for the event. all plans fortunately were set a day before through a little nagging from me via ym to annie. eric's main worry was that his place may not be big enough to hold everyone who were invited - so even though we wanted to invite more people, it was quite impossible. eric's place was quite nice, it was actually perfect for a single guy (specially if he didn't have to build two rooms) and the interior was nicely done (props for eric). the only thing about the venue was it was quite far down mindanao ave, somewhere at north edsa - i have to admit that i would have gotten lost if i haven't met up with eric earlier.

while the party was actually at 6pm, people as usual arrived around 730ish with most of the food and the wine. the food was a feast - inihaw na liempo, lechon manok, crabs in aligue, shrimps, ripe and green mangoes, pancit and bottles of merlot and baileys - san mig light and zinfandel coming later. the gathering was actually a good enough reason to pig out (yet again) and i have to say the shrimps and the crabs were super yummy - so yet another hour on the rotex for me (as if!). there were quite a number of people who came : annie, jap, reggie, shanda, tm, notty, amboy ron, richard, mitch and then later on jm and imee. dada and her husband benny unfortunately were not able to drop by. after dinner, those who "can" sing hogged the magic sing - with richard treating us to some awe-inspiring rendition of "the promise" by martin nievera and a number of other tracks (videos on youtube.com to follow). richard, jm and annie are actually are karaoke champions - they can really belt it out. there's just really something attractive with a guy who can sing - knocks you off your feet.

the beer started after dinner along with the wine, baileys and zinfandel. pictures were being snapped left and right along with some videos. ron (who didn't really speak a lot of tagalog) didn't seem to mind the jokes and the stories in the local dialect. everyone was probably just happy being out of school - not having to worry about exams or strama papers. a lot of us looking forward to finishing school and at the same time, anxious how to continue this wonderful friendship we have right now. for the rest of the night though, we didn't really thought about all of those stuff since we were there living for the here and now - as how it should be. the party ended sometime around 2am (or was it earlier?) but i managed to get home in one piece, mindlessly tipsy (not drunk ha!) but i could feel my head starting to hurt already. my head was already floating when i got home.

there's not much words to say how much i love and enjoy being friends with these guys. we can talk about anything (i mean anything) because they're open and mature most of the time. while some of them for sure i will lose touch after school, i think some of them are meant to be forever.

more pictures : triple treat gathering