anna’s sendoff: a night with pisay batchmates, up barkada and bob nicolas’ clients

it’s been a while since i’ve seen my friends. excluding our wedding, it’s probably been years since we’ve last spent some time together. kaya naman when anna, a pisay batchmate & college barkada, came calling regarding a “casual” dinner sendoff, we took the opportunity and made it a point to be there. eh matagal-tagal din mawawala c anna kaya dapat lang andun kami. 🙂

going there, we expected the usual… casual dinner w/ the usual faces plus lots and lots of kwentuhan… and asaran. 😆 when we arrived, something kinda hinted that it would be more than that. 🙂 the setting was definitely not casual. eh, akala namin pumasok kami sa wedding reception, eh. 😀 the food was catered, waiters were attentive, the tables had centerpieces… meron pang floating candles. anna, anna… casual pala, ha. 😉

since not everyone knows everyone at the party, anna introduced us to everyone else (us having the “they just got married” tag. 🙂). this became a recurring chore for anna for every guest that arrived. although merong time na c joyce, a pisay batchmate, ang nag-introduce sa isat-isa. 😆 just a few minutes upon arrival, kainan na agad. good thing na din because we’re getting hungry. 😀

from then on, sunod-sunod na dumating ang mga guests and soon the place was packed na. at first, guests were divided in specific groups… we were with pisay pipol, then the up pipol were in another table, then anna’s ofcmates were in another table… etc. d naman yun intentional cguro, it just so happened that way. hindi naman kasi dapat ganun if only kermin (up barkada) sat with us… kaso she soon realized it was a pisay table kaya sabi nya, “ay, this is the nerd table.” 😆 patawa ka talaga, kermin. 😀

sooner than later the “groups” broke up and then everyone started to mingle with others. we then found ourselves having a very interesting and lively conversation with someone we only met that night. charrie is anna’s ofcmate… and an indirect recipient of our email blog (anna, finding our blog useful, forwarded it to charrie, whose daughter is getting married later this year). nakakatuwa nga reaction nya when anna introduced us to her, “ah, ikaw c dyoks! i have to talk to you.” feeling tuloy namin may atraso kami. 😆 ang saya ng usapan namin. and it is very flattering din na charrie trusted so much our blog that she considered most of our major suppliers. sayang lang kasi most are booked na kaya she was only able to get bob, our videographer. eto pa sabi ni charrie, “we were supposed to get jason magbanua pero after reading your blog, we went for bob na lang.” makes me wonder, ano ba mga pinag-su-sulat namin sa blog? 😀 seriously though, we’re just satisfied and confident with our suppliers that’s why ganun mga praises na sinulat namin before para sa kanila. kaya good call, charrie. you won’t go wrong with bob. 🙂 and thanks din for trusting our blog. buti na lang responsible writers kami. 🙂

that wasn’t the only surprise of the party. early in the evening, we got to talk to rheea & gil, both pisay batchmates. they’re not new faces to my wife dahil nakita na nya sila through their wedding video. yes, pinalabas kasi part of their wedding video sa isa sa seminars namin sa church. i could remember pa nga back then noong pinalabas yun, eh. sabi ko kay selle, “eh kilala ko tong mga to, ah.” 😀 at maganda video nila, ha… menu pa nga lang, eh, pamatay na. 🙂 kaya naman instant conversation starter yung pagkapanood namin video nila. and guess what? eh, c bob din pala videographer nila, eh. ah-ah… ano ba to, 6-degrees of bob nicolas? 😆

continuing with the bob nicolas thread, later on the night we spent talking to hes (up barkada) & migs, a soon-to-wed couple na… bob nicolas clients. 🙂 nakaka2wa cla kasi 7 months pa from their big day, eh almost tapos na cla sa preps. invitations na nga lang ata kulang, eh… atsaka souvenirs. at nung tanungin kung ano color motiff nila, instead of naming out a color, eh naglabas ng swatches. 😆 ibang klase ka talaga, hes… kung sabagay, kami din naman ganun. 😀

the party wasn’t over yet pero we had to go na kasi naman ang layo pa ng tinitirhan namin. it was nice that my friends finally got to spend time with me and my wife. nag-enjoy naman asawa ko… masasaya naman kasi kadaldalan mga kaibigan ko. may topak nga lang karamihan (parang ako. :lol:) pero masasaya kausap nonetheless. 😀 anna, thanks for having this party. it was well-worth the trip all the way from laguna.


left photo:  that’s us besides charrie and more of anna’s ofcmates.  btw, to those who do not know, that’s anna sitted right in front of her mom (standing).  🙂
right photo: up barkada table.  from left to right:  fresh-from-yoga lala, 7-months-to-go-and-we’re-finished-with-our-preps hestia & migs, we’re-having-our-5th-baby goshes, i-don’t-want-to-sit-with-the-nerds kermin and of course, the-newlyweds us.  🙂