night out with a balikbayan friend

it’s always nice whenever a friend from overseas comes back to the philippines. besides being almost assured of a free meal :lol:, we get to catch up with each other’s lives through hours of exchanging stories and lots of laughter. that’s what happened just recently when rex, my former roommate and selle’s former bandmate, flew in from california to spend a couple of weeks back here in our country.

instead of going to serendra where we originally planned to have our gimik, we opted to stay closer and just have dinner somewhere in alabang. sayang din kasi oras. the time that would’ve been spent travelling we’d rather spend eating, talking and laughing our hearts out. 😀 francis, my samsung batchmate and selle’s (and rex’s) former bandmate, picked us up here at the office and together we went to alabang. francis’ proclamation that he was a changed man when it comes to driving was all a lie though as we arrived in alabang in record-breaking time. 🙂 unfortunately, we couldn’t seem to find the meeting place, coffee bean. us being somewhat familiar with festival mall kept thinking, “san ba yun coffee bean?” pa-ikot-ikot kami pero d talaga namin mahanap. it came to the point that we even had to ask a security guard who replied to us, “sir, sa festival ba talaga?” uh-oh. we called up rex and, being the balikbayan that he is, what he was pertaining to all along was seattle’s best coffee shop. coffee bean pala, ha. well, at least, he got the coffee shop right. 😆

together with vena and neriz, who was already there, we went to the line of restaurants inside bf homes as rex, being a former resident there, wanted to try out a new gimik place. after driving by the resto’s, we decided to dine at n-lo’s.




we were so hungry already so we immediately ordered. the staple crispy pata and sisig were ordered, of course. but what would probably would stick to our memory was the kilawing talaba at talaba 🙂 at ang hindi malamig na softdrinks in can na kahit maraming yelo ay pinapalitan ng iced tea na wala namang straw so humingi na lang ng kutsara incident. that surely got the waiter confused. 🙂

after eating, it was a couple of hours of non-stop laugh trip. grabe, paligsahan kami sa palakasan tumawa. afterwards, our jaws ached sa kakatawa. no kiddin’. it was that fun a night. 😀

so what did we talk about? when you put together guys who’ve been together for years and years in one workplace, you can’t help but look back at the early years. to get a hint of what we talked about, here’s a little game of guess who. to our samsung friends, let’s see how many you can get right. 😉

1) isang umaga sa dorm sa korea. pagka-gising ni ____ at pagkabukas nya ng pinto ng kwarto, nakita nya na may suka (vomit) eksakto sa harap ng kwarto nya.
question 1: sino ang malas na sinalubong ng suka (vomit)?
question 2: kanino nanggaling yung suka (vomit)?

2) sa washing machine area sa dorm. nalaman ni ____ na ang kanyang mga damit na hindi pa tapos malabhan eh nilabas ng washing machine ng isang koreano para mailagay ang kanyang mga damit at malabhan (obviously, hindi makapag-antay). sa asar ng na-biktimang eto, eh pinagtatapon nya ang damit ng may sala kung saan-saan. samantala, sa ironing area, pagkalipas ng ilang minuto, etong si _____ (ibang tao) naman, eh biglang sinugod ng isang hubad na koreano na galit na galit. apparently, kanya yung damit na pinagtatapon at akala nya eh etong nag-pla-plantsa ang gumawa.
question 1: sino ang nagtapon ng mga damit ng koreano?
question 2: sino ang sinugod sa plantsahan?

3) sa korea pa din. naglalakad ang mga magkaka-dept papuntang canteen. inasar ni ____ ang isa sa mga kasama at dahil dito, eh sinabihan sya ng, “one week ka sa akin.”
question 1: sino ang sinabihan nito?
question 2: ano ang ibig sabihin ng, “one week ka sa akin.”?

4) sa korea uli sa isang kwarto sa dorm. sa gitna ng usapang kasalan, meron nag-bitiw ng salitang, “darating din tayo dyan.” sino ang nagsabi nito?

5) sino ang napamura na lang ng nalaman nya kung sino ang magiging bagong roommates nya pagdating ng 3rd batch sa korea?

6) sino ang nag-away ng dahil lang sa salitang “titanium”?

7) sino ang ginising ng hr manager sa dorm kasi hindi pumasok?

marami pang iba, eh pero d ko na matandaan. so ilan ang nahulaan mo? 😀 note lang, wag masyado mag-isip kasi baka wala namang sagot yung iba dyan. 😆

sa gitna ng aming tawanan eh napag-usapan din namin ito:



konting trivia lang about this 8+ year-old music video:

• hindi. hindi kami nag-dru-drugs kaya nagawa namin ito. 🙂 wala lang kami magawa talaga sa olympic park (seoul, korea) so rex had this brilliant idea to shoot a music video. game naman kami ni vena. si rene naman parang napilitan na lang. 😆
• it took us about 2-3 hours of shooting this 3 minute video. no editing took place. straight shoot and record with audio.
• to shoot the last scene which was at the dormitory grounds, we had to pull someone out of the dormitory to shoot us. hindi si rene ang nag-shoot nun. tinamad na sya para sa last scene siguro dahil na-realize nya na kalokohan etong ginagawa namin. 😀
• because of the “success” of this music video 😆, naisipan pang gumawa uli ng isa pang music video ni rex. too bad i don’t have a copy of it so, rex, put it up on youtube and i will embed it here. 😀

that night was really hilarious. grabe. it was fun. next time uli, rex, ha. 🙂