Hogi Hall session: Tagaytay version.

Our barkada had planned to have an overnight trip in Tagaytay the weekend before. Because it didn't push through, we postponed it for this weekend instead. Unfortunately, the original number of people was reduced to just 5 of us--Rosa, Aris, Seph, Josh and me. Iam couldn't go because she wasn't feeling well, and the Trekker boys that Josh had invited had this weird unspoken follow-the-leader rule, hahaha.

Met up with the boys in ATC and bought drinks and food before we all headed to pick up Rosa at her house. Because there were only 5 of us, we decided to use one car instead of having a convoy. Hahaha, crazy music tripping over crispy isaw (yum!) during the ride to Tagaytay. We were howling with laughter the whole time we reminisced over the Backstreet Boys.

When we had settled into the bed and breakfast that we were staying at, I began to regret that there were only a few of us who came. It really was a place big enough to party in. Anyway, it was off to Leslie's for dinner. Sisig as usual, hehehe. Grabe, galit galit sa food. Hardly anyone talked during dinner except complain about the bad 80s songs. Not that we have anything against 80s music, it's just that the song selections were pretty sad.

Back to the house. It was time for the drinking session to begin, hahaha. Aris was smart enough to scatter plastic bags around the area with the sofas where we had settled at, but what he didn't know was that he would be the only one benefitting from it later that night, hahaha. Love love love those pesto chips that we bought. When the bottle of 151 was opened, we just had to have photos of each of us, to cover everyone's expression once we had downed it. Nyahahay. 2nd round of 151, Aris was down for the count, and KO. By the 3rd round, I was already woozy, and Rosa was half sleepy (not a good combination, hahaha). But the four of us left standing began a DDS (deepest darkest secret) session while my head was spinning. Rosa was first, and when she and Seph were talking in the terrance, that's when I finally let it out, hahaha. Goodbye headache, hello Gatorade. Amidst tears and group hugs, it was a pretty long talk in the terrace when we all had left Aris conked out on the sofa.

Seph and Josh pressed for more DDS the whole night, punctuated with their crazy debates. Rosa was practically falling asleep, but still managed to listen in on everything as Seph kept bugging me and arguing with Josh at the same time. By the time the sun was rising, he started going crazy, like daring Josh to take off all his clothes if he could make a cartwheel. After 10-15 minutes of pestering Josh who wouldn't budge, Seph managed to execute a cartwheel with a rolling landing, HAHAHAHA. Yes, that's how big the space was.

Favorite quotes of the night:

"Oops, I missed it."

"Kunin mo na lang sa loob, I'm too lazy--(realizing that the seated position was blocking the sliding door)--Nakaharang ako, no?"

It was around 6am when Rosa and I finally conked out on the beds in the 2nd landing, and we fell asleep to the sounds of these thumps Seph still bugging Josh and even Aris. By the time we woke up 3 hours later, I couldn't help but laugh when I saw Seph sleeping on the floor with all his stuff (change, cigarettes, phone, etc.) scattered on the floor around him. A quick trip to Jollibee for breakfast finally satiated our hunger, but the girl at the drive-thru was not a decent person to talk to when you're still lacking sleep.

More talk over breakfast, trying to recall what had happened the night before and laughing it off. By noon, we had already packed up to head back home, as I had a Miss Roman shoot scheduled in the afternoon. As we left Tagaytay, we were reading funny signages the whole time, then sound trip courtesy of Richard Cheese the rest of the way.

Tita Lita had left yummy pasta at Rosa's house before she and Tito Romy had also left for Tagaytay, so we pigged out on that when we arrived. Yay, more food.

Went straight to the warehouse in Alabang for the shoot, but my goodness, we were given a 1:30pm call time and arrived to see that the set wasn't even half-finished. We had to wait for the walls to be painted and for the set itself to be dressed. I was being bitten by mosquitoes the whole time, arg. I had a hangover, and it took 3 hours of waiting, then 2 hours of filiming. Huwats dat.

Oh well. Being with my nearest and dearest friends made the weekend a blast. Same place next month! =)