Hellos and Goodbyes
The last time we saw Pearli and Vin was almost 3 months ago. Yup, on our wedding. Pearli was one of the readers during the ceremony. Unfortunately, they had to leave early to attend to a family matter. So it has been a while since we had a chance to talk to this ehem-ehem, uhm, couple. ;)
The last time we saw Dette was January of 2005. We went on a mini-tour of Boracay-Iloilo-Bacolod in a span of 6 days, together with Pearli, Trisha, Kurt and Richelle. It's a group whose core were grad school students. If you remember the news about the fire in Boracay at that time, we were there. A block or two away from where the fire started. It was part of Dette's vacation here. After which, she had to go back to Dubai.
Which is why we were so surprised to find out a couple of weeks ago that she'd been in the country for quite some time! She says that she left her phone book at Dubai. Understandable. What's more surprising was when we were told that she already got civilly married there and just went here to get civilly married as well.
That's not all! She's 3 months pregnant! Imagine that. Last year, we were still egging and teasing her about meeting Benj. Now, she's way past that. Hehe. She'll be leaving the country on Friday, September 8. It'll be another year before we see her again, with the rest of her family this time. We weren't able to meet her husband because he only stayed here for 4 days. I couldn't even remember his first name. Oops. Anyway... (It's Carl according to Dionne.)
Congratulations to Dette and her new life!
We finally were able to catch up on Pearli and Vin, and Dette last Saturday, September 2. We met at SM Mall of Asia and were treated by Dette to a hearty lunch at Burgoo. We were quite hungry that we forgot to take pictures of the food... We also weren't able to take pictures of us because of Dette's request. No pictures at this phase. Hormonal changes. They say that her child's going to be a boy. We'll see.
From Burgoo, we went to the World Trade Center for the annual book fair. Again, I was the one who bought books. I got 6 new books for only PHP 398, which includes Robert Jordan's New Spring and Raymond E. Feist's Talon of the Silver Hawk.
We would've wanted to have dinner with them as well but we had another engagement to go to. We'll be having dinner with Dionne's classmates from French. It was Lu's despedida, part 2.
Dinner was set for 630PM at Chili's GB1. We got to Makati an hour before that so we decided to have coffee first. Vanilla Latte is our current favorite at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. In the middle of coffee and kwentuhan, John (Tita Dap's officemate) greeted us. Hi John!
Before 7PM, we went to Chili's. Yup, we knew almost everyone would be late. Hehe. When we got there, we were greeted by newly-arrived-from-Japan Jera and her boyfriend, Bianco. Soon after, the rest of the gang arrived: Lu, Michelle, Christophe, Joyce (with husband Mon and handsome son Paulo), and Dax. Unfortunately, the guest of honor/teacher, Louis, wasn't not able to make it. Surprisingly, Dionne and I were still somewhat full from our lunch that we just shared our herbed pork steak.
Note: Chili's has bottomless nachos (I forgot what they call them) with bottomless salsa dip and non-bottomless cheese dip. Be sure to order this one when you eat there and plan to stay for a while. Hehe.
After dinner, we had coffee at Starbucks. In between sipping coffee, we had some shots of the Jera's rice wine. This had to be done discreetly, for fear of... the security guard? Like high school kids hiding something. =P
Lu's flight is scheduled tonight. It'll be at least a year before we see her again. Good luck Lu! Take care of yourself!
This coming Friday, we'll be trooping to San Mateo, Rizal to congratulate (as we won't be able to attend the 10AM ceremony) the (by then) newly weds, Mem and Monching. Congrats!
Yesterday, we went to Pasig to pay our respects to one of Jeff kulit's ninongs, Boom-boom. He was diagnosed with cancer and had surgery last May. The doctors said he had 4 to 6 months left. He died 3 1/2 months later. He was 42.
Both Dionne and I refused to look at him. We went there and saw the coffin but didn't look inside. We wanted to remember him as the jolly and makulit person that he is. He will surely be missed.
The last time we saw Dette was January of 2005. We went on a mini-tour of Boracay-Iloilo-Bacolod in a span of 6 days, together with Pearli, Trisha, Kurt and Richelle. It's a group whose core were grad school students. If you remember the news about the fire in Boracay at that time, we were there. A block or two away from where the fire started. It was part of Dette's vacation here. After which, she had to go back to Dubai.
Which is why we were so surprised to find out a couple of weeks ago that she'd been in the country for quite some time! She says that she left her phone book at Dubai. Understandable. What's more surprising was when we were told that she already got civilly married there and just went here to get civilly married as well.
That's not all! She's 3 months pregnant! Imagine that. Last year, we were still egging and teasing her about meeting Benj. Now, she's way past that. Hehe. She'll be leaving the country on Friday, September 8. It'll be another year before we see her again, with the rest of her family this time. We weren't able to meet her husband because he only stayed here for 4 days. I couldn't even remember his first name. Oops. Anyway... (It's Carl according to Dionne.)
Congratulations to Dette and her new life!
We finally were able to catch up on Pearli and Vin, and Dette last Saturday, September 2. We met at SM Mall of Asia and were treated by Dette to a hearty lunch at Burgoo. We were quite hungry that we forgot to take pictures of the food... We also weren't able to take pictures of us because of Dette's request. No pictures at this phase. Hormonal changes. They say that her child's going to be a boy. We'll see.
From Burgoo, we went to the World Trade Center for the annual book fair. Again, I was the one who bought books. I got 6 new books for only PHP 398, which includes Robert Jordan's New Spring and Raymond E. Feist's Talon of the Silver Hawk.
We would've wanted to have dinner with them as well but we had another engagement to go to. We'll be having dinner with Dionne's classmates from French. It was Lu's despedida, part 2.
Dinner was set for 630PM at Chili's GB1. We got to Makati an hour before that so we decided to have coffee first. Vanilla Latte is our current favorite at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. In the middle of coffee and kwentuhan, John (Tita Dap's officemate) greeted us. Hi John!
Before 7PM, we went to Chili's. Yup, we knew almost everyone would be late. Hehe. When we got there, we were greeted by newly-arrived-from-Japan Jera and her boyfriend, Bianco. Soon after, the rest of the gang arrived: Lu, Michelle, Christophe, Joyce (with husband Mon and handsome son Paulo), and Dax. Unfortunately, the guest of honor/teacher, Louis, wasn't not able to make it. Surprisingly, Dionne and I were still somewhat full from our lunch that we just shared our herbed pork steak.
Note: Chili's has bottomless nachos (I forgot what they call them) with bottomless salsa dip and non-bottomless cheese dip. Be sure to order this one when you eat there and plan to stay for a while. Hehe.
After dinner, we had coffee at Starbucks. In between sipping coffee, we had some shots of the Jera's rice wine. This had to be done discreetly, for fear of... the security guard? Like high school kids hiding something. =P
Lu's flight is scheduled tonight. It'll be at least a year before we see her again. Good luck Lu! Take care of yourself!
This coming Friday, we'll be trooping to San Mateo, Rizal to congratulate (as we won't be able to attend the 10AM ceremony) the (by then) newly weds, Mem and Monching. Congrats!
Yesterday, we went to Pasig to pay our respects to one of Jeff kulit's ninongs, Boom-boom. He was diagnosed with cancer and had surgery last May. The doctors said he had 4 to 6 months left. He died 3 1/2 months later. He was 42.
Both Dionne and I refused to look at him. We went there and saw the coffin but didn't look inside. We wanted to remember him as the jolly and makulit person that he is. He will surely be missed.
Labels: get-togethers, greetings, party
posted by joven @ 2:17 PM
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1 Comments:
different types of goodbyes. you spanned the whole gamut here. i just hate goodbyes...
sigh.
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