On the first day of the week, our company gave each of us 4 boxes of products each. Lugging those boxes down 18 floors then up again for 7 floors to the parking lot to Dom’s car proved to be quite a workout. Though Doms carried two of my boxes and Yen carried one, the one I carried, which contained 432 small bars of Safeguard papaya was still kinda heavy.
One of my closes friends from high school, Donnel, also known as my choco mallow pie, was in Makati for the week, on training for his new job in a Nestle products distributor company. He, by the way, calls me peach mango pie. Long story. But we are not really lovers, just a couple of crazy friends. On Tuesday I met him near his apartelle and brought him to Glorietta where we had dinner in Max’s Fried Chicken. Afterwards, we headed to Greenbelt and just sat down in the middle of its park and chatted till we got sleepy and decided it was time to go home.
The next night, I invited him again to watch the movie “War of the Worlds” with me and some of my friends from KPMG and my housemate Maya. I met him near his apartelle once again and I brought him to SM where he could windowshop for prospective pasalubong & stuff. I bought tickets for everyone in Glorietta 4. Then Chu and Maya arrived, and the four of us had dinner in Food Choices. I couldn’t decide on any real meal, so I had an ice cream cone from Icebergs. Yumyum! The best! When it was time for our movie ((:40pm in cinema 1), we were told that it was standing room only. Aghast, I asked if we could change our tickets to a later time slot in another cinema. The ticket girl said no, so I demanded why they issued us tickets in the first place when they knew that there would be no room. In the end, I got my way, and we were given guaranteed seats at the cinema 3 10:30 show. In the meantime, my KPMG pals had dinner at Wendy’s while we Zamboangueños sat on another table and marvelled at Chu’s brand new cellphone, an XDA mini. He got it from a Globe plan.
After awhile it was time for our movie. The effects were great . Maya and I were at the edge of our seats and we were always murmuring insults at the not-so-sensible actions of the actors…you know, like when you say, “Don’t open the door!” even though you know they don’t hear you. Still, you can’t help it. The ending was kinda – weird, though. But hey. Not bad.
On Thursday night I visited the Mandarin Hotel gym. Another one of the benefits of our company is cheap gym sessions in Mandarin Hotel. Sue, the instructor, was nice enough to guide me in working out. I didn’t realize I took two hours in there! After that I took a nice warm shower and steamed myself up in the sauna before heading to Aristocrat, where Padoms and Bebe were having dinner. After eating, we dropped off Bebe in our building and fetched Keso, Tics & Dina. The five of us were off to Pier One for another gimik. We had a table upstairs (no Jimmy Bondoc this time) and we had to shout in order to be heard. After all the other people left and we had the room to ourselves, we started dancing to the beat. Groovy!
On Friday, I got an email from KPMG HR that my coop refund check was ready, so I escaped mig-afternoon to get it. There was an ongoing rally against GMA in the Ayala and Paseo de Roxas streets, right beside the building. After I got my check, I headed to the 9th floor food court, where Chu met me. We shared a plate of Green Tomato’s anchovy shrimp pasta, our favorite. Then I made him take a picture of the rally with his new phone. Unfortunately, some of my old officemates had to see me there with him.
That night, I went to bed early. After about an hour in dreamland, my cellphone rings. It is Chu, telling me that Boss Ed is inviting us for dinner. I was really groggy, but I climbed out of bed and headed over to my old office to meet with them. I was careful not to run into anyone. We had dinner in Hot! owned by the original owner of Chowking before he sold it to Jollibee. They had super delicious bangus sinigang and chicken inasal.
It has been a delicious week.