Aug 25. The week was mostly spent anticipating the Beijinoy reunion dinner w/ Manol, who's back from Shanghai on vacation. Heavy rains delayed my departure from the house, and 40 minutes was spent trying to find a parking spot (30 of them at Greebelt3's basement parking when the booth lady wanted to charge me the minimum 40 bucks, and in a Seinfeld-ish moment I protested, saying that's fine if I actually parked my car here, so in the end she just made me sign the receipt and let me out). It was when I tried out Greenbelt's valet parking service that I found P90 reasons why more people don't.
Finally got to Recipes. Turns out I have been here before. And I didn't like the food back then. Ah, but it's the company that counts, right? Well, I was reminded why I hate being late. Either you run out of good seats, or most of the only people you know start/have to leave. Weng, Kathy and Tin left, and soon me and Pyao (and later on Dave, Lyndon and Dennis to some extent) were left with Manol and his Shanghai posse, w/c he failed to introduce properly to us, w/c made for lots of listening but no talking on my end. Already I has getting Oyster Boy flashbacks.Now as much as I like to accomodate a friend's requests for "wanting to see everyone," I wish Manol had planned separate get2gethers for Beijinoys and Shanghainoys. Sigh. I'm just saying: my ability to handle a large group of people improves when I know them all.
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Aug 26. With 2 hours to kill before Wilson picks me up from home (and off to Rockwell where I was in charge of videotaping SJCS Batch '86's 20th anniv reunion), I drove out to Starbucks at Ash Creek to meet up with Lola. We exchanged items: for her the Firefly, Mirrormask and Neverwhere DVDs (w/c I burned for her), for me the Tim Burton's Corpse Bride movie photobook. Took pictures and chatted the rainy hours away. Finally I dropped her off at SM Centerpoint.CUT TO ME and WILSON driving off to Rockwell (with brief SEGUE to FRIEND'S HOUSE in Greenhills to pick up the nametags). Wilson and Ogie were in charge of the multimedia presentations (read: slideshows). I, having seem to much Battlestar Galactica or NYPD Blue in my lifetime, started going off with fast zooms in and out, 3-5 second cut scenes and really giving the autofocus a workout. The first half of footage taken would be best seen as a montage.
The second half was comprised of the program proper, with the slideshow, games, and a raffle. We got there at 6:30 PM and left 6 hours later. Too bad the one Batch 86er I was most familiar with (besides my brother)-- Katherine Go-Alcantara-- didn't attend.Aug. 27. Hunh. Weird. Completely blacking out on what I did yesterday. Oh, yeah, planning for a dinner reunion with the HuaQing Apartment Bejinoys.
Okay, so the post wasn't as long as I thought.
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