Of Adventures and Road Trips

Stuff that happened over the weekend...

I passed by the apartment for some stuff and proceeded over to Jason's place for some dinner. The guy is sooo darn sweet! He made me dinner!! Yep, ladies and gents, the man can cook, and cook VERY well :-D (Ok, start gagging if you have to, but i'm so darn happy he did such a sweet thing for me! hehehe) We did the whole picnic at his studio since he didn't have a table, which was so cute. Ok, suffice to say that i am totally lovin' the whole treatment :-)

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Ran a few errands on Saturday, so i was pretty much home in the afternoon. Sadly. i wasn't able to to go to my french class. (There goes my money..) Sheesh. Better time management is all i need, i think. I was able to get my laundry done though (hurrah!!) and i was able to clean my room. heheh. I'd still say it was a semi-productive weekend! Jason dropped by later and we proceeded to Malate for Tara's exhibit at the Penguin Cafe.

The trip going there turned out to be somewhat interesting. The cab we rode in was kinda sketchy to begin with, with the driver looking a little too peaked. By the time we got to Espana, the car broke down. Yup, there we were, stuck in the middle of the railroad tracks, amidst jeepneys and cars which wouldn't stop honking, at 7pm. Poor guy, he tried turning it on but the engine just died. Jason had to push the car out to the side since nobody would go down and help the driver push it to the side. :-S What a way to start the night. The second cab turned out to be okay but the guy was adamant to pass through the main roads for fear of getting confused and losing his way into Remedios Circle. Oh joy.

Turned out we were too early (the invite said 8pm, but people didn't start showing up until 9). It was still good though, i met Benjie Beljica, my old teacher and mentor in Art Class when i was about 7 or 8 years old. It's sooo good to see him again! :-) We talked about old times and caught up with what's been happening over coffee. God, it's been so long since i've seen him! He looks like he hasn't changed at all. To kill some time, we decided to check out Malate so we went around and hung out at SideBar Cafe for a drink. It was oktoberfest and thedrinks were just allover the place! :-)

The exhibit, which wa sa two-woman show, presented paintings by Tara and photos from Margaret, centered mainly images which depicted "near vouyeurism". Somehow the idea of seeing and being seen had been taken to a level that was mildly vouyeuristic yet titillating. Tara's reclining girl for example, was simplistic in its state, but from that angle she looked exotic, even scintillating. Or maybe it's just me. :-P

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Road trip! Jason and I decided to check out Alabang Town Center once and for all. After a somewhat small brunch we planned our commuting route getting there --- cab to the mrt, mrt ride to taft, cab or bus going to Alabang.Yup, it was road trippin' baby! But, as soon as we left the building, we hailed a cab whose driver was nice enough to bring us all the way there so we ended up just riding one mode of transportation. :-P heheh

Jason had the "WTF!?!" look on his face when he saw Alabang --- said it reminded him too much of Southern California. We checked out the stores before we headed out to look for some grub (i was really hungry!) Stopped by at Tower records to check out some cds, but it was either the stifling crowd or the hunger pangs that made me feel like throwing up and fainting. Took refuge on the heavenly smells of Mrs. Fields' cokies while downing in a bottle of water, Ahh. sweet scent of sweets!

Jason got to buy his shirt, and we got to chekcout the "sales" at the different stores. Had fun checking out the grocery stores though (I think that was the highlight of our day there) . Nway, we planned an impromptu dinner at the apartment so we decided to go home at 5pm to get back to QC early.

Yet another exciting adventure going home! :-P We couldn't get a cab anywhere in ATC that would charge us less than P500, so we decided to take a jeep to the Super Highway instead. We walked toward the other side, and i kinda missed having the whole feel of the streets --- it reminded me a lot when i was still living in Proj. 8 and i had to cross Munoz-EDSA just to go to UP. Ahh, this totally brings me back (hahaha) Nway, i was also midly amused on how Jason was taking it all in. He's a sport about it, which made me breathe a little easier. I'm kinda happy he's taking it all in stride. We managed to get a cab while waiting for a bus going to QC (all the buses looked either it was gonna breay down any minute, or the people looked ready to kill for money) At least it was a Sunday and the traffic wasn't so bad (we got back to QC in an hour,which was amazing!)

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We had dinner with Melissa at Jason's apartment (he cooked, of course) and we got to discuss the upcoming trip. Paolo was a bit late, but made up for it by having coffee with us afterwards at Seattle's. He finally got his car! I'm so happy for him! He was really saving up for it these past few months, and he looks pretty happy about it when we saw him. We had fun reminiscing about old games, toys and shows which we grew up with, and spent most of the night at SBC.

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On to other things.... still no news. I am patiently (?) it to come, i just hope that things will turn out well.*sigh* back to fixing my papers now. I hope my passport will turn up soon! :-S