great escape

the plan this great escape was planned after our dreadful majors finals. all we wanted was, obviously, an escape from all of the stresses we experienced both in cas and major subjects. phoebe offered her resthouse in pililia, rizal. she said that march 26-27 was the best time, an overnight. almost everything was on her, food, drinks, pool, accomodation. wohoo!!! after our business stat exam and having a round or two of coors light, we came up with the plan: meet up at starbucks pearl plaza, 8am, march 26. overnight til march 27, and leaving at around 4pm. who went we left at around 9am, waiting for the latecomers. almost everyone from our group came, ralph, bl, drew, bam, dennis, mich, phoebe, niña, luisa, cybin, mara and jane. rach couldn't make it because she had an interview at rx93.1 for winning the urban time model contest. congrats, anyway. however, we were also able to tag along marvin, an addition to our group. by the way, what's the name of our group? the place it took us around two hours to reach the resthouse. it was on the "face" of a mountain, around 1.5 ha. it was hidden and couldn't been seen from the hiway. it had a breath-taking view of the mountain ranges of rizal on the east and at west were a view of the rice fields and laguna de bay. the place was really conducive to distressing and relaxing. the pool was great. it had a really deep part and it was actually my first time to swim, if i actually did one, without any floaters. highlights if one were to ask me what were the highlights of the overnight, whew. a lot. i might not list them all but here it goes: upon arriving, we already had photoshoots around the house. we got attracted to a grotto which had steps. when we were about to sit on the steps, water started to fall. shucks, fountain pala. we ended up laughing and had our pictures taken beside the grotto. after bam set up his magic sing, all i could remember was ralph singing "survivor" by destiny's child. funny. ahaha. since we were kids at hearts, all of the boys went straight to the pool without applying anything on our skins. unlike the girls who had the time, and straight minds, to apply sunblock. boys ended up like lechon but mich was half-cooked. i had a great spot where i got to reflect on things. some followed me and it was phoebe's first time to reach that place. it had a great view of the sun setting. siyempre, we had picture-picture moments. a lot of them. the highlight would be when the sun was setting, when the light was really perfect. kwentuhan at walang humpay na kwentuhan. most of our time was spent chilling by the pool when we also get to sunbathe. but the girls, as far as i can remember were always at the shade sharing stories, dreams and anything. one thing's for sure, cybs is the greatest story teller. she really opened her book. ahaha. that's why we had a difficult time putting her down during the laglagan sessions. for me, one of the best highlights is our HSP. you can call it whatever. hot sausage party, high school party. bahala ka. basta, when it's hsp, bam, bl and i are going to take a bath together, on the same shower room at the same time. ahaha. just like our tradition which started in chiggy's, we also had the laglagan sessions. name your 5 least favorite people, crush, etc. we also had the forbidden questions which were really below the belt. mara, marvin and jane got to share their own top 5. after our laglagan, we watched "call me: the ups and downs of heidi..." 'di mo alam kung soft porn or chick flick. haha. while watching the flick, we suddenly heard drew snoring like there's no tomorrow. food/drinks/booze food was really great. i just wanted to apologize for not contributing any food. dennis brought a lot of food. we even had breakfast on our way to the place. nuggets spam and bread. he also made sure that he did not bring any cheap chips (bl's deal with dennis the night before the trip). we had inihaw na liempo and inihaw na tilapia for lunch. we had lechon manok and sinigang na hipon for dinner. we had ham, bacon and omelet for brunch. i wasn't aware that the omelet had cheese inside. haha. after-party on our way back to manila, we had an open forum. sorry guys, sobrang bading ng ending natin. but we made a pitstop at omakase, libis. ahaha muy delicioso. ahaha ps. this is my first overnight/swimming party with ua&p peeps. ehehe me with the owner of the place. arjay and phoebe.