Bloggers’ EB at Tivoli Gardens

I guess most of you already know that we had a sort of Grand Eyeball 2 nights ago. Etong si Hamster ang bilis kasi magpost kahit wala pang pics. Atat talaga! Hahahaha! And as of this writing, I already saw entries written by Lovely and Joycee.

So, let me start my post with the cast of characters, according to arrival:

• Kengkay
• Lovely
• Yhen
• Joycee
• Taympers
• Bernard
• Rye
• Lei
• Jason
• Special Blogger
• Ax
• Alvin
• Wolf
• Eli
• Otep

I left work at around 6:30 p.m. I did not opt to meet up with Lovely and the rest of the girls since Tivoli Gardens is located somewhere near the Makati-Mandaluyong Bridge, which is very near from where I work. It was kinda raining that night, traffic was terrible in that area and I was carrying a lot at that time. But it did not stop me from attending that most awaited bloggers’ get-together.

When I arrived, I got a bit lost as I was expecting some kind of welcoming committee. Kidding! LOL. I was hesitant to go directly to the videoke room so I called Joycee on her cellphone to check if I was really at the right venue. Gladly,I was in the right spot. Di aketch naligaw, hehehe! With Joycee were Kengkay, Yhen, Taympers and Lovely. The host, Bernard, arrived some minutes after me. It was really nice of him to have reserved such nice and cozy place.

While waiting for the rest of the gang, we took the chance for some photo ops…

Then, Rye arrived with his friend Lei, a new blogger.

Moments later, Jason the Hamster came hopping in (mahilig kasing tumalon at tumambling, hehehe!). So, it called for another photo op…

The rest of the gang then arrived.

We started off by introducing ourselves… with URLs, of course! Kelangan talaga kasama yun kasi bloggers. LOL. Machong Butiki was with us in spirit (oist, di sya dead ah!). He wasn’t able to make it that night due to some more important things to attend to at work. If I am not mistaken, he sent a letter through Wolf. Kengkay read it to the whole group.

So, to put faces behind those names, here is our first group shot (Bernard not in pic, he was the photog. Poor Berns!):

L-R: Lei, Yhen, Rye, Lovely, Jason, Ax, Otep, Joyce, Mmi, Special Blogger, Eli, Taympers and Kengkay

 There were two missing, Alvin and Wolf. And here they were…

... parang kawawa lang itong dalawa! hehehe!

There were food and drinks enough for the entire group. We had sylvannas (courtesy of Yhen), bread sticks from Germany (courtesy of Kengkay),  booze (courtesy of KL Callboy Rye) and pizza (courtesy of everybody).

We did a lot of getting-to-know chats. And here as some of the proofs…

Lovely received a phone call straight from Saudi Arabia. It was Bons. He asked that the phone be passed. I was able to talk to him for a short while and the first thing he asked me was, “Kumusta naman ang kahel?” Oh di ba, ang kulit lang! Hahaha!

At some point, we lost some of the boys while we got busy with videoke. Eto pala ang pinagkaabalahan ng mga kalalakihan. Naisihan kami ng bonggang-bongga!

And when we got re-grouped, we continued on with the singing session. There were a bunch of singers in the group and they did not hesitate to belt out songs to entertain us all through the night…

 Buti na lang at walang proof na kumanta ako! Hahaha!

While others were busy singing, Rye took the chance to distribute his pasalubongs for all of us. Everyone got chocolates and keychain fresh from Malaysia.

Here are my pasalubong from sweet Rye…

 And here are the some of the pics of that fun night…

 

I wonder what Joycee, Yhen and Kengkay were looking at?

Siguro yun din ang tinitingnan ko. Hehehe!

A little past 10 p.m., Kengkay bid the group goodbye. Joycee, Wolf and Jason joined her. The rest were left behind and continued on with the videoke and chikahan sessions that turned out to be a Q&A portion which was led slash hosted by Otep.

For those who wasn’t able to join, don’t worry you were with us on that night. Pinag-usapan namin kayo! Nyahahaha!

At 1 a.m., we all called the night off. But before that, we had one final photo op. At last, Bernard was with us in this shot!

So, that was it… until next EB!

 Photo credits: Joycee and Bernard

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Update (posted September 7, 2009):

I forgot to include these things in this EB entry as I was so engrossed playing some games while writing. Tapos may isang blogger pa na ka-chat ko na nangpe-pressure na ipost ko na ang entry na ‘to! 😛

That same night, I heard slash received some surprising comments from some blog friends:

• Otep – thinks that I have resemblance with Mariel Rodriguez. But he told me that here is a specific angle… and that my left angle looks like Zanjo Marudo! (Lokong Otep! Lagot yan sa akin sa next EB!)
• Rye – told me that he is a bit confused with me and Kikay. He said we look a bit the same. I told him that Kikay is way too slender than I am (read: Sobrang taba ko pag itinabi ako sa kanya! Hehehe! Face-wise though, I don’t have any complaint. She is a pretty girl —  Rhona, may bayad na Starbucks ‘to ah!)
• Alvin – thought that I’m also an expat. He got surprised to learn that I am Makati-based and just a simple Manilan. Mukha daw kasi akong galing abroad. (Duda ko, ginogoyo lang ako nitong si Alvin eh! Hehehe!)

That’s it. Nalimutan ko lang isulat. 😛