nightlifing

The nightlife is both expensive and tiring. Im actually still groggy now from last night’s laag. But it’s always good to go out once in a while. The last time I was up for more than 24 hours was last month when I was in Subic, but last night was way too much fun compared to that out-of-town escapade.

The story (I might as well say the details here for future use. Lol!). After the company party, eight of us went straight to Mango Square to chill out. We had a kiddie party that night, and most of the people who attended were in kid’s costumes, and a few of those kiddie-costumed workmates joined us in the second leg of the fun. So imagine our group joining the “properly” dressed individuals in the Square. We actually did not worry that thing until our cabs got to the area. Almost everyone standing in the square was looking at my workmates who first got out of the first cab. The car brought in two of the four girls in costumes, one was with a simple girly outfit with two red stars on top of her turban while the other one was in a baby girl attire complete with a milk bottle and a pacifier clipped on her baby blouse (plus two balloons attached to her baby bag!). As for us in the second cab, we got the chance to inhale the moment while still inside the cab and saw the expression of the people who were looking at our friends. Oh God, for laughing out loud! But we were all game that night. So we nonchalantly walked towards Gimik Barkada to start a night of drinking and videoke. But the place was already full-packed by the time we got there so we moved to Numero Doce (I don’t remember the exact name), but it was also full. We actually met some stares and giggles from the people we passed by on our way there, one gay could not hide his amazement at us that he said to my workmate, who had these two stars in her head,:”Teh, nindot ta na og naay suga.” And I answered,:” Wa na may battery,” with a sad face. I was wearing a Santa hat with blinking starts on it while at the party, maayo nalang akong gibilin. The entire square was just too public for our group, so we looked for an enclosed area where we could have fun minus the stares and the questions.

First stop was Beat Family KTV. This is just in the area of Mango Square, at the back part of Gimik. Each room is P150/hour (on the weekend), and we stayed there for three hours singing all the songs in the list. I did not know until that night Jasmin Uy could sing so well the national anthem ng mga bading--“Hindi Ako Bakla.” Well, she chose the song for our new workmate, the most bakla in the group, but she ended up singing it herself because she knew the song full well that she did not need to glance at its lyrics on tv, while the rest of the girls were dancing, and grinding. Dear, winner imong show! Hahaha! It was actually a night to remember, singing in a concert-performance level of Spice Girls hits (complete with the correct dance steps, lol!), even heavy metal and Tagalog ones gipatulan. The room is approximately 3x5 meters, it was too small for 8 people (plus one later that night), but it was exactly what we needed to exhaust it all. It only happened once in a while, you know.

Past 4am we jumped to a tapsilogan in Guadalupe. This requires a good amount of walking from the square to Boulevard (near the Capitol) to supposedly catch Carlo’s Batchoy, but it was already closed by the time we got there. So we had to take a cab from there to the tapsilogan, which is just P32.50 away from where we hailed it. We already forgot how to walk at this juncture, so yay! Only four of us got to this part, the others had to go straight home after the concert and too much water drinking (unfortunately, Nature's Spring water in that videoke place has got some “drugs” in it, or so my workmate said after it got her nerves fiery on the first our of the show that actually resulted to her transforming every pop song she chose for herself into a heavy metal one.) It was really a riot!

The tapsilogan. It would have been the best time to drink coffee to give me another hour of strength for my travel back home, but the darn place had no hot water as of that moment. Crap! In fairness, the food is really good, and it’s cheap. There were actually several people enjoying their fill, after a long night of beer drinking, while we were there. And we were still there when the sun rose. Too bad I could not appreciate it, but I had to say to my workmate whom I shared the cab with, at least we got to see the sunrise. That was actually rare for the both of us. I actually could not see it with my problematic eyes, but at least. Fun ended when I hit the bed at 6am.