Christmas Get Togethers 2007: Cafppl Dinner

December 26. Le Domain Condominium Tordesillas Street, Salcedo Village Makati. It's been 11 years since we all first got together as blockmates. Freshies no more, we had our annual Cafppl dinner at Buddy's condo. I brought my (yeah, you guessed it) pesto cream with chicken pasta dish (making its fifth appearance at a party this year). Sid brought a truckload of sisig, much to our cholesterol levels' delight. Tere and Buddy took care of the BBQ. Fara brought Shopwise-made Siomai. Cathi, Tere, Ler, and myself supplied the booze. And practically everyone contributed to the all night tawanan.

It's just great to see old friends, and it's equally amazing how when we do see each other, it's like we see each other practically everyday. I guess that's history for you.

Tere and Fara. Ex-officemates and Grey's Anatomy fans.


Me and Cathi. Current officemates and fans of social drinking.


Sid with his mistress Lery.


Sid with wife Cathi.


Group pic!





Thanks Lery for sending me the pics (so I can post them here). I love your camera (which is identical to mine. Teehee)!

The fun-nest part of the evening though was our "10 years from now talk", which lasted for more than an hour. We were all reeling with laughter. Tere summarized the highlights of our "what ifs" in her blog, which I will quote directly:

And the year was 2017, the 26th of December

...where we found ourselves drinking Kurant7 to our heart's delight at Buddy's posh estate at Forbes Park with darling wife Vicky bringing out the yummy gelatine dessert to satiate our palates for something sweet after stuffing ourselves with the artery-blocking sisig of Aysee's that our Accenture Shanghai main man-slash-Bench underwear model Sidney brought to our annual get-together.

Cathi is a single parent living in the slums of Serendra with 2 children, the second one (she can't remember if he's 5 or 7 years old) was apparently a test tube baby and Sidney was aghast to know that it was his after all these years (it remains a mystery as to how this came about), and threatened to take him away from her because he can't bear that his child lives in shit while he makes truckloads of moolah from his modeling stints here and abroad.

Lery continues to grace the covers of Philippine Tatler and she's happily married to a very accomplished man she used to know back in high school (I don't really know if I'm allowed to mention the name here hahaha) and Fara just attended the graduation of her child prodigy and husband who just earned their Ph.D's (apparently the difference of the ages of the dad and the son seems to be negligible). We feel bad for Jason and Catz who continue to toil and burn the midnight oil in third-world Singapore but glad they were able to come over for a visit. Me? Well, my hubby and I are managing a school and my 8th child is on the way! This great man willingly accepted me and my 7 kids from different fathers, isn't that great? Don't get me wrong, I still look as fresh as a daisy, because of my diligence for hiphop workouts every so often (sorry Ten, I just had to put that in for good measure hahaha).

We were all wondering where on earth Lloyd was, and lo and behold, we received some telepathic messaging (texting is waaaay passe) and found out he's not on Earth but on Mars, planet manager of a really big call center! Talaga nga naman, he never ceases to amaze us. Teka teka, si Mitch?! Ayun, maybahay na pala ni Lloyd sa Mars. I believe they still get in touch with Chrissie who's the CEO of Nordstrom in their area.

Sa tindi ng tawanan at hiritan that fateful night, nanggagatong lang pala si Tenten at hindi sya nagshare! Unfair! Pero it really was a fun fun game. Kala ng lahat kami lang ni Tenten ang magaling sa kwentong barbero, aba taob pa pala kami sa kanila! Haaaay ang sarap talaga ng walang humpay na tawanan, kainan, inuman at kulitan. Hahaba ang buhay mo!

Champion talaga.