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Trio

We are the trio that had one last time to be together again.

We recently had a get-together/welcoming party/send off/despedida for Ferds, Noel and Lex. Noel and Ferds are my thesis groupmates. Ferds has been living and working in Dubai for around two years, and spent a few weeks back in Asia and the Philippines. Noel has just acquired his visa to live and work in Dubai. Lex got a job in Boracay.

We decided to go beyond the usual restaurant get together and spend the evening at a hotel suite in Ortigas. Kudos go out to the organizing committee, it was a nice experience being stressed out during the preparation stage (more on that later...). It was expected that we spend the night drinking, singing via the magic sing, and laughing our hearts out one last time. But not much of these happened. Well maybe it was knowing later on that the bonding sessions that should have happened to reinforce our closeness was not needed, that all the craziness of being a trio and generally as a group was still there and will never fade.

Before the party, Ferds spent the evening with us for our weekly dine-out at Philcoa. We later went out and painted the town red so to speak. The night (or morning) was later spent talking at the rent before sleeping.

And after the party, we had to send-off Ferds again, as he was to meet up with his family before heading off home to Bicol. Noel and I accompanied him out of the hotel towards their family vehicle. It was nice to meet his family again, familiar faces that I haven't seen in such a long time, since our Mascardo Refugees/thesis days. I later learned that even Ferds' brother is heading off to Dubai, who jokingly asked me why I decided to again stay behind. After that, the trio was again separated.

A few days later Noel was off to Dubai. We sped off to the airport to see him one last time. It was like a scene from an old Tagalog movie where we had to go beyond security personel just to see him off the departure area.

After Ferds' trip to his hometown, we met up again for dinner and overnight at our new house. We spent the night laughing at private jokes, especially about Spock and the Vulcans. I also pestered Ferds with questions regarding the life in Dubai. And later on we spent the morning looking at his new cd acquisitions of installers, scandals and other goodies. After coffee and bread at Mini-Stop we again parted ways.

It's nice to think of me as an anchor in the PI for those people who flew away to greener pasteurs. Although taking my sweet time in looking for my own bread and butter, it is nice to know that people still get to visit us once in a while, looking back at people and places we used to have. After thesis, we only meet up once in a while. Ferds and Noel became officemates at Mañosa. Noel and I became housemates at our own version of Big Brother house. Now Noel and Ferds are in Dubai. The last gimmick was our chance to be together one last time. But maybe later the trio will be together again. And our own version of kakulitan may once again live up to its former glory.

posted by nap @ 8:14 AM