the june look

So, dy'all like my blog's new look for june? XD

i wanted something different this time, something that really showed or reflected a part of me, and so i decided to give in to my love for the moon and night…a laud to the goddesses Selene and Nyx. ^.^

May was generally a fun month for me. of course i had some really really pissed-off moments, but the highlight of the month was actually Bigfoot's first ever sportsfest.

in the past years Bigfoot's been known for its really huge summer outings. the first one i ever joined was in May of 2003, just a little over a month after i was hired. some 200 or so of us went to Bantayan Island, lugging bags and booze and lotsa camera equipment that had the other ferry passengers staring curiously at us. we were there for 3 days and 2 nights, occupying adjoining resorts in the pristine town of Sta. Fe: Budyong and Kota. predictably, there was some very heavy drinking going on, especially since everyone had been allotted 5 bottles of beer each. the non-drinkers promptly gave away their beer stubs. add that to the booze that nearly everyone had brought along. it was a whole spankin' booze-fest. after our drinking session, my companions and i went and just settled ourselves on the very wide sandbar. looking up at the night sky, with the fresh ocean breeze and the stars above and the sand under me…that was one of my most serene moments ever. too bad there wasn't any moon.

during the summer of 2004 the number of Bigfooters had nearly doubled. this time we went to the then-new San Remigio Beach Club. we had some ballgames and stuff, and i played
volleyball and table tennis. i didn't really get to enjoy it very much — except for the drinking. i didn't get to go swimming or splashing around, not in the sea nor the pool. beer was abundant as usual, though. and it was more fun than the previous year because i knew more people and had made several good office friends. and i got drunk. bdot gave me a
shot of absolut vodka, after i'd had 3 or 4 beers, and i took it straight. wow, the world just started spinning and i felt like i was walking on the moon. janice left me in our room; i was out like a light.

then guess where we went in 2005? the same old San Remigio Beach Club! they said it was the only place that could accommodate us all. oh well. i got to do some pool-swimming this time around, we even played charades inside the pool. the drinking and the karaoke were perhaps my best memories of this outing. i was with another department by that time, and a lot of my friends from the past year's outing had left the company, so i was more or less with a different group. i remember we started with rum coke after lunch…and then smirnoff vodka later on that night. can't remember what we drank it with, though. what i do remember is lenin's transformation as he slowly began to get drunk. i don't think i'll ever forget that. we were chatting as we kept drinking (and what an interesting conversation that had been) and he just got more spirited as the night wore on and the vodka diminished. i
remember karen saying she thought lenin was getting angry. XD karen had stopped drinking by then, but lenin and i were still at it, and i don't recall who else…probably ronald…i'm not
sure about the other girls. finally we were down to like, half a bottle of vodka left, when jimbo and nilo joined us with some left-over tequila. and i was like YEY TEQUILA!!! i totally disregarded the vodka and finished off the tequila with the boys LOL. then lenin started to complain, and said i was supposed to finish off the vodka with him…my head began to swim…and when karen and the others left, i did too. lenin was like, stef where are u going??? and ronald said stef are u going na?! and i went i'm getting dizzy na! so i went back to the room, and man was i drunk. i remember thinking why the hell it took so long for me to reach the table when it was no more than a few feet away, and trying not to hit anyone while i crawled onto my mattress, which also took so long for me to do! trang laughed at me when i woke up the next morning with a frickin' headache.

but this year there probably won't be any of those stuff anymore for me. instead of an outing, we had a sportsfest. still, it's a different kind of fun for me. i got to play my fave sport — volleyball — and had a great time doing it! we played some frickin' good games, if i may say so myself. i didn't do so well in table tennis, but hey i still had fun. and i also got to dance in our cheerdance contest last May 12. all in all, i liked the sportsfest idea coz i got to know a lot more people, i had such fun practicing, not to mention the all the exercise i got to do dancing and playing…

now this saturday's our closing ceremonies. there's gonna be lots of beer again…so we'll see if i'll have any more drinking tales to tell.

Now, go away.