Borrowed Heaven: A blog by Shiena: Despedida Party Part 2

Yes it’s the time of the week again where you kick back and relax and wait till office hours are over so you can enjoy and have fun with friends. But sometimes, life can be so unfair. We have to sacrifice a little to gain more. And that is what exactly happened last night.

Yesterday was the day of our office transfer. All things are packed and boxed. Old files are thrown in the trash and picture frames, penholders, candy box, cardholder are kept in the pedestal drawers. And 5:00 pm came and computers are being shutdown one by one to be carried to our new office. (We are just moving 1 floor down). Everyone is excited to get it going for there is a despedida (going away) party part 2 tonight. Baet and Emmy are the ones who were assigned to oversee the transfer by our (uninvited) managers. The managers left before we even noticed that its already 7:30 pm. 1st batch of the group went ahead to Makati to have dinner and will just meet us (the 2nd batch) for drinks afterwards.

Baet, Emmy, Kim, Maya, Winnie and I had dinner at Jolibee and on our way to go to Makati when the bad news came. Baet and Emmy need to stay until all computers were set up. And that’s not all, the IT people will be able to finish it around 10:30 pm. Shit! This is not going well as planned. We phoned our officemates and told them about it and that we’ll go there as soon as everything is finished in the office. Silently, I was discussing to myself whether to go or not. But this would be the second time (in a row) that I’ll miss the despedida party. I’m sure they won’t allow me to leave, not this time. It’s 10:30 p.m. and we are all so tired, Emmy was even so tired to drive to Makati, so we just decided to have our drinks over at Oody’s bar and restaurant. I went along and told myself, I’ll just leave around 11:30.

We arrived at Oody’s Bar to see that there is only 1 table being occupied by 3 guys. Which is odd on a Friday night, since they are usually full and its not even midnight yet. And so we chose to be seated at the corner of the room, and ordered some drinks and nuts and shrimp crackers. I orderd a bottle of Vodka Ice (a first time for me) and so did Maya, Baet and Kim. While Emmy orderd a drink that I cant remember the name… all I know is it’s in a cocktail glass. And guess what? We had a Blast! We just laugh and laughed with tears. We toast for Emmy and Maya’s new careers and laughed at Baet’s funny antics. Emmy orderd one round of tequila shot for all of us. And since Maya is the youngest of the bunch (don’t worry, she’s old enough to drink), we have to convince her to take a shot at it. The first and last time she did it was on her birthday party last year (that was July). I’m already tipsy when Fritz arrived to join us. Good thing he had a camera phone and took a picture of this special event. And you might think the night is over but your wrong. Its 12 midnight and Emmy is still in the mood for dancing so they called up our officemates who are still in Makati and decided to go and meet with them at Temple Bar. I decided not to come along but when I saw my face in the washroom, all reddish and even have eye bugs. I obviously looked like a person who is tipsy and had some drinks. I was scared to go home alone in a bus. Then, I thought of just staying at my fiancé’s apartment for the night in Makati. So I went along with Maya, Kim and Emmy to Makati. Temple Bar was packed. So we just settled with some great conversations with our officemates who were already there, seated outside the bar and having drinks. I didn’t drink anymore, coz I know if I take in another amount (even a sip) of alcohol, I’ll surely puke. We stayed until 2 am and Rico was kind enough to drop me off at Adrian’s place. I sure did have a great sleep.

Looking forward to the Grand Despedida Party next Friday. It’s a “drop everything what you’re doing at 7:30pm” kinda party. So this means a whole lot of drinking and party all night till dawn.