team building of OrgASM (Organization of Area Studies Major)

i realize how much of a big computer nerd i am when i leave for 2 days and one night and i already have messages/emails piled up that i have to reply to. i usually don't have anything piled up because i constantly check my email and blog so i get to reply to the messages right after they're posted.

the Laguna trip was fun. writing about every single detail that happened would not even justify the amount of fun i had during the trip. as expected, there were bonding, games, funny moments, senti moments, and just more fun! i'm still tired until now. we only slept for 2 hours which hardly helped because of the teeny tiny bed we, 4 girls, had to share with another guy who snored like there was no tomorrow. i ended up waking up almost every 30 minutes, disoriented and cold, trying to put myself back to sleep and ignoring the sharp pain my tummy was having. it was horrible being so tired like that after a very LONG day considering that we all went to bed at 5 AM in the morning.

apple, paolo, and i were the only juniors around! we were outnumbered by the freshies, sophies, and seniors. but it was okay because groups didn't matter, we three juniors still had a kick-ass time. when we got to laguna, we three grilled the food because we were a part of the food committee. we were so proud of our grilled meat (haha!) and fried hot dogs. although the food was prepared early we ate at around 10 PM already after the water games. i didn't join, though. i just watched from where i stood and amusingly observed people play the games in teams. then ranielle (my school paper buddy) and i sat together by the pool while we watched the others play. i never got to really talk to him since i became a part of the school paper but he was so nice & warm, it was so cool to have him for company.


i know, the people should be in the middle of this picture. but i didn't use the view finder! hehe


meet paolo, the 6 footer who never fails to remind me how short i am whenever i'm beside him. tsk tsk.


left: uuy! it's getting hot out there! hahaha! right: sophies looking on.

the inuman was even better because the seniors prepared a human binggo. then shots of cuervo were passed around the long table. i had around 4 shots of cuervo, 1 shot of lambanog (that tasted like peppermint), 1 cup of beer (i don't like the taste of beer), and 1/4 glass of caramel mudslide (i like chocolate more). i didn't get drunk (i forbid that to happen to me) but i did get allergic again and got beet red all over my arms, neck, and face. coincidentally, i was also wearing a red shirt last night so it made my face look like a huge plump of tomato. after a few shots, my heart started to pound like mad and my breathing went crazy. i got scared for a moment because ranielle said i could get cardiac arrest (trust the Industrial Pharmacist major to know that kind of stuff). so i drank and drank cups of water to flush the alcohol out. i'm not a heavy drinker and my alcohol tolerance is very low (heart problem). i get palpitations and i feel like all the blood from my body goes up to my head. so yeah, i know my limits. so i stopped and watched people instead and jumped into the pool to get the tipsiness out of my system with ranielle. the water was freaking cold!!! but it did make me feel better until my breathing went back to normal.

from 2 AM onwards i hanged out with the rest of the people at the videoke area watching more freshies and seniors get wasted. i swear, they can drink so much more than the rest of us upperclassmen could! our 2 professors were there too, it was weird seeing them in their unprofessorish aura. they were normal people for 2 days and 1 night!

the next day we left at noon. when we got back to UPM paolo, apple, and i went to McDonald's at RP right away to satisfy our McDonald's cravings :) i had filet-o-fish again (i'm addicted to that stuff) and caramel sundae (this too!). although we were dead tired we still wanted to eat because we were starving.

when i got home i went straight to bed. yes, straight to bed. now i'm going to unpack and reminisce on the past days with a geeky smile on my face because those memories are more than enough to keep me on a high for the rest of the week. Lord, don't bring me down just yet.

toodles.

so there. like i said, blogging about it won't justify the amount of fun i had during the trip because it won't even tell half of the story. one thing's for sure, the org is more bonded now and people know most of each other compared to before. cheers to more org fun from this day on (the OrgASM week on november and Christmas party on December). cheers to the freshies, sophies, juniors, and seniors. WE DO ROCK :)