Makati and Everywhere Chapter

It all started from my annual college org’s “Meriendahan;” which started decades ago as a simple merienda salu-salo that evolved into a merienda to magdamagan inuman, then just a few years ago, became a buffet dinner inuman-all-u-want variety-show event. This is an annual celebration where the newbies, the applicants, and the oldies (alumni) meet up and mingle over unlimited food and drinks. All in all, we can summarize it in three letters: F-U-N!!!

UP Arki Forum – YOU ARE THE BEST!

The other night, thanks to Globe – connecting people hahaha, most of us oldies met at saGuijo, a small bar in the backstreets of Makati. We wanted to watch Up Dharma Down. Surprisingly, a lot of people showed up, some of them we haven’t even seen years and years ago.

Jupiter, MAKATI @ 7:30 PM

Then again, almost the same set of people, met last night in Makati – this time to go sing our hearts out… videoke! We met at 7:30 PM and had dinner in Makati. We arrived at the videoke bar in Makati at 9:00 PM and left at 11:30 PM! So after a huge bill, we decided it was time to leave videoke but at the same time none wanted to go home just yet. So, not to spoil the momentum, we decided we wanted to go dancing! Nevermind if we were “so not dressed for the occasion.” Hahaha.

The Fort, TAGUIG @ 12:00 AM

Midnight, we headed to the Fort and ended up at Piedra bar. Well, to our surprise, this bar is too high-end for us. No RNB as well. But it was okay, we were all happily drunk anyway, plus Marc Nelson and Borgy Manotoc also was a sight worth seeing (for the boys it was Angel Aquino). As for me, I was confused if it was the beer or my ‘way way past my bedtime’ that was making me fall asleep while dancing. Hihihi.

Metrowalk, ORTIGAS @ 4:00 AM

Around 4:00AM, the bar was officially dead. We wanted to have coffee now. After almost 20 minutes of walking around the area, we still haven’t seen any open coffee shops. So we decided to head to Metrowalk where Starbucks is open 24 hours. To our surprise, the party was still bouncing in Metrowalk at that time! The whole area was jam packed!

It was 5:00 AM, over coffee and some more photos, we decided to call it a night - err, day. We promised ourselves that this was just the start of the resurrection of our night lives.

Party people NO LONGER in the house! Woot woot!

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Hence, the ‘Makati and Everywhere Chapter’ of Arki Forum was inaugurated along the streets of the fort on September 1, 2007.