What a "Greek" day!

Oh I am so excited to write about this.

July 19, reunion with my high school friends --The O.W.S.A. (Sorry but the meaning of this is a real TOP secret! lol!) --lie (the goddess), cija (the princess), kaye (the queen), ryle (the duchess), rachelle (the baby), bem (the vamp) and I (the empress).

The Meet up

We decided to meet up coz of five reasons:

1. To celebrate our 10th year anniversary.
2. Its the goddess' bienvenida!!! She migrated in Spain and now she's here on a vacation.
3. Bem's despedida. (umm.. coz she's staying in Cebu for good and she's leaving on August)
4. To formally announce rachelle's wedlock on December 27. (oh..our baby has now a baby, our pretty inaanak Mischa!)
5. Because we TERRIBLY MISS EACH OTHER!!!!!!!!!

Meeting place: UST, our memorable royal and pontifical alma mater. That's were we became friends.

Call Time: (supposed to be) meet up for breakfast, 10am.

Rylie and I are nocturnals,we hate mornings. We cant wake up early. Our friends are expecting us to be, as usual-LATE. But unexpectedly, we turned out to be the early birdies... arrrggrrrr!!! For the first time in OWSA history, no grand entrance for the both of us.

We arrived at 11am. Then cij came after 10minutes. A few minutes more, kaye arrived, then the star of the show, Lie (with her prince charming/photog freddy) , then the Late Bem came(hehe!). We're going to shangrila mall. Rach will just follow us there as she has to attend some mommy errands.

Having Brunch at CYMA

Our breakfast meeting turned out as Brunch meeting. We are all starving and Ryle suggested to eat at, CYMA Greek Taverna, its a fine dining Greek inspired restaurant at 6th level Shangrila Mall. It was my second time to eat an authentic Greek cuisine. The first time was when i was in Malaysia, i had a greek friend there who's also a chef who celebrated his bday with us and cooked real greek food for us.

Greek food is amazing, unconventional, it tastes different but.. SUPER DELICIOUS. Going back at CYMA, here's what we have ordered: INDULGE!!!!!!!!!!

Our appetizer: Seared Salmon and sardine salad, with black olives, lettuce, tomatoes and onions

I ordered Lamb Chops with rice stuffed on pepper and potatoes. Rach arrived at 12.30pm and she ordered this one too. yum! yum!

Grilled Salmon in olive oil and lemon sauce for Cija

Lamb Gyro, with roasted potatoes on the side for bem and rylie

Baked Macaroni the Greek way, with extra thick cheese on top for Kaye

And for our Dessert, Choco melt down with vanilla ice cream

Yummy Cyma Experience.

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Shopping with my girlfriends

After lunch, we bought tickets for Mamma Mia, oh well, a Greek Movie! Show starts at 3.50pm. It's still 2pm, a bit early, so we decided to go shopping first. We bought a small dress for our beautiful inaanak Mischa at the pink gurly girl shop (forgot the name).

Then rachelle suggested to buy something (it can be a shoe, a dress, a jewelry) that has one design for all of us. So we went around Top Shop, Celine, Marks and Spencer etc, tried different stuff, shoes, bags, and clothes. But still we couldnt decide on what to buy. Until we tried MANGO (my favorite), there we finally compromised on one "Lady" shirt. May pasaway lang, Kaye didnt want to buy it.hmf! i dunno with her, she just dont want or she's just too stubborn (hehe!). Rach is leaving for work in awhile,and Mamma Mia will start at 3.50pm. No more time to argue with Kaye anymore. :)

Watching a greek movie - Mamma Mia

Then we hurried back to the cinema to watch Mamma Mia. The setting is in Greece. Of course, kinilig nanaman ako kay Pierce Brosnan. Im always a fan of broadway, i actually played the role of Rosie in ABSCBN Comm Arts adaptation of Mamma Mia. It was fun watching it with your girlfriends.

Coffee Break

After the movie, we had a few cups and chitchat in starbucks. I remember Kaye and Cija were on the hot seat. Im not allowed to tell here what we have talked about. lol!
Basta, both of them want to leave at 8pm. Cij, is living a healthy lifestyle, she has to leave at 8pm coz she has to sleep at 9pm. She has to sleep early coz she jogs every sunday morning. While Kaye has to leave because... ummm... hehehe!!! natatawa ako, wait.. ummm... i really cant tell it here.. lets just say, she still have to attend a debut.

Crisis

Cija left early. Bem,ryle,lie,freddy and i went to megamall. After 20 minutes, cij called, and told us that she lost her wallet. So ryle and bem hurried back to starbucks shangrila to check on it while lie, me and freddy waited for cija in megamall.

Good thing her wallet is still there. It was a relief for all of us.

Tagaytay plans

That night, we "spontaneously" planned to go to Tagaytay. That's why we went straight to ryle's dad's place and borrowed her dad's Crosswind.

Meeting our Julalays

Julalay is an OWSA term meaning "boyfriend". lol! Ryle drove us to pick up our stuff and our boyfriends. We picked up JR in Borromeo and Euge in Blumentritt.

Junk Dinner

We planned to have dinner in Tag but its past 12mn and we couldnt hold our tummies anymore. That's why we decided to have dinner at McDo SLEX. pff.. junk food!

Spending a night in Tag

Sinulit na namin ang time with Lie. We arrived in Tagaytay at 2am. We checked in at a very nice, cozy and cheap apartelle. The place is not bad at 650 bucks per head. It has 4 beds, a sala with cable tv, a kitchen with fridge, a lavatory with hot/cold shower and a swimming pool outside. Sorry for being selfidh but Im not gonna tell you the name of the place. Ok, clue: its just near the "Greek Taverna". hmmm.. I can say that this is really a Greek Day!

Bonding till dawn

We bonded til 5am except for ryle, jr and euge... they slept at 3.30 am. Lie and freddy slept at 4.30 and Bem and i slept at around 5am. Wala lang, we just talked about our past, bem's date experiences, Lie's Spaincapades and ryle's complicated whirlwind romance. lol!

No more camwhoring in Tag

They woke up at around 7am. While i, as usual, woke up last. We had breakfast at 8am and left Tag at 9. It was fun! fun! fun! Though we weren't able to take good photos since all our cam batteries are empty.

OWSA gimik part 2

The OWSA blog does not end here. We still have to meet on Thursday at the La Sema Spa in Jupiter Makati at around 5pm. Sooo sooo excited!

See you sisses!!!

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