Dive-Monster Rhoody

I wanted to write some article earlier but was kept busy by some stuff here. So now as we are in 2009 I promised myself to be a good boy and behave much better…  nah, don’t worry, that won’t happen…

We started new years eve with a small BBQ at Tom and Kim’s house. For that some shopping had to be done in the morning  and they great Dane turned a kind of pale when I delivered the shocking message that the supermarket we went ran out of San Miguel Light and he might have to stick to Coke…  Kawawa Kim…. Tom’s task was to find SML in another store.

Coming back to the house, things got unloaded and 4 girls were seen in the kitchen preparing food for he party. The 4 did an awesome job and all different dishes were just mouthwatering.  The first guests arrived around 2 pm and at 5 there was a nice crowd of about 25 people, taking care of that drinks won’t get cold and food won’t be wasted. A nice warm up for the parties later.

Around 10 pm we headed to Roadhouse, where my two hosts traditionally start the new year. Fields Avenue is a kind of War Zone on new years eve and only the very brave ones going out at midnight. As I am none of those I stayed inside the bar and had some cold beverages and finger food before hitting some more bars earlier on. Somehow my brain went a bit foggier with each minute of the new year  so I was happy when we finally went home to the house to get my first few hours of sleep in 2009.

At the end it was a great day with good friends fantastic food and like always 1 SMB to much. To all of you a healthy successful and pleasant 2009.

Cheers
Rhoody

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Finally I made it back home to Dumaguete. The last days in Angeles City were full of work with The Dane creating a 2008 concept for our partnership with www.DumagueteInfo.com and work on this and some other pages. We could not finish all work in time that I have to reschedule my flight back home to Dumaguete a couple of days. The episode and expierience with the Cebu Pacific call-center and customer-service is a story for itself and I will write another story about that amzing expierience.

Tom and me are known that we love good food and Kim is a fantastic cook with the size of his portions it would be no problem to feed half Dumaguete with the leftovers of one cooking session. After our dinner we hung around lazy on the sofa to watch some episodes of “Hells Kitchen”.

On my last night in Angeles City we decided at 11 pm to go out for a “good bye” drink…. I can tell you not the wisest decision of my life. We met some friends and the guy decided to do their very best to make me missing my pick up at 9 am next morning. At 8 am I finally run out of a pub to jump in a trike heading home to Kims house and threw all my stuff into my suitcase. The driver was already waiting to bring me to the domestic Airport in Manila. His only comment after a brief good morning was : Are you sure they will allow you on board of the aircraft?

And yes they did !!!  

After 34 hours without sleep, a couple of beer and 2 packs of cigarettes my feet touched Negros ground around 3:30 pm in the afternoon. After all it was a fantastic pleasure and business trip but I am happy to survive it and being back in Dumaguete for some diving.

cheers

Rhoody

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… from a long night out we all needed a recovery day and a late breakfast. The day was almost over when Kim and me started to work a bit on the computer. This blog is one of the results by the way. As it took quite some time to upload everything and try yo get the right settings done I ended up deadly tired falling asleep at 4 in the morning in front of the notebook.

Our dinner  next evening was at C’ Italian  Restaurant. IMHO the absolute best Restaurant in the Philippines. Chef Chris is an absolute magician. As we were invited we followed the host and had a great fondue. I personally am not the biggest fondue fan but at the end it was again a great meal. It was a kind of business dinner, but with in very relaxed atmosphere. Leaving C’ Italian we decided to have some beer in town but this night I went home a little bit earlier.

New Years eve had arrived and the whole crowd got out for dinner to Swiss Chalet. A nice place with “Meat”-food, good sized delicious portions. I personally like the Salami-Cheese appetizer platter very much, but I guess one of the reasons is that I am from Dumaguete where you just don’t have this kind of cheese and Salami available. My Cordon Bleu with Swiss Cheese with very good and after paying we went down to 2 different Clubs before hitting Roadhouse at 11:pm.

New Years Eve in Angeles (and I guess in most City’s of the Philippines) means lasing people throwing firecrackers after you, so we were in the Club until 4 in the morning. Being known as one of the best Bars in Angeles City it the time was flying and the party a blast. You can’t compare the nightlife of Dumaguete or other Cities with Angeles. It is not only the GoGo scene, AC is sizzling when the night comes until the sun rises. Talking about sunrise… my memories were a bit foggy at that time so we went back home and had a long sleep to wake up just in time for a shower and New Years dinner at Fortune, a Chinese Restaurant. It was a great dinner again, the only disturbing thing was our neighbor table with 10 or so shouting Koreans. A kind of disgusting, why does nobody throw Fire-crackers after them…

Cheers for now

Rhoody

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