Went with my officemates to Pansol this weekend. We went to this private pool somewhere in the back streets of Pansol called La Casa De Ramos. It is pretty big with 3 rooms and can accommodate around 15 people maybe more depending on the level of comfort you can tolerate. My officemates had gone ahead friday night while Paul and I drove there early saturday so when we got there, most of them were already wasted from the previous night’s merrymaking.
Food was prepared courtesy of Eddy who is known to be a good cook. I must say the food was great. For breakfast, for which Paul and I just made in time, there was fried rice and tapa. For lunch there was sinigang na hipon and roasted pork chop, for dinner there was roasted yellow fin tuna and salted eggs. There was even snacks: ginataan (which unfortunately had too much ube), palitaw, and sago’t gulaman. There was so much yummy food I was afraid I was going to get indigestion!
In between eating and drinking, we swam around the pool or hung out at the gazebo where we sang or chatted. This went on till evening. I then beat a discreet retreat to bed where I tried to sleep. Unfortunately, I rediscovered the hard way that sleeping is definitely tough in a hot summer night with an almost non-functional air conditioning unit. Still, I did manage to gather a few hours of much needed sleep.
The next day, we packed up. The rest proceeded to see the Pahiyas Festival at Lucban. Migs, Paul, and I drove back to Metro Manila. We all had other things on the to do list. Besides, I really was not too keen on Pahiyas as I’ve already seen it before and didn’t really like it all that much.