after coming home from almost a Month's stay in Dubai, all i wanted was a long quiet spell and some little time for my own... but i had to personally attend to our visiting friends from Japan which i thought would be too much of a head ache for me since we had trouble conversing with one another... nevertheless, they are such a likable bunch and spending some time with them turned out to be quite gratifying indeed...
at first i got quite annoyed for they didn't inform me that they had already been checked in the hotel which got me, along with Sir Carl, Topei and Ria... all of us were expecting a call from them since 2pm last Jan. 3, Friday confirming that they are already in Traders Hotel... it was almost 5pm when we were able to get in touch with them... Topei and i had really crazy ideas as to why they haven't called us yet during that time ranging from:
- a possible flight delay or worse cancellation...
- they are having a hard time talking to people to get them to the Hotel since they are not that good at conversing in English...
- being arrested for drugs at the airport etc etc...
but the moment we saw each other at the Hotel, everything was good and smooth all the way... except for that trip from Hotel to Ruote 196 wherein my Backbeat Staff, Lorenz, riding a motorbike, in an effort to avoid heavy traffic, went on a different route with our van tagging behind, enabling our Visitors to see the filthy side of the metro... hehehe i guess they didn't really noticed it that much...
my 1st pic of them during soundcheck...
i guessed they liked the venue, the food, the crowd, the bands and the event itself... everyone at the venue received them warmly which i guess caught them by surprise... if it's anything that we Pinoys are good at is our Hospitality... if only we could've finished a bit earlier, i wanted to let em have a taste of the typical Candyaudiline / Soft Pillow Kisses after gig eating spree but they were to tired and wanted to take a rest... if it did push thru, Slumbook would've been the Happiest People this side of the globe for sure...
Mike Dorothy Records scheduled a recording for them the next day but since i was too tired i commissioned Gwen, Lorenz and Kuya "Dark Knight" Dadeng to accompany Mike... i slept the whole day out and at around 7:30pm i received a call from Mike that they're done recording and that out Visitors wanted to eat Filipino Food... they ended up at Bario Fiesta in Makati Ave... i got there almost an hour later for i still had to go to church... Wally Balloon Derby was also there... obviously they enjoyed the food which made me quite happy... we even let them have some dinuguan... after eating they told us that they wanted to buy pasalubong but since it was really late we weren't able to do so although we did try out various places like Tiendesitas, Mall Of Asia and even Star City but to no avail... they decided to call it a day instead... on our way back to the hotel some of the guys (Lorenz, Wally and Mike) wanted me to take them to a Sripjoint but since they had a girl with them and us too (Gwen) i saw it close to impossible to do so... the parting of ways was quite awkward really... but they really had to take a rest so after a few Pictures taken, we said our goodbyes to one another... they didn't enter the Hotel until we were way beyond eyesight... they just continued waving which really made our parting quite a sad thing... they were a really nice bunch and everyone of us noticed it... not even an once of the dreaded "i'm in a band syndrome" from these guys...
my last 2 pics before saying goodbye...
as for the rest of us, the next stop was Heartbeat Mega Ktv... 2 and a half hours later and after 21 bottles of beer, 4 plate of fried Sharksfin and a dozen of sexy babes parading in their undies, we all decided to call it a day... but not before a quick trip to Marlets for some sisig, liyemposilog and tapsilog...
Topei and Ria by the way are the real ones responsible for having Lazy Chocolate come over here...
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