POSTED AT 10:53 AM
It’s not the Charmed tagline.
However, this post is about the Condemned Ones, whose name was inspired by the fantasy TV series.
Like I said in an earlier post, my social life died during my junior year, and I am kind of hell-bent on reviving it. In so doing, I went back to what we may call my roots. My friends. For the past month, we’ve been meeting up at random places, just texting each other at random times to see whoever’s free. No fuss and planning necessary.
It seems that the bahala na system works, because even with Monday to Saturday classes/duties and semi-clashing schedules, we’ve been seeing each other on a regular basis.
It’s not like we go on outrageous night outs or whatever. We just find a comfy place and…chill. We chill for hours and hours until one of us has to go. A typical Condemned tambay is usually no shorter than two hours. The longest is the whopping 5-day retreat in Saich’s house.
The really cool thing about that is…hindi kami nagsasawa. After every tambay, we all leave happier about life in general and we’d be looking forward to the next meeting.
You might think…How in the hell is that possible? I don’t know either. But to help us analyze this phenomenon, I have come up with a list of Condemned Hangout Essentials.
1. A hangout spot – Anywhere without a time limit is fine, because like I said, our tambays last for hours. We don’t want the manager/security to be kicking our butts out. It used to be the high school benches, but that place is now swarming with frosh so we don’t go there as much. Coffee shops top our lists now, especially Starbucks (of course) and this quaint little shop in Dapitan, Hawaiian Café. Gilligan’s in Glorietta is fast climbing the chart too.
2. Stories – As boring as I think our lives are, we never run out of them. They could be about anything, something funny that happened in class, a stupid comment from a stranger in the bus, tennis milestones (ahem, Girlie), a weekend rendezvous (ahem Nicole) or a new band breaking into the music business (Ahem, me).
3. Good food –. Hey. All the talking/laughing we do takes energy. We have to eat. We don’t call ourselves Pretty Piggies for nothing. All three of us dearly love to eat. We (especially me…just call me body-issues girl) can be all “Pucha ang taba ko na talaga” or “Ang laki na naman ng tiyan/braso/hita/insert body part here ko”, but we can never turn down a nice carton of ice cream. Or a whole blueberry cheesecake. Or a pizza. Yeah, yeah, you get my point.
4. Drinks with either caffeine or alcohol – It seems that when we get together, the three of us consume a drink that is either of the caffeinated or alcoholic variety. Caffeine boosts our energy (heh, like we really need it) and alcohol boosts our…shall we say…confidence? It has been proven on more than one occasion that alcohol in its smallest amount can make us do things we don’t normally do. If anything, it makes things all the more interesting.
5. People – For people watching. “Is this guy being stood up?” “Those two are on an eyeball, aren’t they?” “Hookers! The leggy girls with the old men are harlots!”
It’s a fun hobby, you should try it.
Optionals:
- Cute guys to flirt with – ‘nuff said
- Girls who give us the evil eye – they give us a laugh and they enhance our self-esteems.
- A digital camera – all three of us have ‘em, mine being the most primitive. We are all innate camwhores, the proof of which can be seen here.
I don’t seem to have forgotten anything, have I? Cheers.
2 were spellbound
