SRA's movie night!

My colleague has been bugging me to do this post so here it is!

*Ahem* Hi, MG! :)

The first celebration I attended this December was SRA's mini-reunion. We've been deciding for almost an entire year on where to spend our Ayala eGC winnings from last year's Rewards and Recognition Program. Ahem, ahem. We won as Best Team, by the way. Kudos to our lovely and ever so efficient manager, Blossom Faith S. Bote! :)

So many things have happened since we won the award last April. SRA is not called SRA anymore, three of its members were transferred to other teams, three new members replaced the old ones... so many things I'd rather not say in detail.

Two weeks ago, December 6 to be exact, my old team and I finally decided to go on a movie night, something the team had never done before. We watched the Disney animated film Frozen at Greenbelt 3, complete with gourmet popcorn and fresh lemonade!

What's a celebration without pictures?

We left for Greenbelt at different times. MG, Jun, and I were the first to go.

Then Aleli and Faith.
Isa sa kanila masayang masaya. Sino kaya? #alamna
:)

Then Lynne and Chase.

The first batch waited a while for the others to arrive. So we just took photos of ourselves to pass time.

We bought fresh lemonade for everyone!

Err.. We were hungry too. Hehehe.
Can't get over the cheese dip. Ang charrap!!

More photos when Faith and Aleli arrived.

Parang celebrity lang si Manager?

Lynne and Chase arrived at the nick of time so we weren't able to take a decent team photo before the movie.

Here we are inside the movie house! Soooo excited!

Finally, a team photo to commemorate the event after the movie! 

Team SRA, Circa 2012

Random photos after the movie.

We ate dinner at Recipes c/o our generous manager. :)

Waiting for seats!

During dinner.

We capped the night off with dessert at Red Mango.

Of course I had to be in the picture! LOL!

We finished fairly early at around 10PM. It was a tiring week for all of us, what with the tight deadlines at work. This mini-reunion gave us the perfect opportunity to unwind.

Sometime during the dessert, it dawned on us that we are the last batch of Team SRA.. so we should cherish this rare time together. Next year will be very different for all of us. There will be other priorities, other people involved, other much pressing issues to conquer. But we are comforted with the fact that our lives are intertwined, intricately woven, as there are friendships and ties that just won't break easily. Externally, we can feel the difference. But deep down we all know that what we are to each other will always, always be the same.

Cheers to Team SRA!!

SRA Idol 2013!!

Every year for two years now, SRA holds a mid-year event at a nearby Family KTV. To make things more exciting, our manager made it a (friendly) competition among us members. Hence, the term SRA Idol came to life. This year, we had it at Music Platinum Family KTV in Polaris St., Makati.

I swear, level up talaga ang SRA Idol this year! As in! It's an event that an SRA member really shouldn't miss! I almost did, actually. Since getting hospitalized 2 weeks ago, Mon and I have been taking extra precautions on my pregnancy. No more commuting, no more strenuous activities, no more late night outs. For this year's Idol, I was supposed to join the duet category only then go straight home na. Mon was supposed to fetch me at 7:30pm but the event started at around 7:15 na. Siyempre may mga opening remarks pa and all that so hindi ko na talaga mapapatapos if ever kahit yung first category man lang. So I begged Mon to let me stay. Faith, my manager, offered to take me home naman. I promised hindi ako magpapagod. My teammates were very supportive in that pag nakikita nilang out of control na ako sa tuwa, they remind me to calm down. 

The winners of SRA Idol 2013 from L to R:
me (English Category), Jun and MG (Duet Category), and Faith (Tagalog Category)

Ang daming revelations nung gabing yun! For starters, lumevel up ng bonggang bongga si Mommy Lynne! #ShyLynNoMore

Yung duet category ang pinaka-aliw sa lahat ng categories. Ang gagaling ng performances! With matching choreography pa talaga. Prepare to be entertained ang peg, especially ang Jun and MG tandem with their winning piece, This Love by Maroon 5. F na F kung F na F! A well-deserved win. Great job, lunchmates!

Not-so-close fight naman sa Tagalog Category because may isang nag-stand out talaga. I know kasi it was I who tallied the votes.  Faith garnered 50% of the votes that night for her winning piece, Araw Gabi by Regine Velasquez. Go go, Faithee!!

As for me, well, I wasn't supposed to join the English Category. As I've said earlier, I was supposed to join Duets lang. Pero nung nakita ko yung prize, aba, Ferrero! Mon loves Ferrero! So I thought, might as well try it out diba! Nandun na rin naman ako eh. So I got the songbook and literally picked the first song I laid my eyes to, A Very Special Love by Sarah Geronimo. 

Sa totoo lang (walang stir!), everybody did very well sa performances nila. Ang hirap pumili ng bobotohin during votation time! So congratulations to all of us! We're all winners in our own right!

Our tagline: Once an SRA, always an SRA!

Throwback Thursday

Following the hype of popular celebrities, here is my version of Throwback Thursday. my first!

Frosh Year College
Circa 2000

This was my college barkada. The closest one to me and the only one whom I am still very much in touch with is Sheree, the cute girl on my right. 12 years of friendship and counting!