Octoberfest Nightout

Last October 6,2007, some night shift agents decided to unwind and take a day out after weeks and months of being tied up at work. As agents, we usually arrive at the office an hour before our log in time or a few minutes before and sit down our own assigned units. We log in our yahoo messenger ids then open our emails to check important instructions for our tasks from our clients. We start working even before 10pm and take a our break at 2am. Some don't even take their breaks as they just love working. We resume working at 3am then go home at 7am. This is basically our normal cycle from monday to friday.

We do not have much time to relax and relieve ourselves of the stress we get from work. So most of us decided to join the planned saturday night out by our fellow night shift webmaster agent. We also invited our company manager and our tech admin, and our trainer from iloilo who gamely joined us. So what better way to unwind on October but to visit the Octoberfest Celebration at Victoria Plaza carpark.

About 3/4 of the total population of the night shift agents joined and one morning agent. A combination of web developers, web masters, graphic artist, virtual assistants, link builders, and writers were present that night. We paid for our own drinks and chipped in for our "pulutan". Actually i don't drink so i just had Cali. The place was already jam packed when we arrived at past 9pm. Good thing our web master was able to find us a good spot.

So after a few rounds of beer our manager asked what would we want to do next, and our link builder replied lets go for a videoke session. So our manager asked us if our parents would allow us. She also asked if the boys can still stay up awake coz the webmaster who initiated the night out was already closing his eyes. We teased him that he should not sleep since he was our project manager for the night... hahaha! So we texted our parents telling them we will not be going home and that we will be out till dawn. It is much safer anyway since we were in the company of a big crowd. So after discussing what is the best place for a 24 hour videoke session, Bonguyan beach was chosen.

We rode a taxi from Victoria Plaza to Bonguyan beach. But we were saddened when we learned that videoke machines are put off at 10pm and will only operate back at 5am because of a city ordinance by our city mayor. So our manager suggested that we go somewhere near penongs in SM. And our link builder was asked if it was just a walking distance from bonguyan. She replied yes so we started walking. This is where our adventures began! After a few meters of walking our manager complained. I thought it was just a walking distance! So it really is walking a very very far distanceee... lolz!

Good thing a multicab passed by and stopped to ask us where we were heading so we all rushed to ride and so we instructed the driver to bring us to penongs. I was really thinking there was a penongs somewhere along the highway near SM. So when the multicab passed by John Paul college i immediately called the attention of our manager "mam lampas na tayo ng SM! andun ang SM!" so we called the attention of the driver and he made a u-turn. So the driver was now driving at high speed. Our manager already told him that we will turn at marikina shoe exhange office. But he just passed by it coz he was speeding to much. So we shouted " manong lampas na!" then he made another u-turn... then our manager told him "liko po tayo dyan" but the made the wrong turn.. he turned to the left instead.. so we again shouted " mali! sa kabila!" so he made another u-turn.. and we were all laughing! "waahhhh!! grabehh!"

So we finally found the spot and we kept laughing coz the place our manager was talking about was times beach and we already passed that place even before we passed by John Paul college. The driver was quite mad coz "wala daw mi klaro" waahhh! he was overspeeding that is why our manager did not notice we passed by that place already..

So anyway, we were there and we were given the cottage near the seashore since it was really prohibited to operate the machine that time of the night because of the city ordinance.. We had singing and dancing and some bondings with our fellow agents.. The cost per song is only three pesos so the 200 pesos so we had a handful of songs to sing. We decided to go home when the sun rised.. but then we had a casualty. Our graphic artist brought with him his motorcycle so our web master tried riding it, but our virtual assistant also wanted to try riding it. Our graphic artist was apprehensive about lending him the motorcycle so he decided to ride at the back. He instructed the virtual assistant not to speed up and he even held the handle of the motorcycle so he can control the speed but our virtual assistant did not listen and so the motorcycle skidded on the sand. The graphic artist made a what they call Zaido move and jumped off the vehicle, but the virtual assistants leg was caught by the mudguard and the wheel.

So he has a wound in his right leg. The guys were teasing him coz if he only listened to the owner of the motorcycle he would have not met that accident. Our manager became a first aider for a moment as she cleaned the wound of our virtual assistant. She sent her off a taxi to make sure he would be able to go home safe since he cannot walk straight after the incident. She also texted the father of the agent to inform him of what happened.

Well accidents happen and someone learned his lesson... some bonding was made and it will surely be a night to remember! With our very busy sched we do not know when our next bonding session would be... ^^