Bacolod Pilgrimage - Episode One

I spent the “holy weekend” in 3 different cities in 3 days. I was in Roxas City on Good Friday, Iloilo on Black Saturday and Bacolod on Easter Sunday.

The Bacolod trip excited me the most coz it was, well, exciting. I was with 3 FF’s (female friends) - Nina, Kx and Sawsan. As expected, the unplanned escapade drained my body battery up to its last drop. But it was ALL WORTH IT.



First we went to SM to buy clothes. We found Spongebob and so - photoshoot time! Never pass on a chance to have your pic taken with an over-sized version of a fictional character (which I don’t even understand - a talking sponge living under the sea?)





Dinner time.



Then we checked in at this pension house called 11th Street. The receptionist asked if we were gonna get a room. Was she expecting something else?





We tried to wake Nina up by all means.



When Nina finally got out of bed, we started looking for a place to hang out at.



Eventually we went to M02, which turned out to be a blooper.

The band playing was supposedly alright, except for the chic vocalist. She sounded like she was always out of breath, and she has has this funny diction. “That was a song by Kitty Perry”. It was hysterical.  Anyway, it didn’t matter if she sucked, coz there were only like 20 people listening to her, so no harm done. Too bad we didn’t take her picture though.

So after 1 bottle, we took off. There was no point in staying there. Especially when the waiter told us that we weren’t allowed to jam. WTF? Sawsan is a very good singer and we could have kicked their asses once they’ve heard her. So anyway, we went to Ice.

(Isn’t it funny that we were in Bacolod but we still went to MO2 and Ice? There are other bars, you know.) But I guess we didn’t have a lot of choices.

Surprisingly, our stay at Ice turned out to be a wacky experience.





We were dancing and minding our own business when suddenly, 3 Koreans went to our corner and danced with us. I guess, maybe they thought we were the only ones around who had decent dance steps and somehow they dig it.  lol. Nina and Sawsan were doing these funky steps and so maybe that attracted the Koreans, coz they were, too, dancing crazy.





The funny thing was, it seemed as if Nina was one of them. LOL







And then a bunch of half-baked Pinoys joined the club.



We still boogied like nobody was around us.





The girls were hungry for more clubbing, and so we rode a tricycle to look for places. We went to 3-4 clubs and they were all closed, so we decided to just buy some drinks and hang out in our room.











We tried to drink more while watching Fight Club on Sawsan’s netbook, but the girls ended up sleeping. I myself didn’t finish the movie coz it was freakin’ 5 AM.



So that’s the first day. The next day was a totally different gig.