The Birth Of Venus: Lola Basyang

It's that time of the year again! GCI Manila South's own Lola Basyang sleepover party!! Every year, our church allot one weekend for this. After worship service, we would cook dinner or bake some pastry, even the guys are forced to do so. But this year, we pulled off a surprise birthday party for our fellow youth, Clarisse, so we had an early dinner instead. Once the party's over, we put on our coziest pj's and let our Lola Basyang (Tita Evelyn) tell us what to do.

We had to make chili tuna pasta and bread roll. I tell you, it was the tastiest bread roll anyone could ever have. Why, you may ask? Uh, our secret ingredient... 30 hands from 15 people made it with love and their own flavor (if you know what I mean *wink wink*).

Before we devour the dishes we made... we had to sit for 'Ang Mga Kwento Ni Lola Basyang'. This year's topic: "Paano ba mangligaw?" and "Paano ba mag-paligaw?" Kabataan nowadays love this topic, no wonder. Lola Basyang told us her stories while she was in her kabataan days, how she got annoyed with all the harana, how her bestfriend fell for her, how she handled the pagkakulit of her manliligaws, the one time someone made a huge metal thingy with 'I LOVE YOU, EVELYN', how her manliligaws compete for her attention, how she discovered the biggest deal-breaker and how she finally found the one.

At the end of the "kwento", all of us had common ground.

For the guys:

"Ligawan nyo yung totoong gusto nyo, hindi yung liligawan lang dahil may gusto sa inyo." and "Wag kayong magpapapikot!"

For the girls:

"Kung hindi nyo gusto, sabihin na agad. 'Wag na paliguy-ligoy pa." and "Wag mang-pikot!"

Hahahaha! Oo nga naman!

After the "kwento", we played bato bato pik gambling version. Then, we stuffed ourselves with tuna pasta and bread roll before we dozed off.