I hurriedly left the office to go to our post-climb meeting at the UP Mountaineers’ tambayan. I even rode a taxi from the MRT station to the tambayan only to find out that they did not have the CD-ROMs and the t-shirts yet.

We started by filling up a survey sheet about the pre-climb and the climb itself. I wrote that I would definitely recommend my friends to join the next Talikasan because the Mountaineers are very accomodating and they take good care of the participants.

We also commented on the way Batch Woohoo organized the Talikasan and most of our comments were positive. One of the participants pointed out that admirable as Dennis’ gesture was to stay behind to wait for the others, he had a bigger responsibility as a team leader to stay with the group. He could have instructed someone else to stay behind to wait for Rafa and the other person who was late. Rafa did not attend the meeting but he did email his comments to Sara, who relayed it to the group.

Our group divided our expenses for the food we brought and I only had to pay P70 for three meals. Not bad.

Jasper showed off his new bike and he now has gloves and a new helmet. Sara left early since she and Rafa were going for a dive this weekend.

By 8:30, the t-shirts still had not arrived and they were going to pick them up at Krus na Ligas but we didn’t want to go there anymore so we left UP already. I rode with Leslie to Philcoa and he mentioned that he was in charge of training the applicants of UPM in 1992, the time when Garnet (Jasper’s sister) was applying in UPM, as well as Albert, her future husband. This batch also had Leslie’s future wife as a member.

P.S. There was a slight accident at the tambayan when one of the participant’s car got dented by a van and he asked me to take several photographs as evidence. At that moment, I felt like I was a photojournalist chronicling a real life accident. =)