the fun seminar blog

last tuesday to thursday, i found myself at punta de fabian, baras, rizal, attending a seminar on wto, globalization and international trade law.  when my brain cells permit, i will blog about my personal take on the philippines' (inutile?) efforts at playing on the international trade arena.  since i had fun, let me just blog about that... haha.

1.  for a motley crew of congress technical people, we all had a blast!!! never mind that we only had 2 nights of bonding... errrr, drinking... but let me say that when busy people get together and take advantage of a respite, well, they do take advantage.  haha. 

2.  apparently, i do have that inner madonna in me.  i remember i swooned (yes, i swooooooned) when i saw madonna with her kids at LAX, but i never realized that i still know the lyrics of "like a virgin" almost by heart.

3.  i wonder if law school or lawyering is the culprit, but the awards for videoke kings and queens for the solidary night would definitely go to the lawyers in the crew.  hats off to J.S. for the never-ending playlist, which included GLAMOROUS (my gulay, alam ba ng frat mo na alam mo kantahin yun???).

4.  when you're at a normal videoke party, you would sometimes feel the age-gap among the crew, which would actually reflect on their choice of songs.  but this time around, that wasn't the case.  imagine a 52-year old momma singing britney spears... though after the song, she screamed:  buti nalang nakikinig ako sa anak ko!!!! (hehehe)

5.  52 year old guy, barely drinking, gets egged to sing a song.  he picks a beatles song which everybody knows.  then he walks toward a group of girls, and we all think he's going to sing to one of the seminar lecturers on a gesture of goodwill.  but NO.  he picks a co-participant, drags her to the front, and doesn't let go of her hand until the song finishes.  then he steals a peck on her cheek.  now that's guts... with age. :)

oh well...  now i can't wait for the follow up seminar.  hehehe :)