Urban Club, Davao City

May 2, 2008

At around 10:00 pm, delegates assembled at the Marco Polo hotel lobby to wait for the vans that will take us to Urban club.

Urban Club is located within the Wheels and More Drive compound, J.P. Laurel Ave. cor. T. Palma Gil St., Bajada. The Wheels and More compound (sometimes referred to as "Autoshop") actually has a lot of restaurants/bars to choose from, and each has its own crowd.

Urban Club is a popular, "happening" place among the young ones, and is sometimes considered Davao City's equivalent of Club Embassy - a popular hang-out of rich kids, celebrities, and social climbers in Metro Manila. Actually, DJs from Club Embassy would sometimes pop in at Urban Club.

I think the entrance fee to the club is PHP 100.00, which includes two free drinks. No one cares about the rate tonight though since the tab will be picked up by ACI. All the delegates just had the doorman stamp us with the Urban Club logo on the wrist and got in. We (PNB) placed 3 tables side by side and ordered food and drinks.

We were able to get tables since we were among the first to get there. In a few minutes the place was SRO. The waiters had a hard time remembering who ordered what that we had to actually watch each waiter going out of the kitchen just in case they have our order but delivering it to the wrong table.

Teddy ordered at least 4 dishes, but the only ones I liked were Crispy Pata and Crispy Tenga. One dish was cooked in a different way than we imagined, and one dish had beef that was hard to chew.

Left the place around midnight because the others in the (PNB) group wanted to go back to the hotel and sleep ... their decision was a bit abrupt - I had just poured out some wine into my glass when Che told me they were leaving. Not wanting to be left alone, I left with them.

May 3, 2008

I still ended up sleeping at around 4AM ... Rhoda and I spent the rest of the "night" talking. We weren't sleepy.