MAP stands for Mahjong Association of the Philippines – no, we’re not an official association – we just called ourselves that several years ago when we played mahjong almost everyday as a past time back when we all lived in Makati. My friends have all long gone home to Cebu for good, but we meet up at least once a year and when we can, we play mahjong!

For this year’s Christmas Party, it was held at Repry’s new house (or mansion as we want to call it). It was a simple celebration – for food, we had lechon manok bisaya and two of my favorite Cebuano staples – ngiohiong and Siomai sa Tisa!

We arrived quite late so we immediately had dinner as soon as we arrived (this was at around 9PM already). After dinner, the games began, and since there were 5 of us, I settled for the karaoke (and sitting down to play once in a while when someone goes to the restroom or needed a break haha).

Suffice to say I drank a lot of beer this night. We went home at around 3AM already after we did our exchange gifts (I got 3 bottles of Bangus in Olive Oil c/o Rep). We’ll be seeing each other again on Jan 4 to celebrate Rei Dean’s birthday so I am hoping there’ll be mahjong again then!