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| Behind the Scenes with Ivy Visitacion |
It was just an impromptu idea to hold a post-Valentine dinner with a few friends, mostly members of our club, Circulo Negrense, at Dr. Ver Lacson's residence recently.
A couple of hurried text messages (oh, the convenience of modern technology!), and some last minute telephone calls, set the ball rolling and everything was all set for an intimate dinner that cool, drizzly evening.
Coming in from the drizzling rain, it was such a pleasant sight to see the beautiful table settings set out with welcoming glasses of red wine, nuts and cheeses to set the party mood. It was so nice to meet a new friend, Malu Tanatan, a balikbayan from Montreal, Canada, who decided to settle here in Bacolod.
She is an expert in beauty enhancement and has put up a new esthetic clinic, which the local fashionistas would love to try.
Another familiar face we haven't seen in a long while was Jose Marquez Lim, a debonair Spanish businessman from Madrid, who is now an enterprising sugar planter in Negros. He came with our dear friend, Jo Natalaray. Soon, the place was filled with lively conversation interrupted with bursts of laughter, showing that the group was having a fine time.
Dinner was a delectable array of party dishes especially concocted by our genial host - prawns bathed in garlic-lemon butter sauce, chicken ala “Ver” (you have to taste it to believe it!), nachos Spanish style, pasta in pesto sauce, etc. The dessert table beckoned sinfully and some of us hesitated to be tempted. But when Dr. Ver announced that it was “sugarless dessert”, we immediately indulged to our heart's content.
The after-dinner conversation sizzled with such red hot topics that we stayed, nibbling on fruits and cheeses washed down with hot tea until almost midnight! It was THAT interesting. Which goes to show that impromptu dinner parties can be so much fun.*
