HOW TO: OVERCOME A LAZY DAY WITH YOUR BARKADA

Usually the goal of some barkada’s when having a very “worth it” hangout time is to make it memorable as much as possible. Who likes to waste daylight by doing nothing, right? So for your convenience, here are the top things to do on a lazy day with your barkada:

GET THOSE UNWATCHED DVD BOXSETS

Throwing a movie marathon with your barkada is the coolest thing ever. So get those DVD or movie files, popcorn, dips and shakes, and corn chips. Make it more epic by transforming your movie marathon into a movie theatre experience and just arrange your sofas and turn off the lights and voila!

FULL STOMACH BONDING

Your friends are not going to stick around if they’re having an empty stomach. So for them to stay you all should mix up your ideas for your food to share. It’s not going to be memorable if you’re just going to order over the phone. You can swap family recipes, take turns hosting dinners with friends, host pot luck dinners based on food themes (something Chinese, Japanese, or Italian) But I’m guessing that street foods will do just fine.

THE LET’S GET ALIVE ‘n’ KICKING QUALITY TIME

A lazy foot is not included in the barkada dictionary when having a quality time outdoors. Host a modern scavenger hunt using technology, download a bike map application in your smart phones and explore a new part of the city, try to have a nostalgia hunt at a flea market (look for anything that you loved as a kid). For simplicity, you can have a nice picnic in the park; start a nature collection (collect interesting shaped rocks or shells). And lastly, take a “flip the peso coin” hike in the woods (you can assign each side of the coin as right or left, and then when you come to a fork in the road, flip to see which way to go. Just make sure you keep track of where you’re going so you don’t get lost).

THE TRADE HANGOUT

Your barkada can try the trade hangout wherein you can have things you wish for that your friend owns and vice versa. You can try to host a clothes swap day where everyone brings clothes and stuff they no longer want and everyone goes home with something new, exchange homes for a night (but that’s a bit weird?), you can also try to trade gear (let your friend use your bike while you learn to rollerblade), trade books, have a board game day or board game night where everyone brings their favorite game, and trade blogs (you host your friend’s blog for a day and let him/her host yours and do the same to other members of the barkada).