41st ASEAN Ministerial Meeting drew to a close Thursday afternoon, and we Filipino journalists found ourselves gathering at the media center for some generous servings of Singaporean food:

Allan Tanjusay of Mainichi Shimbun, Charmaine Deogracias of NHK-Manila, Jason Gutierrez of AFP, Manny Mogato of Reuters and Liz Chee Pui Yee of The Asahi Shimbun.

Allan.

Charmaine.

Charmaine and Froilan Garcia of Yomiuri Shimbun.

Froilan was happy because it was the end of a long coverage, and following are the many faces of Manny:

Froilan, Charmaine and Jason.

Froilan makes small chitchat with an attendant at the media center.

Allan, Froilan and Manny.

There were many colleagues from The Asahi Shimbun who covered the AMM. We were perhaps the single-biggest contingent from Japanese print-media.

From left: Suphaluck Paramasawat of Bangkok, Liz Chee Pui Yee of Singapore, Kirin Tai of Shanghai and Endang Roh Suciati.

Here’s Ng Chun Kiat or CK.

Kirin and Endang enjoying our grand dinner last Thursday night.

Seoul bureau chief Hakoda Tetsuya (left) and Satoshi Ukai seem to be in deep thought in the middle of conversation.

Shanghai bureau chief Daisuke Nishimura exchanges banter with Bangkok assistant reporter Supha.

From left: Singapore bureau chief Sugii Akihito, senior diplomatic report and deputy editor at the political news and foreign news departments Tsutomu Ishiai and Mr. Nishimura-san.

And finally, this journalist-blogger together with Mr. Sugii-san.