Monthly, non-negotiable · Living room · Quezon City
The Thursday Barkada
Projector & floor cushions · July 2026 · 7 friends
“We have missed weddings. We have not missed a Thursday.”
It started in 2019 as a way to finish a series. It is now a standing monthly appointment that has outlasted two of the original jobs and one of the original apartments.
The rules
Host picks the film. Everyone else brings something. Nobody checks their phone during. The third rule is the one that gets broken.
The one abroad
One of them moved to Singapore in 2023 and still joins on a laptop propped against the snacks, on a delay of about two seconds, which everyone has stopped noticing.
What they said
- “It is the only thing in my calendar I have never moved.” — Denise
- “I have watched forty films on a two-second delay and I regret nothing.” — Migs, from Singapore
- “The rule about phones is aspirational.” — Kim
- “We are on our seventh living room.” — Chris
The palette
The team
Small, repeating and easy to lose track of — which is exactly why it is on Setnayan: whose turn it is, who is coming, and every photo from seven years of Thursdays in one place.