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10/21/2008
6:29am

My wife’s high school reunion will be held this coming December. This reminded me of our OWN high school reunion which will be happen in the year 2015, if I am not mistaken.

High School Life. Remember that Sharon Cuneta song?

“High School Life o my school life, how exciting kay saya…”
Say what you will about the mega star but she indeed hit the nail on the head on that one. By the way, has there ever been a more influential artista in our generation than the Megastar? And the fact that even now she still has her own TV show says a lot about her lasting legacy. Its disturbing to me that I know these things. End of tangent.

Going back to my original train of thought, I question myself about what made my high school special. As most of you might know, I studied at Don Bosco Techinical College in Mandaluyong from Prep (age 6) to College (age 21). Yikes!
Don Bosco at that time was an exclusive Catholic School for boys. Here are some things that I remember from that time that I was in High School there:

1. playing sipa and really being good at it (yeah I know)
I could hit the sipa for 100 consecutive times, and even do “tricks” like the abra kadabra. I also remember putting foam inside my adidas rubber shoes(or was it Mighty kid?) –maybe i was in elementary then..haha

2. playing basketball during recess AND lunch and falling back in line all sweaty and stinky . Speaking of basketball, the way it was played in Don Bosco, there could be 50 kids on the court AT THE SAME TIME, playing in their own 5 on 5, or 4 on 4 or even 1 on 1 games. It was chaos but everyone who played were able to keep up. I did not know how we did it we did.

3. Soirees. Yikes. Sad but true but I had PERFECT attendance in all the soirees that we had. For the uninformed, a soiree is a party held between two classes, one class all boys, and the other class, all girls, under the supervision of their class advisers. So  I, as part of class 350 and 450 attended a few soirees St Paul Paranaque, St Paul Pasig and I think there was one more but I could not remember. I remember being in a state of panic just before the first soiree with St Paul Paranaque. I did not really have high self esteem then for some reason(haha). I guess pimples and having no sense of fashion would do that to you. During the soiree with St Paul Paranaque, we played a game where you would everyone would pick a number, equally divided between the two classes. Then if you and the girl had the same number, your hands would be tied together for 5 minutes so you could talk and get to know one another. Well, needless to say I was really nervous and excited. The girl that was paired with me was quite pretty (although to be honest, during that TIME, anyone wearing a skirt would probably be pretty to my eyes). Anyway I barely started introducing myself when she saw our class VP passed by. She gushed “ang cute nung vice president ng klase nyo ah…”. Needless to say, I quickly lost interest and my already low self esteem went plummeting down the drain. NOT good times.

I’m pretty sure there are more high school stories to tell. Will save that for another day though as I need to go to work soon. I’m not in high school anymore, you know?

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