tere on her blog suggested i write about my 15 college memories.
here’s my list.
1 === i met bes van on my very first day of college. the bruha practically told me her entire life story, highlighting her recent breakup with her first boyfriend. i listened of course, tiglibre kya akong spaghetti sa cafeteria. to this day, i still i don’t know why she chose to pour her heart out to a stranger and why me of all the anxious-looking freshmen there. anyways, tanda ko pa bes itsura mo. nakasuper big shirt ka pa na purple, ang haircut mo garo si wowie deguzman kan UMD, tong garo baga may nakatugdon na paru-paro sa payo mo, uso bga kaya kato…(ill stop right there ta baka magbalos ka bes, matandaan mo man itsura ko..hehehe).
2 === i marched on my graduation day, received my diploma, and took a bow in front of the four pillars looking like i always do these days. nakamaong, nakastriped t-shirt, nakatsinelas, nakabackpack, and very, very tanned mind you. hehe…
tapos that’s all i have for my list. unfortunately, college was a blur. i honestly can’t remember what happened in between those two things. heck, i don’t even remember what my thesis was about.
kaya, tere, with your permission, highschool na lng ang the rest of the list.
3 ==== i played a typical noveau riche mother to a balikbayan in the maiden production of our dramatics club on stage for “new yorker in tondo”…fully made up, in miniskirt, high heels and dangling earrings! and i had ridilicous lines! so glad people weren’t as kodak happy then as they are now. pheuw! kakatakot na pictures i tell you!
4 ==== my supposed to be date for J prom (we had to look for dates because we had few guys in our class), after being introduced to me, said he’d be leaving for manila that night, so no, he couldn’t be my date, sorry. prom night, the guy’s friend tattled about his friend needing to make an excuse to get out of the “date”. obviously, rethinking his decision that moment he saw me. my first real taste of rejection. ouch!
5 ===== for an extempo contest, i had to talk for 15 minutes about why religion should’t be included in our high school curriculum… at the grand imperial plaza. somehow, i couldn’t even pronounce “curriculum” and i kept saying, “we have 11 subjects already! gosh!” as if that line alone would suffice. i kept circling around that reasoning all the while wishing for my body to faint. just this once. please faint. for me. faint!
6 ===== for an interschool debate contest, when we were up against ateneo, my speech was about the city needing a certain project for its revenue. for the cross exam, sinaruan lang ako kan mataray na atenistang bading with this question, “miss speaker, what is revenue?” flustered and taken aback by the simplicity of the question, and giving myself a whack in the head for not writing down the exact definition of the word, i started grasping for words, stuttering, and the atenista cut me with a “that’s all, ms. speaker”. arrgghhhh!!!! I NOW KNOW WHAT REVENUE IS! please ask me that question again when we see each other sa SM one of these days.
7 ==== senior year, they held an exhibit of teenage heartrob pictures (yes, they really did!). i can’t remember exactly, but i think i said, “kaniguan na” when cathy asked me to go with her to the exhibit. she went by herself and later, basically told me that i sucked as a friend. i don’t know how i made it up to her though. do u remember cat?
8 ==== senior project for english, we had to do an entire shakespearean production. we drew lots on which roles to play, i unfortunately picked the role of the director. to this day, i still say, that was the worst “midsummer night’s dream” interpretation there could ever be. i didn’t even really read the entire story, i just told people to memorize their lines or they’re dead. some director. hehe…
9 ==== CAT nightmares when we had to march back and forth, disturbing the quiet neighborhood of jimenez park. oh how i hated CAT then. i stuck it out though. i didn’t feign physical maladies like some, ahem. you know who you are. hehe… now, sana nag-MP na din ako. langkwentang CAT yan.
10 ==== we cooked chicken something and that beef something for THE and had a little feast that day. only subject i wouldve been glad to retake had i failed it.
11 ==== movie analysis, first year, bichara, cat almost falling off her seat, pinching my arm, girls around shrieking as well, watching as the human form of casper the friendly ghost descends the stairs. ah….there i was a mere witness to the workings of first love. (thinking to myself, euw, naano man daw ning mga taong ini? hehe….)
12 ==== had my first alcoholic drink at 16 when the debating team sort of celebrated for placing third by default against some highschool. i remember being so scared tatay would smell the stench of alcohol when i got home and memorizing the “our teacher said it was okay, she was there too!” spiel. nobody noticed though.
13 ==== walking almost every night from the school gate to the padyakan. that place held more memories than i could count.
14 ==== the investigatory projects…oh, the craps we came up with. i wish they were all documented so we could all take votes on who exactly made the biggest load of crap and passed it up as a science project. hehe…
15 ===== for my senior prom, i wore pants and slept on the table! hah, take that college self!
that’s it. 
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