My high school classmate Christopher was in Manila for an interview for Landbank, and he was thoughtful enough to text me “Hey, we’re meeting in Robinson’s Place Manila at 4pm..I hope you can bring Flisha’s badminton set because I’m leaving tomorrow.”
When I looked at my watch it was 10 minutes before 4pm, and there I was in our apartment in Makati in my pambahay get-up and nowhere near ready. My 1-hour tardiness was therefore forgivable.
When I got to Pancake House, I joined Raquel, her boyfriend Cyp, Kat, her brother Nikko and Chris at the table. Then the reminiscings about the good old high school days began.
First Raquel mentioned that she saw our High School classmate applying for a job at their company. When she talked to him, he actually looked at her ID to see who she was because he didn’t know her anymore. XD
Of course when the subject of this guy comes up, we can’t help but bring up his weirdest episode to date, the day he suddenly threw a rampage in Biology class and started chewing on his Bio book.
But most of the talk centered on what we all (except for Cyp) had in common, including “Sir” Nikko who was the corps commander of the batch who trained us – yes, the good old COQC days.
We just laughed and laughed when we talked about:
- Tacs fainting during formation and landing on his jaw
- Chris “quitting” and writing a lengthy and dramatic farewell letter, only to come back later
- Lindamor hiding in the grade school locker during ftx night
- Katrina luckily missing reverse meals because she was KP (kitchen personnel) twice
- Daniel fainting on the second floor ledge of the LRC building also during FTX night
- Reynaldo the sunflower unconsciously following the sun’s movements during formation and getting us all punished
- A cabinet falling over and landing on my leg during our last day
- Donnel crying because he was tricked by officers and getting everyone (except him) punished
We were talking forever. I don’t think I will ever want to go through all that torture ever again, but I must admit, it was fun. It’s definitely fun to talk about it.
Darn it. Now I miss my High School pals. What are they all up to, I wonder? Everytime we talk, we come up with zero married people. Tsk tsk! As what Sir Lem, my fave Lit teacher once called us – NERDS! 🙂
Can’t wait to see them all again. A Christmas reunion is definitely in order.
We all had one thing in common, including Cip, we were all CAT officers 😀 Cip was their Corps Commander thats why he understood most of the things we were talking about 😀
oops…sowee for mispelling his name! oo nga pala, he did say he was also a cat officer. 🙂 those were fun days though, huh?