reminiscing high school...

many say high school life is the best...
i say, "it was..."

last saturday, a group of my high school friends organized a high school section 1 class reunion. honestly i had second thoughts of going there. modesty and humility aside i was very good back in high school. i was in section one from pre-school to high school; finishing top of the class, each and every year till high school, when my priorities changed. finished 3rd best in my graduating class; recepient of many special awards and recognitions, with flat 100% average grade in Accounting, and a Best in Values Education recognition... yep, i know what you're thinking... i, too, don't know where that came from... all these i got without much effort in studying. otherwise i would've finished first! ;P

and our school was not just an low quality and substandard school. at least not back then...

people had very high expectations from me. a straight A student; with countless academic awards under his belt, and a ticket to UP Diliman's holy grounds for college, to pursue a quota course from a much highly regarded Engineering Course...

then life happened... and it almost crippled me...

but i have never cared for what people say and what their opinions are about me. so i went. also, my highschool crush, and textmate will be there, taguro3.

i was really glad i came. many of my high school buds were there, especially taguro3 who was the frist to greet me. it was exactly 7 years when we last saw each other. it was a really good thing to see them again. see her again. many were time capsuled and never changed a bit while some got out of their old shells and got into other people's bodies..

old secrets were shared; from crushes, (of course, i never revealed mine, i'm no sucker...) to old grudges to Jayronn's old supernatural friends. "yung mga makina, meron ding mga buhay yan, kaya kinakausap ko sila para gumana...", jayronn remarked while explaining what exactly he does at trendmicro. from someone who has elves and supernatural sprits as friends back in high school, he has gone a long way. at least machines are tangible... still he brings his ever reliable umbrealla. (at least two fold na, nde na yung semi golf umbrella he religiously brings even on 37 degree Celsius summer days... "baka daw umulan...")

of course, lovelives were discussed; from my Cindy's astronaut and space exploration adventures, to other's attached and everblooming committed lives to other's "single and going strong" celibasy.

many did well in college and managed to be score high-paying but still pencil pusher job. alot benefit from callcenter boom and became instant vamps, while others still pursue college diplomas...

im so glad i came. after crisanta towers, we went to metrowalk to caffeine-ize the night. then after talking for hours, taguro3 and the rest of the girls decided to go to malate. then after malate, tagaytay...

everybody treated the event as if tomorrow is never to come.

everybody had no energy left. it was 9am.
i only have energy to finish this blog. started this on my phone, just barely sync'd it to my pc.

i loved high school. all it's simplicity and carefree-ness. i loved my friends back in high school. wish i could bring back the days... and free myself from love life heart attacks, money woes, work "suckage", and most of all free myself from sleepless nights because life's uncertainties, and burden of being the one to shoulder my family and heave life's trials that are to dawn upon me...

it was a perfect night...