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These Were Our Moments
They were the best years of our lives...
Turn back the clock, bring the wheels of time to a stop
Back to the days, when life was so much better.
I wouldn't change a single day...don't let the memories slip away.
1.Raffy Geraldez and George Angel had a fistfight along Speaker Perez St. during the gym blessing.
2.George Angel and Emmanuel Moya's fight also along Speaker Perez St. Moya kissed the ground for several seconds.
3.Allan Manliclic fell asleep in class and was left inside the room a good 30 minutes after everyone had already left.
4.Ms. Tolentino dissected a frog in the Biology laboratory. Everyone knows what happened.
5.Ronaldo Pascual got caught by Miss Liwanag...with a mirror...under the table...looking up her skirt.
6.Francis Gamboa set off an explosion in the third floor comfort room during noontime angelus.
7.Marlon "kambing" Mendoza and Sixto Lopez exchanged punches along Apo St.
8.Bennet Reyes stained Miss Liwanag's white pants with red ink placed on the chair.
9.The dog in OMI Fairview during our retreat.
10.Tagisawit and the perennial winners.
11.Arvin Dalusong mimicked the Marlboro chant when the record failed during CAT's flag retreat.
12.Aborted fistfight between Bailey Salayo and Morris Ancheta during CAT.
13.Mr. Paltao got angry and threatened to cancel the show during the Teacher's day presentation hosted by Francis Sanchez and Cristina Ferrer after getting booed.
14.Raul Landero got punched by a former Lourdesian (pinsan ata ni Owad Fernandez) during a game at Ateneo.
15.Jeff Uy hit, elbowed, shoved and kneed everyone in a third year uniform during the interyear competition. He later punched a third year player (Rey Edmilao) square in the face.
16.Ronald Fernandez got thrown out of and was almost permanently banned from the intramurals by Doro after nearly getting into a fight with Paolo Zamora. Ban was only lifted through the intercession of Mrs. Versoza who took the matter up with Mr. Salazar.
17.Ms. Sychangco gave us the silent treatment and wrote the whole lecture in the board instead of discussing it. She later cried.
18.Mr. Aunario threatened to flunk the conduct grade of the whole class after almost getting hit by papers being thrown in class by Roberto Abrahan and Rommel Magtoto.
19.Dindo Feliciano and friends were forced to resign by Ms. Fajardo and Mrs. Versoza as fourth year class officers in favor of the teacher's favored ones.
20.Francis Fuentes's Cross ballpens got stolen.
21.Mr. Ella almost had a heart attack during a heated debate between him and Jose Sebastian right in the middle of Philippine History class. The subject matter was: "Which team was better, Crispa or Toyota?"
22.Roderick Santiago almost got into a fist fight with a parent of a third year student after Derick insinuated that the car of the student ran over his foot. Derick even showed his muddied topsider to prove his point. Sometime later, he admitted (to some pals) dipping his shoe tip in mud to make it appear that it got ran over. Seemed that Derick had some beef with the third year student whose family name was Lazatin.
23.The formation of "pseudo" gangs within the batch (GQs, 29ers, US Boys, etc.), and the emergence of a new status symbol during 3rd year - stolen car emblems glued onto student's attache cases. The US Boys were founded by Bobby Pacman Jimenez in 1983, and had Edwin Salamante as President and Arnold Avanceņa and Joel Lingad as chief officers.
24.The "porma" of Edgar Sundiam and his cohorts....whatever happened to him and his trusted aide, American-boy Johnny Diaz?
25.Fund raising for the Grade School gym via the selling of tickets to the movie "Six Pack."
26.Crawling in mud and other ground-based substances at the back of the High School building as an initiation to Model Platoon's pseudo fraternity - REDDS.
27.Having the then "unknown" Shintaro Valdez (who was a sophomore in 86) in a lot of the senior's hit list.
28.Having to watch the gold, Corolla SR and white, lowered Toyota station wagon owners outdo themselves in souping up their respective cars.
29.The usual taguan ng bags and batuhans using the monggo seeds originally earmarked for a biology experiment.
30.Placing of trash, cornick and cornick salt on the ceiling fan. Once, everyone in class had salt in their hair.
31.Jolly Abrahan making a monkey of himself. He thought the whole class, including the teacher, was laughing at his antics. He didn't know that taped to his back was a paper written with the line "Tabi ka, uutot ako."
32.Barbeque lunch in the elementary canteen. A lot of us lived on that diet for 6 years. We also had to buy chits first before we could purchase some items.
33."Catching" robbers and patintero in our grade school days. 50 meter sprints along Apo St. under Mr. Baena.
34.Buying outside. 25 centavo fine for speaking in tagalog. Ice cream and cornick vendors. The ever-refreshing sago from the not-so-hygienic stand (pero wala naman nagkakasaket).
35.Shared classrooms. Cleanliness drives. Newspaper drives. First and third years; second and fourth years. Halfday classes only: 7:30 am to 12:00 nn for freshmen and sophomores; 12:10 pm to 5:30 pm for juniors and seniors.
36.Fistfight between Wehrner Alandy and Owad Fernandez along Speaker Perez St. Wehrner challenged Owad after accusing the latter of throwing papers at him during Mr. Bautista's freshman PE class.
37.Field presentations during Foundation Day when we were in Grade School. Our batch performed an Igorot dance, with matching attire, when we were in first grade. We also performed a kite exhibition to the tune of "Saranggola ni Pepe."
38.The red payphone near Mr. Ponce's office that needed three 10 centavo coins.
39.Baston pants (may zipper pa sa baba), attache case bags, Haruta, Blabla and Sperry topsiders.
40.Gerardo Santos showed up in school with a mohawk haircut. He was promptly suspended for it by Mr. Paltao.
41.Dr. de Guzman's medical checkup mandatory for all senior students before graduation.
42.Faculty memories, from Mr. Ella's jeepney and Mr. Salazar's Ford Cortina, to Mr. Camacho's extra-tight, fitting pants with matching high boots, and to Mr. Montero's electronic converter and splices and Mr. Lozada's YDT knots.
43.Onat Ruby's supporter and basketball uniform were hanged on the windowsill during Physics class (which was right after PE) by a couple of classmates.
44.We had Junior Citizen as our reading material for Social Studies and Pegasean as our official newsmagazine in Grade School. Various paper sizes were used (1/4, crosswise, lengthwise) for grade school seatworks, quizzes and mastery tests. High school saw the use of Quiz booklets
45."Faustus, o Faustus" was on everyone's lips in our freshman Speech class under Miss Caringal.
46.Everyone in the sixth grade was enamored by the regular appearance of Leslie from nearby St. Theresa's College. She hanged out almost everyday in the grade school canteen waiting for her brother.
47.The "Speak in English" campaign was evident when Sixto Lopez, even during the height of emotions while in a fisticuff with Owad Fernandez, defended his actions by exclaiming "I only retaliate."
48.Mr. Tanlioco was red in a combination of anger and laughter when, after asking his students to read aloud an Edgar Allan Poe poem, the class put in a suffix and instead recited "Annabel Lee-bog."
49.When she asked "Ano ang nangyari kay Florante nang una niyang makita si Laura?", Ms. Aguilar was floored when somebody replied "Tinigasan."
50.A priest stopped giving out communion for around 3 minutes when a student, instead of saying "Amen" after "Body of Christ," replied with a "Thank you."
51.Placing of trash, bunot and basahan in classmates' bags. During Mr. Alvarez's class, Sixto Lopez was furious and unloaded his bag's garbage heap on the classroom floor. He was promptly suspended.
52.Edward Biciero left nothing to chance in a fisticuff dare with Sixto Lopez during Mr. Alvarez's class. He brought a three-inch thick chain to ensure victory. Sixto consoled himself by using his chair as a weapon.
53.Anybody who needed a rush of adrenalin and imagination would want to be seated at the back during Christian Living class. Who could forget that race between Bennet Reyes and Veloso?
54.While waiting for Ms. Liwanag's Pilipino class, inflated condoms flew inside the classroom. Out of nowhere, Mr. Paltao appeared and asked who did it. Everyone's eyes were on Linus Tongson.
55.Poor Mr. Bautista kept laughing about "hobarns" (baho) without knowing that the joke was on him.
56.As Grade 3 pupils, teachers started to allow some of us to use ballpoint pens. Those who were told to continue using Mongol pencils had penmanship problems.
57.Mrs. Raņada freaked out when a teacher accidentally left the faculty ladies' room unlocked. Students took turns peeing all over the toilet seat and floor until they were discovered.
58.Teaching boo-boo (or bobo): Ms. Balidoy, our 3rd grade social studies teacher, asked what makes our country unique in Asia. Someone answered we're the only Christian nation in the Far East. Ms. Balidoy then claimed that everyone is a Christian; what makes us different is we're Catholics. In other words, according to her, even Buddhists and Muslims are actually Christians!
59.Teaching boo-boo (or bobo): Ms. Cataluna, freshman Christian Living teacher, claimed that St. Paul's letter to the Philippians was meant for Filipinos, even though we had been taught since childhood that we were only discovered and named the Philippines in the 16th century. In other words, according to her, St. Paul wrote a letter to a country not discovered and, much more, named yet; even the Spanish king we were named after had yet to be conceived!
Grade School High School Class Pictures In Memoriam
