Melissa Maio's Addendum to Vivian's List
You belonged to Assumption San Lo Batch 1977-1981 if:
(Continuation…)
2) If not Greggs, you wore black kung-fu shoes to school.
3) Your everyday scent was Nenuco or Denenes.
4) You were in love with Rex Smith and adored his movie about the teeny-bopper fan and him falling in love. Haay! His hit song was You Take My Breath Away (…and I don’t know what to say).
5) You were a Superstar if your household had a Betamax.
6) You loved Dippin’ Donuts and hanging out at Whistlestop where you could purchase the latest American-made candy and chocolates.
7) If you smoked then (or explored to---I know I did), you bought your blue-seal pack of cigarettes from the Manang at the Caltex station,
8) Your nail polish was metallic red.
---Melissa
posted by Monica1981 @ 9:54 PM
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It's pretty obvious I was in the minority in high school. Here's my list, which encompasses grade school and high school: (By Anna Pison Stanford)
You were a Batch '81 nerd/tomboy if:
1. You hung out in the library and actually spent that time reading books.
2. You could read more than one Nancy Drew book in a day. (My personal record was 15.)
3. Besides Nancy Drew, you read Tolkien and other fantasy/sci-fi books.
4. You were in the Science Club.
5. You borrowed "The Magic of Chemistry" over and over again just to make potassium permanganate/ glycerin explosions and dreamed of creating a volcano with it.
6. You loved SRA and got to purple or higher.
7. You always wore shorts under your skirt so you could climb trees.
8. You sat near the front of the class since all of the back seats were taken, but you didn't really mind.
9. You actually enjoyed Miss Barrera's classes even if you were terrified of being called upon.
10. Miss Barrera actually called on you and (though very rarely) praised you.
11. Okay, yes I did have the Denman brush sticking out of my pocket.
12. You forged you parents' signatures on permission slips so you did NOT have to attend parties.
13. You didn't spend boring Pilipino classes doodling hearts but playing squares (ok, yes, hangman and shooting stars too) with your equally bored neighbor, practising forgery (which I got good enough at to charge for it if I dared) or writing romances starring yourself. (I loved China Reyes's cartoons!)
14. You loved Assumption tarts.
15. You actually wore your tie at the right length instead of micro and kept it on all day too.
16. You couldn't dance but wished to God you could, but at least that gave you an excuse not to dance.
17. (This I think applies to everyone, not just us nerds) You loved music class because that meant spending time in the airconditioned AV Room.
18. You were an expert at jackstones, Chinese jackstones and garter instead of kickball and basketball.
19. You never snuck out of school or were late to class, or if you were late you were terribly embarrassed.
20. You were probably a class officer at some point.
Guilty here! (And proud of it!) Books, the Science club, climbing trees and catching bugs. But I didn't have a Denman brush, and to me, most boys were immature, self-centered, and boring. Instead I spent as much time as I could with my beloved horses. (Besides, boys who rode horses were more interesting than the ones who didn't.)
Books, books, books! I don't recall the "Magic with Chemistry" book like
you do, Anna, but I *clearly* recall making potassium permanganate and
glycerin volcanoes sometime in Antipolo! Several times, at that! No idea where I got the materials, but obviously I carried the fascination along with me because years later as a chemistry major I got to play with the same ingredients all over again...must be the latent pyromaniac in me!
Back in San Lorenzo, I recall walking to Bookmark or Erehwon and spending hours browsing. The Bookmark manager years later when I was on a visit to Manila told me that she always remembered me as a book-crazy kid. Then a snack (if I was lucky) at Dulcinea...I loved the bocaditos and churros.
SRA reading levels! I'd had the same ones at the International school and was pleased to find they were used at Assumption too.
In high school, I remember a few of us being excused from class to go to
the guidance counselor. I swear she was using us as research subjects. I remember that my cousin Maya was definitely one of those called out, and that we tried games (experiments?) to do with telepathy, like choosing the right colored pencil out of a group of pencils.
I remember how refreshing it was to have Karina Galang in my class --someone else good at math!
And remember Connie Quirino's cartoons, especially of our 4th year
philosophy (logic) teacher?
There was a pond in San Lorenzo, I think it had reddish walls (stone?
concrete?) and an island in the middle? And goldfish?
There was a willow tree near that pond where in elementary school I decided that one of the roots was a fairy's chair, it was so perfectly shaped...and when I got to high school I tried to find it again and it didn't look much like a fairy's chair at all.
Melissa and Vivian's list are so good! Just to add:
Other significant things:
1. Music was very memorable for me. Making tapes compiling music and "tape-to-tape" and playing it with the cassette player we'd bring to school. Sometimes the cassette player would eat the tape and we would roll it back together or cut and splice it back with scotch tape to save it. Sometimes 5th generation disco tapes were played at our parties and someone from a different school (like a boy) could even say, "Hey I have that!"
Other comments:
1. I remember the Rex Smith movie was called Simply Jesse for that song that started with, "And I don't know, how I knew it..." I can still play that on the guitar. Abroad it was called Sooner or Later. I remembered watching it on Betamax with Cricket Concepcion at my house and she was so kilig about it. I could not figure out why (I was a late bloomer). I think that changed Cricket forever and I witnessed that transformation. Another movie I watched with Cricket at my house was Amityville Horror.
2. Rex Smith is coming to Manila! Is that pushing it or what? I don't know if anyone of his former fans would really be interested in watching.
Yes I was forever the PRO or the party organizer. Who would have known that I could make it a career being in events now? Or my early interest in designing class invitations would turn into application of graphic design and magazine editing?
Why don't we start a did you know article here? Can we post this lists on our website to get more classmates interested in this blog?
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