Vivian Honorio's Twenty Most Significant Memories

You belonged to Assumption San Lo Batch 1977-1981 if:

1) You owned an Ace bag…

2) You hair brush was probably branded Denman…and the handle stuck out of your right skirt pocket…

3) If you had long hair, you probably wore it in a French braid and had your friends do it in class or you had the deadly flip…..if you had it short, you had the apple cut…

4) Your thermos brand was Aladdin…the red cap and beige body model…

5) You wore your socks below you ankle bone and your school shoes was probably branded Gregs…

6) You mastered knotting your necktie and you knotted it small…sometimes you’d clip a tiny monchichi monkey doll on it…

7) You wore a bra even though you only had booblets…

8) The “in” mall then was Quad, Brick Town, Shoppesville or Angela Arcade and that’s where you hung out to meet the boys…

9) Your wallet was probably Hello Kitty or Little Twin Stars and your baon was P20 a day… I know mine was…

10) Your pencil box had magnets…with a built in sharpener and compartments and you arranged your pencils from longest to shortest…I know I square-rishly did… Your erasers were probably fruit scented…

11) Really good food for you then was Assumption siomai and cafeteria cottage pie…

12) During boring classes you practiced signing your name with your crush’s last name… or you played FLAMES (remember… friends, lovers, admire, marriage, enemies, and sweethearts…)… or you could have also wasted your time playing tic tac toe or hang man or shooting stars…with your equally bored-in-class-to death seatmate…

13) You knew how to dance the swing….or also knew how to dance to the tune of Rock Lobster and Oh Mickey…..

14) You loved Sesame Street and might have spent your weekends watching Combat, Little House on the Prairie, Dance Fever, Charlie’s Angels and Hardy Boys…

15) Then, the best movies you’ve ever watched were Boy in A Plastic Bubble, Carrie and Endless Love…

16) You at least owned a pair of Clogs, Happy Feet or Crayon Shoes…

17) The height of your artistic creativity then was how to innovate your class party invitations…we went from laboratory slides, test tubes and blown glass…

18) Your worries then were what you were going to wear for the weekend parties, or how you were going to do your hair (which side of flip you were doing your hair…). You also worried about what excuse you were going to tell your parents for being late that Friday or Saturday night….

19) When you received your class graduation ring, you made everyone turn it once to make a wish…don’t know why we did that…?

20) And you probably wished you looked like Brooke Shields….

--- Vivian