The Bayawan Escapade

If you get frolicsome("I like that word, frolicsome haha") high school students and motorbikes mixed together, you get: a long distance travel which took almost half a day, lots of near-miss accidents, bike race in the rain, a record in a police blotter by over-protective parents, police looking for the said high school students in the police blotter, an arduous search for a vulcanizing shop in a remote area (in the dark), a motorbike that did a 135 degree wheelie, April Boy Regino's "Di Ko Kayang Tanggapin" pose, and most importantly a lot of smiling and happy faces despite the wet clothes and unwanted parental attention.

If I remember the details right, it was fire protection month in Dumaguete back then and RB Marc Batulan got spoofed by his best-friend into doing the duck walk around everybody for being late. After the practice for the fire drill (which our batch won of course) for the so called "fire drill", there were a few miscreants left behind that were planning a road trip to Bayawan composed mainly of Section B and C students and this is one of our memories of Macky that I will not forget.

For the full set of pictures, click here . (Pictures courtesy of Jessiever)

High School Session 1

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When digital cameras where still unheard of, when people still waited for days just to get their films developed, when people idolized and where singing to "Michael Learns to Rock" during exams (how I wish I wasn't one of them, but I was), when people were playing table tennis on cemented benches... when Ma'am July's son kept on using Jake Pia's bike in the middle of class without bothering to ask (speaking of the little guy take a look below, he's even in our batch pictures).

When there were groups such as "FRECKLES", and "The Spice Girls". When during noon breaks all girls where reading cheesy tagalog love novels and the boys kept borrowing just to read the interesting parts. When the first section seemed to follow all rules of the "badge" and yet in other sections, students were taking turns paying the fines. Ah yes, the folly of youth. Where hath thou gone? What has time done upon these innocent sniffling children of '99.