Grand Reunion Details and more

Duscians batch 99, KUMUSTA? I can feel everyone’s excitement for this grand event and it increases each time we visit the best blogsite ever created by the “Kap” himself Mr. Ban Jassen Calinawagan. The blogs and pictures make us travel back in time and reminisce our most unforgettable, most difficult, and most embarrassing moments. There were three sections with three different stories and we will make them ONE on this big event.

The Fellowship

I’d like to share how this GRAND Reunion came into place. It started with a text message from Oliva Palang saying that Adelaine Sevilla wanted to meet some people from our batch. Then we forwarded the info to all people whom we have contacts of. Astonishingly, there were more or less 30 people who showed up. This “fellowship” brought up the idea to have a HS batch 99 reunion, not just a regular reunion but a GRAND Reunion at that.

The Plan

I assume everyone knows the date of this most awaited event as this was posted by Kap early this month. But for the benefit of everyone, I’m giving it again (you better take note of this, or else).

The big event will be on March 28, 2009 and will end on the following day which will be held at Calinawagan’s Beach House (Kap will be posting a map going to the place). Since we don’t have any funds available, the fellowship agreed that everyone should contribute Php500 for the food, place, shirt (tentative), giveaways (tentative), and a project. This project is for our alma matter and this will be discussed on the night of the celebration. We will also have fun activities and games so prepare to get wet.

To all our batchmates who are now internationally based, you are not excused in giving contributions. In fact, we are expecting more than Php500 from you guys. Hehehe. We will surely miss all of you physically but I assure you that you will be part in making the “story” one.

I welcome your thoughts so if you guys have more ideas for the reunion, feel free to email me at dex_ian12@yahoo.com.

Communication

The communication committee is led by the very proactive Adelaine Sevilla. She’s calling everyone personally to relay the info (thanks to the company’s resources. Hehehe). To date, she has 42 people who confirmed and sadly 5 who did not. I’m also planning to have it announced over the radio for wider coverage. DJ Dolf, if you’re reading this, feel free to make the announcement over your radio station. Let’s help the communications committee in cascading this info.

If you have any suggestions to make this event more widely known, please let us know.

Methods of Payment

Pick up: For Dumaguete based only. Send me an email with your contact number in it so I could call you for details.

Meet up: For Dumaguete based only. Send me an email with your contact number in it so I could call you for details.

Kwarta Padala: Send me an email with your contact number in it so I could call you for details.

Western Union: (Para sa people na dili na ma reach) Send me an email with your contact number in it. I might be able to call you if you’re in the USA. If not, then I’ll send my response through email.

Paypal: Available upon request. You may reach out to Jassen at darthdart@gmail.com.

Payment deadline is on February 28, 2009.

Committees

Communication – Adelaine Sevilla

Program – Gina Capatar, Rowena Bajar, and Ristie Ta-as

Games – Lee Ann Ricardo (Nipalit ug libro para games)

Batch Logo – Kay Concepcion, Ban Jassen Calinawagan, and Joseph Diaz

Tarpaulin – Joseph Diaz

Blogsite – Ban Jassen Calinawagan

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)

Complete Class List

Hey, guys. I have posted the complete class list of DuScians99 together with each of our current status for the Grand Reunion on March 28, 2009. Those with their names in bold have already confirmed their presence for the big to-do (the number is 40 right now) while those whose names are in orange have confirmed that they will be there in spirit. LOL! Please (please!) check the second sheet for the list of peeps whom I don't have any contact info for. If you have their mobile or landline numbers, email addresses...snail mail address--anything--just drop me an email at acmcsevilla@gmail.com. Meanwhile, I will be updating the list every chance I get.

Picture Slide from Dec 29, 2008

If you had nothing better to do in the office like I did last Saturday, I'm sure you can come up with something like this. Probably even better. Well, here we were last December 29, 2008--when we first came up with the grand reunion idea. Watch out for Irene and Lee Ann's shots--and I don't mean just the camera-related ones.

See ya'll March 28.

High School Session 1

To grab the complete batch of pictures click here. Pictures courtesy of Nancy Biyok.

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.