Souvenirs Plus Heureux
Friday, March 30, 2012 @ 3:40 PM | 2 comment(s)

Five months ago, I entered the school – the new school I’m going to – with shaking feet, painfully pounding heart and the feeling like my words are stuck in my throat. Five months ago, I chose this school which I hadn’t any idea about. It’s not my dream school, barely passing my “perfect school” standard. But I consider the surfacing of this school as one of the miracles of my life, given the fact that it happened in the midst of my “I’m going to be a hermit” depression days. Those were the hopeless times, and this school, together with its friendly green color, was like my own version of Katniss Everdeen’s dandelion: a symbol of hope, an evidence that there are good times after the bad ones.

And for the first time in my college-student life, I don’t have the constant regret of my decisions regarding my academic life and the school I chose. Unlike before – when I always had to convince myself that everything will be all right and that I could make my decisions work – I don’t have the desire to leave my new school and quit my major. Finally, I decided on something that I really want, something that I know I’ll continue pursuing, something that would make me kill cockroaches if ever they try to take it away from me. Something that is the real me, something I need. Not that I hate my old school, but I just think I’m better off in the new one.

Contributing in my happiness pit are the memories I made in my new school with my new friends, recorded in the new photos I have.

Taken December 9, 2011, Performance Studio, Broadcast Advertising class
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Broadcast Advertising, under Professor Melissa Capistrano, was one of my favorite classes last semester. It was hard – all the creativity needed, high expectations, and leading to the campaign we executed – but heck, it was fun. Here, we got to be free and say everything we wanted to say (be it a complaint or some classy swears). And our classes were always cut short, which was totally fine with me.



Taken December 14, 2011, People’s Television
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People’s Television, or PTV, is the direct affiliate network of our school, given that one of our professors is its Executive Producer. We were asked to visit the set of their morning news/talk show, plainly called “The Morning Show”. There we met its news anchors (which names I stupidly forgot), the Production and Technical crew. We also visited the radio departments where we learned a thing or two about radio programs and productions. And, true to my nature, everything the people from PTV said were accidentally forgotten, poof, vanished in my memory.


Taken January 24, 2011, TV 5, Wil Time BigTime set
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This is DJ Coki, the very disk jock that makes Wil Time BigTime livelier than what the show-without-music can offer. I needed to interview him for my project. And oh, dibs to my mother’s childhood friend slash radio news anchor Niña Taduran for making this possible. Surprisingly, it wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be. He wasn’t intimidating at all. He was friendly and a good conversationalist. And no, guys, I neither asked for his number nor his Facebook account. Why would I?


Taken in between Legally Blonde rehearsals
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These are Khaye Villar and Shenna Geronimo, my new friends in my new school. These were secretly taken while we were rehearsing for Legally Blonde, our entry to the school’s Literary Musical – which never happened. It was sad that things didn’t fall into places, but these stuff (the funny faces we took and moments we shared) made it less lonely. Now I’m stoked for the next school year’s Literary Musical – which I hope will happen.



Taken February 8 and 15, 2012, People’s Television
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In fulfillment of our final requirement for our Music and Sound Effects class, we needed to interview the network’s Musical Scorer (Mr. Ogie Manansala) and Editor (Randy Directo). I can’t say anything else other than we needed to be up early to fit into their schedule – and that we got into a lot of trouble just to make it work. Bad memories? Nope. The things that happened after the interviews were better memories to be kept.


Taken February 15, 2012, The Geronimos’ working site
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We were supposed to start our filming for our drama presentation, another one of our projects, this day. But since – what – we weren’t ready and we were all flushed because of the blistering heat, filming never happened. And okay, we also didn’t know what to do and where to start. So we just had rehearsals for the lines and planning and planning. After that, we ate. With our hands, using banana leaves as plates. It was the best! The food was very simple but, geez, we devoured it like were horses. We had eggs. Which were awesome. And I learned that they were fresh eggs from ducks (I guess). More awesome. Then we just had to be vain for one second – okay, two – and took photos like we were America’s next top models.


Taken March 16, 2012, Performance Studio, Boodle Fight
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Boodle Fight. Food. From Freshmen to Seniors, united by food. More food. Eat and Run. More food. Bloated.



Taken March 21, 2012, Bahay ng Alumni, Farewell Toast
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To celebrate the four gruesome years spent in the school by the Seniors, they were given a Farewell party/toast. I haven’t any idea why such event is needed. To thank the Seniors for their contribution to the school? To remind them of the years they took to finish their major? To give them the chance to deliver speeches? Whatever the reasons are, all I appreciated in this event was the food. I’m sorry.


I’m really grateful for all the five months’ worth of memories I had in this school. And for the next several months, I hope and pray that I will make better and more colorful of them.

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