High School Forever

Oh would you look at that! It seems that I owe myself a couple of posts since I have pretty much been quiet here since 2016 began. Let me post two successive entries (the first is this and the next one will be in a couple of days!)

I figured, I've left the blog untouched since my last birthday post so why not continue with another birthday post! These photos were taken last 16 January when I held an overnight celebration with some of my favorites from High School.

6 years after graduating from High School and everyone's still as indecisive, impulsive, ignorant, shallow, and boisterous as when we left the halls of our beloved High School Alma Mater.

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Army?

What do we have in common? Beats me.

1st Set: 

Top: Zara| Skirt: Mango

2nd Set:

Jacket: from Bangkok| Skirt used as top: Topshop| Jeans: Lee

Thanks to Karen Soledad for the pictures

My Shot of Morphine

They've always been both the causes and the cures to all my problems.





 
 
 
Purple Top: Plains&Prints| Plaid Top: Mango| Shorts: Bench

My Favorite Js in the World, To The Rescue!

After months and months of not seeing my girlfriends, I finally did it. It was a long story but bottom line was, though I wasn't allowed in the real sense of the word, I didn't have the heart to decline their invitation when they ironed out all my and my mom's concerns. I had plenty of conditions to which they thought of solutions. I haven't bought swimsuit yet so they brought me something I could wear. I didn't have anyone to bring me to and from the meeting place so they fetched me and brought me home. I couldn't make it on a friday, as what was originally planned, so they moved it to saturday. In the end, I made a deal with my mom just so I can spend the day with my friends. We went to Caliraya Resort and spent the whole day baking ourselves under the sun.

Top: Zara| Shorts: borrowed from my friend Barbs| Sunnies: Aldo| Bag: Aldo


Top: Forever 21| Shorts: Dorothy Perkins
How can I change into my two-piece swimsuit when Jana and Jerone showed up wearing theirs? I didn't have the guts to stand beside them for a long time. Bakit kasi ang sexy sexy niyo! Kakainis. Hahaha

Thank you so much, Jer, Jana, and Barbs!!! :)
Overall, our trip was worth all the future trips I could have had. It was worth risking the chance to possible adventures. 

Since 1st year HS to the present, these two remain to be my favorite Js in the world. I love you, Js!!!!

Thanks to Janica Barrera for the photos

The "Forever" Friend

All of us have that special friend whom, no matter what, we can't say no to. For me, that friend is Vary Jonson. I may have not shown myself to others as frequent as they would have wanted but with her, I'm always just a phone call away. I don't know how she does it but more often than not, things would work out such that I'll be able to leave everything behind just to spend some hours with her. And as I've repeated constantly, she has always always made me laugh, since first year HS. And counting... So when she told me that she's throwing a birthday party, I knew right there and then that come high and come low, I will be there. I had a class that day, leaving me with no time to change and prep up that's why I wore something that could make me look appropriate both in school and for the evening event.

 
TRIBO - my favorite persons ever

Maan and Jeanne - two people who have greatly contributed in making 3rd year HS the best year in my life as a student

I missed you so much, Labs! I hope to see you in more birthday parties to come.

TRIBO - (L-R: Jerone, Verlyn, Dacs, me, Gel, EJ, Jana, Vary, and Karen

There's something so off with my face here that at the same time is so... HAHAHA

Vary and I, trying to imitate our friends' poses
Dress: Promod| Bolero and Heels: Topshop| Accessories: G by Guess

Define the BEST. Define FOREVER.

Let this be the longest friend file that I will ever make.

High School became the pivotal point of my life. I held my belief that I am the captain of my own ship, that no one can navigate the steering wheel for me. Same belief was applied to choosing my friends. I would not sugarcoat just to make my friends appear like they're the friends our parents would want us to have, because they're a little more and a little less than that. I have to admit, a lot of people have told me that I could do better in choosing whom I want to share my time with. And all the time, I would just tell them, I think I have already chosen the best. Yes, they don't push me to study harder nor do they tell me to do my homeworks but at least they don't ask me to stop from doing an assignment if I want to. When it comes to grades, we let each other be. Do as you please, I say. Our bond was rooted from our same love for risky adventures. The type that can send us straight to the principal's or the discipline chair's office if ever caught. How often did we find ourselves looking for these adventures, you may ask? Every single day of our 4 years in school.

The most prominent figure that pop in my mind when High School is being talked about is TRIBO. (Click here if you want to see the quick run down of my High School life.) Our first few months in 1st year has clearly defined who we are and who we want to be with. You see way back in 1st year, in a class of around 37, there were only 2 groups: one which is composed of 12 girls and the other which was, let's just say, against the first. We were young and so we were impulsive. All we ever thought of was how we could have fun, regardless if it was at someone else's expense. We didn't care if our adviser hated us, even after she divided the class into three as Angel, Middle and Devil and sent majority of us into the Devil side. We didn't care even if teachers started noticing our group, reprimanding us to their hearts' content. We didn't even care if the higher batches see us outside the classrooms, when the rest of our classmates were inside. Plainly told, we did not care.

 

In 2nd year, we were separated into 3 different sections. And by then, EJ Velasquez has left and transferred to another school. Though she was sorely missed, the mischief wasn't deterred. The principal, Sr. Marissa, had memorized not just our faces but also our names. We were, as she put it, frequent customers of her office. We decided to continue doing some of the things that we have done before, only to a more devious story: gallivanting around the campus instead of hearing mass during the Marian Vigil and 'buying' books from the annual book fair. These have been proclaimed as traditions. It was also in 2nd year when we put our make-teachers-mad antics to a higher level. We called it 'cutting of TV wire' ;)

 

Pretty sure, Jerone was planning to do something to Kushali again. Hmm

3rd year was EPIC! Though Charlene Dacara had to transfer to another school and another member left, the atrocity and the mischievousness doubled. It was, I'm sure, the best year ever.

While Jer, Riva, Vary and Gel distract these people in charge of the bookfair, others do what they have to do ;)

Then came 4th year. Compared to 3rd year, we were already tame this year.

In some days, we would be absent altogether.

Ms. Froilan - our discipline chairman and also the only teacher who loved us so much! She's my favorite too

College is proving to be a challenge. Not because we don't have the time to meet with each other anymore but because we can't seem to resist the call of cutting classes just to be with each other. Habits die hard. And so are the cool kids ;) these are the latest pictures of TRIBO:

 I never claimed to have 'good' friends. But I can say I got myself a bunch of crazy but sweet friends who are always ready to leave anything behind at my beck and call. (I know you'll be seeing this. I love you, guys!) :)