reminiscing... last night, we had the block C reunion/despedida party for sarah (our blockmate who migrated to australia back when we were in second year college), who's visiting the country for a few weeks. it was held at dencio's in power plant, same place where we had the last harkadah reunion last december. neil and i arrived there early (around 7:20). i left school past 6:30 already, right after the WINlaw (our org, women in law) G.A., and there was no traffic, which is a rarity on a friday night. when we reached power plant, there was no one there yet, so we just reserved a table first and went around the place. i felt so underdressed in my basic gray shirt, jeans, white sporty jacket and my ever dependable black flip flops. it's just that everyone was so dressed up and made up like they came straight from a fashion mag. anyway, soon enough, weki and val arrived, followed by pat, jonsi, julie, anya and sarah. chuck and krisden (who i haven't seen for the longest time) arrived later on. neil and i shortly left after consuming a plate of pork sisig, garlic mushrooms and oriental chicken (there goes my diet again). i had to go home early for several reasons, one of which is my mom told me to. i've been going out a lot lately that i feel guilty about it already.

it was good to see everyone else after so long. more than feeling nostalgic, however, it felt different being with them. don't get me wrong, i was more than happy to see them. it's just that being with them reminded me of our first year days, and made me remember some things that have been buried in my memory all these years. maybe i just realized that, being with the harkadah (meaning: me, jenny, di, weki, pat, joan and penny) for too long, i've forgotten that before we got together, there were actually different factions within the block, that we practically belonged to different barkadas before and it was after some people left or moved away that we became consolidated into one group. maybe i was just overwhelmed by the fact that a lot of things have changed since college started. another reason that accounted for that feeling was probably the fact that jenny and di weren't there (jenny had work until 9 pm, while di was sick). i just missed them since they were the people i was closest with back in first year, especially jenny who i became acquainted with since orsem.

anyway, i hope one of these days we could get together again like we did last night, especially now that some of them are moving to the US soon to study/work.

this is one of our pictures last night:

standing: chuck, krisden, jonsi, pat, (some unknown person in the background), me, penny and neil

seated: wex, anya, sarah, val, julie

at power plant

me and neil at power plant

pat, anya and sarah

sarah, val, julie

these are some of our pictures back in first year college:

hehe, crazy

someday, when i have nothing better to do, i'll post all the pics we had back in first year.

thinking aloud: i just found out that i have uploaded the UAAP victory party pictures in the block website! i thought they got deleted before along with other files when my computer crashed.

Labels: ateneo, harkadah

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