The Forum: Share Your Memories of High School in the Province
By Ced Solidon • Oct 14th, 2007 • Category: FeaturesThe Forum is an avenue to know week-by-week which are the most important issues in Eastern Samar right now as well as other lighter topics for discussion. Aside from that, it gives the visitors the chance to discuss it on this blog. Also, the readers have the power to decide which topic to discuss every week.
People say that it is in high school that you get to know yourself better. Aside from that, it is also the stage in your life wherein your horns grow so to speak.
Arguably, high school is one of the best times in any person’s life. It is the time filled of discoveries and even mishaps that eventually become the staple of your batch’s stories and jokes whenever you get to together.
So for this week’s Forum, let us take a walk down memory lane (a very long one for the oldies. hehe.) and share our experiences when we were still in high school.
Ced Solidon is the blog's founder. He currently works as a freelance writer. Aside from that, he also maintains a writing blog, Write Like a Rock Star! He loves to read books and play music.
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high school?
H – hyperactivity (play till you drop, dance parties, birthdays, fiestas, hash-hash)
I – intellectual rebirth (books, comics, archie, encyclopedia, webster thesaurus, science experiments, math-rathon, quiz bee, NSSPC, etc.)
G – grade-conciousness (rule: no grade below 90! waaah!)
H – hanging out with new friends
S – sensitive about physical appearance (spray net, gel, new haircut every week, Levis jeans [tuck in!])
C – crushes there and everywhere (my prowess in Science and English paid off)
H – honor roll (nice to be on top!)
O – occasional drinking (Tanduay, Grande, Gin Bulag)
O – overt adolescent behavior
L – lovelife (haruy!); love letter writing business… hehehe
i can relate to the things like hyperactivity ngan lovelife. haha. to be young, in love and stupid. haha. i think i found some of my greatest friends in high school.
i was so scared with my first kiss… thought a kiss could impregnate someone! hahaha
HAHAHAHA…
HAHAHAHA…
ak nahihinumduman la han higskul an araway han mga taga seminario ngan st. joseph. araway mahi-unong hin babaye. didto pa asto ha rawis an favorite fight scene..
hin-o gud it gwapo? sems or josephinians?
dante: nahitatabo la gihap at nga araway bisan han am time (around late 90s). may pa hat hit list han mga taga iba ng iskoylahan. bulig ak han listahan. haha.
cuz ced: and im a witness hit nga iyo araway..hahahah!! and for the question kn hin-o mas gwapo..hmmmm.. sems i guess, nagkabf man ak m blano.heheh
Haha. Nahibaro ka hat nga hit list? 5 kami nga nakat han listahan. Haha. Upod im bf. Hehe. Message na la ak hit Friendster. Damo it im chika ha ak, I’m sure.
mga taga dein kamo, sugad man hen waray mga taga san julian denhe.
naty: mga taga Borongan “city” iton hira… ako taga iraya hiton sulat ngan taft. kita la siguro na duha iton naiiba dinhi
mayda gad taga san julian dinhe. hi ako
Even during our time (third year kami hat, 2003), the whole battle for who deserved the girls continued.
It was a dramatic feud that involved even those who did not deserve to be involved.
Trivia: a lot of my girl classmates hooked up with the seminarians that year. So the girls of my class sided with the seminarians, and the class was divided: III-OLIC Boys versus III-OLIC Girls.
It took us a year to reconcile. The battle was over when all the girls dumped the sems for my male classmates.
I leave the resolution to you guys and the answer to the QUESTION that haunts sems and marians (used to be josephinians) all througout history. Hekhek.
Why the fixation by seminarians on girls? Just asking. (I’m covering my head now from the inevitable brickbats)
basta ako mayda hat taga salcedo nga anak hit president hit ESSU-Salcedo nga ibat it version hit storya… Uhmmmm…
No comment!
maverickjockey pwede mag-request? panulay, nagdudugo tak irong hit im english… relaks gadla padi paro kaman hit di nakaun hin bulad, lato, budlis, kinilaw nganhin gaway.
pagwaray naman gadla dida…
hagi, usa pa! love letters to SMC, St. Anthony (Llorente) and Taft High…
Highschool days, an nakaraan nga makuri pero matam-is balikbalikan…
damo, ngay-an waray ha balic-balic kundi pa ak nag-inum didto di pa ak ginsasarabot. MAGHUSAY padman didto… HAHAHA
tagatapinidirenatumbanalurosla
tungaw: taga ibabaw ka ano?
To niknok_ceps :
I’ll try to post some in Waray-waray, though I can’t promise all the time. Pupuruybahan ko la.
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taga b-4 ak. original nga dangkalanon. pero, i’ve been away for a while.
haruy, english la gihap!
nonoy, it “waray” nga lingwahe kaka-iba. tinagan kita han makagararum nga diyos him kalugaringon nga pinulungan kay karuyag niya gamiton ta. pahunahuna daw, aanhi kita ha pilipinas pero wara kita pagpayakna hit tagalog. pagmata nat ginhuypan tat mga dila him magtaghum nga pulong han makagarahum. pulong nga kaka-iba. pulong nga nagsusumat kun ano kita… kita in mga WARAY!!! kada pagyayakan naton hit aton lenguwahe ginpaparayhak naton it aton lahi…
To niknok_ceps :
Well, to be honest, I’m not very comfortable/adept writing in the Waray-waray medium mainly because my educational background/training did not afford/allow me to, the reason then I could not make a categorical promise before.
But nonetheless, I can tell you with definite certainty that I can speak, read, write and understand perfectly and well the Waray-waray dialect having been born and raised in Borongan until I graduated from high school (ESNCHS).
But the important and more profound issue here is, I think, whether or not one is able to convey one’s message across clearly, concisely, accurately and correctly, not just stringing a mere jumble of words and phrases trying to conjure a false image of “intellectual gab” but actually without any point, sense, rhyme or reason like what some posters here pretend to be or to have.