The (Dreaded?) High School Reunion

A lot of people dread their ten-year high school reunion. I didn't, because I was part--if not leader--of the organizing committee. So when ours came along during the last weekend of October, I was (forced to be?) in the midst of it all.

Our t-shirt design

It was funny, because months before, we had such grandiose plans of how we would celebrate the thing. But of course, as expected, a lot of people did not cooperate. Instead of a cocktail event at some posh resort, we had to come up with humbler plans.

We joined the school parade to celebrate its 107th anniversary, to an Angry Birds theme

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Chatters Party

Finally went to my first mIRC party last Saturday! :D It was an Undernet #Japan and #Tokyochat get-together which was at a BBQ place in Higashijujo, Tokyo, which is like 2 hours from where I live. I wasn't gonna go because of my limited finances, but with prodding from quite a few people, I went, thinking that I would never probably get this chance ever again in my life. And I'm glad I went, because it was totally fun.

First we went to a yakiniku place, and then spent the entire night until 4:00 am (which is when there are trains again) at a karaoke. I love karaoke, and it was fun... just that after about over 4 hours of singing, it felt as if we were just there to pass the time till the trains would be working again. I spent a few hours of sleep at Morigen and Chong's place after that. I didn't wanna butt in for the second weekend in a row, but he insisted, so why not? It was better not to make the journey back to the mountains (because I literally do live on a mountain, or hill at least) that early. All the people I met were so nice, so it was all good! I hope I'll be able to meet them again in the future.

Clockwise from Left: Nica, Naka, Morigen, Haniwa, Kensang, Orochi's wife, Orochi and their baby, Onda (Orochi's friend), me, Chong, and Carol

yakiniku - Japanese BBQ

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Welcome Party

We just finished having the welcome party for the new students here at the dorm. As expected, the food served was the same with the food we had in parties here before. Mind you, I'm not complaining though. I'm just stating an observation. ^^; In fairness, they're always really good, though.

I expected the party to be boring, but it was fun actually. For the first time, there weren't a lot of speeches. We didn't get to play the game that Annie () and I prepared but that was fine. For the introduction, we had to be in pairs and we had to introduce the other person, instead of just introducing ourselves. That was an interesting change, and challenging too, considering my measely Japanese.

The most fun though was after the party when we just laughed around with our friends. Two of them were Japanese girls and I was really amused when they made fun of how Tokyo girls talked and how they would act all cutesy to attract the attention of guys. Thank goodness they're not apparently all the same! :P~

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