I Also Had My Share of Such Sembreak Reunions

Let’s face it: sembreak can sometimes be dull and boring. We eagerly want and wait for such break simply because we want to give ourselves a ‘break’ from school’s demanding atmosphere. Ironically, when sembreak arrives, we then tend to curse and nag about it (consciously or not) because of its becoming TOO BORING--too boring that sometimes it seems it can almost kill!

On a lighter note, sembreak has also its likable side. On the top of this list: REUNIONS! For friends who are parted away because of college studies, sembreak perhaps is one impeccable time for them to get-together and a rare chance to bring back into the scene the good old times they shared. Lo and behold, I also just had my share of such reunion this sembreak!

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Yesterday, 10/25/10, marked the nationwide Barangay and SK elections. And apart from politics, it also marked the reunion of the wild pack. Yes, the not-well-planned and we-lacked-food-but-still-it’s-okay-coz-nothing’s-gonna-stop-us reunion of the SY 09-10 IV-Isaac Newton students, or better known as the ISATONIX!

There were 22 of us, namely (according to the time of arrival): Al, Tisay, myself, Hanzhell, Vevian, Archie, Alemar, Evangelene, Jireh, Nobie, Wena, Joemar, Gliselle, Jaime, Evelyn, Glen, Judel, Maegan, Dian, Edmund, Fatima and Christyl. Johanna, because of her motherly concern for the group’s scarcity of food, donated a layer of chiffon cake and 2 bottles of 1.5-liter Coke even though she wasn’t able to join us to the reunion’s proper venue.

Speaking of venue, we had our reunion at the Mangima Spring Resort, the only elegant resort we know we could easily have access to. A Haven away from home! (I read this in a poster at the resort’s walls while we were all busy haggling with the in-charged lady to give us some discount in our entrance fee and cottage rentals, all to no avail!)

But heaven’s luck! When we got inside the resort, we found ourselves to be the earliest visitors... which only meant one thing: we could MONOPOLIZE the entire resort! So, without any hesitation (except sa mga kandingon like AL! :DD), we then plunged ourselves to the pool’s refreshing, cold waters. We actually didn’t do much than just having to playfully swim in the pool and childishly splash waters on each other’s faces; trying so hard to make it across the other side of the pool without stopping along the way; submerging in the waters and betting who’s gonna emerge the last; diving in underwater to see who’s gonna get the object (usually Jaime’s mirror or simply a stone thrown in the pool) first; emerging from the pool whenever we felt like eating; posing and modeling whenever the cam’s lenses find the perfect angle to shot; and trying to dance with the playing music despite of the shivers caused by the cold waters – while other people as well started arriving at the resort.

Aside from keenly talking about the other malicious people in the resort, we also got the chance to talk about college life and about stuffs that keep us now busy. Almost everyone shared something about how their grades for the first sem went, how their teachers could be so “terror”, how their subjects could be so easy or difficult, how their scholarships might possibly get near in the ‘verge of extinction’ (including me!!!), how their school uniforms look like, how their respective schools top in nationwide board exams, how their schools’ head-turners melted their hearts, and how as a whole, college life has been treating them so far.

Apart from the abovementioned, the most important I guess is that we got the chance to be TOGETHER again (even for just a day). Together, we got the chance to strike any pose we desired in front of the camera, while striking our own poses in our pursuit of college. Together, we happily enjoyed swimming in Mangima’s pool, while still swimming forward in the seas of our dreams. Together, we had savoured another precious time of being together, while further strengthening the so many bonds we’ve established: of being friends, of being a family, and of being ISATONIX! =)

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P.S.1: I don't like the title !

P.S.2: Long hair na bya si Shonya ! wuhahaha!

P.S.3: Nagsakay mi ug bus pauli ! Naka-standing position ang tanan... with queen Christyl still crowning the towel on her head ! :DD