I visited my beloved alma mater yesterday to talk to a professor. (Before I proceed with the "actual" post, let me just share some changes I noticed at school.)
- No ID, No Entry. Wasn't able to enter the building where I was supposed to meet my contact without presenting a valid ID and a valid explanation. Ang saya no?! And also, the "kids" are wearing their IDs, with lanyards and all.
- I saw not just a couple of kids with laptop superpokin' as if they usually do that during breaktime. (What we do during breaktime then was to squat in a friend's Tambayan and have yosi.)
- More organized AS 101; fewer cars in Faculty Center parking lot; less kids in Tambayans (in fact, less Tambayans!).
- Oh, and smoking is prohibited anywhere in the campus.
Now, to the main topic. Have you ever seen or felt these signs, or something similar?
- After my meeting with the professor, I went to a friend's Tambayan. She wasn't there, so I asked the students where she is. "May klase ho siya," was their polite answer. Whoa! They just used HO (polite expression used to older people). I might have let it simply pass away if they used PO… but HO?! That was not polite! Hehehe.
- During the last few months, I have been going to gimikans less and less. During my top-secret-BPO days, everyday is a Friday night. It's either Total Gas Station (yeah, they have booze there - for 24 hours pa!), BF, Makati, etc. But now, Friday night only happens almost once a month, and it has to meet some prerequisites: It has to be closed to a payday or there's no OT work the next day.
- What I have been receiving more lately are invitations: baptism of their new born kid/s, wedding of former colleagues, and some more weddings and baptisms.
- My high school and college friends are sending me pictures of their sons or daughters. And I am sending them… pictures of… me (but in different places here and abroad. Haha, yabang!)
- Starbucks or Seattle's is the new Malate for many of my friends now.
- When I meet up with college barkadas before, we talk about how we want to dominate the world, perform a Madoff, visit Trillanes and give him a lecture on Mutiny 101, climb to Sagada, etc. But now, whenever we meet, we talk about our college years, about former professors and crushes, about our struggles in life. We are now looking back, instead of forward! What the--
- Oh, whenever I receive email from Lina (you know her right?), I get irritated whenever there is an age restriction in the job offer. Not that I am applying to those positions but hey, what if I want to and there is an age restriction?!
- I was watching a show, and saw Jodi Santa Maria. During "my days," she's actually the youngest in the Tabing-Ilog barkadas. She's like the spoiled brat there. In an ABS-CBN show that I saw the other night, Jodi plays the role of a masungit na tita! She's now the Cherie Gil of my time!
- O, and this is so effin' irritating: an online buddy was so happy when Eheads had this final set concert. She said that was the first time she saw them performed live! Because according to her, she never saw them before yet, but she liked the tapes of her tito. Deym! Eheads is like my generation. But some kids look at Eheads in the same way I look at Pepe Smith, or VST and Co., or The Hotdogs.
- And here's a clean indicator/sign I know I'm getting older: I can even make a Top Ten out of it!!!
Wow, and I still don't have my first 5 million in the bank. (I told myself before that I'll have at least 5 million in the bank before I turn 25.) Hell, I don’t have my first million in the bank.
