I wrote this article way back in January 2016 and I’m reposting it here.
I was inspired yesterday, during the sharing of our fondest memory of each other, to create a collection of Anecdotes. It's like, short stories of things that happened during high school, that only a select few of us know.
During the sharing, I heard stories that I never knew existed during high school -- like the Joce and Clemen feud, the Sarah-Jowel "habulin mo ko" incident, how Leonardo and the gang avoided bullying Our Saint Eliza, and other stories. Since we've already released the Photobook, why not tell/write the stories behind these pictures? Funny stories of high school. Most of us are members of the Buntal Weaver and the Maglalala and we can definitely write good stories.
Most of us will be in our 40s in 3 years time. A few years more and we'll be Senior Citizens celebrating our 40th year Grand Reunion. We may no longer remember these stories of high school if we won't put it in writing now. Let's write 1 good story of high school from our point of view -- that would equate to 56 good stories of high school. It's like writing our own version of Youngblood (inquirer). I've always wanted to write a book or at least part of writing a book. I believe it's one of the 3 things that can grant us immortality -- along with planting a tree and having a kid.
Let's also recall some of the most epic fail stories of high school -- when Cathy sing/dance the "Guess this Presidentiable" song, when Graciano pantomimed "The Coconut Song", when Ona and I noticed the "creatures" falling from the ceiling or when I fell in room 1 because of a hole, in the floor while hugging Kissyfur.
This project needs a lot of meeting and a lot of editing. This will be a challenged to all of us that are busy with work but this is doable.
An alternative to my proposed Mayon Anecdotes (book) is this blog. We could probably publish our little-known high school stories here for everyone to recall and reminisce. I hope my Mayon family would help me on this.
