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 what high school didn't have many of these? we sure have plenty! and now finally, after 25 years, we have decided to come out in the open and claim responsibility! let the guilty perpetrators stand up and be recognized.... note: no attempt has been made to disguise the names of the innocent - why bother?! 
talking about mga istorya, i still remember the thumb tacks and bubble gum story which was very tragic and hilarious. it happened during our first year in high school. i can still remember that we were divided into two sections, namely section 28 and section 29 where the numbers 28 & 29 represented the number of students in each class. our class adviser was sr. carolina who nearly dropped her dentures while opening the door because one of our classmates tied a pull cracker on the doorknob. there was a moment of silence for a while and then.. laughter after the class...! and here comes the thumb tacks and bubble gum story... i don't know who started it but it was happening for sometime - somebody was putting thumb tacks on the chairs and all of the boys were victimized... it was a chain reaction because after one was victimized, he has to seek revenge, so, everytime we went out for a while we had to check our chairs, trying to shake it before we sit. but another intelligent guy (i don't know who it was) put bubble gum on a thumb tack and stuck it to the back of the chairs. it was fun having a free injection during that time, our teacher didn't notice what was going on, until one day we had a change over, the teacher stayed in the room and the class had to move out to go to another room for another class. someone put thumb tacks on the chairs before we left the room, so the incoming class (section 28) was victimized (and i guess that was your section neng) mostly the girls. so, that fun was stopped because we were scolded by our teacher. p.s. about the istorya, i shared it to bakal and he made a confirmation, it was him and rubinee (i.e., the guilty parties, ha!) who tied the pull cracker on the doorknob...!
this istorya is lovingly dedicated to sr. violeta, our principal, tyo mudi, our handyman and also keeper of the piggery, and to my unforgettable teacher in english and literature, miss madamecella - gonora.. perhaps she can read this and correct my grammar, language and spelling... (vincy, i already did! ha ha ha )sorry to keep you waiting for the tyo mudi story, but anyway the time has come for its release. as you know, there was a piggery in our school at the back of the old building adjacent to the kitchen of the LCC convent where the house of tyo mudi was also located. i forgot how many heads of sows there were but i can still picture it in my mind, how big those sows were and how the piggery caught fire. the story begun with the ali-foreman fight which was telecast live in the philippines during that time. most of the boys from the class did not attend class sessions during that day just to watch the fight between the two heavyweight boxers. we went to bebing's place and enjoyed watching the fight while the rest maybe were wondering where we had gone. so, the morning after that event, we were called to the principal's office by sr. violeta and was interrogated (daw pwerte gid ka brutal nga word haw......pero sigi lang) by her and she asked us where we had been, so we told her the real story, and as a punishment we were instructed to write a composition explaining why we were not able to attend the class the day before. i could not forget how sr. violeta reacted with our explanations, instead of scolding us for what we did, she was mad now because of the wrong grammar used in our compositions e.g., "we went to Bebing's place to see a tv"! ha ha! so then she turned to us with big round eyes and said "you went to roberto's place to watch tv, not to see the tv of roberto"! so, in addition to our punishment, we were instructed to clean the garbage near the piggery where there were lots of dry banana and mango leaves. we gathered all the garbage and lit it with fire, and while we were enjoying collecting dry leaves to add to the balls of fire, we didn't notice that the fire was already spreading and had caught the dry leaves that were still attached to banana trees (is this correct?.... is banana a tree?....no!!! the banana stem is a modified leaf as far as i know), and everyone were shouting, "SUNNOOOG!!!!!!" including even the people in the kitchen who got out and helped us put out the fire! i can't recall what happened next but maybe sr. violeta thought that we were really notorious - she let us go without completing all those punishments! the end.......... p.s. i already shared the story with bakal and it is confirmed - he was also one of the accomplices!!
not yet available; vincy is still consulting his crystal ball.
cellini - i remember her. she was with us up to grade 2 only. she transferred then to LCC, bacolod. who could ever forget her. rubinee and i were punished by miss buñol because we made a bad joke about her and bakal. we drew two hands on a piece of paper, labeled the first with bakal's name and the other with cellini's. then we drew a ring on the fourth finger of each hand and below wrote "romualdo loves cellini". when miss buñol saw it, she went berserk. rubinee and i were made to sit down beside bakal. we were also made to move closer, very close that he could not breath anymore. miss buñol gave us then a very kind word, "gamay pa gani kamo daw mga **** na kamo". not really pleasant to the ears. had i known what i know now....
1. i also had, shall we say, a little painful memory with bakal in grade iii, he, he. with permission of miss buñol, we had to "gurinat" each other's ears in front of the class because we forgot to bring gifts for our parents for parents' day. and later she found out that i had a gift for my mother which i completely forgot myself! 2. i had to kneel down on my knees the whole rosary hour as punishment because i left my rosary at home. i almost fainted from aching knees, imagine! 3. one time, i had to stand at the back corner of our classroom with my skirt down and only my camison (camisole) and shirt on. i forgot the reason for this punishment. it was embarassing standing there half naked that time! these 3 punishments plus the one with kina and rubinee were indeed cruel!
the story of elizabeth happened in grade vi. we had a doctor's check-up in the old library (upstairs). dr. ferrer told her to insert a handkerchief in one ear and pull it out of the other ear in order to clean her ears, he, he, he. that was really funny recalling it all!! more to come! stay tuned... |
