Sunday, January 02, 2005

Ilang Farewell Stuff

Memorable / funniest day in Ilang-Ilang
1999, October 16th
Argh!! It was supposed to be a sem-ender, so my roommates and I (we were all second years) thought it’d be fun to have our private party in our room. It was a party all right, but it was far from being “private” – it was complete with BLARING music (according to later sources, the 2 corridors, yellow & green, heard it, besides the Dagohoy boys), blinking red lights (courtesy of X roommate’s emergency lamp), dirty dancing, loud voices, dribbling basketball (as claimed by myself), and incense (as claimed by Y roommate)… It was fun, maybe too much fun – our neighbor knocked twice, begging, no… TELLING us to tone down. We were having the time of our lives, we couldn’t care less (yeah, yeah, that was mean of us), even if it was finals week, until the RAs (yes, plural) came up. WE WERE DEAD MEAT. It took us about 30 seconds to clean up and we had to come up with the stupidest lies (which were so absurd we laugh at it to this day) to Ma’am Jimenez the following days. It was memorable – we couldn’t sleep for 2 days worrying that we’d get kicked out of the dorm. It was funny – the lies, the set-up, our faces.

What I’d never forget about Ilang-Ilang
Open House – pure fun
Formal Dinner – it’s funny how we obsess weeks before
Friends – I love the diversity of people I’ve met during my stay. They’re people I won’t forget!
I could simply get lost one night and go to Baguio – no one would ask for as long as I’ve signed OVERNIGHT.

What I’d gladly forget about Ilang-Ilang
The fact that everything is timed >>> CURFEW. Payment deadlines. Meal time. Etc. I hate that.

What I’ll miss the most in the University
The freedom to move and just BE.


About the Ilang-Ilang ladies
Diverse – but mostly, dangerously sexy and witty :)

Tips for crammers
If you can, don’t cram. But if you must (or if you can’t NOT cram), invest in sample exams. And uh, cigarettes DO help.

If I could go back to a certain time during my stay in UP, when that’d be, and why
Freshman year. I want to relive the excitement of exploring UP Wonderland :)

What I would’ve changed if I were to go about my whole college life over again
Just one thing: joining more orgs, and being active in them, so I could put some real good stuff in my resumé, get a high-paying job, and be well-off in 3 years. Otherwise, I like my college life as it is.

How I see myself ten years from now
I’d like to see myself as an advertising executive, just married (HAPPILY), with a nice contemporary home, and very healthy. But who knows? I’d probably end up with a lung tumor.

How I want to be remembered
I’d be flattered to be remembered as “a paradox.” But it doesn’t really matter. If I say I want to be remembered as someone nice and extremely attractive, it wouldn’t really happen. Probably, it’d be best to say that I want to be remembered just as how I should be remembered.

Famous last words
Make the most of your stay – strike a balance (acads, religious activities, social life, extra-curricular, lovelife, family, hobby, time for yourself). You don’t want to regret anything.

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