Day 222 - I Heart LiaCom!

Today I went to a mini-high school reunion brought about by my former classmate posting a caricature of our Senior Year class in Facebook. I talk about this more here.

Anyway, here's the 7 of us who came. I should note that they're not people I'm close with, not even when we were in high school, but I had fun with them anyway. I don't know why but somehow I think that if I went to a reunion of my classmates in college, (save for the few ones who became my close friends) I wouldn't have had as much fun. Not to mention that the venue would probably be far away from my house, which will make me at least 50% less interested in going.

We are in Oyster Boy in Westgate, Alabang in this picture. I love Alabang, though I'm a little worried. We were the only ones in the restaurant, and it was Saturday night. Is Westgate about to close?

Day 169 - My First Gift

The gift surrounded by the Christmas toys is the first Christmas gift I received this year and it came from someone I never expected would give me a Christmas gift -- my classmate in my Nihongo class.

It's unexpected because my classmates and I aren't really that close. I mean, we only see each other once a week, and for only 3 hours each time. Also, all of us in the class are so shy that we hardly ever talk to each other (really almost never) unless we're doing something class-related. It's actually kind of funny. All of us in the class are girls (even our teacher) and we all seem to just not like talking much, so we're pretty quiet, even (or especially) when the teacher's not around. We make ourselves busy by reading our books or anything else really, except talk to each other. Honestly, it's really my kind of class. :) And way better than my last set of classmates who were so "close" that they felt the need to ostracize the new students (namely me and 3 others).

Anyway, it was such a happy surprise when my classmate A handed me the gift. It makes me feel like there's hope for humanity yet (Is this proof that I'm overdramatic or what?) because it's possible that people who barely know you can still be so nice.