I now understand that there is some truth in that old Sharon Cuneta song High School Life — the lyrics are so true it brings me back to my younger days:

high school life, oh my high school life every memory kay ganda. bakit kung graduation na’y luluha kang talaga.

High school life is the best. I met my most treasured friends during secondary studies and we had a lot of unforgettable experiences together. Me, Mary, Belinda and Rhea have been really good pals since senior year and throughout everything, good times and bad, different universities and even now that some of us have already gotten hitched, our friendship is just unstoppable! We could laugh like crazy on the shallowest things and we had the best times bumming around, eating, malling and just talking nonsense.

School was our priority. Well…sort of. One time our Physics teacher caught us cutting classes and she was fuming mad, she required us to submit a written explanation from our parents! Or else, she’d report us to the principal’s office and, chances are, we wouldn’t graduate. Bummer! We’re supposed to graduate in two months time and we’re already looking forward to college. Fortunately, we have a very special talent in problem solving. heh-heh! We composed the letters ourselves and we forged our parents’ signatures. It was a desperate move and, by far, the naughtiest thing we’ve ever done.

But hey! I do look back at my old self and say “what the hell was I doing?!”