meeting an old friend

I met with an old friend this evening at Galleria. Although we have been in constant contact these past few days, this was the first time we two meet after two years.

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A few days ago, I kind of reminisce my days while I was still in UST. Having to mention only six people, I was able to miss out a few more people who made my stay worthwhile.

During the first semester of that year, I was forced to take up volleyball for my PE class. Between swimming and volleyball then, I knew I had better chances of passing.

Our professor asked us to group ourselves with seven members each. These groups will serve as our teams when we need to do a little competition in class to test our skills in volleyball. The competition never took place.

I remember we were seven seated in one of the bleachers beside the court. Given the convenience of the situation, we easily agreed to form ourselves a group.

Cathy was the only person I knew in that PE class. I met her while we were in line waiting for the head of the Office of Student Affairs to sign our scholarship forms. A Communication Arts major, she is one of the brightest people I knew.

She was able to befriend one of our groupmates, a Biochemistry major, such that they would usually arrive earlier in class than anyone else. His name derived from the great philosopher, Aries is mostly a silent type of person and another of those brightest people I know.

He had a friend from highschool, an Information Technology major and one of our groupmates still, Dinno. Maybe not as silent as Aries but quite unnoticeable still, Dinno had plans of shifting to Commerce such that IT seems to drag him.

Given that these two are guys, they didn't seem to have problems passing the practical exams, except for that balancing the ball on the wrist. On the otherhand, Cathy and I are no sports fan, which only meant that we had to struggle through every exam in class, from balancing to serving and even tossing.

I remember Aries handing me a ball at a time in preparation to serve. I would try talking to it, hoping that the ball would listen to my plea and make itself cross the net. Dinno would try teasing so as to trigger more force when hitting the ball. The same scenario applies to Cathy.

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Cathy is now doing some advertising work for SM Mall. Aries took the board exam for Chemistry this September and passed on his first take. Dinno was not able to shift out of IT, and working in a sort of advertising company the name I can't remember, doing webdesign and other computer-based work.

And here I am, still a student procrastinating the work things that is needed to be done with our thesis. It must be this escapist mode that I agreed meeting with Dinno this evening.

As I discover it, categorically speaking, he is the second guy I know who is not enrolled or doing any work that is media or politics related that can talk about politics with keen interest. To my surprise, he was as much interested as I am. I guess I must have taken him into one of those sorts of stereotype.