Nursery
1.
I had my first bestfriend. Her name is Michelle
something. She was second in our class.
2.
I was first in our class. My grade was the
highest in our school. I was able to beat the final grade for 2nd
quarter of the elementary and high school students’ honor rolls.
3.
I kissed my crush on the lips while we were
practicing our dance number. The song we danced to is Pearly Shell.
4.
I was accelerated to kinder.
Kinder-Prep-Grade
1-Grade 2
They were a blur, but I was
always part of the honor roll.
Grade 3
1.
I sang ‘Moon River’ in front of everyone.
Pre-school, Grade School and High School, when we got back inside our homeroom,
my adviser told me that it was her favorite song.
2.
I cut class during our catechism class. No, it
wasn’t a Catholic school but it was when were supposed to get our first
communion. Whenever I cut class, I go to the canteen to buy a snack and I stay
there. No one reprimanded me because I was a goodie-two-shoes.
3.
Mom asked our maid and I to buy a white dress
for my first communion, I bought a pink frilly dress.
4.
Since I don’t have a white dress, and I don’t
know a lot of prayers (because of cutting class), I didn’t attend our first
communion.
5.
I was close to my service-mates, even to the
ates and kuyas, then one random day, this girl who was hated by everyone
(because she was a meanie) conspired the others to make my life there, inside
our service, a hell. So, the sweet driver of the van always saved me the front
seat of his L300. I didn’t care then because I got the radio and aircon to
myself. Then one day, one of my service mate, who was a year older than me,
took the front sit and talked to me again. After that, the others did too. We
were all buddy-buddies again.
6.
I was still a part of the honor roll.
7.
I was invited to join the Mr. and Ms. MCA (name
of our school), the elementary edition. My father told me that I can’t join
because my sister was joining, and we didn’t have enough moolah to support us
both (with the dress cost and the make-up cost, etcetera). My sister won 3rd
place.
8.
They tease me chanak because my name was CHArina
and I was bungal then.
9.
Janine, who was two years younger than me,
became my bestfriend. We were servicemate, and yes, she was part of the
conspiracy.
10.
My second kiss on the lips happened. In my
defense, we were playing, and it was an accident.
11.
I grabbed the star role of a dance production in
an event in our school. The song was ‘New York, New York’, I was wearing a
black tights and a leotard, I had a top hat and a black long stick. My nipples
were kinda obvious, but I was a kid then! But this girl, who was also my
servicemate, the one who was the brain of the conspiracy, told my classmates
that, “Si Charina, bakat ang utong.” For a girl my age, the word utong was horrifying.
I was hurt and I blamed my mom.
12.
I changed schools because my sister graduated
high school, and my father, for some bizarre reason, doubted the skills of the
teachers of that school. He was right about that.
Grade 4
1.
I was the new kid and I was bullied by a girl
who was adopted. I never found out what her problem was. I think she read too
much American-based pocketbooks because she felt like she was the school’s
queen bee who is in love with Sakura tarot cards.
2.
I met another mortifying person (up to this day,
I never liked him.). He was your typical bully. I hate him because he kept on
teasing me in a very stupid level. It was really hard to deal with stupid
people.
3.
I met 3 wonderful girls who became my super close
friends, and I still consider them as great friends no matter how we poorly we
try to contact each other. We called ourselves Chocolates, I was Kisses.
4.
I told them that Dominic Ochoa was my cousin. I
was very stupid then.
5.
When I had a fight with one of the Chocolates,
she told the class the lie that I’ve told them. It was mortifying.
6.
Our adviser sweats a lot. You never miss a day
when there were no armpit stains.
7.
I made a boy cry. He was my crush and we were
taking a test, but I finished early, so I started talking to him. We got
caught, he blamed me, and he cried.
Grade 5
1.
First time I was placed on the PM class. The am
class were so full that I had to take the pm class, which starts after lunch.
2.
I had new classmates that were from IMC but from
a different branch. They were really close to each other and they were really
smart. Really smart.
3.
I had a hard time understanding mixed fractions.
I asked the teacher to repeat the discussion four times. I realized that I
wasn’t gonna get it at that time, and my classmates were laughing already (I
bet on my life that the boys don’t understand it as well.) so after the fourth
discussion, I just nodded.
4.
I was sent to the guidance office for pushing
this boy from a very tall stack of chairs. I did that because he was trying to
take the butterfly clip from my hair.
Grade 6
1.
I became friends with another group. It had two
boys and another girl from Chocolates.
2.
I had my first phone. It was a Motorola C651. I
threw it on a friend’s face when I got angry of his teasing.
3.
First time I failed a subject. It was science. I
got 74, 2nd quarter. I thought I was gonna die if my parents found
out. We had a crisis that time, the family was a mess, the thought it was just
an effect of our problems. I got away.
4.
I made new friends. They were the smart ass of
the school, and if you’re the smartass of the school, you are highly respected.
This guy, He had the looks and the brain, I was so intimidated by him at first,
it turned out that he was nice after all. That guy was bullied a lot though.
Now this girl, she was stubborn, maybe because she was an only girl, and it was
the first time I’ve witnessed a parent pressure her kid. I thought it only
happens in the movies.
5.
We had our school production, I was one of the
‘Pink Ladies’ of Grease.
6.
I dated this guy who I met at Glorietta. Mom
left me at National Bookstore, there was this cute guy, he asked for my number,
we texted, he was 2nd year, Don Bosco student. Not gay. So he asked
if we can go out on a date, this was a secret. I never told a soul. I asked my
mom to take me to Glorietta because I was gonna watch movies with my friends.
Told her one of my friends will take me home. So there, we went out, IT WAS
KINDA AWKWARD, and I told him that! “ang awkward natin. Hahaha” fuck. He took me to this American Sports
Grill. He sat right next to me and I was thinking that time, “this is not gonna
work. It can get awkward. I’d rather he sit in front of me”. he ordered this
huge burger with fries and everything. The burger was so huge, they have to cut
it into 4 pieces, and it was still huge. I was kinda freaked out, like, how
much is this? How much will my share be? Hahaha but he paid for everything. I
don’t know how but we were able to finish the burger, but there were some fries
left. While we were talking, he kissed me. I was so shocked. It was my first
real deal kiss. ugh. Then he kissed me the second time. It was just a chaste
kiss on the lips. He then called his driver and drove me home. We continued
flirting on texts but then he suddenly stopped texting. I was too you, too
naïve to care.
7.
We graduated. My Chocolate friends and a lot of
other elementary friends changed schools.
First year
1.
I won first place for interpretative reading.
There were 6 of us, one fourth year, one third year, two second years and two
first years.
2.
I was asked to discuss Malaria in front of the
whole high school department. They only picked 4 students to discuss 4 diseases,
etc. It was terrifying. At least they were laughing while I was discussing.
3.
Our team won first place for Go Negosyo. It was
a national competition and we won 18 thousand pesos for selling Squash Ice
Cream.
4.
I was asked to join the Singapore student
exchange program, but my mom declined because we didn’t have the money, my ‘same
year’-bestfriend was asked as well, but they decline also because she couldn’t
bring her nanny there.
5.
I had my first high school costume party.
6.
Got into the honor roll.
Second year
1.
My same year-bestfriend and I had a falling out.
2.
I became close to this guy who turned out to be
my second boyfriend.
3.
I got close to two girls, we called ourselves
the triplets.
4.
Our section built a horror room.
5.
Won second place for Interpretative reading.
6.
My guy-bestfriend and I revealed to each other
that we liked each other.
7.
I was taught how to play dota.
8.
I was semi-seriously courted by a guy a year
older than me.
9.
Second year was full of drama.
10.
Got into the honor roll.
Third year
1.
I had my first official boyfriend. We lasted a
month. He was the guy who courted me when I was in 2nd year.
2.
Won first place for interpretative reading.
3.
Didn’t join the school production, high school
musical, because my boy-bestfriend didn’t join either.
4.
JS PROM was held on my birthday. A girl dared me
to dance on my own, pretending to have a partner, the teachers took pity and
danced with me.
5.
I was part of the cotillion and my partner had a
really lovely smile. He wasn’t my crush though, but he was really nice that
night.
6.
4 senior guys asked me to dance. One of those
was my ex.
7.
I was part of the honor roll. J
Fourth year
1.
I received my first bouquet of flowers.
2.
Had my second boyfriend. The teachers weren’t
happy. Actually, the teachers didn’t know that we were together. They were just
suspicious.
3.
I won (landslide) for the position of Public
Relations Officer in our Student Council.
4.
I also won 4 other positions in different
clubs. P.R.O. for Science Club, Book
Lover’s Club and Classroom Officer, and Treasurer for ASCIT (comp. club).
5.
Won first place in propaganda making contest. It
was a group contest.
6.
Performed
Interpretative Reading because I think they think I was the best in that
field.
7.
In one of our events, Mr. and Ms. Basura, we
were able to generate almost 300 thousand pesos.
8.
Learned how to kiss----torridly.
9.
I learned what blow job means in a very
embarrassing way. I asked my teacher in our science class.
10.
JS prom was held on my birthday..again.
11.
Passed UPCAT, Miriam College Entrance Exam and
USTET. I only applied for those 3 schools anyway.
12.
Graduated with honors.
