less frills, more thrills: October 2010

It's been a week since my graduation and just like the weeks prior to it I'm still a bum and relishing it. No plans to look for a job yet for it might have to wait until the start of next year when I get back from my vacation in the States. I've always view graduations as this one emotional celebration with lots of group hugs, tears, and those epic cap throwing moments that we see in the movies and television shows. But for this one there were no tears and those epic cap throwing moments since we weren't allowed (sucks!) instead there were a lot of finding ways to kill time after your name is called, cap throwing attempts, but definitely a lot of cheers and woo girls and boys once it's official that we have indeed graduated. I guess all of us were itching and excited to finally march through the stage, shake the hands and say "Thanks" not "Congrats Bro!" to our dear La Salle Brothers, and grab that hard earned "diploma" (we were given a decoy since we still have to wait for a month for the real diploma to arrive in our hands) that our parents have been waiting for years and now they can sit back, relax since they are officially done with their dues to us...financial dues to be exact. We weren't really emotional during our grad and no tears were shed. I guess because we know that we would still see each other since it is not like we live in different states and that it is not hard for us to keep updated with one another especially with Twitter and Facebook just a click away.

After the ceremony which lasted for almost four hours me and my parents were definitely starving and we decided to have my celebratory lunch at Apartment 1B in Salcedo, Makati instead of going with our reservations in Manila Pen since lunch hours would be almost over by the time we get there. It was nice and quaint celebration with the fam (their samosas are to die for!) and later at night me and a couple of my classmates went to our classmate's grad party. Well what do you know drinking right away after graduation. But hey there was a definitely a reason to drink and cheers to that.

I definitely didn't regret going to College in La Salle and spending three and a half years there. I guess it is true when they say that college will definitely be "the best four years of your life"...well "three and a half years" for my case and just like in Asher Roth's famous song "I love College".