Berchmans Mohicans '99

Best Wishes, Elma!

2010-12-19T12:22:00.000+08:00

The newest Berchie bride is Elma, who got married to Brian in Cebu, where the couple met in college. This was yesterday.

Berchies Christmas Picnic '09

2009-12-27T12:11:00.001+08:00

The Berchies had a picnic in La Vista del Mar beach resort last December 26, 2009.

More pictures here.

Christmas Reunion 2009

2009-12-24T15:27:00.002+08:00

This year's Christmas reunion was held at Kay's house. It happened last night.

the early birds (I suppose)

Ja and Flisha from Manila, Janice from Japan,
and the Berchie-in-law Gim

Chi from Singapore, Kat from Hongkong, Jotie from Zamboanga

and Kay from Manila with a sleepy panda Berchie-in-law

Donnel actually came down from the monte

Gim with the Berchie boys - James, Mendi, Aeneas

Too bad I wasn't there. Maybe next year.

Best Wishes, Jeanie!

2009-12-19T12:01:00.003+08:00

Another Berchie just got married. Our batch valedictorian Jeanie got wedded to Gian in Sophia's Garden, Tagaytay yesterday.

I wasn't there; I just saw these pics on Facebook. At the bottom there are pictures of the couple with the Berchies guests.

All pictures here.

Ryan in Love

2009-11-09T23:10:00.004+08:00

Yesterday, Ryan changed his Facebook status to "in a relationship" and was soon inundated with happy comments from his friends. His new girlfriend is his college classmate Jeannette Joy. It came as a surprise because even though they had the same personalities, they didn't exactly revolve in the same circles except for the classroom. When asked how this happened, they refused to comment. At least they uploaded pictures.

It's Been Ten Freakin' Years

2009-10-27T12:49:00.002+08:00

Geocities is shutting down and taking Flisha's old website with it, so I decided to save the class prophecies that she had saved there. This is the second unpublished version that she had created. It was set to 10 years from graduation, which is now, 2009. OMG, it's been ten freakin' years?!? Did any of Flisha's prophecies come true? Read on.

The Unpublished Second Version:

The 10th Berchmans Mohicans class reunion is coming up in three weeks. Wonder what everybody's been up to lately? With a computer and an Internet connection, the right touch can produce all kinds of classified information, such as...

Raquel Tarroza recently gave birth to her seventh child (a beautiful boy!), heir to Navato & Navato, Inc., a very prosperous company dealing with the production of highly sensitive microchips for the use of government ammunition. Between taking care of his bountiful family and presiding over his company with his recovering wife, Al-Jeffrey Navato has given up his dreams of becoming the first Filipino tennis champion.

In his place, the fast-rising sports star, Anecito Darunday, Jr., was sent to Wimbledon to represent the Philippines. To everybody's astonishment, Anecito beat every opponent from Mercury to Pluto, and has gained universal recognition as the unbeatable world champion of tennis. The label almost caused the breakdown of runner-up Christopher Wee, who is almost as good as his former friend. For a while, he sank into a depression. Fortunately, his shrink was able to pull him out of it and brought him back on track.

World-renowned psychologist Mary Trish Españo was delighted to receive $1,000,000 in payment from Pei, her client, and proceeded to tour the world with her friends aboard the cruise ship that she recently purchased. She brought along the present ambassador of the Philippines to Italy, Ilynne Janice Lopez and the record-breaking rock star, Sheena Ira Tan.

Carmela Therese Blancada was also able to join the trip with her friends. Although a very successful public prosecutor, she recently lost a case to Katrina Mariño, who was ecstatic after winning a non-criminal case in court for the first time. Her client, Brian Joseph Bañgo, had sued his boss after he was fired from work because of his less than admirable punctuality. After winning the case, he went back to work as usual, arriving in his office three hours late. His boss, Rogelio Saguin, Jr., CPA, retaliated by lowering Brian's salary to nearly mulch. To make himself happy, he ordered a new skyscraper to be built in the middle of town.

The building is being designed by the greatest architect of all time, Rhea Rubio, whose asking price for each blueprint is P2,000,000. Also hired to oversee the project is Engr. Christopher Laque, whose reputation is also quite solid.

After ten traumatic years of facials, he has finally been able to smooth his face by using a new blend that the controversial chemist Joan Bucoy has concocted. Because she uses chemicals extracted from whale genitalia, Joan's products are being boycotted by many. An ongoing protest is being led by Peter Fernan, current president of the Save Our Whales program, and Imelda Silvestre, whale reproduction expert.

Backing up the SOW program is Joseph Lou Sta. Teresa, owner of the largest advertising firm in the world. Austine Lim and Ada Grace Zapanta, the two most highly paid models, are lending their popularity to the cause by starring in all the SOW ads. All the ads are being directed by the famous movie director, Darrel Pobre, who has overwhelmed everyone with his breathtaking movies, completely overshadowing Speilberg.

Speaking of movies, Aeneas Solis has definitely left a mark in the realm of special effects. The best directors always ask for him when dealing in digital technology. Him and, of course, his rival Keith Santos. Although Aeneas keeps his cool in competition, sometimes Keith finds it hard not to sweat. Conveniently, Janine Michelle Cabato, his physical therapist, steps in to soothes his nerves.

She also treats Dr. Marco Antonio Masangkay, who still has not gotten over his high school traumas and, occasionally, relives high school in his nightmares. It doesn't help that he works alongside his former tormentors, Dr. Husain Mendizabel and Dr. James Jay Comaingking, two of the best surgeons in the country.

The hospital where they work is owned by Dr. Jason Nazareth, who is happily married to Dr. Valery Joy Brion. They have 5 kids and are no longer practicing medicine. Instead, they have moved to the United States of America and are now living comfortably.

Jenilee Awichen works as a nurse in the same hospital. She has no need to work since she and her husband Taylor Hanson are very rich, but she needs to satisfy the kindness streak in her and works for the smiles of her patients. Working right beside her is Rouella Balagot, also a nurse. She treats victims who have been injured in battle.

Lt. Col. Brenel Segovia was recently one of her patients. He was wounded in Afghanistan, where he was trying to save the lives of suffering women. For his courage, he was given a gold medal and a sum of money, enough for him to resign and live peacefully with his wife and kids.

Speaking of troubled places, Roy delas Peñas is presently staying in Vietnam, where he and his blushing bride are having their honeymoon. They chose the place because his wife's roots lay in Vietnam.

They were protected from the havoc by the Philippines' ambassador to Vietnam, Deuciele Marie Asprer. At the moment, she is in Japan where she is going through the divorce process with her husband. Helping her with her assets is her lawyer, Dennis Felices, CPA.

Also in Japan are Lersan del Mundo and Marc Soriano, co-partners of the flourishing company, Soriano & Del Mundo International. Surveys show that SDMI is fast becoming the number one rival of Microsoft, whose president is Jeanie Nieva, the new Bill Gates of this generation. Vice-president of the same company is Lindamor Agustin, who's speedily rising in rank.

Meanwhile, her best friend Heidee Abarido is based in China, where she owns the Abarido Library, the largest library in the world. It is one of the few structures on the earth that can be seen from space without the aid of a lens. This fact was discovered by the first Philippine austronaut, Elma Ortega, who is often out in space making sure that the Philippine satellites are not in any danger of destruction.

The satellites she guards are owned by Jurmobin Baddiri, who is a world-famous soccer player and hosts his own fitness show, Jumpin' with Jur. Co-hosting his show is Marcoren Marquez, a bodybuilder who owns his own fitness gym and has written many books on spicing up the human body.

One of Marcoren's avid fans is Donnel Oscar Enriquez, who has seen all his shows and read all his books and followed all his tips. From the once fragile weakling that Donnel was is now a transformed man with bulging biceps to display. In fact, he is attracting very many women, one of which is the svelte Katrina Wee, who is a Mathematics professor in the Item University, which was founded by Glen Item, nth president of the Philippines.

He also offered a position to Marichel Natividad, but she declined because of her loyalty to her alma mater. She is now a Math teacher at the Ateneo de Zamboanga High School, where Friderick Laude is the high school principal.

To tell you the truth, I copied all of these information from Felicia Agnetha Fernandez's multi-awarded website. Up to date, she has the highest recorded number of website hits and has been recognized as the best webmaster and website designer of the millennium.

I, meanwhile, am a figment of your imagination.

Oh, by the way, I haven't seen Florante Paler, Jr. anywhere lately, have you?

Class Prognostication

2009-10-27T12:48:00.001+08:00

Geocities is shutting down and taking Flisha's old website with it, so I decided to save the class prophecies that she had saved there. This is the official version that was published in our yearbook.

CLASS PROGNOSTICATION
(bet you don't know what that means. Hehehe!)

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:
This is a spawn of fiction (baloney). Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's weird imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dying, flying or crawling, and events, or locales is entirely coincidental (*eherm*). BUT if you feel like burying yourselves in delusion thinking you're the person I'm talking about then go on. Deceive yourselves. Gag yourselves with a spoon. It's the best retreat from reality.

1. Rogelio (rogin—E): this tranquil, peace-loving person acquired the mannerism of throwing peopie out of an upper-storey building window due to too much suppressed emotions. Currently confined in group therapy session somewhere in the States. Was almost successful in his accounting business until he accidentally mistook a bottle cap for his contact lens. His hand and eye coordination was totally damaged. But I heard he's making progress. He can now count his fingers closing his eyes. It's a start.

2. Heidee (Haidu): after being exposed to too much fairy tales, Heidee developed the idea that Snow White, Sleeping Beauty; Pocahontas, Belle and Ariel were deluded princesses. She firmly believed that they did not live happily ever after because they all married the same guy -- Prince Charming. She was so intense in her discovery that she's now in the Supreme Court vying to buy the rights to re-edit these literary works.

3. Keith (kitty): Keith, with his distaste with most women, devised, using his high intelligence, a new way in how to recreate man without retracing the steps of our ancestors. He developed Spontaneous generation or Abiogenesis. He constructed special chambers, with dark moist rooms equipped with soggy carpets, festering animal composts believing that in time, organisms will germinate and evolve into something resembling the human being.

4. Ira (Ratan): Just released her new day-view album "Nursery Rhymes" featuring the hit revival "Old McDonald had a farm!" With other songs such as "I have two hands" and "The left and the Right", Ira has been on tours yet was deported from India due to her offensive single "You need some Roll on Man" (sung in the tune of "I. Wanna hold your hand")

5. Kaye (Katrina -- I know you hate being called by this name, let me say it again KAAAATRIINA!!!): KK became the world's famous photographer. Her great pictures of all sorts of heinous events; such as the aerial shot of Prince Charles while nature was calling him, were spectacular. Her profession went well until she started taking self-portraits. People say she's pretty and all that but she doesn't believe that. Photographic evidences convinced her that her camera was possessed by an evil spirit. Until now she is up in a retreat taking yoga classes and trying to exorcise the spirit away from the camera and until then she must meditate.

6. Raquel (raqui): Raquel's extensive research in the culinary arts was far-reaching. She has concocted thousands of recipes all easy to cook. She was so good in cooking that people hailed her to be the Kitchen Goddess. Her great success was credited on her personal culinary philosophy which can he summed up in three words: Just Add Water.

7. Peter (pee-tah): Just won therole of Rizal in the New Musical version of Rizal: Sa Dapitan atbp. where it is mandatory to wear ill-fitting tight leggings with polka dotted tutu. The background is set on a very native theme where tribal men are also prompted to wear skimpy loin clothes and thongs.

8. Felicia (flea sya): Flisha now writes a column at a local newspaper called "Back and Forth" where her topics ranges from the intense pain of a slug to the different ways to have fun while opening an umbrella. Her use of language is so fierce and so rapt that people find her works to be heart-wrenching and also wholesome.

9. Janine (juh-neen): After years of perfecting the arts, Ja decided to follow in the steps of Picasso -- destroying ART! But unlike Picasso, Ja has gone overboard in salvaging it. She has gone burning her works to crisp and setting aflame the whole French Louvre where most of the world's greatest art works are kept. She is now missing in action. If you have witnessed the sightings of this person please don't hesitate to call Bantay Bata Hotline.

10. Imelda (marcos): Joined her friend Heidee in her quest of justifying fairy tale characters. She's working on a thesis on people's misconception on stepmothers. She strongly points out that stepmothers are just trying to train the damsels to be independent and all, and that without them, they wouldn't end up in their places right now.

11. Jur (dzur): Engaged himself into a lot of national soccer competitions. With his pretty good build, which he usually shows off to great advantage in sleeveless shirts, spandex shorts, tank tops (Girls no hooting!!), people still had this theory that the jocks muscular development is usually inversely proportional to the mental progression. Anyway, Jur was sentenced to 3 years in juvenile hall caused by the DENR due to his socks, which contributed to the depletion of the ozone layer.

12. Rouella (cruella): Following the steps of Miriam Defensor, Ella now eats death threats for breakfast. She dares senators into duels and called the president a big, fat fly. Was hailed by a local magazine to be "Woman War Freak of the Year" and was elected unanimously to be part of the military jurta by the people.

13. Reah (Reyah): Learned too late what she was missing. Died of diabetes at the age of 21. Oh, wait! She was kinda good to me. Ok, I'll let her live. Rhea survived the operation but due to her calorie intake, she no longer possesses the figure she had before especially now that she discovered there was another gender called "male". She's stuck eating green, leafy grass and drinking bland milk.

14. Jeanie (genie): Took the Rorschach inkblot test where the psychologist lets one interpret blotches to determine the state of one's mind. Jeanie learned that she had a trauma when she was a child. She never had pink socks, it made her feel bad that she no longer cared to continue her psychomotor development. She was a total wreck and all she thought about was the pink socks she never had.

15. Jotie (jutay): Was censored by the MTRCB due to his illicit sketches of naked women. He fought by justifying that it was an art. MTRCB reconsidered his plea and also censored the classical art works of ancient Greece and the Great Romans which involved art with frontal nudity. The statues of Michael Angelo were confiscated and the paintings of Rafael were burned to ashes. The UP oblation was also torn down.

16. AJ (aj): Realized that his excessive admission to growth balls has caused his inefficiency to eliminate body odor. AJ now is subject to experiment by deodorant companies where he is being subjected to a lot of chemical exposure far more deadly than chemotherapy just to solve his problem. In doing so, he is earning tons of bucks since scientists secretly believe that in a couple of weeks he would grow an extra arm or two due to too much exposure to radiation.

17. James (jamo): Became highly intellectual. His perpetual visit to the library and usage of the computer named him "The Best Bachelor of the Month Award." He attends scientific meetings now and then where he debates on Semantics and uses terms such as "pro-active interface", "paradigm", and leverage". And uses sentences such as "The marginal utility is negative." Scary, don't you think?

18. Brenel (Parapapampam) No longer found the challenge he gets in track and field, he decided to join another race track. Presently he is now contending for the championship round in a horse race. He has gained enthusiasm as he was able to discover the excitement again in competing with worthy opponents. Pom, I'll be betting on you.

19. Paler (Palest): With his obsession to be the world's richest man, Jun-Jun has resolved into a lot of extreme measures. Excluding hard work, he presented himself to the Zobel de Ayala family and told them that a nurse switched babies absent-mindedly and that he was the switched child. The Zobel clan accepted him. All went well until Florante discontently self-proclaimed that he has royal blood and went to Buckingham to break the news. The Zobel circle was overjoyed to dispose the fomily mutant.

20. Joan (Buccs): A scientist. Her speculation on the specie of cockroaches and profound theories regarding their metabolism pasted her face and reputation in World History. She discovered that if ever the time comes where a nuclear holocaust would take place. these roaches would survive such annihilation due to their immunity to such deadly-chemicals, so she thought of injecting her DNA to these hugs so that they would hold the evolutionary key to rebuild man again.

21. Marichel (Chenggola): Acquired the inability to pronounce all the vowels in the alphabet, Marich lost her job as an interpreter in the United Nations. It was a relief for the UN because she always had a flair for adding extremely brutish adjectives to what she tries to interpret which, without any doubt, commenced the third World War. She now works with HallMark with a new section of cards -- the insult division.

22. Donnel (oca): Now an elite linguist tackling on the issues of Premarital sex and morality degradation in public sites. This fluent fellow ferfectly froduces well fronounced words (oh how I love alliteration). Now works as a highly-faid, I mean, paid English teacher in "Together." Works part-time as an announcer in DXXX.

23. Ada (yipiyai yeh!!! ihai!): Ada, with her very slim figure, was able to pull through as an aristocratic model in Paris working in the lines of Girhaud, Klein, Mizrahi and Givenchy. Unluckily, Felicia, in one of her columns, fabricated a conspiracy which led the majority to redefine what is beautiful -- which is now pertaining to large, strrong women portraying force, power yet with grace. Ada, yes, has Grace, yet lacks the force to go with her. She now poses for calendars promoting second-hand Volkswagens.

24. Bryan (Bra yan!): Mentally injured when he learned that he wasn't getting enough Phytochemical in his daily diet. After years of rehab, he searched for Raquel, his old chef friend and physically forced her to include Del Monte pineapple juice in all his recipes.

25. Christopher (Christa Fur): His obsession with Mari Mar, a Mexican soap opera rendered in colloquial Tagalog, directed him to be a talent scout searching for the perfect look-alike. He plans on recreating the whole Mari Mar series only with a Subanon background. He also works on a TV hit sequence "HARMED" where he presents in all its glory the secrets behind the land of Siquijor.

25. Jason (dalarasata): Ended up as a monastery monk high up in the mountains, teaches the subject Filipino in utmost enthusiasm and deciphers the Philippine hieroglyphs (alibata) flawlessly. Received the Pulitzer award in his discovery that aliens carved the Banaue Rice terraces.

27. Jenilee (hansons): A successful nurse specializing in child delivery without the use of anesthetics. She firmly believes that what is natural is always the best for pregnant mothers. She now has her own hospital high up in the Himalayas. She also does painful caesarian.

28. Deux (du): A highly-paid actress in Hollywood. At the moment she just spectacled the preview of her latest film "Cinderella and the Seven dwarfs" where she portrayed the role of a modern day woman who finds love through the basis of her foot size. She also starred in other blockbuster movies such as "Basic In Stink," "Clue-ful" and "Romeo and Julie Yap."

29. Roy (clark kent): A talented artist who now owns his own art gallery where he delineates all sorts of pieces. He works part-time as the painter of Plaza 1 and 2 where he exhales his great creativity as an impressionist.

30. Lersan (del mundo de mars): An accomplished astronaut send to outer space to search for the answer as to why the moon has craters. After years of exploration, he conduded that it was the massive intake of oil that the moon produces these craters. He suggested thc application of Exraderm 1, 2 and 3 over the moon's surfaces.

31. KatrinaM (marine biologist): A marine biologist (duh) saving the whales and preserving the ocean from pollution. Her only downfall is her worship to Captain Planet which she plays tribute to by singing the theme song from the cartoons over and over and over. She's now stuck in a loony bin.

32. Marc (soria no): An augustinian priest, a holy missionary. Marc now serves the Vatican with utmost loyalty. He is so good that he was killed due to the lack of new saints. He was beatified two days after he was to be hailed as Pope.

33. Lindamor (linda): Proved that Theorem 3-1 was an error. She firmly believes that a line is a set of finite points, not indefinite points. She claims that she was able to count the points in a line. Math experts reconsidered the possibility of redefining the theorem.

34. Ilynne (Eye lean): Realizing her physical potentials, Ilynne contended for the Miss Universe beauty pageant and won 1st Runner-up. Was promoted to Miss Universe not longer than 2 weeks after the competition due to her devious plan to impregnate the latter Miss Namibia.

35. Elma (El Ma): A successful career woman who believes that she invented post-its. She was charged of plagiarism, so she renamed her invention as "plaster-its." With her sharp wit and pretty face, she was able to promote her product as a commercial model but unluckily her commercial plays on the Chinese channel. But still she was pretty and successful.

36. Carmi (mArtin): This young woman is now being diagnosed by a psychoanalyst, helping her to trace back the roots to why she is always on panic. Due to too much therapy, part of her medulla was damaged and now fails to reply to stimuli.

37. Viejay (vj): With her usual warm acquaintance with the media, Valery got a job where she can be seen by hundreds of people daily in movies. She now plasters her pearly whites as she prompts people in the movie house to stand up before the movie starts and all together sing the National anthem. Handa Awit!

38. Trish (ostrish): Works in a multi-national corporation underground where she monitors the black market very cleverly with her incomparable wit. Has the mob at her side and could dominate the world if she pleases to.

39. Aeneas (hyenas): Is a foley artist working for TRISTAR picture. He now creates spectacular sound effects as that we hear from the modern movie.

40. Pei (pay): See Trish. Anyway this Chinese guy is now taking his Masteral in El Camino para na Cielo University where he majors in Gameboy and Play Station.

41. Cocoy (coren) 42. Marco (snork) and 43. Austine (autine): These eligible young bachelors proceeded into the field of Medicine where their forte is in mouth-to-mouth RECITATION. They were so good until one stopped believing that there is a word toothbrush. Their medical empire trampled down due to this. They now practice abortion somewhere in the dark realms of Sucabon.

44. Laude (frie da dyk): Was kicked out of the PMA because he was over-qualified. He was suspected to be part of a scheme brewed by international terrorists to overtake the Philippine grounds.

45. Glen (glennox): An elocution trainor who teaches the people who dubbed Mari Mar to speak perfect English.

46. Cito (darunding): Become the world's greatest Tennis champion not to mention good-looking. Was hailed to be the highest paid athlete in the World. (Cit, pay me later!)

47. Felices (pascua con ustedes): Manages a band specializing in funeral marches and death parades.

As for the author of this literary piece, he is out somewhere and is not crazy enough to reveal his location. But if ever his body is found floating in some nearby river, you now have a list of suspects.

Chi Gets Engaged

2009-08-10T23:56:00.000+08:00

Our batch salutatorian, Chi, has just gotten engaged to her ~~boyfriend~~ fiance Punch. Read the full story here.

Berchies Reunion in Singapore

2009-07-19T12:35:00.001+08:00

Christina, who is now London-based, flew in to Singapore for a vacation and met up with Singapore-based Berchies Heidee, Chi and Elma and a few other people last July 18.

Berchies reunion

at the Esplanade

with the iconic Merlion

Janice's Wedding Photos

2008-07-28T10:33:00.003+08:00

More pictures here and here.

Ilynne Janice Lopez's Wedding Invitation

2008-07-20T19:22:00.001+08:00

Illyne is inviting everyone on her Wedding on July 25, 2008. The mass will be at St. Joseph at 2:00 PM and reception will follow at Astoria Regency at 5:30 PM.

Attire is formal, either Americana or Barong for guys.

Hope everyone could attend, please forward the invitation to our classmates.

And please inform Illyne if you can attend the wedding so she can reserve seats for everyone. You can reach her at 09177107304.

Attorney Chi's Invitation

2008-04-07T14:11:00.001+08:00

guys, chi is inviting everyone for a get-together party on APRIL 12,2008(saturday) 6:00PM at Garden Orchid Roofdeck.Her mom is throwing her a party.so please anda todo ha...mirahan ta olet.All berchies is expected to come.the invitation is for everyone.i was tasked to send out the invites cz she doesn't have everyone's contact details.please be there.pls pass the msg to our other classmates baka chene yo yan miss.c you!

A Mini Berchie Reunion

2007-12-29T03:00:00.000+08:00

Especially because some important people were not there... like me. Joke! Heheheh.

I wish I could have been there but alas my health and finances impeded my going. Haha.

You guys looked like you had lots of fun, so for the benefit of those who weren't able to go, here's a recap:

i was out with high school friends that night for a reunion. we went to antonio's for dinner, chat for awhile and caught up with old memories then took off to mr.bean's place for some coffee. it was funny because we were bored at antonio's and decided to change place. we were so in a hurry and everyone was rushing to the car that when we arrived at mr.bean, we forgot that we left one of our classmate at anotnio's still talking with her other friends she met there. it was really unintentional and everyone missed her when we were heading out. we were using two cars and each one was thinking she was with the other...hahhaaa...but two of our friends went back to get her. we were at mr. bean til late night and after which we went to amigos amigas to eat some batchoy. it was a good night, everyone had their camera with them and we had lotsa pics taken.

- Jotie Sta. Teresa

I just came home from dinner with my HS classmates. Its during this time of the year when most of us are here in Zamboanga and we have made it a habit to meet up for dinner or for a xmas party. This time round, we just went to Antonio's for a get together dinner. It was nice to see familiar faces and to catch up with each other's life. Among those who came were Ira, Ilynne, Heidee, VJ, James, Pei, AJ, Ja, Jotie, Brian and Jeanie & Gian. After dinner, we headed to a new hang out place in town. It was much quieter than Antonio's and the crowd was good. We also decided and made plans to go to Sta. Cruz Island on Saturday.

- Raquel dlR. Tarroza

More stills (courtesy of Brian Joseph Bango) :

Sharmila Parmanand Wins ANC Square Off

2007-12-09T03:10:00.001+08:00

Yeah well I was really rooting for the ADZU kids Henry and Al, but they were pitted against their mentor and world-champion debater Sharms... the result was predictable but a nail-biting battle it was nonetheless.

Not many of you know Sharmila Parmanand (second from the left), I think, but she's actually a Berchie, belonging to the batch right after us.

She recently won the ANC Square Off Challenge, and she's representing the Philippines, along with her teammate Charisse, in the Worlds Debate in Thailand this month.

Nuay lang, I believe we should be proud of all Berchie achievements, whether of our batch or otherwise.

Sharms, good luck! And this time I'm rooting for you! Haha.

Admin Privileges Granted

2007-12-09T02:39:00.001+08:00

I've given admin privileges to those who've posted stuff on this blog... yay... that means you guys can adjust settings and stuff... (hopefully not doing anything drastic/tragic)

Also means you can directly add authors to this blog, if you know of other Berchie bloggers out there.

More importantly you can give life to our otherwise boring template-design blog. Yay!

(Paging Darrel... Jotie... I've seen your Multiply sites... heheheh)

This blog needs creative juice, peoples!

I'm also thinking we should post a lot more stuff. Like achievements of fellow Berchies and all that. Or posts reminiscing fave HS moments (paging Heidee... haha). Or just random posts about what you guys are doing, to try to keep in touch with everyone. :)

And pictures! Pictures of everyone! Like before and after shots. Hahaha that would be so cool. Hmm, I think I'm gonna start scanning old HS pictures. Haha.

Prom, anyone?

Hey wait. I already *have* scanned those old pics. Hehehehe. Look o!

Basta, whatever!

Post away! :)

P.S. I'm starting to see a lot of you post stuff on Multiply. I'm a newbie there so I don't know how many Berchies are actually active bloggers. But just so you know, you can enable cross-posting between Blogger and Multiply, via your Multiply settings. So if you post anything on Multiply, you can automatically have it post here too. Convenient, huh?

Generations

2007-07-06T13:36:00.000+08:00

Yeah I know, it's been ages since this blog has been updated and I've just thought about Berchmans only recently, when my office friend Gelle introduced their new hire to me. Her name is Lisette and she tells me that she's a Berchie too...only a batch lower. What are the odds of two Berchies four years apart from far-flung Zamboanga City to become officemates in the big city? Gelle tells me Lisette snagged 6th place at the CPA board exam. Wow. Well what can I say but Berchies are really good, whatever generation they may belong to.

Aside from Lisette, I've also met another Berchie of yet another generation, the most recent graduates. That's two generations below mine. His name is Gio and we met through our respective blogs. We haven't met in person yet, actually, but from his writings I can tell that he too has a long way to go. Another true blue Berchie with good blood in his veins who will do the Berchmans name proud.

And now...another batch is starting of even as we speak (or write). Good luck to the freshest Berchies. Man, I'm getting really old!

Merry Christmas!

2005-12-25T21:47:00.000+08:00

Well, it's christmas day! Merry Christmas to all!

Whatever Happened To

2005-09-18T20:47:00.001+08:00

After many years, there are some Berchies that most have never heard of, and whenever there are reunions, their names crop up. One of these talked-about people actually showed up on my mailbox recently, in the form of a friendster invite. Wow. He's still alive? Hehehe. Actually, I'm referring to our introvert classmate Glen, whom we've never seen since High School graduation. Right now he's studying medicine and may just be our most successful classmate yet.

Another name on the list is our almost-two-years-classmate Christina. She was our classmate for the shortest time, but she remains to be the most popular, talked-about and wondered-about Berchie. My last encounter with her was last year when my officemate and I were looking at the October 2004 CPA board exam results. We were scanning the file for names we knew when he said, "Masa-Totanes, what a weird surname!" Something clicked, so I checked out the name...whaddya know, it was my classmate! Months later, a new officemate from Naga (where Chris moved after Berchmans) reported seeing her during our building's fire drill and said she was employed as an auditor for Joaquin Cunanan, whose office is located in the same building as KPMG, Philamlife Tower.

People also always ask me about my grade school and high school bestfriend Imee, whom they never saw after High School too. I tell them my nurse friend is now working in a public hospital somewhere in Manila. Last time I was with her was during her birthday, August 20.

There's also Keith, and Raquel was the last Berchie to see him, as she said in our Pancake House reunion. And of course, there still are people that we need updates on, like Alsree. So...any other sightings to report, anyone?

I AM NOT WORTHY

2005-07-30T15:27:00.000+08:00

While some people oggle their hearts off wishing in dreams or delusion that they would meet the Dalai Lama, Oprah or Ruffa Mae Quinto, I had my surreal encounter with my idol - Photographer JAKE VERSOZA. Funny thing was, we hardly new each other and we're just corresponding through blog. The guy was my icon.

I was on my sixth bottle of lights and we were talking about his commissioned work back in manila and how he would come back in Zambo for a september stint. Now even with a hangover, I remain stupefied by the meeting that remains surreal and untrue. Shit pare ang saya.

you can visit jake's online portfolio at http://jakee.blogspot.com/.

Happy St. Ignatius Day

2005-07-29T14:14:00.000+08:00

Happy St. Ignatius Day! Well, Sunday pa man le actually pero ara el celebration del Ateneo! Yehey, nuay clase! (Kansaw insiña when it's 7:30 to 8:30 in the evening, aaarrggghh!!!)

Quien quien pa ba de Tetuan aqui??? :-)

Dr. Escultura and the FLT

2005-05-26T15:58:00.000+08:00

Dunno if you remember, but last May 5, 2005, there was an article published by the Manila Times cay a Filipino mathematician by the name of Dr. Edgar Escultura was able to point out errors in the proof of Prof. Andrew Wiles.

Si Prof. Wiles was the one who was able to solve the world's most famous unproved math theorem, Fermat's Last Theorem, in 1993.

Dr. Escultura told the Manila Times na Prof. Wiles had acknowledged the errors in his proof in the guestbook of his website. So the guy goes to Manila Bulletin and self-promotes. El Manila Bulletin tamen, tanga, publishes his story without even verifying the story.

This blogger reads the article, checks out the sources mentioned, and finds out that the message on Dr. Escultura's guestbook is not really from Prof. Wiles. It's just an impostor. He emails Prof. Wiles and Prof. Wiles says he does not even know what a guestbook is. The blogger checks the guestbook again and he finds out that the imposter has just declared it was all a joke.

Thus, another Filipino-genius hoax.

If you check out Dr. Escultura's guestbook, most of the comments there are other mathematicians sarcastically ridiculing his theories.

Remember that other time when there was this girl purporting to have a certificate from a foreign country saying she had won some genius contest or whatever... and it was broadcast in ABS-CBN and then refuted by GMA, and then it turns out hoax lang gale tamen kel?

Hayyyy.

Makahuya man gad for Filipino journalism. And mas makahuya for the Filipino people. What will other countries think of us? Nuay mas gad kita otro talent other than pretending to be talented?

Thanx to the Internet

2005-05-26T07:16:00.000+08:00

6 years after graduation, with little communication and mere forwardable messages in yahoo groups to keep in touch, the Berchies (few of them, anyway) find themselves in a conference room. Most are surprised to see the others there, claiming that they have not talked for 5 years.

I am talking about a Yahoo Messenger conference room. Amazing what technology can do, isn't it?

After hours of chatting and catching up, we realize that we know so little chismis about each other. So Flisha comes up with a brilliant idea and minutes later - voila! This blog comes into existence.

So berchies out there, do us a favor. Keep us updated.

Finally...

2005-05-25T16:34:00.000+08:00

...at last m hir ya fli. ok na. stupid gad kel internet connection enante...! next tym ya lng yo man post, akel real post gayod. hehehe. babooosssh...!!!

Try Lang...

2005-05-25T16:12:00.000+08:00

Berchmans Mohicans 1999

2005-05-25T16:00:00.000+08:00

This is the community blog of the members of Berchmans Mohicans class of 1999.

Happy blogging, guys! :)