Destination Unknown

I just got home from graduation, and Lord, to call today a wonderful day is to give the word "wonderful" too little weight.

We started early. People wearing togas gathered around PICC and awaited instructions before entering the ceremonial hall. While the program flow itself is nothing special, each and every participants, most especially the graduates, could care less. In fact, it’s this kind of simplicity that I appreciate the most: no blasted inspirational song duets, no nasty-tasting "lobster dinner" (I don’t eat lobster as well), no superbly flashy and pretentious fashion show, but just some plain simple marching with occasional long-winded speech - ofwhich happens to be my least favorite part.

It’s kind of sad how, even though 5 years sound quite long, it really only took short period of time and experience before we get out of our school. Most of us are not all that prepared to wear toga. I would bet that even the late graduates would still find themselves hesitant to leave school, though maybe not hesitant to snatch their diploma out of the hands of some school administrators.

But enough of those sentimentality. The speakers did enough to communicate those during the graduation, and to continue to dwell on it would only make any sort of sentimental melodrama overstays its welcome. I for one am tired of all those whiny "life-goes-on/time-is-short/life-is-short/its-time-to-say-goodbye" statements getting flinged around during these kind of occasions. Even PGMA got certain mention (in a not-so-dignified light) by some of our speakers. Indeed graduation speeches are inspirational, yet they are still rife with pessimism.

One of the funniest occurence today thankfully didn’t happen from me, but from my seatmate. You know, there’s this really pretty girl that went on stage. My seatmate said very loudly and overly smugly (uncontrolled, I suppose) that this girl looked like Barbie Almalbis (formerly the lead singer of Hungry Young Poets/Barbie’s Cradle).

His other seatmate told him "Idiot! That’s THE Barbie Almalbis!"
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Even though I knew way back then that Barbie Almalbis belongs to our school, I have never got the chance to see her in person, not until today. Call it a sense of intuition, but I sensed it when she was on stage that she’s someone BIG - not literally, of course. Sure enough, that’s Barbie.

I have seen her on TV few times, but this is a celebrity who I can truthfully say look way better in person than in TV/Newspaper/Publication. That’s quite a rarity. Others, like Sarah Geronimo in my opinion, looks nothing special when in person. Barbie simply looks stunning.
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In other news, I got my US non-immigrant Visa delivered to our place today. Now that’s even more things to be happy about. For those who wondered, this Visa of mine spans 5 years, which means it would expire on 2010 when definitely PGMA is no longer a president, something I’m looking forward to.

If only every single day is as good as this.

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