UP @ 100
Today, June 18, 2008, officially marks the 100th Foundation Day of the University of the Philippines. A lot of activities were lined up today. One of them is the flag ceremony at the Oblation Plaza. The night before, I decided that I would be attending the flag ceremony at Oblation Plaza around 8am. I even memorized the lyrics of UP Naming Mahal so that I could sing along with everyone. It’s a shame if I don’t know the lines of our Alma Mater Song.
I woke up at 5:30am and was thinking if I would still join the flag ceremony. There are a lot of things running on my mind. How will I go there? Traffic? Who will accompany me throughout the program? And a whole lot more. I even contacted some of my schoolmates hoping that they could accompany me. Unfortunately, I failed to contact them. We are not really close. We just know each other by face. In fact, I’m the only one studying in UP from our school that doesn’t belong to the cream class. After few minutes of contemplating, I decided to just stay at home. I think I’m the most kill joy student of UP who didn’t bother join any of the centennial activities.
I have a 1:00pm class today. So while bumming around the house, I waited for any announcements regarding the suspension of classes. Sad but true, class were not suspended. I normally leave our house at around 11:00am but for today, I left at 11:45am. I’m avoiding the Oblation Run because I know that the vicinity of the campus would be traffic by that time. I arrived in UP Diliman at around 12:45am and waited for a TOKI jeep. After a few minutes, I noticed that there were no TOKI jeeps at all. I found out that the Academic Oval was closed so the jeepney routes were changed. I decided to walk from University Avenue to Vanguard Building to make it to my 1:00pm class.
That was a pretty tiring walk! I went to our classroom and almost all my classmates were there except for my favorite classmate. ? Anyway, I’ve met Crystal a while ago. She is the one whom I discovered to be one of my classmates in PE 1 through Multiply. We didn’t talk that much but at least I gained a friend (or should I say an acquaintance). At around 1:45pm, everyone is already in the classroom except for our professor. A few moments after, one of my classes announced that our professor won’t make it. We all decided to leave the room and go wherever.
As we go out of Vanguard Building, it started drizzling. I waited at the nearby jeepney stop hoping to find a North Edsa jeep. I’m still cluecless at that time that the Academic Oval has been opened to traffic once again. A couple of jeepneys passed by and the rain started to get hard. It’s raining cats and dogs! It’s getting dark too! I thought I’ll be stranded on that jeepney stop forever. I decided to just ride the IKOT jeep. I later found out that the jeepney routes are back to normal. And the rain hasn’t stop!
Anyway, I found my way to University Avenue and waited for a North Edsa jeepney. Luckily, one passed by and had just enough space for me. And then, I finally arrived at SM North Edsa safe. I spent a couple of minutes there and decided to went home.
On my way home, one of my churchmates rode the same jeepney I’m riding. I smiled at her. And then she asked, “classmate ba kita?” And I said, “Hindi churchmate kita, diba?” Upon going down the jeepney, we chit-chat for a few moments while heading home.
That’s all.