#lasalle reunion Back in the days when few people had Internet access at home and chatting was cool (we’re talking about way back in 1993 to maybe 1996), I stumbled upon MIRC and #mabuhay which was then being managed by its creator BoyBlue a.k.a. Jardine of poker and Rockband lore. Giz01 a.k.a. Rolly created a spin-off channel and #lasalle in undernet was born. I was founding member of the channel (my e-mail address was one of the 10 listed to get it approved) and admittedly, I still get a kick out of visiting the channel on undernet and just seeing it still exists although I no longer chat.
Last night, we had a sort of mini reunion with the gang and needless to say, it was amusing to say the least. Funny guy Kazmut a.k.a. Darwin who got a lot of ribbing last night for his infatuation with several women in the channel now works for IBM. Bakekang a.k.a. Miles still works for Cathay and we had fun reminiscing how we’d both get drunk during parties and puke by the side of the road as she was driving me home. Giz01 is no longer this skinny Chinese guy whose eyes disappear when he smiles. He’s now an average-built Chinese guy whose eyes disappear when he smiles. But seriously, Giz01 has the best story in chat. He ended up marrying Clio, who he met in chat, and they are now happily married with children. A_x, who now works for a credit card company, has turned into XXX as like me, he has now come out of the closet. Trissie a.k.a. Trissie (baduy!) is still the same Trissie. Seriously. Same hair, same eyes, same built…she hasn’t changed! As for me…well as they were pointing out, TheGirl has now turned into TheBoy and I guess that is the weirdest transformation ever.
I left relatively early and could no longer join them at Max Brenner (we had dinner at Italliani’s where I happily freeloaded off Jardine’s food) because I had to be at FriiSpirit in Katipunan (Aside from the fact that it was my shift, I was seriously itching to play “No More Heroes”). We made plans to keep in touch more often and I set a tentative night out with Miles although we assured each other that no one is going to be puking by the curb this time. Needless to say, I’ll be seeing them all again (especially Jardine of
http://iamclockwork.blogspot.com fame).