Vote your Class Reps

by: Eddielu Arellano

What I am now and what you are now we all owe to our experiences we had in our years at Ortigas Ave!

It excites me that we shall be going back home in 17 months to re-live our 25 years together, seeing familiar faces and not so familiar faces, reliving our good and not so good memories, and it also saddens me because it shows our age and how long we've all been separated from home! Home they say is where the heart is but to most of us, this home is where the everything is !! And when i say everything i mean everything!!! Please list down your everything....

Now back to reality and the challenge that is facing our coming home! The batch or a very small percentage of the batch has been trying for several years now to bring all of us together to make this special day worthwhile, fun-filled and memorable to all, but we have been hitting roadblocks! Its difficult but we will not stop trying..

We need the support and the people to get this going and to start of, the "very small" group would need class reps to work for the success of this "day". It may be in the form of our class officers or also the influential or willing to step up people from each barkada of each class.Again, I cannot stress enough the importance of time and participation of each cluster for this to be the most memorable event of our lives. its either that, or we become the most memorable batch that did not have a homecoming.... so do we leave it to fate or do we choose to move now?! I choose now!

Eddielu

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Batch 87 Meet's Up at Basty's

by: Paul Fernandez

About 25 – 30 members of our batch met up last August 26, at Basty's (Tinggoy Palanca’s newest bar at the Fort). As expected, everyone had lots of fun (and lots to eat and drink, too) while catching up on each other’s lives and families.

The cool thing about the night, though, is the fact that everyone was really, really (major, major he he) psyched about our upcoming 25th year homecoming in 2012!

There were two (2) matters that stood out during our discussion about the reunion. First, WE NEED TO UNITE NOW FOR 2012, AND BEYOND!! In order to make it easier for us to communicate with each other, the following initiatives will be taken:

• please inform 5 – 10 of your batch mates about this newsletter; ask them if they are part of it already; if not,

• please tell them to text their email address to Reuben Ravago (09178990331) so he can include them already

The other theme that was evident that night was the need to raise money for the reunion and for the batch! We have a lot of good ideas on how to make 2012 and beyond special but we need funds to fuel these ideas. We need to implement, at least, one fundraiser before the year ends. Initial ideas brought forward are:

• Batch shirts
• Batch watches
• 80’s party
• Fun run
  

These ideas are so doable! We will just have to prioritize which ones will give us the highest return for our efforts. We need HELP to raise funds! We need HELP from batch mates who can champion projects for the batch!

Speaking of championing projects – our very own Aloy Aquino has signified his commitment to unite our batch mates in the US and Canada. Thank you, Aloy!

All in all, a great start – batch 1987! But we still have a long way to go! We will still need the HELP of everyone to make 2012 a success.

Until the next update...

Paul Fernandez