Back To The 70's

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Incidentally. my claim to fame sa Space Invaders : napaikot ko yung score

sa 1040, so since there were 5 digits, parang 101040 yung score ko nun.

I even remember the pattern for getting 300pts sa flying saucer, 22 times ka

mag-fire, tapos 14 na ng 14.

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Space Invaders! It had such a ubiquitous sound....PSSHEEW! My favorite past time, 1 peso a game. A close second was Pac Man but I could never get past 5-6 rounds. Also got addicted to Dpnkey Kong. Compare with today's game that cost 20 bucks a pop. Aybody remember Night Rider? Going way, way back in the past...pinball games in Cubao wpuld cost 25 centavos a game.

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Space Invaders! It had such a ubiquitous sound....PSSHEEW! My favorite past time, 1 peso a game. A close second was Pac Man but I could never get past 5-6 rounds. Also got addicted to Dpnkey Kong. Compare with today's game that cost 20 bucks a pop. Aybody remember Night Rider? Going way, way back in the past...pinball games in Cubao wpuld cost 25 centavos a game.

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Yes, I remember Night Rider! I used to get hypnotized by those green fence posts. That was one of my favorites, along with Cross Fire!

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Space Invaders! It had such a ubiquitous sound....PSSHEEW! My favorite past time, 1 peso a game. A close second was Pac Man but I could never get past 5-6 rounds. Also got addicted to Dpnkey Kong. Compare with today's game that cost 20 bucks a pop. Aybody remember Night Rider? Going way, way back in the past...pinball games in Cubao wpuld cost 25 centavos a game.

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Bad trip na bad trip ako nung pinatanggal ni Makoy yung mga game room.

 

I remember one time seeing a crowd milling around a galaxians game in greenhills,

yun pala it was Dang Cecilio playing tapos she was unaware that her top button was

unbuttoned so nasisilipan siya.

 

Nung nasa UP Elem ako i wandered sa may School of Economics (layo)

tapos saw her for the first time.

 

Ganda talaga! Tapos beauty and brains pa, kasi if i remember right she started sa Eng'g kaya

lang she had to shift to Econ. She was the perfect girl for me back then.

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Men-purses?  Really?  I'm just so out of it.  But on the average, men (at least those my age) move around as lightly as possible.  When pareng flyingdutchman mentioned clutchbags, I tried to remember exactly what were those things I put in my clutchbag.  My hankie went into my right front pocket.  My coins and low-denomination bills went into my left front pocket.  My wallet went into my right hindpocket.  My cigarettes were either in my socks (to hide them from school authorities or my parents) or in my front shirt pocket.  Emergency money went into that secret pocket in my jeans.  My left hindpocket was usually empty.  So what in the world did I put inside my clutchbag?

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Ummmm ... your gun?

 

Kiddin.

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Bad trip na bad trip ako nung pinatanggal ni Makoy yung mga game room.

 

I remember one time seeing a crowd milling around a galaxians game in greenhills,

yun pala it was Dang Cecilio playing tapos she was unaware that her top button was

unbuttoned so nasisilipan siya.

 

Nung nasa UP Elem ako i wandered sa may School of Economics (layo)

tapos saw her for the first time.

 

Ganda talaga! Tapos beauty and brains pa, kasi if i remember right she started sa Eng'g kaya

lang she had to shift to Econ. She was the perfect girl for me back then.

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Dang Cecilio came from STC Manila batch 78. In 1978, I was supposed to date her sa isang ball pero hindi natuloy. I never thought that she was so pretty because her name then was Endang Cecilio and it was a girl (who eventually became my girlfriend for a month) who was setting up the "blind date" (well kapag girl kasi ang nagbigay ng date, hindi ako umaasang maganda). When I met Endang in UP, gf ko naman noon yung classmate niya. Then, nanalo pa siyang Bb. Pilipinas.

 

Noong 70s, I dated once sa MassComm Ball si Loren Legarda. Walang nangyari

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Dang Cecilio came from STC Manila batch 78. In 1978, I was supposed to date her sa isang ball pero hindi natuloy. I never thought that she was so pretty because her name then was Endang Cecilio and it was a girl (who eventually became my girlfriend for a month) who was setting up the "blind date" (well kapag girl kasi ang nagbigay ng date, hindi ako umaasang maganda). When I met Endang in UP, gf ko naman noon yung classmate niya. Then, nanalo pa siyang Bb. Pilipinas.

 

Noong 70s, I dated once sa MassComm Ball si Loren Legarda. Walang nangyari

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Si STORM - eligible bachelor, most sought after dance/swing partner ng mga UP coeds noon (at di lang basta coed). Nasa top of mind recall siya at collective consciousness ng mga girlies at that time na iilan lang na lalaki ang marunong sumayaw (bakit nga ba in the late 70's/80's?? ).

 

Sa susunod na election, for sure hahanapin ka ni Loren (for your choreo-d swing number).

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Si STORM  - eligible bachelor, most sought after dance/swing partner ng mga UP coeds noon (at di lang basta coed).  Nasa top of mind recall siya at  collective consciousness ng mga girlies at that time na iilan lang na lalaki ang marunong sumayaw (bakit nga ba in the late 70's/80's??  ). 

 

Sa susunod na election, for sure hahanapin ka ni Loren (for your choreo-d swing number).

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Actually mas yung mga hindi taga UP kasi hindi ako nagkakalat sa sarili kong bakuran.

 

Isa pa pala sa madalas kong ka-swing noon sa Wherelse ay si Pinky Amador. Hindi pa siya artista noon.

 

Hindi siguro ako hahanapin ni Loren kasi wala ngang nangyari sa date eh!

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Dang Cecilio came from STC Manila batch 78. In 1978, I was supposed to date her sa isang ball pero hindi natuloy. I never thought that she was so pretty because her name then was Endang Cecilio and it was a girl (who eventually became my girlfriend for a month) who was setting up the "blind date" (well kapag girl kasi ang nagbigay ng date, hindi ako umaasang maganda). When I met Endang in UP, gf ko naman noon yung classmate niya. Then, nanalo pa siyang Bb. Pilipinas.

 

Noong 70s, I dated once sa MassComm Ball si Loren Legarda. Walang nangyari

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Another showbiz personality na nag-UP: Dina Bonnevie.

When I joined NCOTC ( yup, nag NCO ako, sabi kasi sa akin that was

one way to evade those stupid parades ), one of my 'missions' was

to get her autograph.

 

I remember her asking me if I was a neophyte, then signing : Dina Bonnevie-Sotto.

The student number was 77 or 78-something, if i remember right.

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Sa Psych 101 class ko classmate namin si Irene Marcos. Wala rin nangyari (hehehe siempre naman no...!) We had a very memorable class get together sa Malacanang Palace. She showed us the music room with all sorts of instruments, may synthesizer pa. Out in the field, whatever we wanted to do - presto - the PSG would magically produce. We toured the palace and we were so awestruck at how grand it was.

 

I had the good fortune of having Anton Juan as our Speech prof. Interesting class! Si Prof Waite anong class nga ba sya?

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Sa Psych 101 class ko classmate namin si Irene Marcos. Wala rin nangyari (hehehe siempre naman no...!) We had a very memorable class get together sa Malacanang Palace. She showed us the music room with all sorts of instruments, may synthesizer pa. Out in the field, whatever we wanted to do - presto - the PSG would magically produce. We toured the palace and we were so awestruck at how grand it was.

 

I had the good fortune of having Anton Juan as our Speech prof. Interesting class! Si Prof Waite anong class nga ba sya?

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Hey D, come to think of it, BAKA naging classmate kita kay Anton Juan. Had him for speech too. I can't forget the topic for my extempo (this was when you had to randomly pick from a fishbowl) - What the OBLATION meant to me ???!!! Ngek! How I managed, I do not know. Basta a got a 1.5 for that subject. Miracle.

 

Si Irene Marcos was my classmate sa Humanities naman under THE Prof. Alice Guillermo. She brought to class one of the 1500's Spanish Era STAMPITAS (the real thing); and a small genuine 300 year old AETA carved vase, (actually am URN.). Beautiful

 

She attended our study group (in our classmates house in Philam) for our project bringing with her a basketful of GREG's HAMBURGER (bitbit ng PSG). She was so down to earth you forget that she is a Marcos. She actually did her part of typing and pasting our cut-outs. Yung 3rd Back-up vehicle niya, ginawa naming schoolbus (she insisted that we be brought home) imagine, taking 6 people to their homes with wang-wangs a-blazing!!!

 

Si Prof Waite, if I remember taught a course in History ba? or Filipino ? I did not have him as a teacher.

 

Welcome back nga pala. Chilly diba??

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UP DILIMAN in the LATE 70's had ...

 

IRENE MARCOS

 

JO RAMOS

 

KATRINA PONCE ENRILE (among the famous shildren of Govt. officials then))

 

They were very different personalities. Some better than the other(s). But for trivia.....

Katrina had the most number of gay / fag groupies....Jo had the most number of boys hanging around her, while of course, Irene had the most number of bodygaurds.

 

But my personal favorite (despite her father being the Supreme Court Justice then - so No. 4 MAN) was MELISANDE CASTRO, daughter Justice Fred Ruiz Castro. Always prim and proper, elegant and low key.

 

LOREN LEGARDA then, was just...well...LOREN.

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Another showbiz personality na nag-UP: Dina Bonnevie.

When I joined NCOTC ( yup, nag NCO ako, sabi kasi sa akin that was

one way to evade those stupid parades ), one of my 'missions' was

to get her autograph.

 

I remember her asking me if I was a neophyte, then signing : Dina Bonnevie-Sotto.

The student number was 77 or 78-something, if i remember right.

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I thought she was from Ateneo pero my wife said that she's from UP nga raw. There was a Miss Magnolia in 1978 or 79 where I knew personally 3 contestants among the finalists - Malu Maglutac (my classmate in English), Jake Quisumbing and Dindin Lopez who was crowned Miss Magnolia. In that pageant, Dina Bonnevie was the runner up.

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Speaking of Irene Marcos...

 

I used to see her at AS, always smiling and talking to people. Yes, she really came across as a friendly person, removed from politics. But what really struck me were those HUGE, HUGE bodyguards! With those guys hovering about her, who'd have the courage to talk to her? Now fastforward to about three years ago. I was having a solitary meal at Glorietta when I saw (guess who?) Irene Marcos. She was with a friend or a relative, who knows. This time she had just one bodyguard.

 

As for the Marcos daughters (please, I'm not getting political here)...

 

During the martial law years, a lot of people kept saying that Irene was the prettier of the two. I always felt otherwise. I thought it was Imee. During those days, she headed the Kabataan Barangay. Just look at her now.

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Enrollment - UP Diliman, circa' late 70's: Anong oras kayo pumupunta sa campus, at sino ang mga profs na sinigurado nyong makukuha ninyo? Ako si Philip Waite. History yata sya eh. There's another famous Spanish teacher si Ms. Sailing. On the other side of the coin naman for Math si Miss Mapa.

 

Nung freshmen kayo, na shock din ba kayo nung medical exam??

 

Thanks for the welcome back T, actually it wasn't as chilly as the previous weeks. Lower 20s lang. I don't think we were classmates in Anton's class because we didn't have to select topics at random. Grabe naman yun! Congrats on your 1.5! Dos lang ang nakuha ko.

 

I used to see Rod Paulate in campus in the medyo early 80s na. Bing Pimentel was UP too diba? Other 'babes' at that time were Alicia Cuenca and Crispy Santamaria, but I think they were from other schools.

 

Worst class I ever had was PI 100, Tues/Thu at 7AM. Lalo na when I had to stay up late for a Math exam..el terrible!

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Enrollment - UP Diliman, circa' late 70's: Anong oras kayo pumupunta sa campus, at sino ang mga profs na sinigurado nyong makukuha ninyo? Ako si Philip Waite. History yata sya eh. There's another famous Spanish teacher si Ms. Sailing. On the other side of the coin naman for Math si Miss Mapa.

 

Nung freshmen kayo, na shock din ba kayo nung medical exam??

 

Thanks for the welcome back T, actually it wasn't as chilly as the previous weeks. Lower 20s lang. I don't think we were classmates in Anton's class because we didn't have to select topics at random. Grabe naman yun! Congrats on your 1.5! Dos lang ang nakuha ko.

 

I used to see Rod Paulate in campus in the medyo early 80s na. Bing Pimentel was UP too diba? Other 'babes' at that time were Alicia Cuenca and Crispy Santamaria, but I think they were from other schools.

 

Worst class I ever had was PI 100, Tues/Thu at 7AM. Lalo na when I had to stay up late for a Math exam..el terrible!

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Ok lang ba maski early 80's na ko nag-college sa UP? Di na ko masyado na-shock sa

physical kasi we would do that even when we were in UP Elem.

 

Used to see Roderick Paulate too, speech major yata. Kasabay ko nung 80's sila

Tweety de Leon, Martin Nievera, Raymond Lauchengco, and Jon Hernandez.

 

Free sched ako during my freshman first sem, so had to enlist in each subject.

Buti na lang suwerte sa EPN.