As you can guess, ideas have run out for the Guessing Game series. But here is another attempt at one more, but your contributions/ concepts/ ideas on GG will be much appreciated!!
Our Baguio younger years were collectively colorful. The first half of high school was spent in making friends (Ed Buenaflor joined us in second year, that bright kid from Alaminos), picking favorite teachers, learning new and fascinating things, while the second half was getting more serious, trying to sort out what lay up ahead of us called The Future. Environmental Degradation, Biodiversity, Pollutants, Air Quality Index, Stressed Out, Hassle were absent from our daily vocabularies. We WALKED and WALKED, a 2 or 3 km distance was not unusual.
A few years ago I tried to prove something to myself: I arrived at the crack of dawn via the early Manila bus, it was a nice crisp nippy morning, so I decided to have a hearty breakfast at Camp John Hay’s Manor Hotel: walked all the way from Legarda Road where my sister rented an apartment, through the long route at Burnham Park, up that shortcut on the side of City High (and used as an outhouse by many), then on to the CJH gate, up to the breakfast room. This was the solitude and green vistas I recall from childhood days: the city was still not quite awake, there was little movement along the roads, and the few remaining pine trees along the way seemed to represent the “whispering pine” of poetry, exuding a natural pine scent while my shoes crunched on browned pine needles. Butterflies were the only other visible movement.
Enough for recollections. After all this is a GG. But the point being, we had reflection time, we had athletic meets to attend or participate in, school programs, and still had time left over for istambay purposes.
And what did we think about during those spells? What did we talk about, with our classmates, over frozen Coke and Canada Dry Grape and hopia at Sunshine Bakery? Probably the career paths we would take or interests we would pursue. Probably the ways and means to make these dreams a reality. Probably overcoming the anxiety of choosing the right option. Anyway, this Guessing Game points to What Have We Become.
Try to guess which of Class 61 members belong to which type(s). At least two names per type. Thus , this Name Two game. One name can appear in many types. (Note: you can submit also additional types!)
Became educators
Joined the US Navy
Served with the Philippine military
Studied to become nurses
Appended Engineer to their names
Dedicated their lives to a holy cause
Own and operate their beauty salons
Livelihoods connected to architecture
Defenders of the nation’s security
Passed the bar
Served as politicians
German car appreciators
Performed music as a hobby
Focused on healing the sick
Chose to become businessmen
Became IT specialists
Professional istambays
Grandparenting
Frequent fliers
Certified Public A’s
Motorcycle enthusiasts
---------Can you add more to this list?
