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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
and here's the memory to go with the tingles.
Sept. 30, 2004.
it was a day like no other. got up at around 5, went to school at 7, classes begun at 8. a typical day.
2:00 p.m.
"shit, pare, i wana go no.2", this statement broke my silence as i was mindlessly waiting for the clock to tick 2:20. i had been not listening at all to what was happening, but what the heck, what's another failed test in math anyway?
2:20 p.m.
finally. i paced down towards the roadway area of la salle where me and my friends were supposed to picked up by the driver.after some time of waiting for our other friends to arrive, we learned that they were stucck in the office getting their excuse passes. oh great.
2:50 p.m.
i was internally getting pissed. eyeing the australian exchange student that jay had brought to come with us, i decided to chat with him a while. he had his usual accent and we started talking, mid through the talk i started to smell something "funky", at first i thought it might be a wisp of foul air, turns out that this foul wisp was standing in front of me.
3:00 p.m.
finally. the ones we were waiting for had arrived. we managed to squeeze ourselves in my friends van (we were 10 in a crosswind but this doesn't beat the time when we were 12 in a lancer). we started to argue which path to take and at some point we all agreed to go all the way to araneta. i still sat beside the aust. guy, still i had the same "disgusted" look on my face. we were laughing the whole time screaming at each other although we were only in a van.
3:30 p.m.
we are here. "ano ba???" i said to my friend as he promised me an upper a ticket but i was given upper b along with two other friends. "magaling ka naman lumusot sa upper a" was his reply. ok, whatever. ao we entered the colisseum and my friends who were in upper a went in to get us seats.
3:40 p.m.
i started to think how i would pull off this trick again. having the torn upper tickets of our friends. i waited for the time that no one was enetering the upper a gate. i saw the same fat nerdy looking guy in glasses, the one i've fooled a thousand times. victory. me and my friends walked towards him, i held the torn upper a ticket out and told him we entered the feu side and the girl there tore our tickets but didn't stamp us. what a fool. he let us in without remorse.
4:00 p.m.
GO LA SALLE. the usual drums both sides rolled in, a mixture cacophony of noise and melody. we got a spot somewhere in the borderline of feu and dlsu fans. we had a view of everything. the game stared. as usual it was exciting but all the more we got excited because our friend texted us and told us we got televised twice. (probably because we were frantically cheering holding up our LA SALLE sign.) cool. televised.
5:10 p.m.
halftime. the archers' pep squad just finished their routine. on came the feu squad. i scremed a lot insults about their costume (which really is jolbu. haha.) and then out of no where a woman hands me a la salle sign and seems to tell me to waive it up. uhm, okay. that's nice.
6:00 p.m.
the game was close. too close, as my heart was pounding with excitement and although i had lost my voice already, still continued to scream, GO LA SALLE! the score was tied at 63, a minute remaing. miranda had the ball and he passed it to isip who was just inside the arc. isip holds the ball, 40 secs remaining he pumps and shoots over cabatu. it goes. the feu crowd goes wild. the lasallites go silent. no timeout, i was shocked, la salle inbounded the ball. yeo was bringing it up, obviously looking for cardona, he finds him, cardona hesitates, makes his move but he has nowhere to go, he looks around, passes it to casio. casio fakes miranda, fires an awkward three... as i saw the shot go up, my heart melt for i knew it will miss, my insides felt like turning upside up... but destiny plays tricks... casio drains the three!!! the la salle side goes frantic with screams, wails and cheers. the feu crowd goes to silent mode. 19 secs. remaining, miranda is given the ball, he makes his move, crossover against yeo, 10 secs. remaining, he finds an opening and drives but finds gaco blocking his way, 6 secs. remaing, miranda pump fakes, yeo and gaco jump, miranda capitalizes and tries a banking shot, he does it with perfect angle and form, the ball rolls in the ring... at this point, my heart was ready to go into another failure... but the ball rolls out and cardona grabs the rebound. the la salle crowd jumps out of their seats and everyone starts jumping about, including me and my friends. 2 secs. remaining, cardona sinks 2 free throws. feu inbounds, chan heaves the ball to no avail. champions.
6:30 p.m.
celebation, everyone were all screaming and cheering. my firends and i were taking pictures with our cellphones to cherish the moment. we made signs saying indicating la salle was the champ and that we were just to good. the feeling was so invigorating and at the same time exhausting, we sang the alma mater song with all heart and honor. we stayed for the awardings and finally left the colisseum. exiting the area, we flashed our la salle signs from our van to the other cars. they responded with a familiar tone of honking. what a moment. what a moment this truly was. surely, everyone enjoyed and will remember this day even when we we're in college and having different alma maters because it was on this day that we went to our last game as lasallites....
sights in the game:
- a cheerleader who was so hot. haha.
-a sign saying "no to pirated cheers"
-a sign saying "feu scalpers"
-another sign saying "feu balik na kayo sa jeep niyo" (only i saw this)
-a sign saying "feu jologs"
- as sign indicating "la salle hangal"
*there are many more but these were the ones i remember
sounds of the game (mostly by us or me)
-"miranda, di ka ba nagsasawa sa college?"- me
-"miranda, please get a job!" - me
-"isip, nagpipimple na ulit mukha mo!" - me
-"santos bumalik ka nang pampanga!" - me
-"Hoy, mga feu, mukha kayong mga power rangers!" - me referring to the feu pep squad
-"isip walang isip!" - andres
-"the feu side looks like a sea of yellow bacteria" - chino
-"flores bading" - all of us
-"papa yeo" - all of us
-"cholo! cholo! cholo!" - all of us
7:10 p.m.
i went back to la salle exahausted but still smiling. i was still gonna play basketball later that evening. i walked wearily, towards our gym. it was all too peaceful coming from a jampacked noise filled game. it seemd my senses were new to this feeling. it was calm and serene. i continued to walk towards our gym. but then i stopped. i looked up and saw a flashing green emblem of la salle. the lost feeling of the game came back. a reosunding hail, hail, hailwas stuck in my head. the archer in me had waken up and had forever made his stead in my heart. Animo La Salle.
"there is a wall that ruuuns right through me"- kreuzberg, bloc party
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