Maybe I Need a Business Card

Yesterday, I happened to meet one of my colleagues and former college classmates in SM North EDSA. He is with some of his friends, who also happened to be engineers, and they will be watching the movie Despicable Me.

Well, it is good to meet old friends since it was quite rare to chance upon them now that we have our own careers and jobs. Of course we talked about the updates in our lives. He said that he is now working in Makati and an engineer in a big construction company. Before we parted, we exchanged numbers and his friends gave me their business cards. I, on the other hand, do not have any business card with me to give to them. Sigh, another chance to build some connections was lost.

I guess it is time for me to really create my own business card. It is a necessity for me, especially when I am traveling all over the country and meeting different people. A business card will make it easier for me to hand out my contact info without looking for a piece of paper to jot down my contact numbers. A religious pastor that I met once have his own spiritual business cards. If even a pastor is using a business card for his work, then business card for me is a must.

Reminiscing with #SentiSabado

Last Saturday, I got caught in a game played by Filipino netizens in Twitter. This game used the hashtag #sentisabado and participants should tweet anything that happened or could be found during their high school or their grade school days.

Sentisabado stands for “sentimental sabado.” Sabado is Saturday in English. I first noticed #sentisabado in the tweet of @trish_roque. After that, I noticed more and more of my Twitter contacts are tweeting #sentisabado.

The game sounds fun so I joined in. Some of tweets reminiscing my school days include:

1. “Waking every Saturday morning to watch Disney cartoons.” – Well I like those times when I only turn on the TV during Saturday morning and watch old Mickey Mouse cartoons, Silly Symphony, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers, Timon and Pumba, and many more. Maybe it is good to be young again.

2. “Watching informative shows like 5 and UP. Atom Araullo and Chyna Hortaleza are youngsters back then.” – I grew up watching such informative shows. Other shows are Batibot, Sineskwela, Mathinik, and Hiraya Manawari. It seems that local TV nowadays abandoned its responsibility to educate the youth.

3. “Hearing my classmates debate on what is the best boy band: A1, Westlife or Backstreet Boys.” – My girl high school classmates went gaga over these boy bands while my male classmates are talking about Linkin’ Park, Limpbizkit, and Eminem. That’s our music back then. No Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber yet.

4. “Piko, patintero, agawan base, block one two three.” – The time when computer games are never heard of yet. We always go out of the house to play with our neighbors these street games. We are all sweaty, exhausted, and sometimes bruised after every game but we really have much fun.

Well, these are some of my reminiscing and it kinda made memories of childhood flash back in my mind. I miss a lot of things in my childhood days. These reminiscing made me enjoyed #sentisabado but what is more enjoyable is the fact that you see hundreds of Filipinos sharing their memories of their childhood. It is great to see hundreds of tweets wherein you could say that, yeah! That same thing happened to me too. And that is delightful.

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