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UP Yearbook Picture Mar 1980

UP Yearbook Picture

Location Google Map: University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines

Picture is a Thousand Words
Finally, after 4 years of toiling at the University of the Philippines, I'm done. This picture says it all - the academics, membership to SEMEN (an all-male org at the College of Business Adm), overcoming depression, barely coming back home from being a stowaway, and completely oblivious to what lies ahead.

UP Yearbook Picture
long hair, smiling, uncertain...many emotions running wild

Ending Thoughts
I thought my free-thinking days started in 2003 after Burning Man. This picture pre-dates that. I'm writing this in Feb 2022, when I already have the benefit of knowing and experiencing what happened after graduation. What an ensuing journey.

--- Gigit (TheLoneRider)
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Reader Comments:

Jennifer ArceJennifer Arce
(Feb 16, 2012) ayos!

Joel ValdezJoel Valdez
(Feb 16, 2012) naks! parang si Miguel Rodriguez lang ah!
Jeanette Jane S. RomeroJane Romero
(Feb 16, 2012) hhhmmmm... this was how many moons ago... heheee your top was then like a jungle... now... ?! pppeeeaacceee !!! :)
Pia FaustinoPia Philippines
(Feb 16, 2012) OMG!
Dave JoudreyDave Canada
(Feb 16, 2012) That about sums it up old buddy!

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