Talk about reaching the tipping point. Within the same week, we lose four batchmates to foreign postings and scholarships, leaving just four batchmates to man the Home Office. Now batch departures are usually sad and sentimental occasions, but I've learned to keep my composure with a simple philosophy: I'm not losing a batchmate, I'm gaining a despedida. Four of them a week, to be exact!
(It's called tipping point 'cause I tipped the scales at 300 after the last pakain)
Yet another way of looking at it, there's now just barely enough batchmates left to fill a Dencio's table, which makes my despedida that much lighter on the wallet and my parent at the next kris kringle laughably easy to figure out. Win-win!!
But seriously, I will keep fond memories of the following departing batchmates:
HARMONIC EGG CARE (far left) - batch topnotcher and supermom, off to Israel to do good, serve the country, and make sure earlier posted batchmate Abhorrent Rotten Odd Ass doesn't screw up any more wedding ceremonies.
MBA SECRETARIAL AREA CREAM and ALIAS DEMON ANUS (center) - heading to Spain to pursue graduate studies and/or hook up with Piotr and associates.
PANORAMIC LAITY, YEAH! (far right) - multi-linguist extraordinaire, so she's being sent to english-speaking The Netherlands. Of course she is.
(It's called tipping point 'cause I tipped the scales at 300 after the last pakain)
Yet another way of looking at it, there's now just barely enough batchmates left to fill a Dencio's table, which makes my despedida that much lighter on the wallet and my parent at the next kris kringle laughably easy to figure out. Win-win!!
But seriously, I will keep fond memories of the following departing batchmates:
HARMONIC EGG CARE (far left) - batch topnotcher and supermom, off to Israel to do good, serve the country, and make sure earlier posted batchmate Abhorrent Rotten Odd Ass doesn't screw up any more wedding ceremonies.
MBA SECRETARIAL AREA CREAM and ALIAS DEMON ANUS (center) - heading to Spain to pursue graduate studies and/or hook up with Piotr and associates.
PANORAMIC LAITY, YEAH! (far right) - multi-linguist extraordinaire, so she's being sent to english-speaking The Netherlands. Of course she is.
And as they say their goodbyes and take their last group photos, the departees get their heels stuck in the drainage grills on which they were standing. Omen that Mall of Asia is not yet ready to see their credit cards leave the country, or sign that they too have gained too much despedida weight? You decide.
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