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Some Big 3 university alumni activities for your Acting BMOC (Big Man on Consulate) 

Blue Eagle Swearing 

Despite Ateneo being my known nemesis from grade school, high school, college and law school, their local alumni still graciously invited me to induct their officers and join their association because of my Jesuit Georgetown connection.  

and because I rock the blue socks

Eat Your Greens!

O Brothers Burger, Where Art Thou? In Sydney!! Just opened!! And it turns out their founder/owner/chef  is a classmate from my primary LSGH years.  Great opening day, with lines longer than the neighboring Five Guys.  Animo!       

Anim Na takeaway na rin

Fighting Maroon-bra

Fitting that the UP Alumni Association chose Maroubra beach for their pakikibaka as the name readily lent itself to the dad joke above...

...plus the resident shore sculpture was a worthy challenge for the iskolars ng bayan...

...and the locals be around since the original oblation run

malayong lupain, kanyang na narating siguro

USYD VICIOUS

Ah, to be young again. Congratulations to the University of Sydney Filipino Society on a great "Salubong" for the new batch of Pinoy students there. I actually enjoyed sharing my own international student experiences as a Hoya -- until I realized mid-way that most of y'all might not have even been in grade school yet at the time so I got depressed. Anyway, good luck on your studies, keep up the energy, and one day teach me how to use the apps on my phone.

seriously guys...I wanted to join your kahoot quiz but couldn't figure out how to download...guys

JUST SO YOU KNOW THAT GEORGETOWN LLDD'S AREN'T REALLY LAME OR DORKY . . .

. . . Jack Bauer is a Hoya.

(Bonus points if you work in "There's not enough time!!!" or "I don't think that's the right play" into your Paper. Or if your name is Chloe).

(Deductions for every person you have to shoot in the thigh during research)

HOYAS NO MOYA / UP WITH U.P.

(this was a charge, by the way)

So anyway, Jeff Green goes M.I.A., the bench plays like it's shooting from a blimp, white kids start paying homage in rap, and Georgetown finally gets bounced out of the Big Dance.

The most fun I've had following an NCAA tournament - by far.

Again, when you attend Georgetown and have only the weight and wisdom of Mike Sweetney to look forward to, you cherish things like a Final Four appearance, whatever the outcome.

Meanwhile, my real law school doesn't quite dominate the bar results released today. No worries. It's genuinely nice to see big and small schools from all over the country have a wide open race for the top every year (a dorky kind of March Madness!). Besides, U.P. Law always has a great run, puts out real-world ready lawyers, and has not one but TWO Bb. Pilipinas titlists on its alumni mailing list. How do you like them apples?

(Zorah Andam and Theresa Licaros. Beauty Queens + U.P. Law = World Peace)

To recap, I missed out on Final Four quality teams while at Georgetown Law and Ms. Philippines calibre co-eds while at U.P. Law

This can only mean one thing: when I'm finally posted and sent away, the Home Office will hire a Scarlet Johannsen look-alike to head the legal division who can dunk and shoot the three.

(the next Undersecretary for Legal Affairs?)

HOYAS DESTROYA!

...actually, it was more like Phew ! Double Phew ! And, Phew-tang ina, muntik na 'yon!

I'm concerned about OSU. If Oden gets agressive, Hibbert's gonna get in foul trouble early, and I really like saying "Hibbert" in my Ernie-of-Sesame-Street-calling-his-life-partner voice (hey-brr-t! hey-brr-t!)

So we need all the moral support we can get. Just screaming down M Street won't cut it. And one male cheerleader is one too many.

Georgetown School of Foreign Service alum and future DD Tiffany of the Washington Redskin Cheerleaders, I choose you!

BTW, you've heard how cheerleaders are, like, just barbie dolls?


(i'm gonna have to get the LLDDL one of those uniforms for...um...the game...yeah, the game)

HO-YA SA-XA! HO-YA LAW-YA!

In honor of the LLDD’s beloved Hoyas winning the Big East for the first time since A.I. and the Junkyard Dog modeled deodorant (above), and the team being picked by Sports Guy to reach the 2007 NCAA finals, I devote this low-posting to everything Georgetown.

• Georgetown is actually celebrating 100 Years of Hoya Basketball. You can easily recognize some of the more famous ex-Hoya big men ballers: Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning, Dikembe Mutombo, Henry Hyde … Yep, Henry “Clinton Impeachment” Hyde. He was apparently into some serious double dribbling.

• Sadly, the LLDD attended Georgetown just before the Hoyas’ resurgence, when they played their home games before a 90% empty MCI Center, their best player was Jahidi "Heidi Heidi High" White, and were coached by Georgetown law alum Atty. Craig Esherick (when asked one time about some trash talking by rival Maryland, Esherick replied, “I know they're not talking about law schools”; his high academic standards vis-à-vis his coaching record made a sportswriter quip, "If the goal is to graduate players, and it's a fine goal, put an English professor in charge of the team because he can graduate players and lose to Virginia Tech twice, too").

• Georgetown students seem to have a lot of time on their hands making slick school videos and twitting their college rivals.

(what the...? Georgetown alums Sara of America's Next Top Model and R & B Singer Amerie . . . How did these get in here?)

• I’m still depressed that Georgetown Law’s huge Fitness Center was built right after I graduated. I mean, come on, Shea Butter Melt massages on campus?! (and can you imagine if I returned home with a Master’s degree and ripped abs? Hoya Saxa? Try Hoya Sexy!)

• The gorgeous Georgetown neighborhood would be more dear to me if I actually studied or lived there. Unfortunately, I stayed in a not-quite-upscale part of Arlington, and the law school was on the other side of Downtown D.C. On the other hand, there were no Metro stops in Georgetown, and I would have missed out on the sights and sounds of the D.C. subway system (actually, the D.C. Metro is very safe, but sometimes you have to take matters into your own hands over there [especially when these guys are guarding Georgetown!])

• Who knew? Filipinos represent at G-Town! Hip-hop meets tinikling! (when I was there, my only cultural contribution was bringing choc-nut to one of the parties)