Thanks to everyone for making MAGIS: THE GATHERING an amazing success!
More than a hundred of our batchmates showed up last night, filling Mag:Net Bonifacio High Street to overflowing! The beer kept coming as hosts Francis Diaz, Jehan Machacon, Heidi Ng, TonyPet Sarmiento, and Ken Lingan kept us laughing.
Mike Elgar and the rest of Rivermaya entertained us with a rockin’ set of both old favorites and new compositions. Several of our batchmates gamely showed off their stuff by taking to the mic for our Rock-e-oke with the Johnnys, but it was Celeste Jumadla and Iyay Dumdum who walked away with the Havoc-Xurpas College Idol award for their jaw-dropping rendition of “I Will Survive.”
It wasn’t a full-fledged Blue Roast, but it was close, as we gave out other awards throughout the night: Hazel Gan won the award for having the Bumblebee Youngest Baby. Lai Gotao won the loudest applause for the Pond’s Age-Defying Di Ka Nagbago award. Fr. Dacanay handed the San Miguel Mahaba-habang Inuman award to Tonypet and Lizanne Sarmiento for being the longest-lasting couple at the reunion (13 years and counting).
Fr. Dacanay didn’t go home empty-handed either; for coming in his smart barong, the batch chose him as the Giorgio Armani Dressed to Kill awardee! Leanne Marcelino and Kristine Kintanar, roommates in New York City, beat Wesley Lao (Palawan) and Angie Resurreccion (Davao) for the Globe Abot Mo Ang Mundo Award: the batchmate who had travelled the farthest to make it to the reunion.
For the Trivia Game, neither of the teams could remember the Th 131 definition for love (tsk! tsk!) but our batchmates nonetheless impressed us with their ability to rattle off the names of our P.E. instructors in college, not to mention their ability to recall their own ID numbers.
Our awardees won GCs from Reyes Barbeque, Bed, Fuzion, and Sasha; Nike merchandise; fragrance from Ralph Lauren, Cacharel, and Giorgio Armani; Dymo labelers; and Bumblebee costumes. We also raffled off a case of San Miguel Super Dry and prizes from Maybelline and L’Oreal Revitalit. And each guest went home with an overflowing lootbag with products from Shu Uemura, Ralph Lauren, Dove, Surf, Domex, Ponds, Rexona, Clear, Modess, L’Oreal Revitalift, Giorgio Armani, Diesel, Marie Claire, and Sunsilk.
It was an amazing night of nostalgic reminiscences, catching up with old friends, and seeing familiar faces. Thanks to everyone who helped with the preparations, with finding sponsorships, with spreading the word …. And of course, thank you thank you thank you to everyone who came!!!
We’ll be uploading photos soon; keep coming to this blog for updates!
Meanwhile, if you’re on Facebook, you can watch the photo slideshow that we showed at the reunion here.)
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Behind the scenes « Mum in the Metro // June 3, 2008 at 2:04 am
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