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Arian
My first day of class for the first semester 1998-1999 fell on a Tuesday.  We had our first meeting in Soc Sci 1.  Dr. Josefina Cabigon seemed to be so good.  She handled the class so lively and of course, introducing ourselves was never spared.  Among the things to be included in introducing oneself was if one was an introvert or an extrovert.  Having heard those two words only for the first time, I just noted how would the majority of the class would rate him or herself.  Good thing was I was sitting at the last row.  So I had the last chances to introduce myself.  Sitting beside me was Arian, a so cute and gentle girl who was very nice to be my first seatmate.  Her smile was so sweet and I immediately fall for her.  I was so shy to ask her what her name was.  This was how I got it:

After the class, when it was time for us to go, I asked her if  she can lend me her form 5 so that I can compare mine.  It was because, as I told her, my form 5 wasn't marked as "PAID" at the registrar's office.  (Simply because I really never paid for tuition since I was a DOST scholar.)  That was my strategy to know her name!  As she handed me her form 5, I looked for her name: ARIANLEN MERCOLISA TROVELA, good opening salvo for my freshman year!

But as time passed by, Arian and I became close friends.  At her 18th birthday, she introduced me to the crowd (I was one of her '18 roses'.) as her first male friend, since she came from an all girls' school- Colegio de Santa Rosa- not in Laguna but in Makati.

 Charmaine, Mary Rose and Lannie
Time for lunch came on, and I found myself to eat lunch alone.  I was in the College of science atrium then, waiting for my Nat Sci I class to start at one, when lunch time came.  So what I did was to proceed to the nearby Somo's eatery.  I found there three of my blockmates, Charmaine Que, Mary Rose Santos and Lannie Concepcion Bernabe.  It was so strange for me since my first friends in UP were all girls!