PURPOSE

I almost never made it to college. Financial difficulties have been the main reason. And though there were grants from various schools, again financial constraints played a role in my failure to take advantage of these offers. Nevertheless, I was blessed to be a scholar and so I was able to take up Computer Engineering.

My college life was not so colorful. Most of the time, I had been a school to home, home to school person. I am not a nerd. I feel I am normal. My passion has been confined at the library, reading Time and Asiaweek most of the time. I was not to be seen in mini gatherings which require me to pull out my meager allowance out of budget. No wonder some people say I am kuripot (penny-pinching) type of person. Going back to the question, how can the claim that this page was built out of inspiration be justified?

While I do not have vast experience to tell to everybody, I have been gifted with this hobby of writing. Maybe out of organization but grammatically recognizable, it is a reason why I am resilient in writing things down. And every email I receive from a classmate I break them down into pieces and reorganize thoughts as if I read their minds. Of course, it's essential to give a factual writing into this site; this is not a literary dumpsite in which artistic writing is tolerated. However, in order to add flavor to the stories, I sometimes put a twist or insert probable occurrences which actually did took place while I was spending my time at the library.

Since this is basically done in a nature of first person efforts, articles relate to what I felt, what I saw and what I experienced. It would be a bonus if somebody told me otherwise, so the thought of the story can somehow be tweaked. Remember this is a batch website and does not focus only on one personality. I make it a point that even I narrate these stories, stories themselves do not evolve around me. I have become a historian of sorts, exploring my mind and retrieving imaginative photos in the past which help develop accurate stories: what is Sir Escalante's favorite expression? Who are my usual companions at the kiosk after lunch?

I feel sad that I have to do it on my own, from scratch. There were help coming but it was not enough. I need to sustain this work while I am still sane and stories do not run out. I occasionally plead for help but even lines saying "Sorry, I can't" don't appear. Maybe they have no idea what to do, no time to do it or no resources to work it out.

We have to pass this way only once in our life. And happenings cannot be experienced once more but they can be told. So this site is made for us all who in one way or another have been part of this great organization called Batch97. One day, this site will run out of topics, nobody to maintain and update or worse, deleted off the cyberspace. But while this has not yet taken place, hopefully my batchmates will take a joyride back in time when we were still intact, when we were still together, through reading the articles here.

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