high school trekking

as it has nearly been 20 years since i've graduated from high school, i've been snooping around the web trying to track down all my classmates to show interest in our alumni activities. it's not an easy job considering we're scattered all over the globe and live in different time zones. it's not actually quite 20 years yet but we have to get down to business in preparation for hosting our silver jubilee. with the influx of a variety of technological innovations since we were in our teens, the communication process would be deemed much easier to conduct and operate. but it's not. e-mails are left hanging. texts evaporates into thin air. in this age of social networking, one is acutely aware the last time a friend last logged-in unto their friendster profiles. but there are those very few who responded with unbridled fervor and enthusiasm. with the warm response, i'm immensely grateful. there are reunion photographs from the centennial six years ago i couldn't trace. the hours i'm laboring unearthing classmates details and photographs pins me away from specified chores and errands.

our class has a yahoo group since may 2002, all the messages are intact but the photo attachments from that year are all gone. the methods in saving photos merely half a decade ago are already primitive compared to today. if only our previous homepage is still running. yes, we had a website before. but you know how registered domain names work. starting over from scratch isn't like learning a new slang, more like embedding a new language in one's consciousness.

i was looking at websites of the younger batches. i chanced upon one of my brothers. he's six years younger. the site was talking about stars and constellations and such. we were three years or was it four years removed from such curriculum experimentation. but then we expect the younger generation to be more tech savvy than older graduates like us who were schooled in the milieu and rudiments of snail mails, typewriters and unreliable telephone landlines. however after undergoing a fabulous makeover, a sense of rejuvenation pervades the air. the work would ultimately be rewarding and well worth it.