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In High School, I had a huge collection of wallet sized pictures. I put them in those teeny plastic clear sheets that came in a wallet…the one that looked just like mini album. It used to be all the rage. I’m not sure it still is now…I think everyone just takes pictures through their cellphones, and stores them there. It’s not as nice since you don’t get the messages,( that you forced your friends to write), behind each picture.
Anyway, everyone would stuff their wallets with a number of these photos that the wallet would always be completely deformed and bulging from the massive amount of pictures stuffed inside.
Unfortunately, it also gave the impression that you had tons of money… so when “kleptomaniacs” would come and steal your wallet, All they would find was the usual daily “baon” of twenty pesos and a grotesque amount of sweetly smiling pictures of complete strangers.
Of course each time a wallet is stolen, the victim would spend days crying and crying… because of its inherent sentimental value of course…the pictures usually were irreplaceable. Though it is true that everyone regularly passed out completely new ones every couple of months, The old ones were lost…as well as the messages behind them which was more a “snapshot” of how things were than the actual pictures themselves.
Personally, we had a favorite photo studio that we usually went to. Pictures and Profiles at Shang. We’d be there shopping and then, as we pass by that studio, we’d all decide to get our pictures taken. Usually it was just Jo Ann, Lynette and Laurie, and me…sometimes we’d drag our friends in to them when we had our individual “lakads”
They never resisted much. Although there was always an argument on whose photo studio was better…theirs or ours.
Before all that though, we had our own personal photographer. Mom had a friend whose hobby was photography. Tito Bobby was dragged into giving us freebies whenever an attack of vanity was imminent. Usually, these sessions were for no other reason than to have a new collection of pictures of varying sizes from 1”x1” to 8”x11”.
These were taken at Parks and Wildlife now called Ninoy Aquino Park.
These are from CCP
This also in CCP... at another time and another day of course.
We always had to order tons of wallet sizes of course, since they were the ones automatically doled out to any family and friends who want them... for some reason, most of them just loved the chance to add it to their forever growing wallets…as if to say “let’s see if I can fit just one more in before it explodes…”
I’m just glad I kept as many as I could.
Anyway, everyone would stuff their wallets with a number of these photos that the wallet would always be completely deformed and bulging from the massive amount of pictures stuffed inside.
Unfortunately, it also gave the impression that you had tons of money… so when “kleptomaniacs” would come and steal your wallet, All they would find was the usual daily “baon” of twenty pesos and a grotesque amount of sweetly smiling pictures of complete strangers.
Of course each time a wallet is stolen, the victim would spend days crying and crying… because of its inherent sentimental value of course…the pictures usually were irreplaceable. Though it is true that everyone regularly passed out completely new ones every couple of months, The old ones were lost…as well as the messages behind them which was more a “snapshot” of how things were than the actual pictures themselves.
Personally, we had a favorite photo studio that we usually went to. Pictures and Profiles at Shang. We’d be there shopping and then, as we pass by that studio, we’d all decide to get our pictures taken. Usually it was just Jo Ann, Lynette and Laurie, and me…sometimes we’d drag our friends in to them when we had our individual “lakads”
They never resisted much. Although there was always an argument on whose photo studio was better…theirs or ours.
Before all that though, we had our own personal photographer. Mom had a friend whose hobby was photography. Tito Bobby was dragged into giving us freebies whenever an attack of vanity was imminent. Usually, these sessions were for no other reason than to have a new collection of pictures of varying sizes from 1”x1” to 8”x11”.
These were taken at Parks and Wildlife now called Ninoy Aquino Park.
These are from CCP
This also in CCP... at another time and another day of course.
We always had to order tons of wallet sizes of course, since they were the ones automatically doled out to any family and friends who want them... for some reason, most of them just loved the chance to add it to their forever growing wallets…as if to say “let’s see if I can fit just one more in before it explodes…”
I’m just glad I kept as many as I could.
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