UP Diliman

My cousin Dora arrived in Manila last week from Los Angeles with her whole family in tow.  We were not doing much on Christmas Day, and Mikaela and I decided to give them a tour around the Diliman campus of the University of the Philippines.  Dora had taken her degree in Pharmacy there and wanted to show her children more of her alma mater.  Of course, the Oblation Plaza was the first stop.  We then proceed to other spots including the College of Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, Law & Engineering, whilst going around the famed Sunken Garden.  Mikaela navigated for me over the entire length of the tour since that was her campus (she stayed there for the longest time, with degrees in Architecture and Business Administration, while I only studied there for a year).  As we reminisced, we counted that a good number of family members finished in UP Diliman, including Kong, who led the transfer of students from the Padre Faura campus to Diliman (he was among the first batch of graduates in 1949).  That was heart-warming familiarization tour!