We'll make you happy

Memory Served: Sometime between 1996 and 1998, Quezon City

Did a "Dreamgirls" drag impersonation number as part of the reunion party of participants, facilitators and volunteers of Batch 33 of The Library Foundation's Healthy Interaction and Values Workshop. There were four of us batchmates that did this number: Rollie P., who was the choreographer and the most talented (and I believe he actually did drag impersonations part-time); Wally, who was a schoolmate in college then; Red, who was an HMUA professionally (with him I first experienced getting my eyebrows sculpted); and yours truly. The reunion was held at the residence of another batchmate, Mike D., somewhere in UP Teachers Village in Quezon City.

Ours was nothing as amazing as this one, though, but the applause from our audience could have been comparable. I've now forgotten the number of times I watched this; at times, also coupled with fond remembering of our amateur take on this. It felt wonderful to mouth those words, "Boys! We'll make you happy."