Sunday, May 25, 2008

Me and Snow White

Whenever anyone mentions Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, I can't help but smile.

During my last year in college, I was elected President of the UP Computer Society (UP CompSoc). The organization was a mixture of students from the various colleges but majority came from the College of Engineering where the tambayan (hang out) was located. Most of the members were male since there are more men at Engineering (but the female members, especially the ones from Statistics, were most welcome). There were eight of us in the Executive Committee -- the president, the vice-president, the secretary and the heads of the five committees (Finance, Information-Publications, Membership, Operations, and Technical-Academic). I was the only female in the Execom. Now add that to my fair skin and you can imagine why we were often referred to as ... Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.


And guess what? MacGyver was my Tech-Acad Committee Head. Yes, he was the techie one, even back then. Of the seven dwarfs, he was the identified Dopey. I wonder why?


No ... he didn't give me flowers. At least not back then.


Nope ... we didn't go dancing. Though he reminded me that he had once asked me to dance with him during one of our High School parties.
Anyway, the other day when I homed in on Dopey for my SMB blogpost, I was struck by the coincidence. Like father, like son. In more ways than one.


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