A Tale of Two Painting Majors
Essay 25. A TALE OF TWO PAINTING MAJORS By Arnaldo Bernabe Mirasol My very first friend in college is Antonio Tejado. College was the University of Santo Tomas College of Architecture and Fine Arts (USTCAFA), which was then sharing a building with the College of Engineering. On the first day of class, during our first subject, Tony, who came earlier, was already seated at the back of the room. I sat on the vacant chair beside him. I don't remember what subject we were attending then, but I remember that the teacher asked us to write our name on a one-fourth sheet of pad paper and submit it to her afterwards. I came unprepared. I don't have pad paper with me. I only came with my ballpen. So I requested Tony to please share with me part of his paper, which he did. After class, at noon, we went out and took our lunch together in an eatery along España Street. We became close friends from that day on. Tony and I both majored in Painting, a choice which dismayed my elder sister, bec