Homepage of the K88 Rigmarolers

Welcome to the homepage of Kumbento88!

Finally. A homepage for our batch.

What started out as a short email list during the mid-90's, it eventually expanded into our present yahoogroup mailing list. And now, this blog-style homepage.

Home of the K88 Rigmarolers.

For those who were not yet updated with the group when the term "rigmarolers" was coined, and are wondering what-the-heck "rigmarolers" mean, here's a brief backgrounder.

The yahoogroup of K88 served several functions for our batch. It was a bulletin board for announcements, a repository of jokes and other forwarded materials (thank God we have somehow managed to filter out the not-so-desirable forwards, well, uhm, at least, most of the time), a discussion group for topics ranging from sports to finance to what-have-you, and inevitably, a forum for arguments which has unfortunately led to the "unsubscribing" of some members.

With that said, we can say that the yahoogroup was open to discussions about anything and everthing under the sun. And in one of those discussions, our ever-vocabulary-rich member, Gary D, mentioned the term "rigmarole". Of course, the wise-ass members in the group would not let this slip that easily. And so the jestful use of the term "rigmarole" was born.

Merriam-Webster defines rigmarole as follows:

Main Entry: rig·ma·role
Variant(s): also rig·a·ma·role
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of obsolete ragman roll
long list, catalog
1 : confused or meaningless talk
2 : a complex and sometimes ritualistic procedure

And with the opening of the first-ever Kumbento Boys' Basketball League, we used the monicker "Rigmarolers" as the name of our teams (one of which by the way, eventually came out champion, just in case you didn't know).

And so again, we welcome everyone who has been part of our batch. Even if you didn't get to graduate with us in 1988, even if you have been a part of our batch for just a single year, we urge you to join us. No ifs, no buts. You are one of us. Let us live the brotherhood of the Kumbento Boys.