7 Things You Most Probably Didn’t Know About Joey

1.) Bugoy’s
Joey’s first experience in entering a beerhouse was way back during our college years in a God-forsaken place in Junction, Cainta called - for lack of a more enticing name for a beerhouse - Bugoy’s. And Joey had a “girlfriend” in that place, a girl who said she wanted to change "cotchum" (costume).

2.) Santolan Beerhouse
Another beerhouse story, this one proved to be a more exciting and adrenaline-pumping experience. Together with Rey Carlo and Gary D, Joey asks for the bill as they have already decided to leave. Rey Carlo got fed up waiting for their bill to arrive and chooses to leave without paying. Gary D follows him outside. Not wanting to be the one left to pay the bill by himself, Joey follows the two outside who were already running away by the time he got out.

3.) Bangga Victim
Last day of school when we were in 3rd Year HS, Joey was together with Rey Carlo on their jeepney ride going home. As Joey got off the jeepney by the entrance to Dona Juana, he didn’t see the approaching jeepney from the other side about to hit him. With Joey’s white polo soiled and ripped from his pavement-rolling accident, Rey Carlo brings Joey to the hospital. We never knew about this accident until the start of classes in our 4th Year.

4.) Transformers
We all know Joey to be very dependable on many things. But sports isn’t exactly one of his specialties. We can still recall the horrific images of Joey doing the forward roll and backward roll during our gymnastics lessons in PE. Joey is John Michael Cruz’s rival for the Optimus Prime title in gymnastics. You can almost hear the Transformers sound effects whenever they roll. And please, never ask Joey to do a lay-up in basketball.

5.) Flawless
Before Osang was nicknamed as the Flawless Queen, Joey was our original "Wow Legs!" title-holder. FYI, Joey has no "balahibo" on his legs. Too bad, he’s also got a very big "balakang" to be a sexy star.

6.) Stink Bomb
Now it can be told. It was Joey who "detonated" the stink bomb during our Social Studies class with Miss Aguilar during our 2nd Year in HS. Joey can never deny it since we were even able to smell remnants of the stink emanating from the sole of his leather shoes during our Practical Arts classes afterwards.

7.) Tight-Fit Shirt
On the eve of our Feb 08 Reunion, the batch shirts to be distributed the following day arrived. Members of the organizing committee started fitting the different sizes to see which size fits them best. Joey gets a size Large, saying that XL might be too big for his frame. The following day, he realizes the futility of his denial and accepts the fact that Large is too small for him. He replaces it with an XL, but never heard the end of it from Jeff Sulit.