Thunder Thighs

My wifey pulled me to attend a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday at the National Commission on Culture and Arts (NCCA) gallery in Intramuros, Manila of the opening of the University of the Philippines Baguio exhibit of its Fine Arts students. Being an alumnus of the school, I obliged. Good thing I did and managed to bump into Bobby Acosta, a.k.a. Thunder Thighs.

Sir Bobby "Thunder Thighs" Acosta, wifey, Adel Suesmith and Egai Fernandez (L-R) drinking tapey (rice wine)
to open the NCCA-UP Baguio Exhibit. 

Sir Bobby teaches FA at UP Baguio and I met him when I entered college more than two decades ago. He did regular fartleks inside Camp John Hay, lifted weights and always Kenya'ed all the school-sponsored fun runs. He introduced "Mo-Jo" sandals in college, imported from the Diliman campus, and established a tight knit community of FA studes. I swore all the coeds swooned everytime he passed through the college lobby, to the consternation of all their respective college boyfriends. Who could blame them? He must have been in his 30s at that time but he looked like a freshman jock.

And he still does. He looks 20 pounds lighter and meaner than me. And when he attended the NCCA-UP Baguio exhibit, Sir Bobby commuted from the Diliman campus all the way to Intramuros using his bike, good 20k.

You can check out the UP Baguio exhibit

NCCA-UPBAGUIO Exhibit

at the NCCA gallery for the rest of March, just call their Information Office (632) 527-2192 local 612.