February 21, 2011
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I Say it’s Show and Tell Time!
I was cleaning up my room at my family’s house the other day when I came upon my high school senior yearbook, something I haven’t seen for many years. Like a lot of the senior class, I bought myself a personal page in the back. Would you like to see my page? (Sure!)
Alright, I like your enthusiasm! First, here’s the entire page:
Oh boy, there’s a lot I could say about this. Let’s take it one section at a time.
The first section had a poem my then girlfriend wrote for me. Did you notice the hidden message (hint: look down the left side)? She was also the one who put in those extra words and heart. Ain’t I a sexy beast with my fobby hair?
The second section had a letter written to me from my best friend (who’s still a good friend now, although we haven’t been able to hang out as much due to life). He’s the only person I know that ever wrote “haha” and “hehe” as “jaja” and “jeje” (apparently the Spanish version). It is nice that we’re still fairly close after all this time. Random picture comment: I really thought I was such a bad boy taking a picture of myself loitering next to the no loitering sign. Oh yeah, rebellion yeah!
The final section was my letter to my closest high school friends. Before you get on me I KNOW, it’s pretty cheesy that I borrowed the phrase from the MTV show Diary up there (I thought it was clever at the time!). It’s interesting how I’ve changed so much since high school and yet other things stay akin. That “sweet is not as sweet without the bitter” quote is still one of my favorite quotes and obviously I’m still using the Roadlesstaken moniker. Oh, once again my then girlfriend added more personal touches here *cue gagging*You know, for something I did as a high school teen I don’t think my page turned out all that bad. I’m really, really glad I didn’t make the mistake of dedicating it entirely to my girlfriend like I knew other couples did. Talk about awkward turtle when a lot of those couples broke up in between making the page and when the yearbook came out.
How did your high school yearbook personal page look like? Do you think it holds up well after all these years?
Comments (119)
Damn that is a lot of photos for that page. It is like a whole facebook album on one page. BTW You are a sexy beast.
So cool! How big was your senior class? I ask because my high school (and most of the high schools I know about in Houston) don’t have anything like this, in the sense that we can’t buy pages just of ourselves… I’m thinking that might be because our graduating classes were always so big.
jaja awesome
We didn’t have personal pages. Also, I think I only showed up in my yearbook once or twice, besides my obligatory senior photo. Meh, I wasn’t a looker anyways lol. (I was a massive dork/nerd)
And you were definitely a sexy beast – even still now!
ow ow! hehehehe
haha, that is cool
I love nostalgia
Hahaha! This is amazing! Love the fobby hair, just love it. You should, errr…try regrowing it like so! Haha, jk! =)
I think in senior year I forfeited that option because I didn’t want to share my pics with everyone/I felt like being frugal??? Lol! X)
Unfortunately, I despised high school because it was a horrible time for me, just because I was around people I didn’t care for, but because I was going through difficult times at home. And I didn’t care for being a senior as much as wanting to get the heck out of high school, and the also for the fact that I was never involved in any high school activities due to my living situation with me raising my little brother..that counts for the fact as to why I didn’t get a yearbook through high school. I still have my old schedules though! Not to mention, I’m socially awkward even now. Lol
Your personal page is cute =D Sexy Beast..lol
Memories…. wish I had em. Great post.
@sonychak - Oh wow, you’re not trolling me for once!
@SerenaDante - Hmmm 400ish? Yeah, not everyone got a page. How big was yours?
@macphoto - You say that too??
@Cestovatelka - Oh don’t flatter me =P. Yeah, I wasn’t in the yearbook as much as many of my other senior class friends, but I can’t complain too much.
@nerdyveggiegirl - Reminiscing is one of my favorite hobbies
@sonychak - @Roadlesstaken - I think Sonlay was being sarcastic. Just like I’m about to be… because you are a sexy beast.
We couldn’t buy personal pages. I never even got a yearbook, because for some reason the company send back my check and said it was too late even though I sent it in before the deadline. Grrr!
@phosphor_stars - I think when I get older I’ll probably grow my hair out longer to look like my dad’s hair now. Yeah, it did cost a good amount of money. I think it was worth it though.
@Hinase - Middle school was a lot worse for me. High school was okay, thanks to the friends I made through my after school activities. I wouldn’t really want to go through high school again though haha
@William_McGonagall - We all have memories!
@fLiPgUy31O - Oh yeah, even if he was it’s still a whole lot nicer than he has been to me lately. Such a schoolyard bully.
@SimplyNita - What? How rude!
@Roadlesstaken - shut up penis hair cut.
high school! loving your hair
@Roadlesstaken - @sonychak - lolllllllllllllllllllll
@Roadlesstaken - Oh wow, that’s bigger than I thought. Mine was 900, but I imagine it could still have been possible.
@Roadlesstaken - Middle school was bad for me too..but not like High School. I had a lot of issues and I still do =/ I wouldn’t want to do them again either. Lol
@Roadlesstaken - no I was playing with you
my senior page..hmm…I had an ad from my mother. Wasn’t all that cheesy. (I was sr. editor of the yearbook staff. I got to proof read.) My will and testament wasn’t that cheesy either. Though it was at the end. I ran out of crap to say. I wasn’t friends with many underclassman, though apparently nearly all of them even ones I don’t remember existed know me. (kinda creepy) I did have a boyfriend then. Nearly 4 years. We broke up and there were so many photos of he and I together strung out that book since I was in nearly all events and he was right there with me cheering me on (he graduated already). But also in those same photos would be my next bf since he was my best friend and in everything as well. (talk about awkward as I had to go through and approve photos and demanding some be removed) I would love to scan in the book since I’m proud of it, but alas the second ex has mine and refuses to return it. >.> jerkface.
also…awww….Alex is sooo cute and cheesy.
jk jk
Most of the people who bought a page or two on the back of the yearbook in my high school were fairly known. Then there’s that random person. Which one were you?
@sonychak - Your joke didn’t really make sense, but I still laughed.
@julieae - It was okay. I think I’m past that phase now though haha
LOL!!!!
I love it! And it’s cool how you guys have personal pages..i couldn’t even be bothered to write a short paragraph to accompany my picture so mine’s blank
@ALovingAdversary - Oh man, I really would like to see your yearbook. It sounds interesting!
@stupid_systemus - I did a fair amount of extracurricular activities, so I was somewhat known.
@getyourownsandwich - Did you have senior quotes/baby pics?
we never had a page for ourselves… my school had over a thousand kids, so the most we could do were blurbs/shout outs. i opted out of that tho b/c i knew i’d regret what i’d write in 5 years and i didn’t wanna talk about my bf. but i saw my picture quite frequently throughout the yearbook in very flattering lights. so i’m pleased enough.
i loved your yearbook tho! and your hair is super hot! haha
Looks fun
I wasn’t outgoing enough in high school to do something like that, though if I could go back in time, I definitely would.
That’s so cool!! WAIT is Ann-Ann in it?! I forget if she went to the same high school as you?
Did you have a big school? My high school was pretty big so we didn’t have these personal pages! They’re very nice!
I like reading the signatures from my friends! 
@suuperstar - I’m not surprise you had good shots in the yearbook. You’re very photogenic!
@a_drunken_cellist - What group would you say you fit in back in high school?
@AmeliaHart - Yup, we went to the same school, but she was a year ahead. Oh no, she isn’t there!! She really should have been. I think at the time I was thinking of only people that was still in school with me and totally forgot about those that graduated already. Shoot.
I lovee your hair! Have you ever thought about going back to the old haircut? hahah
d’aww what a stud
Haha wow….. you seemed just as popular as you did in HS. I never had any ‘personal pages’ in my yearbook. I was the non-popular kid.
Hahaha! Nice. Make sure you always keep that yearbook, especially your page.
Wow man, this is pretty awesome. I don’t think we had a personal page for our yearbooks, it was just us having a 1000 character limit for our shoutouts at the end of the yearbook.
I see you were quite a popular guy back in big school! Thanks for sharing this, I thoroughly enjoyed.
cool!!!
@miss_dizzao - Probably not until I’m a bit older haha. I’m definitely not doing the whole hair dying thing again.
@buiptammy - Hmm where?
@Keeko1 - I wouldn’t say I was popular, but I would say a fair amount of people knew me. I was more out there in college.
@TheSutraDude - Indeed, I’m such a horder. I like keeping all these old objects containing memories.
@ThePrince - We also had a quote/baby pic section too haha. Almost forgot about that. I was slightly known I guess, but we had a pretty large school. I was cool with a lot of the top popular kids though.
my yearbook is filled with drawn penises…
@CaKaLusa - You drew all of them right?
LOL you guys have cool yearbooks there. We have the lamest ones. And out of all the stuff on your page I JUST NOTICED THE HAIR! Har har xD
This was really cool
. The secret message is sweet, but I also noticed that “people” was typo’d as missing an ‘l’ 
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I think I’ll do mine when I go home and can whip out my yearbook
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@pika_whoosh - You’re right! I wonder if it was her mistake or the yearbook staff. Excellent, I’m curious to see yours
@oxyGENE_08 - What are your yearbooks like?
Aww… Somebody liiiiiiked you…
Our yearbook was pretty standard, mundane stuff. We had a section in the back for signatures and stuff.
@Roadlesstaken - Boooooring. O_o
i always had long hair and i was in theater. my senior year i shaved my head for a play, but waited until i had taken my yearbook photo. i was then told that the photos were ruined and i would have to retake it without the hair i was so proud of. in my personal section(i didn’t get a page) they listed someone elses achievements and interests instead of mine… so, i didn’t actually get a section either. story of my life.
your hairrrrrr ahahahahaha…. sorry that may have been too many ha’s.
but this is great.
@Automaton_Emotion - She did, but shortly after that she kinda despised me haha. Oh long story.
@ElusiveWords - We had that too, but I guess personal pages aren’t as common as I thought.
@ionekoa - Wow, that’s wrong. Sorry to hear that happened to you.
@banZaii_itZ_keIk0o - Nah, it’s okay. I’m used to people laughing at my old hairstyle. Weh.
@Roadlesstaken - so was i, but for years afterward it was a bit amusing. my picture was on the wall at applebees(because they hang local yearbook pages there) so i would show it to friends that didn’t know me in highschool and they would be like… SCAAARY!
You think you know, but you have no idea..LOVE IT, JAJAAJAJAJJAA!
I didn’t have a yearbook page. Just my senior photo, and a couple terrible shots of the stupid clubs I was in. They were only for getting out of class.
If I hadn’t been so much taller than everyone else, I doubt anyone would’ve even known my name.
@HelloKitty0809 - Nooo not the return of the jajas!
@the_rocking_of_socks - What type of clubs were you in?
@Roadlesstaken - The nerdy ones: Chess, German, and Human Rights. I wasn’t in the band photo, even though I was in the concert band. They had it done during marching season, and I wasn’t marching that year.
You’re far far better lookin’ than Justin Bieber then (and now).
This is full of awesome! Pretty fantastic, I’d say, even years later
Thanks for sharing!
I also have a picture of myself loitering next to a no loitering sign.
a.) My high school didn’t have personal pages in the yearbook.
b.) You were “road less taken” back in high school, too?
c.) My junior high class president was an Alex Chan.
@RestlessButterfly - What a compliment! haha
@webofsimplicity - no problem
@randaness - Darn, are you saying I’m not as clever as I thought? Shoot.
@rpghero27 - So many Alex Chans in the world I swear. I started on LiveJournal using Roadlesstaken. I guess technically I started Xanga with Roadlesstaken too during high school since I’ve been here since 2003.
@Roadlesstaken - No, I’m saying you are rank S awesome.
Lol, I didn’t have a personal page. BUT if you were to see my senior picture, I bet you would see little resemblance. Most people have to do like a double take on me nowadays to make sure it’s me. It’s freaky.
@randaness - Oh okay, that I can get behind.
@oOo_itsJuJu - Show it!
Oh, by the way, GREAT AWESOME personal page! The baby pics are cute. Haha. And I thought you looked good with that hair!
@Roadlesstaken - Lol, I’d have to dig it up from my parents’ house. You can tell it’s me, but a lot of people are like omg… If I get a chance, I’ll get it up. =)
@oOo_itsJuJu - Thanks, tag me when you find it!
@Roadlesstaken - Lol, I’ll be sure to. =)
cool!!
@Roadlesstaken - nope! LOL. if it weren’t for my grad pic, you wouldn’t know i attended the school at all
We didn’t have a personal page
i just want to say… awesome 90s asian haircut with the part down the middle…
i will eventually get around to posting my brother’s picture just to show you how alike the haircuts are!!!my high school comments were only 4 years ago… it’s weird to think that time flies by so quickly
Nice page! Definitely looks like a trip down memory lane. I didn’t graduate long ago, but I still love going back through my old annuals!
Ahaha!
I’m 2 years away from graduating from my school, and all we get is a tiny little box to write something in
I’ll probably either have:
a) A comic strip that will probably be my “favourite”
b) An “inspiring” quote
or
c) “brb” (because I think I’m a smart-ass XD)
I love your personal page, especially all the photos
xo’
lol what’s wrong with your hair? haha We didn’t do that in our year books but looks so fun.
What a great idea! We didn’t have that option in high school. Nice post.
We didn’t have just one page of dedication to ourselves in my high school yearbook! After seeing yours though, I wish we did!!
Its always nice to go aback and remember where we came from and where we are at now. Thanks for sharing.
While I didn’t have a personal page, I was the co-editor of the yearbook so my fingerprints were all over it. Looking back, it is amazing how… amateurish? … I was then. If only I could bring my 40-year old design sensibilities and writing skills to that project. Of course, you can still recognize the same basic style that eventually became my blog.
@mycontinuity - haha and you’re glad for that?
@unfathomablelove - Sadly that was my early 2000s hairstyle =( . Yes, post those pictures up!
@mizz_chan - yeah, I looked back a lot more the year or two after I graduated but then totally forgot about them until recently.
@preskinny - Awesome! Yes, just remember now to dedicate your page to a bf that you might have at the time because you might regret it later haha
@DoritosforBreakfast - Ohh it was very long compare to my current hairstyle, so a lot of my friends make fun of me for it haha
@christao408 - Amateurish…yes, I know what you mean by that. I would describe my blogging abilities before 2007 atrocious haha. I complained and used hyperboles way too much
@Mrs_Jack_Daniels - Thanks! Yeah, I thought this was typical of yearbooks but apparently not
@stephx4 - and all this time I thought this was how yearbooks are! I guess we were lucky.
@looking_inside_me - It is, good for reminiscing.
so… you are a beast?
@maniacsicko - The best kind.
That’s a lovely reminder of them high school years. =D
There’s no such thing as yearbooks here. Well, at least not when I graduated from it. It’s all good though, I’m sure I would have been one of the people who write them painfully silly notes/letters/remarks.
Didn’t have a personal page in my high school senior year book. I actually don’t even know where I put my yearbook.
i love old yearbooks! i graduated in 09 and the whole shit was in color!
oh god. i pray that my highschool yearbook never resurfaces again. xD
@nov_way - No such thing, really? Did you have class photos?
@mindfulreflections - I found my yearbook under a bunch of old text books haha
@virgin_maddie - There were all colored yearbooks during 2004, but my school could only afford to get only some of the pages colored haha
@bengozen - What’s wrong with them? Did you look drastically different?
Hahaa. I like that quote! I wish we could have got personal pages, I think we had too many students. I love looking back at old yearbooks, and going “Ohh yeah”!
Hmm. no xD Some schools did have them; mine didn’t. =) Students usually took photos of themselves later on and such. But not by the school. It’s strange but it works just fine.
I never had a page like that! Your haircut was fab btw!
@throughsamseyes - How many students were in your class? I had around 450
@TheCheshireGrins - you mean fob? haha
haha! this was intriguing
i was alwaysss in the chess club math club amnesty club science olympiad and orchestra
That’s pretty cool. Must have cost a lot to have your own personal page though.
HAHAHAH you were wearing white pants in your “no loitering” picture!!
@xchinkylaydee - I remember it wasn’t too bad, hence why a lot of us got one.
@swtaznxtc90 - Of course you would nerd
@xLove_Me_Alwaysx - haha they were khakis, so more tan actually. Stupid B/W photos!
so trueee
i know a lot of people who wrote stuff dedicated to their gfs/bfs… and now they’re broken up
i personally wrote something lame ^^ “‘ aha something about dads are nice and all but always listen to your mom.
@kyukyucar - Aw, you were (still are?) a momma’s girl?
@Roadlesstaken - lol yes ^^”‘
HAH. I actually worked the yearbook my senior year. It’s true what they say, you have a lot of pull on what ends up in the final product. I would have never had my friends or my picture anywhere as prominently as they ended up being. It was very fair though. I was a photographer for the yearbook so I took photos of everyone and it was a good way to feel comfortable around people I didn’t know. I’ll have to do some scans sometime.
@suggestivetongue - I would love to see those scans! Yeah, there were definitely certain people that showed up in the yearbook a whole lot more often than you would initially guess haha.
It’s funny you wrote an entry about high school yearbooks… Couple weeks ago, I found my old high school yearbook and I can’t believe how fast time flys! It’s great to look back at the photos and people’s comments =)
@ImprezaGirl - Definitely. Ah it’s good to see you around here again!
I love how every comment has to do with “alex is sexy” or “love”. Well done Alex!
You were/are quite the ladies man.
@AzureRecollections - haha I have nooooo idea what you’re talking about!
you know…that hair style would’ve fit right in at my HS! haha. jk. thanks for sharing.
@aJoLLyDork - It was the it style back then!
I was a huge nerd in HS, lol! So my year book is nothing like yours.
@KenxanderDaGr8 - I was in the smart class and in marching band, so I was kinda nerdy too haha
OMG, I wish I had a personal page!
Yours looks really, really awesome.
@zoetik - Thanks! My 18 year old self did well haha
Dear Alex,
I like to learn something new every day.
We didn’t HAVE “personal pages” in our yearbooks back in the day. This is so great. I still pull out my old yearbooks from time to time. At one time, I had an alumni website online for the high school I attended, as I mentioned in my latest post. I wanted to have each year represented, and the portals to the classes were little photos of the covers of the yearbooks. I had 1963 through 1976 represented. (This was back in 1999) I even created web pages which looked like yearbook pages. The site was on my old server and got shut down, but for a while, when someone would search for “Rosemead High School” the first entry was my alumni site, and I got lots of guestbook entries while it was online.
I was on alumniclass.com yesterday, and they had jpgs of three complete ancient yearbooks for RHS online! I’ll bet nowadays there are online yearbooks for most high schools. I really enjoyed looking over your “personal page”.
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
@baldmike2004 - That is pretty cool! Online yearbooks would be a nice option, but I think a hard copy stays classic!
@Roadlesstaken - I wish they’d made them better back in the 70s. Although my 68 and 69 yearbook are still in fantastic condition, the spines of both my 70 and 71 yearbooks came off long ago, and the 71 edition’s front cover is hanging on by a few threads. My HS must have cut costs and changed vendors mid way through. I’d hate to be in HS now, what with the “recession” and cutting school funding all across America. Wonder if yearbook programs, school newspapers, and drama clubs are being decimated.
I missed this post, but I bought two pages. One I split with my then boyfriend of about a year. I don’t regret getting that page AT ALL. It’s nice to look back and know how happy I was with him. The other was all about me. My parents wrote the message and put the pictures around the border. It’s really nice.
@vicdaily - That’s good you don’t regret it. Did you split up thought right before the yearbook came out or afterward? I was thinking the people that more regretted it was when the former happened.
@Roadlesstaken - Nope, we stayed together until the end of my freshman year of college. I think at my school only long-term couples had pages. So they had been dating at least a year and were stable. Actually I think my ex and I had the shortest relationship of the ones who got pages. The other two I can remember had been together for two or three years.
Hmm, that’s pretty cool, I never heard of personal pages. Maybe it’s an American thing?
High school yearbooks are always so interesting to look back at, no matter how long ago it was. Slightly embarrassing, but always entertaining.
@Loniii - apparently even in the US different places have differences. I thought all school’s yearbooks had it, but from what I’ve read of others that’s apparently far from the case.
i like how you rocked that fobby hair. ;D
@karen0z - I work with what I got =P