Official Name: Friends Forever Club (FFC)
Official Name: Friends Forever Club (FFC)
Population: 10
Founder: Jaime (daw?!)
Government: Nothing specific, basta equal
Anthem: Friends Forever, Vitamin C
Counterpart: BTC
Constitution: Approved November 9, 2000, Skybowl, Robinson's Galleria
Goal: Promote friendship, understanding and unity to others, develop transparency and avoid secrecy
Membership: No limits
The group really doesn't really call themselves Friends Forever Club. If you would be able to trace the roots of the name, it would go way back during an activity in CL, wherein the guys wrote the words "friends forever" on their papers. Francis Ong, a classmate of the group, noticed them and soon announced his discovery to the class. During that time, we also had our friendship bracelets, that Jaime brought back from his visit of Tacloban, and the guys have worn it ever since. At first, the group doesn't sound like it would last with all of the criticisms and sarcasms it brought in class. Some comments that we are a cult and that it was a weird form of friendship. Moreover, the issue of the group became more intensified when the class learned that we have girl friends from St. Paul, Quezon City. Now the questions of why we really are a group and how come extremes of the class joined and became one solid group, started to question key figures in class, especially those who loved to comment and criticize, for they themselves had nothing good to do.
We are a group, consisting of officially, ten (10) people in class. Some members though, are partial members, for they really belong to other groups. Some of them have dual memberships, because they usually were part of another group, but they became part of the FFC. Nevertheless, we are one big happy family. The girls are also part of the population, and in their count, they are officially seven (7). That makes seventeen (17) a very big circle of friends indeed. The population never did go below ten, but sometimes it would have additional members, depending on the attitudes and willingness of others. Membership to this group has no restrictions at all.
It was said that Jaime found the group, and was basically the cause of everything. Well, that's really not true. Maybe because he has always been present since the beginning, and he started the process of bonding, but no one can really say that he is the founder of the group. They have found each other already, it's just that they were not that bonded yet. It is a fact, however, that one way or another, Jaime has always been there whenever anything goes. He gets to be in the middle of everything, although there really is no assurance if the situation is good or bad.
Unlike other groups, wherein there has been a known leader, or figure that others follow, the FFC does not recognize any leader. They treat themselves to be equal and if ever the need arises to have a person in command of something, a person, best suitable for the case would be put in responsibility. There really isn't much to say about the leadership, but despite the fact that there has been no central government to follow and obey, the group remains to understand one another and they keep themselves intact, always able to understand one another, one way or another.
The reason why the words "friends forever" was written on those sheets of paper were basically because of the song of Vitamin C, which was "Friends Forever". The group agrees that the song's chorus, at least, defines the relationship each one of us share. The lyrics of the song goes something like this, "...as we go on, we remember, all the times we've had together, and as our lives change, come whatever, we will still be, friends forever..." and that short phrase surely summarizes the group's existence.
The group has a counterpart in St. Paul, and there has been a lot of experiences that has been shared between these two different circle of friends. The girls were just three before, then they became two, and now, they are seven. The number of girls that have joined their group have changed for some reasons.
In our first assembly, the group has agreed on some terms, and soon, a constitution has been agreed upon. Although there are no written laws of some sort yet, but an agreement was already made, hoping that each and everyone of them would be responsible enough to abide the rules.
Although there has been a lot of interpretations of how the group really is, and how it should act. This states what the group is, and what it really is. Anything else, more than this, is the opinion of other critics about the group.
