The use of the word “Umpokan” as title of the web site, then a mere subdirectory of the school's main site, was, albeit unwittingly, inspired by fellow alumnus and administrator Pablito Sarmiento. The latter, in the eighties when both he and Torrecampo were young Year Level Moderators, used to refer to faculty huddled together in idle banter, whether in the faculty room or in the canteen, as “nag-umpokan na naman.”

To Torrecampo, whose Tagalog was closer to the variant used by citizens of Nasugbu in Western Batangas, where his mother came from, the word umpokan was, at the time, unknown but seemed a classic example of the colorful lingo that only those from heartland Batangas substitute for what is elsewhere known as Tagalog. Umpokan Na!, thus, became the choice as title of a web site that was to be a meeting place for people who shared a common experience of Lasallian education with a distinctly Batangueño color.

Initially a repository of less than 200 e-mail addresses, Umpokan Na!, after a timid start, grew to the point whereby it had become burdensome to maintain it as a personal hobby. By December 2006, there were more than 2,300 e-mail addresses in the collection, with more alumni and alumnae, particularly those from the more recent batches of graduates, requesting to get listed each day. Automating it had become a necessity.

While Torrecampo has, over the last few years, accumulated extensive experience in web site design and maintenance, he never really ventured into actual programming. Fortunately, another alumnus, this time one with both programming and web design capabilities, found his way back to the alma mater to team up with his former Year Level Moderator: High School 1992 graduate Gil Panganiban, erstwhile of UST – where he was a year away from a degree in Architecture – and the University of Batangas – where he eventually metamorphosed into a competent programmer (readers are left to figure out what went in between).

Umpokan Na! offered an opportunity to put to use his instinct for aesthetics and design along with his increasing programming competencies.

The result of the collaboration between Torrecampo and Panganiban – with the former providing the initial HTML, and then the latter inputting all the geek codes that were, frankly, beyond the comprehension of the former – is a web site lovingly created by alumni for alumni and for anybody else who has by one way or the other been associated with this fabulous educational institution we all call De La Salle Lipa.

Throw in all the hard work of our good-humored (well, usually, anyway...) network administrator, Allan Lucero of the High School class of 1987, who is responsible for making sure that information about DLSL is available to anyone whichever part of the world he or she may be, and you have what we have all come to know as Umpokan Na! This is OUR web site...