After almost four years now, I still think we should've won the "Madulang Sabayang Pagbigkas". We had the it all, the talent, the good looks, the horror and the hardwork except for one elusive thing they call luck. I still can't accept in my heart that we had to settle for second place. Me and Ian had to hold our guts in and take Alex on stage with nothing but our underwear. I know many of us had to take the extra mile. In many situations we proved we were worth more than being just second. The Article in the Blue View apparently had no balance in claiming it as the year of the Stars errr... section. Amorsolo is a painter for Booboos sake and it's more fitting for a man of letters like LKSantos to get the title. Besides that, who got to meet the author, Rio Alma face to face and tell him that one of his poem got performed dramatically by us? Who? Me and AC, nonetheless. He even signed his autograph on our poster. So after four years, I should've spent on maturity, I will still childishly poke fun once again on the star section and say that we were better than them. I don't know if they bribed the judges or something but we will always be better than them. *sighs* and more *sighs* They even took out the entire star section system in DPS, just to show how awkward the word "star" sounded like when paired off with a word like "section". Star section, I just don't get it, will never do. Good for Diliman though, the only good they've done since unashamedly claiming quality education despite obvious commercialization and tuition fee increase. Previously being in one is as pathetic as how my sourgraping sounds like and now it's nothing more but a residual culture in our old high school.
Well maybe someday I'll learn that it's really not that important to win things. But it was still unfair, too unfair it bites me after all these years. Though in retrospect, I have realized the beauty of fighting the system. I found adventure and youthful satisfaction in it. I would reccomend it to anyone as long as he can stand the "fear" of being beaten up or the risk of expulsion and flunking all subjects. I'm glad they took the star section system away but I am ironically surrendering to nostalgia this time. They shouldn't have done it on second thought, so that some hard-headed maverick can go through the things I did. I wished that High school wasn't an ephemeral experience. Back then, I hoped it lasted forever despite it all. It's cruel how I felt godly I was among creatures and how I valued my friends. Now I bet they all have their happy little lives intact and cliques untarnished but as for me, still alone with a bad case of recurring sour grapes that chokes my throat when it needs it.
I hope I can go through it all again only to set things straight and be on the edge once more. On the edge and doing the risky business thing again. All of it has passed everyone but me now. It's only reflected on an old piece of newspaper. A residual culture. Nobody can say "They hated the star section" after our batch, they all have to bear sitting next to these demi-gods and know it alls who drank promil when they were kids. Our time, my time has passed and I will never have the same struggles and fights as I had in High school. No more cause for the rebel. Nada y pues nada. I delight myself with affectations and college classroom debates that are more or less predetermined by our Dialectical Materialism and stuff like that. No more of the punk-ass grin and grimace I use to induce fear or irritation on the star studded people and co-writers at the school paper. I also use that to seduce budding freshmen beauties of our time, now they're all gone to college. I hate college even if I'm having the time of my life here. I am officially drunk too. Drunk with the thought I could kick everyone's ass. I actually have good grades right now and it hurts to notice that when I look over my shoulder, no one's applauding me.
I have just become like everyone of them. A crack on the wall where the ants live and that nobody tries to fix. I am it, a rusting tin soldier in between his wars. I can't wait for another fight. Throw a me a good one, old chap!
9:16 AM - LKSANTOS 2003 Book drive for annual homecoming
The LKSANTOS Batch 2003 of Diliman Prepartatory School (DPS) is currently holding a book drive for the high school library. A collection of 100-200 Filipino books is targetted by September 2006 in an effort to restore an interest in Literature by the students. Another purpose of this book drive is to sponsor a get-together event that can be meaningful as well. Organizers of this event are Jun Cristobal, Alwin Tomas and Jamie Patricio.
An assembly of all LKS batch 2003 Alumni will be conducted on the last week of May which will also serve as a "quasi" reunion of our batch.
The Book Drive, if proven a worthwhile and successful event will be an annual endeavor of our batch and thereby launching an Annual Homecoming on Campus.
Some of LKS2003's young and promising Alumni are Letran Student Council (President or vice-president) and former DPS student council president Alwin Jeehd Tomas, SEA Games Gold Medalist John Paul Lizardo, Three-time UAAP Gold Medalist, Gershon Bautista, two cadets at the Philippine Military Academy, a cadet at Sandhurst and five others currently studying at the University of the Philippines.
This same prolific batch will be the first one to initiate a "batch homecoming" that is yet to happen in Diliman. To join the LKS Batch in the book drive and to be invited at the Alumni Lunch with all LKS2003 members, bring a decent book by a Filipino Author or a Filipino resource material like a dictionary or encyclopedia. You don't even need to be a Dilimanian, so long as you believe in the Lope K. Santos spirit, "The father of Filipino Grammar", to whom the batch is honorably named after.
For Donations, contact 09276459069 or call 433 03 35. We will pick up your books personally or you can go to the event with the book in hand. The batch will also sponsor talks by famous Filipino writers on the said event.
Be updated about the dates of preparation on the event here at the lks website.
