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MUSIC BOX QUEEN
To Mr. DJ,
Life is like a box of chocolates. Maybe you’ll be surprised to know that I’m a fan of yours — the greatest fan of your life, if you really want to know the truth.
But it is not a surprise that I have nothing to say. I’m full of ideas — I just don’t know how to put them on papers. My column remained a column yet has no content. So I decided to make you a letter instead, not to request for the most-wanted song, nor to seek love advice, but to pose some important (?) things to my new CS inmates, as well to everyone who gets this issue of Parser.
To start with, I whole-heartedly welcome a new batch of fresh blood to our beloved CS department! Kudos! You all made it to UP. Be proud because you are in the Engineering college, and more so because you are computer science students.
Honestly, I wanted to share you some stuff during my first year but in don’t want to bore you all with “this and that… blahblahblah….” So I’ll say: there’s more to UP than academic excellence and recognition, blooming social life, frat wars, UP Fair, Oblation run and Lantern Parade. There are lot of things to look forward to. Find out yourselves.
By the way, I broke my music box INTENTIONALLY. My mom kept on telling me that I should bring it to a repair shop, it is an antique! My great, great….grandmother 300yrs away handed it to me, from her generation to the next. It’s no use anyway; it can’t play any music at all. So why bother bring it to repair shop??

TO FLY A KITE IN VACUUM TUBE
There’s really nothing good about staying up until 2AM when your last sleep was almost 24hrs ago, your class starts at 7AM, and you’re an hour away from UP. It’s only a month since the sem began. No Mp yet and exams to catch up with any of the missed lectures.
I don’t know if the earth is rotating faster than 24hrs a day, or I am just running a turtle race. If that's so, I wouldn’t mind stepping on the brakes. Anyway, I’m tired of speeding up, just because everything is on fast mode and I feel that I’m being left behind.
I hate that — when everyone’s feeling left behind and they should somehow catch up with the things they do. I was like that. And what happens to me is every time I run, I stumble down.
And I wanted to break loose from those chains. It annoys me — when people are trying to do things they are not supposed to do, just like running when no one’s chasing them. I hate that when they are being conformists, which by the way every one of us is.
Yeah. Man is condemned to be free, and to be a conformist too. I guess so. And I’m not being philosophical here. I’m not crazy talking about society and politics this way. I’m crazy about those people whom you would ask if you can fly a kite in a vacuum tube and would tell you that you’re trying to pull their asses out!
So what? In the end it would only be a question of what you have done. The fact remains — I can’t fly a kite in a vacuum tube.

THE PINK URINAL
Sabi ni Jean Jacques Rousseau: Freedom is the power to choose your own chains.
Sabi ko: Death is the absolute freedom.
Naka-print sa mamang nakasalubong ko sa Ynares Center: WAKE UP AND LIVE! One chance to live, one life to give.
Isang quote: Failure doesn’t hurt, but what hurts is knowing you hadn’t given your best.
Sabi ni Boy Abunda kay Kris: This too shall pass.
Sabi ni Tweety: Mag-aaply ka na ba ulit? Wala nang defer-defer ha!
Assignment ni Maam Gallo (4thyr Filipino teacher): Isulat muli ang burador.
Sabi ni Ulo(klasmeyt nung hi-skul): ROCK THE WORLD! But don’t let the world rock you.
Sa cover ng notebook: Independent thinkers NEVER follow suit.
Sabi ni Janice de Belen: Little do we know that the questions we asked, the answers come when we don’t ask them anymore.
Leni Bedspacer: Sa umaga, puyat akong sisikatan ng araw nang walang natatapos. Sa gabi, pagod akong lulubugan nito na walang nagagawa.
Sabi ni Noemi: Odi et amo. (I love and I hate)
Sabi ni Lew: Nasa UP ka para mag-aral.
ABNKKBSNPLAko?! Ni Bob Ong: Isa lang ang hiniling ko sa kanila: ang karapatan kong madapa at bumangon sa buhay nang walang tatawa, magagalit, magtatanong o magbibilang kung ilang beses na akong nagkamali at ilang ulit ako dapat bumawi.
Sabi ni Malen: Hindi ko alam kung pupunta ako sa burol ni Cardinal Sin sa Manila Cathedral.
Sabi ni Abby: Yakult lives on!
Ayon kay Sir Berdin(4thyr Economics teacher): Hindi pa ito ang totoong mundo.
IKAW?ANONG MASASABI MO?

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initial draft for my column in UP PARSER