To Fly a Kite in a Vacuum Tube
By Cai
There’s really nothing good about staying up until 2AM when your last sleep was almost 24 hrs ago, your class starts at 7AM, and you’re an hour away from UP. It’s only been a month since the sem began yet here I am. I don’t know if the earth is rotating faster than 24hrs a day, or I am just running a turtle race. If it were 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’m being left behind.
I hate it when everyone’s feeling left behind, thinking they should somehow catch up with the things they do. I was like that but every time I run, I stumble down. 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 they are being conformists, which by
the way every one of us is.
Yeah. I guess Humanity is condemned to be free, and to be a conformist too. 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 whether 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.
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 (4th year Filipino teacher): Isulat muli ang burador.
Sabi ng 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 (4th year Economics teacher): Hindi pa ito ang totoong mundo.
IKAW? ANONG MASASABI MO?
By Cai
There’s really nothing good about staying up until 2AM when your last sleep was almost 24 hrs ago, your class starts at 7AM, and you’re an hour away from UP. It’s only been a month since the sem began yet here I am. I don’t know if the earth is rotating faster than 24hrs a day, or I am just running a turtle race. If it were 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’m being left behind.
I hate it when everyone’s feeling left behind, thinking they should somehow catch up with the things they do. I was like that but every time I run, I stumble down. 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 they are being conformists, which by
the way every one of us is.
Yeah. I guess Humanity is condemned to be free, and to be a conformist too. 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 whether 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.
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 (4th year Filipino teacher): Isulat muli ang burador.
Sabi ng 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 (4th year Economics teacher): Hindi pa ito ang totoong mundo.
IKAW? ANONG MASASABI MO?