MARKerz

this is something i made 3 years ago. this is supposedly put on our yearbook in high school as our class prophecy. but oh well, we decided to take out the prophecy and had a page of  photos collaged instead. you know, a picture paints a thousand words as the song goes. since it wasn't published, i decided to publish it here instead. at least my efforts would not be put to waste. at least this composition will have its deserved exposure. :)

“Saint Mark is not a first section class. It is a community. But it is not a community if there is no common goal and unity.” –BSN

“You are the one to be blamed for this!”

“No! You are!”

“You are!”

“No! You!”

WAAAAAH!!! Saint Mark is that you??

Do you still remember these lines? Oh yeah. The most unforgettable speech choir it is! The event that made us screamed “YES!! WE MADE IT!” It was our long waited success. But do you know the story behind it? Does everybody know what we went through before we got our triumph? I am sure not all of you know it. So let me have this pleasure to tell it to you.

IL SATIRA CHUPETA ANGEL CONDENSADA

Ehem ehem!! Introducing… Saint Mark!! (mga dakilang anak ni Brady S. Nave a.k.a Regine Velasquez!)  Whooooo yeah!! We know it was tough handling fifty-one students. (halata naman eh!) But we were so blessed to have him as our adviser—optimistic, understanding and so patient.

Being a resident of St. Mark does not mean convenience. (mahirap talaga pag nasa first section ka) it is not as easy as what you think. We are like superman! (oh yeah! up, up and away!) We have this big red cape on our back but in front of us is a kryptonite that we always try to hide. Why I said so? Let us just say that the pressure is in us. (pressure daw! physics!) We are expected to be the models of our batch and eventually, the whole high school department. It is much a herculean task. (iiddiioommss!!) Everybody is looking at us. One false move and we are definitely out.

It is somehow true. I think we were the most controversial class ever. (hmmm.. let me remember..)  Wide gaps from different teachers arose. (boogsh! splat! wapak!) Many commented that we were the noisiest class among all the sections in the fourth year. (blah blah blah blah) They are saying that whenever they come in our classroom, it is like they enter into a whole new dimension. (planet yekok!) There even came to a point (I think!) that we were the talk of the town. That whenever someone will ask “What section are you?” and we answer “St. Mark”, they answer back “Oh, I see.” You know! Things like that! We were even sent to the guidance office for counseling!! (I’m talking as in all of us!) What a record breaking event isn’t it? (pwede na pang guinness) The dirtiest classroom, the super reactive students—these are all what they say. It is like a pirated CD playing over and over again. Oh well, we got used to it. (bumibili kasi ng pirated eh!)

Here comes this moment. (this is it!) Just one hour. Sixty minutes of nothing but mouthful of words from our adviser. (nag ULTIMATE STRESS na si sir breydi! oh no! physics again!?) Oh my... Everybody just got into their seats. Nobody even dared to talk or just stand up. Do you want to read some of his famous lines? (yung pang best actor..) Here it goes…

1. Kuyaw na kayo mo ba. Dako lagi inyong utok pero inyong heart pagamay ng pagamay!
2. Naa pud uban estudyante diri, NR lang kayo. Walay pake-alam sa mga panghitabo.
3. Mas maayo pa noh na mag adviser ko ug bottom 20 pero ang ugali top 20 man pud.
4. Sa sobraan ug trabaho, ang pamatasan di na maayo! (wow! pangmakata!)
5. If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen. (nosebleed…)

See! Who would not be moved with those lines! But above all, the bottom line there is… CHANGE. We need to change—an immediate change for the betterment of ourselves. Change our actions. Change our attitudes. That’s what Sir Breydi wants us to do. (and most of the teachers too!) In short, St. Mark needs a “renovation”. (sosyal! parang bahay!)

(pero di pa rin kami nadala!) We all went to the chapel and had a holistic way of solving our fight against ourselves. We all prayed for the change that it may be granted to us soon.

Yeah. We needed it badly. We were so down those times—planning to do something but cannot do it anyway. Many said that the cheering was a disappointment as well as the paskuhan. We were so hurt, you know. Where is our unity by the way? What do we know with the term “bonding”? Sometimes, we ask “Is St. Mark a failure?” But I keep on saying “NO!” I believe in our capabilities. I know we can do it. I know that all of us are trying to be good in whatever way we can. It is just that sometimes, we are not understood. We are always expected to be on top. We are expected to be with flying colors. But the reality speaks that, we are not robots. We are just mere humans. Even the best fall down sometimes. (uii. kanta yan!) We are these people, who are, one way or another, treated differently but, we, ourselves, try to reach out to others so that we will not be aliens of this world.

So we talked. We all agreed. (tarungon namo ang speech choir! last na jud ni! pag mapalpak pa ni, failure na jud ta! diri na namo mapatunayan tanan! mamugas jud ta! St. Mark gahut!)

But it was not easy. (supeeer!) I thought we all had one objective already, but, we still had feuds along the process. (at yun ang pinakamalaki! world war 3! clash of ideas! super duper misunderstanding! lumabas na lahat ng mga salitang ugat! gusto niyo sample? ehem! “oh ba! pagahiay ta ninyo. tan awun nto knsa mas gahi.” “f**k y**!” nitubag pud. f**k y** too!” haha! hah kau! tawanan nlng ntn. according pa nga kai marj. past is past. haha!)

BLAME! That was the main content of our piece. Now who’s to be blamed for this chaos? “Blame, blame, blame! Is there no end to this blaming game?” (igo kaayo mi sa among sariling speech) For almost a week we did not had a proper practice. Even our performance on our classes was disturbed. (matamlay masyado kami. nadala ng emosyon.) I remember we did not participate on two subjects the day after we had our open forum. (hmmm. anong mga subject kaya yun? RESPITO. haha!) We even had problems still days before our presentation. (grabe! pahirapan na jud ni..)

Tentenenentenen!! It was our presentation day already. Preparations here, last minute instructions there, taranta everywhere!! But that was so cool. IL SATIRA DI NOSTRO PALESE EVOLUZIONE!! The Satire of Our Seeming Evolution. (satire?? huh?? unsa na?? nosebleed) We performed our piece with the unity in our hearts and the MARK in our minds that we are the MARKERZ. We are all one! And know what, in the end, we won! We won the battle against ourselves! We have proven that we can make it and that we are not a failure! We have realized that we just have to be in harmony and everything else will be done in peace. Most of all, we have changed, and we can succeed no matter what.

This is us. This is who we are. This is St. Mark—the MARKERZ. Definitely, we were able to MARK a MARK in your lives. (hala sige! sabta!) We marked something—a memory that will never fade away in this school.

St. Mark heto tayo!!

Walang limutan!!

Stand up and say…

“I am proud to be a MARKER!!”

“I marked something in your world!”

“The change may not take overnight but it’s the start. So, what are we waiting for? What now?”

-pag sure ui!!

 NOW PLAYING...

…[tahong ni breydi ay este! Tahong ni Karla]

…[soulja boy chipmunks version—naay nasuya ani. haha. peace.]

…[low – ang pambansang awit natin]