why are you so being ungrateful?

i figured, this topic couldn't wait until at least a few days before the actual sophomore night, but after going around, reading blogs, and discovering that most people actually don't want to go to it, i just figured i had to say something about it. after all, i am the son of my mother, who is one of the masterminds who've spearheaded this whole project.

so, most people (you guys can start here if you're a member, and read the comments from there onwards) don't want to go, because of the following reasons:

1) they have other plans, some probably made after hearing about the existence of such a party, labeling them as "scapegoats".

2) you just think the theme is so cliche and stupid. i mean, come on, "cupid's night". i know most people would cringe, but that's just a name. sort of like the initials of our dear principal.

3) it would've been boring. when i first heard that the thing would sort of play out like the grad ball, i couldn't imagine how it would go. but then i remembered, the grad ball had turned into a rave party.

4) there's word going on that since you think this whole thing was conceived by the "popular people", you would lose interest in it, since, well, you don't like what the "popular people" like. truth be told, i don't like most of what they like too, but there's this big fact on the other side that the PA conceived this too. read: the parents of the sophomore batch. they got this thing together. they asked the principal if we could have this. that isn't very easy to do, and that isn't a common occurrence.

off-topic note: you can call yourself as "unpopular" as you want to, but it wouldn't matter. you can also call yourself as "popular" as you want to, but it also wouldn't matter. my real job with this blog sometimes is to call out someone, however "popular" or "unpopular" you deem yourself, and either laud you or berate you. remember, i have freedom of speech too.

now, you may ditch the sophomore night for all i care, but let me have at least a small chance to etch this onto your minds.

last year, i don't think there was a sophomore night for last year's sophomores. this year, they'll have the prom, but that's part of tradition. i don't see freshmen night either for this year's freshmen, surprising because we had one ourselves.

but why do we actually have these parties?

wanna know why? from the grad party to the freshmen night, the PA has been collecting your entrance tickets, and the PA -- correction, our parent representatives in our case -- have been begging the principal for these nights, maybe alongside the srcc for all i know. i've said earlier that asking the principal for a night off of whatever books or assignments we're currently swimming in isn't an easy task, because he has his own reasons as well. but our parents (and maybe the srcc too) have been drilling holes in his head by begging for a party, and now that he has given in (remember last year's party, he temporarily called it off), i'm surprised that you actually want to waste their efforts. that's really rather ungrateful, and yet you wouldn't care because your mother isn't the one planning it anyway.

but at least, consider yourselves lucky because you've got titos and titas who want you to have fun, unlike the parents of other levels, the other levels who weren't given parties like these.

to those who are going, thank you for supporting the PA, who in turn, supports us. to those who are not, why didn't you speak up, and tell someone (me, at the very least) that you didn't want a party like this? my mother asked me at one point, "do you really want a sophomore night?" and what else could i answer but "yes", because i wanted one myself?

if, hopefully, i've changed your mind, you can still pay. but i'm not counting on it; i just posted this to get it out of my system.

maybe, you'll have a happy Valentine's. i'm pretty sure i will, on the cupid's night.