Wednesday, May 10, 2006

My mom, kuya and I went early to PICC, the place where his graduation is to be held. At 12:30pm we were already there even if the ceremony would start at 2:00pm. We were not allowed to enter as soon as we arrived, so we lined up and we were in the front of the line for arriving too early. When we were allowed to enter, some usherette directed us to the left side for the guests of Nursing students and we got the 2nd row seats nearest the left aisle and nearest the stage.
A few minutes later we were asked to leave our seats since the first and second rows were only for the parents of the honor students. My brother's not an awardee, so my mom and I stood up to find for other seats. And what do we find? all the seats near the aisle were already occupied!! Fuck those coordinators!! They should've mentioned bout the 2 first rows to the usherettes!! We needed seats near the stage since my Mom's got a poor sight. So we sat on the fourth row but two to three seats away from the left aisle. A couple, both old and almost same age as my mom, sat on my left. They were also asked to leave their seats, they were from the first row. They too were annoyed with what happened.
And so 1st and 2nd row were vacant, and a lot of people desired to have those front seats. This ill-mannered lady/mom who sat beside me kept on mentioning "for awardees" every now and then to those that would attempt to sit on those two front rows and drive them away, kept on blabbering that If anyone could just sit on the first two rows then those could have been occupied by us, and then giggle and laugh in a very high tone like a wicked witch. She said she gets tired of mentioning it every now and then but she does not stop driving away those parents who tries to sit there, nobody asked or ordered her to do it anyway.
It was really annoying that we didn't have the good seats even if we were the early ones to arrive, but it's not a reason enough to become bitter and whine all day long like what the lady beside me was doing. If ever she auditions for a kontrabida role, no doubt she's gonna win. And she mentions "for awardees" and not "for parents of the awardees". What if she already drove away parents of some awardees? Or did she really mean to drive away all parents by saying inadequate words?
And that mom kept on boasting bout her daughters achievements even if nobody was interested about it. She mentioned that her daughter could have been a Laude in Nursing if she was not a transferee (transferees were not allowed to have honors according to her...is that true?), came from UP Diliman and took Political Science and got bored. Well all I know is that nobody leaves UP unless you get kicked! hah! Just kidding. I hope her daughter who had just graduated doesn't grow to become like her.