Controversy in the Mauling of Marcel Piezas and underage drinking in ‘Open Party’
There is an email going the rounds coming from Celine Piezas mother of Marcel Piezas a 2nd year Ateneo high school student mauled at an “Open Party,” posted at Katrina Ponce Enrile's Notes, that you can also read here, here, here, summaries here or the twisted Stoya side.
“Open Party” is an event outside of campus sponsored by groups of High School students from exclusive schools such as Ateneo, Assumption, Poveda etc. that attracts illegal activities. Unsupervised minors organizing an event where sex, drugs, and alcohol are involved a surefire ingredient for chaotic night that results at times with destruction and brawling, to quote Celine Piezas:
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The incident is so disturbing while it has similarities to the Bambee De La Paz and Mayor GoofBall errr Pangandaman in the Valley Golf brawl where exclusive enclaves of the upper midget errr middle class to filthy rich are now becoming venues of aberrant behavior and equally aberrant response after the incident. I really don’t care as much when it comes to golf since it is a silly game of hitting a small ball while squandering so many acreage of land when you see the dire situation of landless farmers trying to survive in a nation so impoverished by corrupt government leaders. But this kind of incident, you don’t expect happening at these places may indeed reflect where Philippine society is heading……. down the muck of sliding into the abyss of retrogression.
To think that “Open Parties” are held in exclusive villages where minors, repeat minors are breaking the laws on underage drinking coupled with illegal drugs is a sure sign of disaster that corrupts young minds that it is ok to indulge in stupidity. Hearing about this “Open Party” which is actually more of a Dumb Party surely makes me glad that we left this godforsaken place as we used to send our kids to these exclusive schools and imagining the horror of bringing them up in that environment is not what a responsible parent is envisioning in raising responsible contributing members of society.
Another problem that seems to be the norm in this event is the overcrowding where organizers allow in patrons double to triple the capacity of the venue. Fire hazard and safety concerns that obviously being minors do not realize the consequence of having a huge crowd that they can’t handle. Now, are these organizers supervised by an adult or are they on their own? If there is no adult supervision, do the exclusive village associations enter into a contract with minors? Why do the residents not complain with the police if they see that their clubhouses are overran and packed to more than their capacity spilling to the parking lots?
The response that I read at Mommy Aya’s blog hopefully does not mirror the mindset of ignorant youths in a society where the culture of corruption is so endemic that may have destroyed their sense of what is just and right at an early stage of their formative life. Youths that one day will inherit what pathetic leaders of today will leave in complete shambles to be replaced by equally pathetic leaders of the future. This is probably why even young leaders of today that we see in the house of representathieves errr representatives and the house of kotongs errr senatongs, yikes I meant senate are nothing but big disappointments wallowing in pigsty errr following in their predecessors footsteps.
There is one who claimed to be an “American” and a Filipino at the same time who says that underage drinking is the norm even in the US just so amazes me and wondering in what ghettoville he was raised by his parents. Or one who claims that drinking is condoned by parents during holidays and special occasion truly baffles the mind. Why did I not know of that? I am not exactly living under a rock or something and I used to drink and has mellowed down to social drinking once in a blue moon. Never have I seen or encountered in the US of A parents even of Filipinos allowing their minor children to drink alcohol. But then again, maybe there are those that fit our Amboy Pinoy’s “perceptive” puny mind. If there are any that I missed, they probably ended up in prison for corruption of minors, child endangerment and abuse thus I somehow did not see those kind of parents.
I thought I have seen everything but these puny dumb morons in trying to rationalize and defend their alcohol induced partying are rushing to defend the organizers. Trying desperately to appeal in their deluded sense of fairness that bar owners stands to lose business if minors are not allowed to drink alcohol in their establishments. Now that is truly the height of moronization of a nation. Ok, I know and my apologies to the Moros, moronization is not a word but you know what I mean and besides it rhymes with nation, lol.
It appears that Marcel Piezas and her mom Celine Piezas is now the butt of “jokes” in campuses where the rumors had been flying like Gloria Arroyos Garcified million votes. Marcel for being a "tattletale" and her mom for being a “hypocrite” in exposing what goes on in the “Open Party" because partying is the end all of everything in life. The bigger problem here is why are the youths calling Celine Piezas a hypocrite tells a lot on the kind of society that the Philippines is in. Is this an indication that there is no law against underage drinking and that underage drinking is the norm or rite of passage? Just like the Goofball Valley Golf Brawl there seems to be a fixation on the other side of the coin no matter how dumb and ridiculous it is. The youths are pathetically yapping their resentment over their "side" of the deal on losing their "entitlement" to have an alcohol induced and even going on a drug high "Open Party" is as ridiculous as it gets. Wake up people, if this is how the youths of today see their society that is sadly a reflection of poor parenting in a corrupt environment surely is a formula for retrogression and being left in the dust by progressive neighboring Asian countries.
Heck, this is the problem when people ape what they see in the west. Unfortunately what they saw or heard that happens during spring break are not high school kids but college kids and not minors anymore. These alcohol binges they see are usually done in countries where there is utter lack or lax in enforcing laws against excessive drinking like Mexico which is just like the Philippines……. corrupt and relaxed as long as the moolah is coming in. Is this a sign where Philippine society is headed, as in nowhere land and getting worse when we see the youths from exclusive schools starting to act and talk gibberish like the contemporary fooliticians of the garcified kind?
“Open Party” is an event outside of campus sponsored by groups of High School students from exclusive schools such as Ateneo, Assumption, Poveda etc. that attracts illegal activities. Unsupervised minors organizing an event where sex, drugs, and alcohol are involved a surefire ingredient for chaotic night that results at times with destruction and brawling, to quote Celine Piezas:
I cannot sleep soundly knowing that our sons and daughters are prone to being swallowed by profligacy. Did you parents know that kids nowadays dance "spooning" style? Did you know that there are mobile bars for rent that serve "mocktails" or full fledged cocktails and beer in bubble containers to our young teen-agers unmindful of the alcohol prohibition for minors (ask Sober Club, Elation, Party Fuel, Club Fishbone, Booze, Event Shaker, On the Rocks, etc.). I even heard that open parties are now being used by pushers as their market for mood altering wares. I didn't even know that the Greenmeadows party that Marcel attended was entitled "Lust", which is one of a series of seven parties named after the seven deadly sins. I was shocked at having found out the organizers' preference for their party names.
To think that “Open Parties” are held in exclusive villages where minors, repeat minors are breaking the laws on underage drinking coupled with illegal drugs is a sure sign of disaster that corrupts young minds that it is ok to indulge in stupidity. Hearing about this “Open Party” which is actually more of a Dumb Party surely makes me glad that we left this godforsaken place as we used to send our kids to these exclusive schools and imagining the horror of bringing them up in that environment is not what a responsible parent is envisioning in raising responsible contributing members of society.
Another problem that seems to be the norm in this event is the overcrowding where organizers allow in patrons double to triple the capacity of the venue. Fire hazard and safety concerns that obviously being minors do not realize the consequence of having a huge crowd that they can’t handle. Now, are these organizers supervised by an adult or are they on their own? If there is no adult supervision, do the exclusive village associations enter into a contract with minors? Why do the residents not complain with the police if they see that their clubhouses are overran and packed to more than their capacity spilling to the parking lots?
The response that I read at Mommy Aya’s blog hopefully does not mirror the mindset of ignorant youths in a society where the culture of corruption is so endemic that may have destroyed their sense of what is just and right at an early stage of their formative life. Youths that one day will inherit what pathetic leaders of today will leave in complete shambles to be replaced by equally pathetic leaders of the future. This is probably why even young leaders of today that we see in the house of representathieves errr representatives and the house of kotongs errr senatongs, yikes I meant senate are nothing but big disappointments wallowing in pigsty errr following in their predecessors footsteps.
There is one who claimed to be an “American” and a Filipino at the same time who says that underage drinking is the norm even in the US just so amazes me and wondering in what ghettoville he was raised by his parents. Or one who claims that drinking is condoned by parents during holidays and special occasion truly baffles the mind. Why did I not know of that? I am not exactly living under a rock or something and I used to drink and has mellowed down to social drinking once in a blue moon. Never have I seen or encountered in the US of A parents even of Filipinos allowing their minor children to drink alcohol. But then again, maybe there are those that fit our Amboy Pinoy’s “perceptive” puny mind. If there are any that I missed, they probably ended up in prison for corruption of minors, child endangerment and abuse thus I somehow did not see those kind of parents.
I thought I have seen everything but these puny dumb morons in trying to rationalize and defend their alcohol induced partying are rushing to defend the organizers. Trying desperately to appeal in their deluded sense of fairness that bar owners stands to lose business if minors are not allowed to drink alcohol in their establishments. Now that is truly the height of moronization of a nation. Ok, I know and my apologies to the Moros, moronization is not a word but you know what I mean and besides it rhymes with nation, lol.
It appears that Marcel Piezas and her mom Celine Piezas is now the butt of “jokes” in campuses where the rumors had been flying like Gloria Arroyos Garcified million votes. Marcel for being a "tattletale" and her mom for being a “hypocrite” in exposing what goes on in the “Open Party" because partying is the end all of everything in life. The bigger problem here is why are the youths calling Celine Piezas a hypocrite tells a lot on the kind of society that the Philippines is in. Is this an indication that there is no law against underage drinking and that underage drinking is the norm or rite of passage? Just like the Goofball Valley Golf Brawl there seems to be a fixation on the other side of the coin no matter how dumb and ridiculous it is. The youths are pathetically yapping their resentment over their "side" of the deal on losing their "entitlement" to have an alcohol induced and even going on a drug high "Open Party" is as ridiculous as it gets. Wake up people, if this is how the youths of today see their society that is sadly a reflection of poor parenting in a corrupt environment surely is a formula for retrogression and being left in the dust by progressive neighboring Asian countries.
Heck, this is the problem when people ape what they see in the west. Unfortunately what they saw or heard that happens during spring break are not high school kids but college kids and not minors anymore. These alcohol binges they see are usually done in countries where there is utter lack or lax in enforcing laws against excessive drinking like Mexico which is just like the Philippines……. corrupt and relaxed as long as the moolah is coming in. Is this a sign where Philippine society is headed, as in nowhere land and getting worse when we see the youths from exclusive schools starting to act and talk gibberish like the contemporary fooliticians of the garcified kind?
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Our disconnection with one another is truly getting wider and farther.
Ika nga, talagang lumalala na ang problema sa Pilipinas.
On one side, we have poverty, destitution, generations growing up without the warmth and comforting arms of parents and moral degeneration in national governance etc. On the other side, we now have the so called OPEN PARTIES, where our youth stupidly aped the open and wild parties here in America, as seen on MTV.
Is this problem of the rich parents in the land of abundance, but where poverty reigns supreme for millions of Filipinos, simply about the chickens coming home to roost?
I was truly hoping that the problems of these parents would be somewhat about how to convince their children to reach out to their underprivileged neighbors!
This problem on OPEN PARTIES is another wake-up call to our well heeled families in the Philippines that we and our children cannot close our eyes to what is happening around us. We cannot raise and build physical or emotional walls that would separate our families from the vile situation of the rest of the people and nation.
The more we do this, the harder it is to get the support of everyone about an evil,such as that attendant to uncontrolled OPEN PARTIES, because those underprivileged among us would say PROBLEMA ng MAYAYAMAN YAN, Bakit kami sasali dyan! as if the evil it has wrought upon us is EVIL only as to the social class of its victims.
In a truly connected society, the evil of POVERTY etc. is as much a problem of the poorest among us as well as the richest, as the evil of OPEN PARTIES is a problem of students from our elite schools as much as those of students from our public or barrio schools.
As it is never late to do right, it is never late to reach out beyond our limited circle of the world.
Merit,
Good points you raised and hopefully we can all see what is going on in time to do something positive about it. Indeed, we are a society so disconnected raising up deluded youths who are seeing and concocting their own subjective realities unable to see and insensitive to the abject poverty surrounding them.
PJ,
Kaya nga siguro malaki ang epekto ng GAWAD KALINGA sa mga kasapi nito.
Itong samahang ito ay naging tulay na nagpalaya sa kasapi nito sa kanilang makasariling-isipan. Nadama ng mga donors nito ang liberating effects of reaching out to others, beyond their own ertswhile limited circle of interest. At gayon din sa mga beneficiaries nito. The latter were freed from their distrust of others because now they realized that it is not TRUE that they are all alone and that no one cares about them.
Gawad Kalinga creates a true community of people regardless of social, political or religious creed or status. It has turned loving communities of human beings, creating a benevolent cycle of attitude both from the giver and the recipient.Under the Gawad Kalinga philosophy, the strong is humbled while the weak is made strong. The humanity of both are raised to an equal level.
Ito lang ang nakikita kong FORMULA na makakapagligtas sa ating bayan at nang mawasak ng tuluyan ang mapang-aping kultura na matagal ng umaalipin sa atin lahat. One need not join Gawad Kalinga but should rather use its under-laying principle as a guide in reaching out to others beyond their own circle of interest.
There must be a true attitudinal change in everyone. Dapat tanawin natin ang bawat isa sa atin hinde parang isang gamit lamang na makakapagbigay na kasiyahan sa atin o para makapagsilbi sa ating pangagailangan kundi bilang isang nilalang na may karapatang din mabuhay bilang isang tao tulad ng bawat isa sa atin. Na sa bawat na may nawalang buhay sa kanila dahil sa gutom o sakit o dahil sa kawalan sa buhay , hinde lang sila ang namatayan kundi gayun din ang bawat isa sa atin, mayamn man o hinde.
Unless we admit that all these things that are happening in our country is a product of our own culture of selfishness and untethered materialism with its marginalization, if not the palpable disregard, of human dignity in the under-served, the poor and weak amongst us, all our efforts to change would be in vain.
No effort of our leaders could free us from our oppressive culture of selfishness and materialism. These leaders are victims themselves of these selfishness and power trip. Only the FILIPINO people can free themselves as well as their leaders, too!
Yes Fidel, GK definitely is one of the many organizations that can help open the eyes of those who wants to make a difference. How to change our mindset in a society where corruption is a way of life is a major hurdle and insurmountable challenge. Indeed Filipinos themselves are the only ones who can liberate us from the shackles of our own defeatist attitude and fixation on power and self-recognition.
PJ,
You are right in your observation that changing our OWN mindset is the first and biggest hurdle in making a difference in the Philippines. But it is not as insuperable as it would seem to be. We have it already in us. BUBUHAYIN lang uli natin ito o gigisingin natin kung ito man ay nakatulog lang sa matagal na kadilimang dumaan sa atin.
Hinde ako naniniwala na nawala na ito.
The fact that we still emphatize with our unfortunate kababayans or the fact that we still feel horrible or repulsive with what is happening sa PINAS despite our own , more or less, secured lives here in America only show that this LOVE for others is still alive, warm and kicking deep in our hearts. And I am sure we are not alone with these feelings. Napakarami natin na may roon pang pagmamahal sa inang bayan at mga kababayan inaapi ng mga sakim na pinuno at kababayang nakakariwasa.
At ang pagkabuhay or the resurrection of this concern, nitong taal natin pagmamahal sa bayan at kapwa ay magsisimula sa isang malalalim at matinding pagbabago sa ating mga sarili hinggil sa ating pananaw sa atin kapwa. And this is to love the other as you love yourself.
Simple words but very challenging because to love another is to trust him/her as much as we trust ourselves. And from a society where the rule has become the survival of the fittest and where every one seems to be for his/her own interest, each of us somewhat and somehow carry the same emotional luggage. Thus, we have to start with ourselves if we want to have the change we need for our people and country.
But we could do it. We have done it before when we did it for our own family and love ones here in a land, so foreign and so far from where we were born. Why could we not do it for our our kababayan this time?
im sure glad i went to a science high school. academics is the only thing young people should think about. fun is relative. i mean we have fun doing science projects and researches at school. we have parties and stuff but we make sure the school is involved and that a curfew is observed strictly. and to think that we pin our hopes to the privileged...gosh. wake up fools. your young and your more prone to making awful mistakes. be smart and study. you have the means to have good education. dont waste.
Nina,
Where do these hi-school kids get the idea that to have a good time it has to have sex, drugs, and alcohol? MTV and the rap gang culture? hahaha fools indeed and I am not surprised why they think they have the entitlement and privilege..... just looking at how thieves in politicians clothing mismanage the country surely blurs their perception of what is appropriate and decent.
most people I know will just shrug their shoulders and say "makisabay na lang sa agos" as if there's nothing wrong...
as long as it doen't affect them it's ok :(
Paetechie,
If adults go with the flow, imagine how minors succumb to peer pressure in events where there are no supervision and responsible parties making sure that they indulge in clean fun.
Paetechie and PJ,
Naturally, we should not lament the maggot's failure to coo like a dove.
Sa totoo lang, when parents made it a rule to go with the flow, as in the MOVE ON movement of GMA, ang mga anak nila ay naging anak ng mga langaw (flies)!
Merit,
How true, we should really be realistic with our expectations.... as in maggots will not transform itself into butterflies because they are only good at attracting langaws.
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