This is too much, all these FOPC efforts we are exerting. What makes it worse for me particularly is that two of my beloved organizations are part of the ‘competition’ and not only that, I am an officer in both groups so I had that sense of obligation to do more than others.

Today has probably been my most tiring this summer. It was bagsakan day so all the competing organizations in the FOPC queued up to submit TONS of money-generating JUNK.

I got to school around 9 in the morning. For MCO (Mass Communicators Organization), there were only around 5 to 7 of us working at one time. After tying up bundles upon bundles of newspapers, all sorts of papers and magazines and old books at the Sunken Garden grandstand, we laboriously transported all 500+ KILOS of junk up to Vinzons, which mind you, sits on top of a hill. So for one hour, akyat-panaog kami from the grandstand to Vinzons hill, carrying kilos-heavy bundles of newspapers with each trip. Oh, and let’s remind ourselves, it’s still summertime. The torrid heat made is sooo much worse.

We eventually transported all 500+ kilos of junk up Vinzons. We were all too tired after that. I was too tired so I decided to go home and excuse myself from helping my other organization, CAST (Cinema Arts Society). Unfortunately, CAST was severely undermanned, even more than MCO, so after eating at home, I decided to go back to UP and help CAST.

Thankfully, I didn’t have to do a lot of carrying for CAST. All the junk were settled at one of the Vinzons hill tambayans and I just had to guard over them.

An hour later, it started raining. Oh God, lahat ng junk ng MCO ay nakatiwangwang in open air para mabasa ng ulan. Six lang kaming MCO people ang nandoon, so I had to leave CAST immediately and help MCO save our junk. What took us one hour to transport 500+ kilos from the Sunken Garden up to Vinzons took us ten minutes to hand-transport the same 500+ kilos to the nearest roofed shelter. Adrenalin rush talaga. We had to save our junk from getting soaked in the rain.

It didn’t end there. When it was MCO’s turn to weigh in our junk, there were only five of us remaining, so AGAIN we had to transport all 500+ kilos of junk from the roofed sheds to the weighing area. Even with the help of two trolleys, it was torture talaga. (It stopped raining by then, ganyan talaga mang-inis ang ulan, titigil kapag kakatapos lang mamerwisyo).

I can’t believe we’re doing all these just to bid for exclusive rights to “take care” of freshman blocks.

I got home half past six. CAST hadn’t even gone to the weighing area to weigh in our junk. Ginabi na siguro ‘yung mga natira doon.

Actually ngayon tinatamad na ‘kong mag-type pa. Pagod na ‘ko because of MCO, down rin ang spirits namin sa CAST dahil ang daming dyaryo ng “rival” org namin. Haay nako. Talaga, ayoko na. Hindi na ‘ko makiki-involve masyado sa FOPC next year.

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