conversations while drinking coffee

ok so i went with chum to some coffee shop. had coffee like we always do in the past. she asked me about music. i told her to listen to indie bands, foreign or not cuz they have all the freedom to create music without the influence of the big recording companies. you see, these record companies doesn't care if you suck live, all they want is for you to play what the mainstream wants and what kinds of music that will sell. it's all about the sell that they are thinking about. once you are gone from the spotlight and is not saleable anymore, they will leave you on top of your sheets. dispose you like plastic cups used in some kid's house party.

she was nodding all of the time. she then asked me what i want to achieve when i write some stuff. i told her, "i just wish that what i am writing is not plain entertainment, but art".

she then smiled and said, "are these art?"

she was holding the lines that i randomly wrote down at the coffee shop's table napkins. "dili man tingali. ambot."

what i like when i talk to chum is that, she delivers it mostly in english. talk about some well polished girl huh.

another thing that we talk about is about society. just recently, the police force in cebu declared the rival frats (tau gamma and akrho) as criminals. in my opinion, i think they are overreacting. why? cuz not all frat members of those warring fraternities act as criminals. i have lots of friends who are members of the said groups. even my best buddy, rapi is one of them and he is not a criminal, not an ounce in his blood could kill someone.

i gotta admit, all they do is rain on each others parade. the sad part is, they make sure that it'll rain rhinos during their rival frat's parade. drops of acid can be found too, thus the killing of some members. peace should start within their group. they cannot attain peace if the rival group is all dead. try to educate the members and try to hold talks every month.

one thing that keeps them going is power. aaah, the reason that fires up our traditional politicians. arrest the suspected gunners but don't declare the group as criminals. what the police is trying to do is paint another wall using the same brush. can we just look at them kill each other until one fraternity will prevail. we can't let them do that cuz if we will, God knows what will happen, i don't want to picture it in my mind.

the thing is, i love my friends. my friends who are members of these warring fraternities. i don't want to see a good guy like daot get arrested just because he's a tau gamma. i don't want to see rapi get the treatment of a criminal when he applies for a job, i don't want to see opal getting chased by some patrol on his way to minglanilla just because he's an akrho. *wink!*

nevertheless, they already declared them as criminals. as the rhinos falls down on their parade, i won't be surprise if the weatherman will announce: it is signal number three... for hostility.