 | Grabe | Feb 11, '09 10:59 AM
for everyone |
Got this from a friend who received it from an email. Felt the need to repost this because of the way these groups have continued to surprise me with the kind of high school culture of today. I feel really bad for the mother. Can't imagine.. February 9, 2009
Dear Ateneo parents, students and STOYA members,
Three months back, I found out that an "OPEN PARTY" organized by
students of the Assumption was booked at our village clubhouse. In
this event, the venue meant for 300 pax was packed with as many as
800, due to the zealousness of its organizers to maximize their
earnings. Many of the attendees had no recourse but to spill over to
the parking area. That night, a nasty brawl occurred right outside
the venue, and the security incident report outlined the destruction
caused to the clubhouse facilities, the sight of inebriated teen-
agers holding bottles of liquor roaming the streets, and the
discovery of used condoms on the park grounds and alleys the
following day. (You can verify this yourself.) We were on an out of
town trip when all these happened and I could only imagine the chaos
that went on.
Last January 16, 2009 my son Marcel Piezas, a 2nd year Ateneo
student, pleaded with me to allow him to attend an "OPEN PARTY"
organized by 3rd year Poveda High School students at Greenmeadows. I
warned him about the untoward incidents in our village but due to his
persistent pleas, reassurances, acceptance of certain conditions
(e.g. curfew) coupled with guilt trips of being labelled an outcast
once denied of participation, I succumbed to his appeal.
That night at around half past eleven, I found myself praying for
Marcel's protection, possibly owing to vague intuition, not knowing
what was going just a stone's throw away.
At around 11:30 p.m., after having danced with around three other
girls, Marcel asked for a dance with Ms. A (name withheld). The
dance was uneventful except for the part where she asked Marcel if
she could take a picture of them, which my son agreed to.
Immediately after the dance, Marcel thanked her, and excused himself
since his 12 midnight curfew was fast approaching. He and his
classmate B (name withheld) proceeded to exit the dance hall to meet
four other classmates who were already at the parking area.
Three meters from the exit, two teen-aged boys came out of the hall
together with Ms. A, the girl Marcel just danced with, blaringly
asking, "Sino ang nangbastos sa pinsan ko? Kayo ba? Kayo ba?" It
seems that, Ms. A pointed out my son to the two boys, wilfully or
otherwise, prompting them to pull his shoulder and start punching him
on the head, which caused a laceration and multiple hematomas. The
two boys shouted invectives at Marcel (e.g. "Sabihin mo sa nanay mo,
malansa ang kaniyang puk_", "pu__ ina mo, gusto mo mamatay?", etc.)
and repeatedly slapped him. After a while, the group of three had
swelled to five (5). They were joined by other boys (names
withheld). A few seconds more, and the crowd had expanded to around
twenty (20), arm in arm, they formed a circle around Marcel. They
continued to punch, slap, insult and spit at my defenceless boy. One
of them even ordered him to kneel down and apologize, which he did,
even if he knew he was not guilty of anything, if only to stop the
beating. After his apology, he was punched hard on the mouth,
causing a cut on the lower lip, and three front teeth to turn mobile.
There were big bodied bouncers hired during the party, and some
village guards manning the gates. Neither of them lifted a finger to
help my son. All they uttered was "Tama na yan." The lone defender
of Marcel was a school mate, Boy B (name withheld), who at that
instant, lived out the Atenean dictum of "being a man for others".
At the expense of enduring a few blows himself, he pleaded with the
boys and tried to convince them that they have the wrong guy, and
that Marcel was a good boy, incapable of the accusation they were
throwing at him. The mauling miraculously stopped for around 15
seconds (probably around the same time I was praying for him) which
gave another brave classmate the chance to grab then bloody Marcel by
the arm and pull him out of the circle of tormentors. They ran for
it and left in a car with their other classmates who were too stunned
and traumatized themselves. Minutes after escaping the assailants,
Marcel continued receiving phone calls through his mobile phone,
wherein he was harassed and taunted. The calls and text have
persisted until a week ago.
After our preliminary investigation, we discovered that the
aggressors are members of TGF or "The Good Fraternity", a loose group
of high school students (boys and a few girls) who frequent the party
scene, SOME of whom are reputed to be bullies, war freaks,
alcoholics, possibly drug users, and carriers of deadly weapons such
as guns, knives, tasers, etc. Apparently, some of them use this
strategy of bullying helpless-looking boys in the guise of being
gallant men saving a damsel in distress for having
been "disrespected" . The exact same scenario by the same people
happened to a fellow Atenean at a different party a few weeks
earlier. Many other boys from other schools have experienced beating
from the same group for the most senseless reason as having been
ogled at or having flexed biceps and triceps to the annoyance of the
bullies.
What happened to Marcel was a nightmare not only to him but to
ourselves as parents. My husband who is working in Canada can only
cry in helplessness at not having been around to defend or at the
very least comfort him.
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.
I have vowed to make this an advocacy. We are filing a complaint
with the authorities about the matter, not only to seek justice for
my son, but to stop this culture of violence and immorality among the
youth.
I would have wanted to treat this as privately and as quietly as I
can but recent developments have forced me to do otherwise. I came
across this blog site which made my stomach turn at seeing how
insensitive, frivolous, and unprincipled the authors of this entry
and its supporters are. Log on and read for yourselves:
http://c24others. multiply. com/journal/ item/40/Read_ this
Rumors are spreading like wildfire and the ugly misinformation is
causing yet another trauma on my son. Some stories are going around
about his being too drunk to have had control of himself, thus the
molestation. To correct the defamation being spread, and to give
these STOYA boys who have a lot of growing up to do a piece of my
mind, allow me categorically say that:
1) My son NEVER molested anyone and we can prove this to the
hilt. The bloggers didn't even give him the benefit of the doubt by
adding the world "allegedly". They wrote it as if it were a fact.
Instead of supporting your fellow Atenean, you are pushing him
towards the furnace by spreading this lie.
2) My son, who, for one week after the assault, endured
nightmares and anxiety attacks over possible retaliatory acts by
perceived sympathetic blue blooded members of TGF NEVER squealed on
any one to the APSA. He bore his psychological injuries which far
outweighed the physical wounds with dignity and bravery. He never
even brought up the incident with his football coach who benched him
during two crucial games for having missed a week's practice clueless
that Marcel was waiting for the contusions on his head to heal. For
all I know, he was also possibly avoiding aggressive tussling,
inevitable in the sport, which might stir fearsome memories. He felt
so down but didn't want his coach to think he was making excuses for
his absences.
3) I never complained verbally, or in writing, to APSA regarding
what happened to my son knowing that STOYA per se, is not the enemy.
I simply wrote a letter of excuse for Marcel's two-day absence while
he was recovering from the trauma.
4) I never accused STOYA of harassment when they approached
Marcel in an effort to convince me to tell Mr. Dennis Dator of their
innocence regarding the mauling. I simply felt that it is futile to
make that appointment since I never filed a complaint against them in
the first place.
5) To say that "it can only take ONE person to destroy a party.
All he/she needs to do is to tell his/her parents to call up the
school, name names and say drugs or what not has been going around"
reeks of a distorted sense of values. It's as if parties are the end
all and be all of life's existence. Never mind if a person gets
hurt...the show must go on! Besides, I never did what they accuse me
of doing.
6) Do you honestly think that this line "The police can always
be ordered to go to a party to end it" is preventive or is it a
curative solution to a done disaster which only takes a few minutes
to happen? Hunky bouncers and security guards were around when
Marcel was beaten up. What good did they do?
7) From STOYA: "Pucha, everyday people DIE due to far more worse
(sic) incidents than mere fist fights and now people start making
this such a HUGE deal since it happened to someone close to them?"
Response: What if the blow on Marcel's head were a tad stronger than
they were causing irreversible brain damage? Would that be big deal
enough to warrant your attention?
8) From STOYA: "don't call us insensitive and immoral for
promoting alcohol under the age of 18. You've never had a shot of
vodka or a cold glass of beer? Don't be a hypocrite and lie. It's
part of high school"
Response: The law is the law and it was created for a reason, and it
is meant to be adhered to, otherwise suffer penalties.
9) "Also, It's the parents' choice to allow their children to go
and do these things so if you have a problem with parties, don't
allow your children"
Response: Parents unwittingly allow their children to attend these
parties without the knowledge of the imminent dangers that abound in
such parties, thus, my cause of letting it be known. No matter how
well we try to raise our children, they sometimes make the wrong,
stubborn choices and succumb to peer pressure thinking that what is
prevalent is "cool", or is acceptable.
10) STOYA, your entrepreneurial spirit is partly
admirable. "Dreams of creating seven parties in 10 months".
However, if your ventures are money making, may I ask if you give out
receipts to your patrons? Do you pay taxes to the BIR? Maybe this
is another angle worth looking at.
Dear STOYA boys and supporters, I hope you broaden your minds a
little bit more and see where concerned school authorities and
parents are coming from. You, our dear boys are gifts from God
entrusted to us for guidance and moulding. Our commitment to our
Maker, and to the Giver of life is to lead you back to Him in life
eternity. It's true that life is full of risks, that life is well
lived if freedom abounds, and that it is important to stand by what
we believe in. But as graduating students of a highly reputable
Catholic school for which your parents toil hard to make your
enrolment possible, I would have hoped that you had loftier beliefs
that you would adamantly fight for. Year in, year out, you learn in
CLE that free will has its limitations. As minors your care rests on
those who are supposedly more ripe in wisdom. If we can shield you
from as much pain, suffering and harm as we can, we will do so by all
means because that is an expression of LOVE. You may sulk all you
want but take it like a man. Like you all said, you will be adults
in a few months time anyway. Start acting like one!
Yours truly,
MRS. CELINE PIEZAS
 | QUINO had this too... kalowka nga!!! hindi naman tayo ganyan kalala nun...
u should read the first blog too... nakakairita |
 | the blog in the link was set to private.
tsk tsk. |
 | Bravo for the mother and for her son.
God knows I wouldn't have had enough courage to let my mom send that out if it happened to me.
The letter is really good, and it quelled my need to fight back when I read the STOYA blog entries.
Thanks for the update. :) |
 | pep10 wrote on Feb 11, '09 |
 | The immaturity in using the status quo as a hand-washing for drinking under the age limit is
comedy. |
 | to what extent are college parties, especially those sponsored by orgs, similar in nature? |
 | grabe nakakainis nga sobra.. what the heckkkk. |
 | wala na naman akong masabi kundi:
maraming cool sa mundo |
 | cornycorn wrote on Feb 11, '09, edited on Feb 11, '09 don't call us insensitive and immoral for
promoting alcohol under the age of 18. You've never had a shot of
vodka or a cold glass of beer? Don't be a hypocrite and lie. It's
part of high school << true, but still. . . ngayon alam ko na kung bakit may age limit. Kurt, ganito na ba nung HS tayo? sobrang iba na sila... may ginagawa ba admin about this matter? |
 | Oh. My. God.
What is happening to our youth today?
We should all get our act on this. |
 | emkey wrote on Feb 11, '09 well true alcohol under the age of 18 in high school i a norm but... this is still a little way too irresponsible |
 | OMG!!
COOL NA COOL ANG STOYA!
hahahaha
nakakainis! nabasa ko rin ung first blog entry!!!
HAHAHHAHA |
 | i love how articulate she is. if this happened to my kid, i would've probably reported them na lang. :| |
 | It really kills me that the organizers are people that I used to see in school. |
Comment deleted at the request of the author.  | grabe toh, nakakalungkot... |
 | wow grabe nabasa ko yung blog post....sobrang kainis.
BYW: what does STOYA mean? |
 | woah.thats disturbing.high school is not what it used to be..i mean..we were not saints but nothing like this has ever happened even with all the partying and booze around. |
 | so this is why my mom never let me party :p
may point actually yung sinabi ng stoya about not letting your kids go. if our parents know nothing about it then its not worth being allowed to go. minsan kasi tayo mismo ang nagpupumilit na pumunta kahit na alam nating may risk. so it's really partly parents', partly us, and partly the stoya's fault. i mean stoya just aggravated the situation to a boiling point wherein parents just HAVE to react or their kids might die or something. but otherwise. there was always an imminent danger.
i'm not condoning stoya, neither am i siding with them. i just don't think that all the blame can be placed on them. |
 | I was talking to my sister about this and she's friends with the people involved. She kept on defending them to a point that I don't get where she's coming from. :|
I agree with what the mother involved and I just hope that the younger generations will see where she's coming from.
And I just realized, people do change in college. We really mature. :) |
 | sino sino ba yang STOYA na yan? excited na daw sila magcollege ha.. enjoy 'to pag-apak nila sa college.
at onga pala, on a lighter note, galing nyang AD ni Rob ah. hahaha! |
 | ay sorry inemail ko pa sayo, haha kababasa ko lang bro sa email eh. bihira na kasi ako mag check multiply, ngayon lang. kaya ayon skwater nila lol |
 | Daniel Lorenzo Sandico Pineda
03-289, AHS Batch 07
Ateneo de Manila Grade School to High School
Daniel Lorenzo Sandico Pineda
2007-25002, BA Creative Writing
University of the Philippines, Diliman |
 | those high school KIDS. akala mo kung sino. tss. tangina. lumugar nga yang mga BATANG YAN. |
 | grabe. how immature. can't believe they think that way. sana matuahan sila. |
 | Uhmmm... Since I'm no longer attached to the school, I guess only delicadeza will prevent me from speaking about this. However, I know some of the men involved and could vouch for, maybe not character, but goodness. Believe me, people in the school know about stuff like this, but their hands REALLY are tied - particularly when parents of the "perps" allow all this shiite to happen. Heck, there are moms and dads who are separated who even try to be the cooler parent when one provides pr0n and the other booze. You guys know this. This is you or your friends's stories. *sigh* Just go to the overpass, back of the covered courts, in front of Starbucks, Cantina, third level of Bo's, Drew's, ... and student leaders are not exempt from this. It's the cool way to go, it seems. Yes, it takes ONE person to ruin a party, but it takes a generation of good men to set things right. |
 | May alak na nga, nag-aaway pa.. makuntento na kayo sa alak!! :D |
 | kulkidz (with a z) phoe sila. im spichlez.
btw i want that rob thingy on the upper left corner. LOVE IT!! |
 | Who is Mrs. Celine Piezas? I wanna shake her hand! Ang kapal pala nung mga Stoya na yun, sana pala I was harsher when I commented on their blog entry!! |
 | Hmm... But in case that there would be people who are going to get back to these people, whether the defendant or the accused, I hope that there would be none. Violence is not the mean to solve a violence.
I don't know if my high school classmates know this. Pero may madadala at madadala rin sa College, tulad ko. |
 | wala ako nasabi :)) High school kids are. well. WILD :)) |
 | nakooooo... ganyan na ba ang mga high school students ngayon? i'm glad i graduated. |
 | Uploaded the Stoya document to my own Multiply post. Thanks! This is just really, really appalling. |
 | The name StoyaBoys itself is so sad... they idolize a porn star?! |
 | My sister brought this up during dinner last saturday and I was quite appalled.
After reading everything posted here, all I can say is that there are better ways for "tweeners and below 18's" to get laid/wasted than this pathetic excuse of a party. Tsk! |
 | stumbled onto here while googling "stoya boys" and boy am i angry. anyone know how i can get in touch with any of the people involved? want to guest them on my radio show. hit me up please. thanks! |
Comment deleted at the request of the author. Comment deleted at the request of the author. Comment deleted at the request of the author.  | mark92390 wrote on Feb 19, '09, edited on Feb 19, '09 Hindi po Stoya ang nagorganize sa pinuntahang party nung Marcel Piezas, ha. Kaya wag niyo IDAMAY ! Dalawa yung party nung day na yun, Pinuntahan ni Marcel Piezas yung isa hindi yung inorganize ng STOYA. Gets ? :) |
| ^ Dude, it's not the Stoya party that people are lashing out at. Everyone knows that it's that TGF that beat up Marcel Piezas and Stoya had nothing to do with the incident. It's the Stoya mindset. The fact that their "statement" or their "manifesto" or whatever you want to call it that they published on the Internet just smacks of irresponsibility, insensitivity, and immaturity. THAT is what people are mad about.
People aren't blaming party organizers like the Stoya Boys for what happened to Marcel Piezas. They're just saying that they ought to do less hand-washing and be more concerned about the people who attend their events, because "it takes one guy to ruin a party" is a totally assholic thing to say. It takes one DEAD guy at your party for you to ruin not just that guy's life (obviously) but the life of every single person who cares about him. So these kids need to start drastically reconsidering their priorities now before it even gets to that point. |
| Obviously, we got a die hard fan here. Perhaps he can explain the document attached in this blog entry. |
 | AMEN. We can tell you guys who we are, but WAG IDAMAY AND STOYA, please. |
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the blog in the link was set to private.