Heavy Rain. GSD File Photo b Dave Achondo
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THE Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) declares rainy season has arrived once it’s raining for five days straight. I guess that means if it rains cows and carabaos for one day causing floods of “Sendong” proportions, it’s still not rainy season if the deluge fails to continue for four more days. The rainfall measurement in millimeters is an additional minimum requirement before rainy season can be declared, proving that the weather, even before climate change, must have always been complicated.

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The intro for Level 42’s “Something About You” is in my minute brain once raindrops are falling on my head. Lightning, thunder, and then, that instrumental intro followed by the song’s first lines: “How, how can it be/That a love carved out of caring/Fashioned by fate could suffer so hard.”

What’s the connect? I don’t know. Must be remnants from another life once upon a time. We have chapters, like a book. Or episodes, like a TV series. Prequels and sequels like the “Star Wars” franchise that your brain needs to reboot with before watching the latest installment.

The cool weather the rainy season brings can make that brain indulge in muni-muni on where you were before, where you are now, and where you want to be. The past, no matter how chaotic it was, did help you achieve Realization 101. So, express some gratitude to that past as you move forward to the future. Cheesy, no? But a grilled sandwich is usually yummier with melted cheese dripping down its sides. Add a thin film of strawberry jam, pair that with hot choco on a rainy afternoon, listen to the intro of “Something About You,” and that can be one of your best days ever.

The summer heat, on the other hand, doesn’t inspire any muni-muni as you face the air-conditioner hoping it will tone down the hot flashes. The only perk of that heat is quick-drying laundry and towels.

The rainy season could be here but the heat still continues through Presidential Communications Operations Office Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson and Kris Aquino. Uson has always been pro-Duterte and anti-Dilawan in her social media posts and this time, she compared the kissing scene of President Rody Duterte and the married Filipina in South Korea to the kisses that some women planted on the face of Ninoy Aquino while on the plane that took him back to Manila on that fateful day, Aug. 21, 1983.

This is the same Uson who “relocated” Mayon volcano from Albay to Naga City, Camarines Sur, so, if she’s geographically incorrect, the possibility of being politically incorrect is simply another day in her paradise.

The South Korea kiss is the kind that some people wish to unsee through Cable’s time machine and Doctor Strange’s Time Stone to help them go back to that exact second right before the infamous kiss. Gosh. How to unsee that. Rewind, skip, fast forward.

And as if that’s not enough, the kissed Filipina granted a video interview where she sounded like she kissed Gong Yoo. Here’s unsolicited advice, for her to visit Nami Island where she can hopefully make muni-muni on whether that kiss could have ended up as a scene in the Koreanovela, “Winter Sonata.”

The Pinoy was once assured that President Duterte had the best wishes for Pinas and that same Pinoy keeps assuring himself that indeed the president is sincere in serving the country. But after that kiss, the Pinoy may now wonder, confused on when the president’s sense of humor starts and when it has to stop.

There’s such a thing as what a public relations (PR) team may call presidential. Presidential in action, presidential in words, presidential in demeanor. One reaches a certain point in his life when he’s promoted to a higher level and now has to behave accordingly. But President Duterte has been a PR nightmare and at the same time a PR team’s miracle of miracles. He doesn’t follow any personality-development rule and yet his popularity among the madlang pehpohl manages to soar forevermore. And it’s precisely his no-nonsense speeches and behavior that endear him to his fans who are tired of pa-cute politicians whose words are merely lip service.

The rainy weather is supposed to cool us down to nirvana perfection, so, imagine President Duterte speaking and behaving like former President Noynoy Aquino. Or even like Tita Cory. If you can imagine that as the president’s new image, then, “Come with me and you’ll be/In a world of pure imagination/Take a look and you’ll see/Into your imagination.”

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