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WHILE having breakfast at a fast food outlet on the morning after Easter Sunday, the millennials at the next table laughed as one of them talked about almost drowning and asking for help. Well, they could laugh about it now. But at the height of his dilemma, surely they had no time to laugh as they looked for a lifeguard to save him.
This is Holy Week in Pinas now, with the Visita Iglesia morphing into seven islands instead of seven churches. Or should that be 14 islands, er, churches? You know, the more, the merrier. But Holy Week is not supposed to be merry, for it’s the time to be sorry for your sins.
An island may indeed help one realize if he has been “been bad or good / So be good for goodness sake.”
An island is one of the best places to make muni-muni and forgetting about the “Money, money, money / Must be funny / In the rich man’s world.” More precisely, the money that the traveler has invested in his vacation.
A vacation can be expensive, depending on the destination, with Mars as the dearest of them all for now.
A vacation doesn’t have to be in an expensive place, though, since the real vacation can be reduced to one word: sleep. That’s why staycations are popular now. Simply stay in a hotel for one weekend, or in your bedroom for one day, and that can be your best vacation ever. Besides, it’s not the place but the effect of a place on you that matters. If only I can remember the name of my most favorite El Nido island.
The political candidate, his family, and his team, however, have not had a real vacation lately. Unless they now consider visiting remote barangays in their campaign trail as a vacation, since the feeling is almost the same: ang saya-saya! Especially when the potential voter is expecting cash gifts from the candidate: ang saya-saya! Wheee!
But the candidate can’t be the same as my friend who said she’s throwing caution to the wind while preparing for her three-week vacation, leaving behind her business and the multi-million transactions that are constantly moving along with it.
The candidate can’t risk throwing any caution to the wind, not even a pincushion to the wind, as Election Day nears. Ilang tulog na lang!
Well, where does he go from here? Definitely to more barangays. Tilokon gyud.
And the candidate needs an abaniko, an umbrella, sunscreen, and water while campaigning in barangays in order to avoid dehydration and sunburn from the summer heat.
It seems like summer is getting hotter each year. And that’s hotter in a bad way, since there’s that hotter in a good way where a couple could whisper sweet nothings in each other’s ears until their ears turn red even without the sun’s help. “It’s getting’ hot in herre (so hot), so take off all your clothes / I am, getting’ so hot, I wanna take my clothes off”—that kind of hot.
But the candidate has no time for that kind of hot. Much like an athlete refraining from action in between the sheets on the day before a game, fight, or tournament. But who needs a blanket in summer? Whew.
Whenever the summer heat in Cagayan de Oro becomes unbearable, Manila’s weather situation could be worse, with the heat almost melting your fats. Now that it’s May, the sun should cool down a bit as the Pinoy hops from one fiesta to another.
The fiesta is another opportunity for the candidate to shake so many hands. The more, the merrier pa rin. Wheee! And Gary V’s “Reachin’ Out” comes to mind: “Reachin’ out to you / Do you feel it too?”
The Pinoy can easily see the well-funded candidate because he has other weapons of mass attraction aside from handshaking. He has a dedicated video camera that keeps on following him wherever he goes. His team has T-shirts and all sorts of uniforms. He has a jingle. He has television, radio, and print ads. He has posters and tarpaulins that may or may not follow the Commission of Elections’ rules and regulations. Every good news about him is posted on social media. A day cannot pass by without any sound bite from him.
The millennial candidate can be even more daring with his campaign strategy but let’s see if that will make him win.
So, may the best candidate win. Let’s see—pronounced as that Spanish word for milk—if all the A for A-fort in campaigning does translate to votes.
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