Remaining relevant

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SEN. Manny Pacquiao will have another chance to show ’em the money, er, the Pacman punch when he fights Lucas Matthysse in July 2018. This after ending his partnership with coach Freddie Roach.

Pacquiao should have stopped years ago at the height of his boxing career when he was younger, to lessen the effects of all that punching on his health. What lures him back to the boxing ring—money, power, or both? Or is it passion. For boxing. He has already made history with all the championship belts he has collected so far. He has nothing more to prove. But if boxing is his passion, then, each offer for one more fight will always be too tempting to resist.

Boxing can be a hard habit to break for the boxer, as running for a political position is to a politician. With the latter having a more difficult time saying goodbye to the power—and moolah—that comes with the post as he becomes addicted to the cheering and applause accorded him at every occasion graced by his presence.

Lucky is the politician who can easily retire from politics after losing in an election and has no wishful thinking of sowing intrigues to destroy the winning candidate’s governance. He’s lucky because he’s able to let go sans the burden of bitterness that losers tend to carry around as an unwanted excess baggage.

Politicians who want to remain relevant for the rest of their life will always crave for publicity and they’ll make that happen at all costs, short of framing their name with neon lights. I don’t think Pacquiao is that kind of a politician. I think his heart simply belongs to boxing, and the Senate position serves as a fallback.

The fallback a.k.a. Plan B. You must have had your share of Plan Bs, too. And if it also doesn’t work, move on to Plan C. Plan D. And then, E, F, G. The English alphabet has 26 letters, it will be such a waste if you’ll stop after, say, Plan C.

If it’s meant to be, it will eventually happen. If not, well, you’ll know when to stop.

President Rody Duterte also knows when a member of his inner circle has to stop. Former Philippine National Police chief Bato dela Rosa has been transferred to the Bureau of Corrections as director, and he has been replaced by National Capital Region Police Office chief Director General Oscar Albayalde. But TokHang is still alive and kicking in Pinas. So, it’s not Bato then; it’s… Well, who?

“Are you drugs?” is a question we ask for people who are neither here nor there, whose brains seem to be in an eternal string of hallucinations, always praning and suspecting they’re the subject of, say, this column. They’ve been convinced by their own mind-boggling belief that the world revolves around them.

If ever Prince William and Duchess Kate believe that the world revolves around them and their children, then, we can all agree that indeed it does, based on the attention heaped on their newborn baby boy, the third child in their growing family.

Fans do adore their kings, queens, princes and princesses, since royalty represents an out-of-this-world reality that only a few have the privilege to be a part of. Born with a silver spoon is always true for any member of a royal family, and Meghan Markle will soon join the one that Queen Elizabeth II continues to, hmmm, lord over.

Markle is Prince Harry’s bride-to-be and surely their wedding will again be crowned as the wedding of the year. Good thing Vicki Belo and Hayden Kho had theirs last year, huh? Otherwise, the Pinoy will be confused on whose wedding deserves the “of the year.”

Marriages are made in heaven, while weddings are made by wedding coordinators who have been busy planning celebrity weddings, with Billy Crawford and Coleen Garcia as the latest to tie the knot. Remember Crawford’s prenup suit whose flowery fabric looked exactly as that of a tote bag and a sofa? Netizens bashed that like as if it was another case of TokHang. Whew. But the couple survived the bashing with flowery colors. Yay!

Will Pacquiao survive his next fight with, hmmm, flowery colors, too? Abangan!