SiSONGS!

By Emmanuelle

IT is nifty. It is magic. She plucks an idea from out of thin air. She cups it in her palm half-closed. She nurses it for a while, with a prayer and maybe a hum. She whispers a wish, thus puts a life into it, and releases it to the unwitting world with a nudge of a puff. And so it seems.

But people had said it before. They said it simply could not be done. In fact, nothing is ever that simple.

It was not simple, true; but it is now a done deed. She raised Sison from the slumber of its sleep, and ushered it unto its dawning.

It still is not so far a step from the yawns of its waking. A step forward though is a step not taken backward. And she is very insistent of that. Of all things forward and forever onward.

This time, Mayor Kimi does it again. Instead of a contest for a 2008 Ms. SisonTown Fiesta, Mayor Kimi launches a search for her version of the GMA7 Pinoy Idols, Sison’s Idols. And with this, she and the Sison LGU gift the young of the town with hope through the birit of their own song. For the next weeks up to their December fiesta and even beyond, Sison sings This Is My Own!

According to the Mayor, the celebration this year shall focus on the youth and the promise of a better future through the discovery, development and encouragement of their talents. And I believe she truly intends to bring this promise to reality, even if she has to be both talent scout and manager to open doors to fame and prosperity for these kids.

True, yet again. The Filipinos are gifted with spectacular vocal chords. Sison has a bounty of it among its young, though it quivers beneath shy smiles and even more shy voices.

I witnessed the wonder of her wand, as she let loose the ten finalists of Sison’s Idols among the young ones in a town not even hers. Their first venture outside of the home boundaries of Sison was the more or less a thousand of the thousands of high school students of Benigno V. Aldana National High School (BVNHS) of Pozorrubio last Wednesday, October 15.

The crowd wore a stolid front initially, a wait-and-see attitude wafting with the stormy wind. They were more awed with the two women mayors, Mayor Kimi and Mayor Emma T. Chan who seemed to be always there for each other through thick and thin. Not-so slim executive powers in those so slim selves. Faced with their twin presence, the adolescents, still in their teens, were feeling gangly, naive.

Then the neighbors’ offspring opened their throats, and their hearts. And the local babies jumped with rockin’ rollickin’ surprise! These, too, were their own songs being sung by Sison’s Idols! Identification and the bonding process at first start!

Two girls wooed the crowd with their rhythm and blues; two others belted it out loud enough to burst nearly all eardrums, including mine, those of the mayoras, Provincial Board Member Danny Uy and his son Councilor Dennis, teachers, and techies. The screams did the rest.

One dusky pretty lady had soul and funk in her vocals; also, the other one was a devastating diva. Both have drop-dead bodies and legs that never seem to end. They were so young yet so sultry. And I am sure they are as pure as the day they were born.

One promise of a chanteuse still wiggled some baby fats; and one other seemed anorexic but her voice surely was not. Their chords trilled and soared the range of their ballads.

Between the two boys, one was Martin Nievera incarnate; the other was a charmer all his spiky tiny self. Guess who was most mobbed, and pinched, and kissed.

In this world of impending gloom, it is heartening to find unlikely places that are still bright and fresh, not stale.

Kung saan ang mga simpleng pangarap ay kayang abutin, not only in your dreams.

(Readers may reach columnist at jingmil@yahoo.com. For past columns, click http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/category/opinion/feelings/
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