Think about it
Filipinos love boxing
By Jun Velasco
EXCEPT for 2 or so doubting Thomases, the packed audience who attended Jimmy Licauco’s lecture at the 100 Tower Penthouse in Kamias were his admirers.
Jimmy, a world lecturer on paranormal phenomena, succeeded in opening a clear vista of the universe and, in the particular Rotary meeting, the solar system.
We sought Jimmy to elaborate on what he wrote in his Philippine Daily Inquirer column and spoke on TV about the exact date on Dec. 21, 2012 when — according to scientists— the planets would align themselves in accordance with their celestial “life spans.”
Prof. Licauco pointed to Dec. 21, 2012 — 2 years hence — as the appointed time earlier marked by the Mayan Calendar as the exact day when the planets would complete their 26,000th year when, following a certain logic in the galaxy members or the solar system including planet earth would move out of their “old” location and find new paths and maybe places around the sun.
That’s a life and death matter, don’t you think so?
One noticed that Jimmy did his best to placate rather jolt his audience by distancing himself from those who ridicule the Mayan calendar as nothing but a hoax. How we including Jimmy, wish and pray that nothing untoward would happen to our abode. And Jimmy did say that nothing like death would visit the country and please his admirers.
After the meeting, Jimmy sidled up to us to say “we need to meet more often and prepare for this fortuitous event.”
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By the time you read this, we should have known the winner in the Pacquiao-Cotto showdown.
Many Filipinos are enamored with the boxing sport. The reason is simple. We excel in boxing. Because of Manny Pacquiao, the Philippines has found its bearings; it has found where he is at his best. Yes, boxing, not basketball or any other sport is our cup of tea.
Let’s thank Manny Paquiao for showing us how it feels to be great. The GenSan lad may not be aware of the high esteem most people hold for us, Filipinos, because of the sport and because of him.
There are other fields where Pinoy excels, but in a telling way he does so in boxing. This is the major reason why we should regard Manny Pacquiao a national hero. He does not only excel in the sport; he, too, gives the world an idea of the best that a Filipino can do.
It is for this reason that we appeal to the Filipino boxing icon to forget taking a plunge in politics. This proposed new game for Pacquiao could destroy him. Unlike boxing, politics is a dirty game. There’s that saying if you want to destroy a friend, tell him to go to politics. It’s like committing suicide when one goes to politics.
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In Pangasinan the cycling sport is a social magnet. We saw this last Friday when Jess Garcia directed the Pangasinan Cycling classic — Jun Ebdane Cup. From their homes Pangasinenses, whose favorite sport is cycling (boxing is only second), thousands of people would pour out into the highways including rough roads to see their favorite cyclists compete.
The Ebdane cup classic must have dominated former Public Works and Highways Sec. Ebdane’s winning strategy in the presidential race. When the entourage was in the Sual area, a group of young people waved a banner that read, “Mabuhay Jun Ebdane, Next President.” We didn’t know that people out there knew about Ebdane who is a greenhorn in the ways of politics.
When he met the local media after the send-off, Ebdane impressed local newsmen with his masterly handle of the campaign; drawing gasps of surprise he could eclipse his rivals soon.
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