Think about it
Pablo de Asis, 80, takes a bride
By Jun Velasco
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain,” Emily Dickinson
WE were on top of Colisao mountain in San Fabian when Orly Guirao called up to say “Benjie is our guest in PPC Media Forum, don’t miss it.”
We thought the Pangasinan Press Club’s Media in Action forum was weekly held every Wednesday. Dr. Robin Navarro amidst unceasing rain made it to Pedritos last Wednesday and a lot of members and guests came. Is the PPC forum now twice a week?
Nutty Orly even earlier texted us “Did you know what BSL means?” Then he answered his own query, “Below Sea Level.” Which brings us to a geologic theory about our constantly flooded city continually sinking bit by bit. It’s just a theory made credible by flash floods in many sections including the poblacion. We get the creeps each time we drove downtown amid knee-high water, and we remember then City Administrator Alvin Fernandez’s snappy remark blaming global climate change as the culprit.
The environmentalists blame man’s abuse of Mother Earth though, but the Mayans have an explanation, as Jimmy Licauco told us sometime ago, that the planets are in top speed moving towards a straight line to be completed on – hold your breath! – Dec. 21, 2012! This planetary movement has changed the weather, Mayan Calendar watchers say.
Back to BSL’s date with the PPC on Friday. Sayang, club president Gonzalo Duque is still in the US and so, expect no fireworks! That being the case we’d just take it easy going to Dagupan from Barangay Colisao.
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So our 80-year old friend Pablo de Asis had succumbed to the allure of a Tarlaquena. We used to call him Leopoldo Salcedo with the straight pomaded hair, but he was called Eddie Garcia of Dagupan by Eva Visperas who wrote a Pabling love story that landed on page 1 of the Philippine Star.
Eva, for your info, it was this columnist and the late then Vice Mayor Felipe Cuison who made the former cop a close friend and loyal aide of former Speaker Joe De Venecia. How did we do it? Pabling won’t want it revealed. Masikreto tay masiken.
For the new couple, we dedicate this line from Paul Anka, to be sung by his young wife, “I’m so young, and you’re so old, this my darling, I’ve been told…”
The love bug also failed to restrain “starstruck” law student Maria Janna B. Polinar, 22, from planting a kiss on P-Noy during the Ten Outstanding Students in the Philippines Awards Night.
A magna cum laude graduate of Central Mindanao University, Maria said, “I took Political Science, so we’re really studying the government …seeing him in person was, ‘my God! This is the reality! This is really political science. You’re studying it, now you’re seeing the physical infrastructure.”
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Five-Footer Anthony Barriga seems to be the country’s only hope in the Olympics, yes, in the one and only field of boxing.
Mike Enriquez who lampooned our delegation of scanty athletes but bulging officials, hints we should only send our pambato field – boxing – and if that be so, what kind of sports program do we tell the world?
If you please, we want to connect this sportsmen scarcity and for that matter, lousy sports program to our failure as a nation.
In case you don’t know yet, this failure goes all the way to our failure to sire responsible, disciplined citizens. No wonder, we are among the nations of corrupt leaders.
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