Playing with Fire
Restore the old Dagupan seal!
By Gonzalo Duque
DAGUPAN’S respected artist Alex Villaflor, a former Jaycees Inc. president, was mumbling to us, while we were in a National Culture and Arts Commission orientation seminar last week that it was utterly wrong for the past city administration to change the official seal of Dagupan.
Alex was angry — not because he was the top honcho of the JC group that fought the Bangus Jaycees — because what the not-so-bright boys did was put one over the city’s history and its past leaders when they changed the official seal of the city.
Know why they had the gall and the nerve to do what they did?
Agay met layan panag-abusoy honor tan liknaan na aray katooan.
Their simple or simplistic or imbecilic reason: “ag narehistro ed SEC kuno o anto kaman ya ahensiyay na gobyerno may original seal.”
Well, that’s according to them.
Alex V says what they should have properly done was to have it registered. Ok na sana lahat.
But no such thing happened. Panon to met ey, gabay day manggaway ngaran da, that they were able to change the official seal of Dagupan over the heads and objections of all the past officials, living or dead! What sacrilege!
Amta yo, arayan kagagawa dati lan gawa ra.
During our Jaycee days, there was then a clash between the groups of Alex Villaflor and the other group. It will be recalled that when Alex went to the SEC to register his group (our group), the Sec okayed it, recognizing it as the official Dagupan Jaycees Inc. Not to be done with, the other group also went to the SEC. They were given the name Bangus Jaycees of Dagupan.
Back to the seal. What the SP led by Vice Brian Lim under the mayorship of Belen Fernandez should do in fairness to the city’s culture and history—is to restore the old seal.
We are taking this up not because we are tasked to uphold the city’s history, as chairman of the City’s Commission on History, Culture and Arts….
although we are solemnly tasked to do just that.
But because it’s the right thing to do—and to correct the “supposed” corrective act that turned out to be erroneous.
The implication of such act is that any mayor with delusion of grandeur can whimsically do anything he wants so long as he can cajole, corrupt or buy his councilors.
Under this set-up, who can stop any Tom, Dick and Harry from proposing a “swastika” seal of then East Germany for the city if he has the means to bribe the SP? We’re not saying the SP is vulnerable… but, who knows, judging from past records.
Kaya, thank you, pareng Alex Villaflor, for this historic reminder.
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The provincial government may be having a similar problem. Not, not its official seal—but a recent move to have a suitable place for the busts or monument of past governors.
During Victor’s governorship, the National on Commission Culture and Arts approved the erection of his father, the late Gov. Aguedo F. Agbayani’s Park.
In connection with the new move to locate a suitable venue for the monuments of the past governors, we think the most logical place is the Governor Agbayani Park.
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At Kabaleyan Channel recently, we received a report from a caller airing that mga babaing mababa ang lipad ay naglipana sa may Arellano-Bani Street in Dagupan City. Talamak na, he deplored, weeping over his fate.
Reports say you can get an lady entertainer – or even a bakla — for P200. But at your own risk, you too can get AIDS.
SPO4 Lito Ocampo reports that if a woman was arrested for the first time, the case will be dismissed. But if she is already a “beterano,” meaning she has incurred a series of arrests, she’d be classified as a prosti. And the City Health Office would be tasked to require them to undergo medical tests.
The report reminds us of the case of a world famous tennis champion Arthur Ashe who contracted the AIDS virus thru blood transfusion in a hospital. This is how bad the AIDS situation is. Take cover under your wife’s skirt na lang, mga igan, safe pa.
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It’s almost Valentine’s Day. Here’s past Health Secretary Johnny Flavier’s advice to lovers, especially to the macho-nurin: use condom.
But if no condom is available, just be with your wife!
Simple but doable though not necessarily exciting advice, right?
Happy Valentines!
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