Acofo: Observations and thoughts on Baguio Day

THOUGH it was a bit difficult for me to have attended the Baguio Day Program due to administrative drama in my office, below are some observations and thoughts during the program at Baguio Convention Center.

1. So Ms. Payaket sang "... can see your true colors shining through like a rainbow." Will the Baguio City as we see it continue to show its colors? Mayor Domogan called for "unity, teamwork and solidarity".

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2. Then the famed Baguio Metamorphosis Dance Group performed with the dancers waving and leaping with their costumes that glittered on stage. With wings hued in gold and silver the young female performers stirred moods within and without us viewers. Shrieks, claps and shouts filled the air. But am sure there were among the audience like me, trying to figure out things i.e. how the performances e.g. dances and song blend with the messages from speakers and adlibs from the emcees to create and generate a meaning that one can consider as a whole from the program. Something we can savor and crisp or even crunch, so to say.

3. My office required us to attend the program, not only the parade. Anyway, let us get back to the Metamorphosis dancers, the young males leaped and swayed in unison. The leaps and jumps were astounding to one who forgot "modern dance". "Modern dance was decades ago. The leaps were well synchronized and done with almost flawless unison. The metamorphosis dancers did well to entertain. "We listened well from within us" for the inner meanings that was all up to us as viewers.

4. Will Baguio like its famed young dancers be able to leap from moribund -the heaps of garbage, the traffic, the crime rate? The residents of Baguio and their leaders can not deny that Baguio has to face these problems plus the overcrowding. According to old residents of Baguio, who had seen the better days of this prime city of north Luzon, the City of Pines is no more.

5. Can the people of Baguio with their leaders sway to a vision of "unity, teamwork and solidarity as the honorable Mayor Domogan figured it out in his speech?

6. Or will Baguio continue to glitter with its true colors as of now an upland city that suffers from floods, as the honorable DPWH Secretary Singson wondered. Secretary Rogelio Singson is the guest of honor. Will Baguio metamorphose? Can it for the better for us all?