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Thursday, December 23, 2004
Famador: Strange proclivities
By Joel Famador
It was not the fire that killed K.C. de Venecia, daughter of your favorite Speaker of the House, Joe de Ve-necia. It was the iron grill on that bathroom window of the de Venecia mansion. Had there been no iron grill, K.C. could have easily jumped through any of the windows in the second floor of that big house. Unscathed.
Now, why would the wise Speaker de Venecia clamp those iron grills around his windows virtually making his mansion a fire trap? Paranoid in this anarchic republic? Well, who isn’t?
Maybe next time, he should provide one chainsaw in each room of his house so that in case of another fire no one would be trapped again, and die. Like K.C. (For those people that can’t afford the chainsaw, why not dismantle the iron grill altogether? If not, can’t our government ban those stupid iron grills?)
Or maybe Joe de V. shouldn’t have those Christmas lights anymore. Why, can’t they have an enlightened Christmas without the electric lights?
Christmas trees--all plastic these days after we raped our forests--are not supposed to be lighted. And they are supposed to be put up only on the 24th of December up to Christmas day. That’s what I know from the country that started the Christmas tree tradition. (Germany, right? Whatever.)
But since we are full-blooded Filipinos, with the proclivity of decorating garishly almost every worldly possession we own – like the passenger jeepney--we try to torture our plastic Christmas trees with countless small, cheap, multi-colored incandescent bulbs from China. Just to show our visitors how more “enlightened” we are than the neighbor next door, without realizing that we have already made our homes virtual fire hazards, and fire traps, because we can’t get rid of our paranoid tendencies such as those iron grills on windows.
So here’s to a Happy Christmas with your mind lighted up with merry thoughts, not with the made-in-China-ready-to-short incandescent bulbs, and paranoid tendencies like those dumb “iron grilled” windows.
(December 23, 2004 issue)
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