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Sunday, January 16, 2005
Sinulog Survival Fashion
Survive the 25th bang in style, Carmen Urbina gets you geared up for Sinulog's silver.
We’ve survived terrible administrations and election protests, survived eternal price hikes, survived calamities and survived even badly made tele-novelas.
You know that the trauma of being hurt is waning when people start joking about the party food as being “Morag naigo sa tsunami” rather than the old hat, “Morag naigo sa bagyo.”
That’s in poor taste, dear, but who can stop Pinoys from being Pinoys? We don’t bend like the mythical bamboo. All the bending we do is from laughing at our misfortunes through jokes to survive.
Now we are trying to survive from the meningococcemia scare (this year’s specter ala The Ring – isang tawag ka lang, patay kang bata ka; isang sneeze ka lang, mahawa kang bata ka) along side with the Sinulog rush.
Sinulog survival tips will abound. Perhaps the No. 1 tip will be to avoid the crowds, but how can you party Sinulog-style if you avoid the crowds? There’s a way: wearing Sinulog survival fashion.
My crystal ball reveals that the prominent fashion statement this year will be yellow clothes (for fear) accented with brooches studded with paracetamol tablets (for fever), ice bags instead of hats (for headaches), trench coats coordinated with surgical masks (to avoid sudden rains or inhaling anything microbial), and thick gloves to prevent direct hand contact.
To finish the look, people will wear necklaces made of penicillin capsules like they used to do when Dracula was still the chief fiend of the day, only they did it with garlic.
Properly insulated, you might as well stay home. The sensible thing to do, of course, is to stay calm, live a clean life, eat more fruits and vegetables, sleep early and stop making those bad jokes. Repent, but just one more: Sinulog survival.
(January 16, 2005 issue)
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