Switching On the Sun

Where is Baguio headed? Barely a month after the recent election, what now, Baguio? Where to? Towards modernization? Through traffic via a “one-passenger oversized carbon footprint-marking gas-guzzler batmobile”? Just going around Gotham? To the bat cave! “To the bat cave!” While that may sound like a call to rather go back in time, primitive times that is, it’s actually a reference to that of Bruce Wayne’s alter ego’s “hi-tech” means to plan and address hard-pressing issues… “Bahala na si Batman” is also another referential undertone for a probable course of action. If so, in that “bat cave” as to the “mapping out” where Baguio is headed, does that make us like Alfred the butler or like the “minding-their-own-thing cave-dwelling bats” and rather leave it to Batman? And Batman be like, either he’d be the “incognito dark knight” in all its alter ego form or simply be “Bat-Man” or the “man for the bats” in reference to “people-person (being a man for the people) ”. Coincidentally, “Bat...

During the midterm elections, from the campaign period leading up to the results, it showed Baguio’s collective judgment flawed with speculative pronouncements against opposing parties. As if they don’t know the truth given Baguio’s demographics and its once neighborly setting. It’s laughable and at the same time a bit aggravating how despite “receipts” of negative campaigning through varied measures and manifestos and through their “propagandists”, they have the audacity to refute such (dis)course of action. They’re rather claiming the decency of a conscientious campaign strategy. From grammatically-challenged trolls to celebrated figures, the most dangerous promoter/endorser is one who weighs-in their argumentation through an “overweening rhetoric”. It’s because it takes advantage of the naive and uneducated rank’s gullibility. But then again, is that a calculated scheme considering numbers have time-and-again substantiated how thinking voters are totally outnumbered… Do they think w...

  A looming political dynasty in Baguio has been staved off. However, about 18K, give or take, from that of congressional bet Sol Go’s votes thought it was ok. That’s around 20K+ short of her husband’s mayoralty votes. Apparently, that 20K+ discrepancy for a number of voters probably thought that at least one of the two Gos getting any of the local’s two highest seats would be fine. That actually says a lot about the Go couple’s out of sync supporters; for if they truly believe in the would-have-been Baguio’s first ever husband and wife elected tandem, their respective votes should have been in sync. Needless to say, even their supporters didn’t agree with the political dynasty they themselves tried to justify. Were (or are) they really “maka-Baguio” to begin with given how they enabled the inherent byproduct of such likely centralization of political influence. That’s something true-blue “maka-Baguio” people do not actually condone. Or is it? Or do we, Baguio peeps? Or was it re...

Other than it’s one of my favorite breed of dogs, I’m retrieving gold this year as I turn “golden” ~ Five Zero! FIFTY!! The closest we got to having a Golden Retriever was having a Golden Dox. It’s a crossbreed between a Golden Retriever and a dachshund. He looked more like his dox (dachshund) father though. We named him Sandy. Sandy I’m like Sandy. He had the color (only the color though, not even the furry semblance) of a Golden Retriever, whereas for everything else, “dox” just about it. Sandy however was one strong dog who can actually pull something heavier than his own weight. Similarly, I’ve pulled and carried weighty setbacks as well as seemingly burdensome blessings-in-disguise. Not as obvious but Sandy seemed to have that strength of a big dog. I’ve carried “big dawgs and bigwigs” up their podiums. While it might even be attributable for that of their springtime or their golden era, I wasn’t formally conferred that “fair (golden)” level of recognition enough to be a “big dawg...

We got a dog, a Doxle (crossbreed between a beagle and a dachshund) and named him Bruce. Soon after, things changed… Bruce What’s with “Bruce” anyway, seemingly with an alter ego… Bruce Wayne has a dark (knight) side in him. The very “tame” Bruce Banner turns green and smashes things. For Bruce Lee, it’s a combination of natural instinct and control, his paradigm for “unnatural naturalness or natural unnaturalness”. Bruce Willis, well he’s an actor but he wasn’t acting when he said he’s apolitical but he’s as Republican as he could be. Bruce Jenner is now Caitlyn Jenner. Bruce Almighty took advantage of being ‘The Almighty’. Bruce Springsteen, well, he’s “Johnny B. Goode Born in the USA but You Never Can Tell”. Whereas for Bruce the Doxle, either you’ll love him or hate him. Probably what BAD stands for; Bad As Devil or Bad-Ass Dog… Someone dislikes him so much, things changed. Bruce to Bruised With due respect to every perspective out of different versions, I wouldn’t go into details ...