HUMAN INTEREST

 

Human interest abounds everywhere, particularly in public events like this morning’s oath-taking ceremony for passers of a Board exam. It could be touching, and even hilariously entertaining especially if one is waiting under the morning heat to be accommodated inside the main hall observing people is one easy way out of boredom.

 

Family pride, which I call “froud farents” behavior, that manifests from constant selfies with ward, being dressed up or made up better than the oath takers,  was the order of the day, that limiting the guests was something that may be considered as “anti-family”. Sadly many have to content themselves peering at the proceedings beyond a couple of glass doors when so many have to endure the walk and/or take public rides to the venue.  I even saw a family using their tricycle all the way from a town at least 115 kilometers away.

 

The PRC should have also taken this into account, not just the free bottled waters that a photo is taken of anyone who avails of it.

 

Inconveniences are not rare, like a Board passer whose shoes suddenly broke up, the scarcity of public transportation, and the rain suddenly pouring uncooperatively after the ceremony.

 

Hopefully no overpricing by tricycle drivers. 

 

On my part, with most of the oath takers passing by where I stood, the cartoonist in me took over before I died of boredom and heat stroke. I just amused myself with what unfolded.

Filipiniana attire was prescribed but many seem to overdo it. It was an oath-taking ceremony not a fashion show at least, but I can’t help not noticing a guest that’s gold from hair to toes. That’s nostalgia or retro I think, coming in like a 1960’s Double O-7’s girl in Gold Finger.

 

Even Filiniana-inspired dresses also have a difference in what is to be used in an evening affair and under the full glare of the sun, unless one wants to be like Raj incarnate.

 

Some felt wonderful without their “Camareros” (wearing gowns with outrageous designs and lengthy trains that are often seen on Good Fridays or pintakasis), dudes as if competing in Tawag ng Tanghalan, dresses with side slits from the waist down like those in Miss Earth beauty pageant, and a bareback but the 2 inches width bra straps could well support Marcelo Fernan Bridge.

 

And of course, I counted at least 54 with obviously extended/ heavy eyelashes,  with one having an eyelash pointing down and the other side pointing up. 

 

Many should learn from the two Muslim ladies who came elegantly in their simple Hijab, especially the one with the red and maroon combination.

 

The point is they would be teachers that proper dressing should be learned for their young students to emulate. Power dressing should not be confined to the corporate world.

 

The guest speaker has asked if they as teachers are ready to face the millennials, with their different attitudes and behavior, not knowing that the oath takers in the majority are such. Kung maka selfie na lang, with all the jump jump, ay wagas!