Valiant players of the drum,
From faithless lands you come,
To play before God’s only Son!
WE HOPE the situation goes back to normal so we can introduce the above chant for our Dinangyang Festival that falls on January 23rd of every year.
We will be glad if someone can put notes on the chant so we can sing it as we dance on the streets during the festival.
We observed in previous years that even if Dinagyang is still on January 23rd, before the year ends we already see various groups coming from all over the city and neighboring towns practice their dancing and chants in the city streets.
Actually, we would start to celebrate Dinagyang immediately after Aklan’s Ati-Atihan in Kalibo but we seem to have surpassed now the ati-atihan celebration in Kalibo because of our bigger crowd from locals and tourists attracted to Iloilo’s Dinagyang Festival.
Even with the virus scare, we believe Dinagyang can still be celebrated with success if proper distancing is observed by participating dance groups from various places. We hope that we can pursue our Dinagyang celebration for the New Year 2021.
Allow us to share with you today the following story about red roses, a flower variety that is so special to everyone, especially for those in love. We hope that its sale can become popular even during the Dinagyang.
During our college days, red roses were sold at the gate of our university. There is talk in the campus that when you see a girl with a red rose on her hair, it means she is “available”. It is most unkind but some people say that some girls earn extra money for tuition and other needs from dating while in school.
We have a lady professor that we admired because even if she was already in her 40s she still keeps herself trim and pretty. She especially attracted our attention one day when she came to class wearing an all-red outfit – a bright red dress, red shoes and a fresh red rose with a short stem clipped to her hair and tied neatly in a bun with a red ribbon to match.
Si Ma’am rin? We did not make loud our reaction but she must have sensed it as we were all looking at her with awe with her all-bright red get up when she came into the room.
“It’s my birthday today, class. Aren’t you going to greet me?”
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Ma’am! We chorused with great relief.
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GEM OF THOUGHT
“You are what you think you are.” – Anonymous
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