No, you’re the bomb.
Saffy says: “Look out, here comes a genius.”
Last month my friend Anna Summour (not her real name) attended a party for the NBA Legends who visited Manila and trounced the PBA All-Stars. She knew it would be. . .interesting when she saw one of the PR girls ushering Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the registration desk.
PR girl: Um, are they supposed to register for the event?
Anna’s thought balloon: Honey, they ARE the event.
The program is emceed by a movie starlet who proceeds to demonstrate why he never made it in the movies. There is a video presentation from the Department of Tourism. Video quality is awful, the sound gets on everyone’s nerves, and after a few minutes the video is mercifully stopped.
Emcee: We can’t show the video. . .due to technical difficulties!
Guests: Oh, really?
Emcee: But the video is not pirated!
Later.
Emcee: Now here’s Vlade Divac. He scored 33 points.
The guests await the rest of the sentence. 33 points in a championship game? In an All-Star match? In a tiddlywinks challenge at the local nursery school? In his career?
Sound effect: The chirping of crickets and other nocturnal insects echoing in emcee’s head.
That was the complete sentence.
The high point.
Emcee: Here are the Bayanihan Dancers to perform our national dance, the Tinikling. May we call on the US Ambassador Kristie Kenney to join the dancers?
Ambassador Kenney graciously accedes.
Emcee: Be careful, dancers, don’t hit the ambassador. She may decide to bomb the Philippines!
By this time the media guys are crawling on the floor with laughter.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
October 6th, 2009 at 04:59
And I always thought (thanks to the accuracy of our schools) that Cariñosa was our National Dance!
October 6th, 2009 at 20:24
I even asked my sister what’s our national dance is…haha
who was the emcee?