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Gwen’s latest act in her Capitol office exactly a week ago seems to me a matter of inevitability. Look, her penchant for posturing is imprinted in province-led Suroy Suroy Sugbo where she leads rounding the towns for tourism and promotion. Gwen leaping in sack races, Gwen dancing, Gwen climbing over fences, Gwen smiling beside toothless passersby, Gwen flaunting with nubile Sinulog festival queens. All pointing out to one of her fondest pastime: imagining that she’s sprightly, she’s fit, she’s in throes of second pubescence.

So her press conference was a revelation of how she treats public office as a stage all this time. It was also a revelation of how desperate her grasp on youth is becoming, even if she knows ageing is as inevitable as midlife crisis. And unfortunately….. [Read more]

~ by emelito-torres on December 10, 2008.