Every Filipino born after January 20, 2001 is about to experience some-thing they have never experienced before in their lives: a new President! At nine years, five months and 10 days, President Arroyo’s tenure already feels like forever to a lot of people. Its no surprise that the country is eagerly looking forward to Congress finishing their canvas, so that we can finally find out who will be our country’s next top model. Spoiler: It’s Noynoy.
Top model is an apt description for the Presidency. In a way, this coming June 30, our country will finally replace our 2001 top model Nokia 9210 Communicator, with June 2010’s top model, an iPhone HD. It’s not going to be a perfect device; it will have its shortcomings. But it will be a welcome upgrade and a breath of fresh air for most Filipinos.
Examining the features of our new President, we can discover a lot of interesting and cool stuff.
First, he’s a bachelor. We’ve had widowers and a First Gentleman, but we’ve never had a First Girlfriend! Finally, “FG” is cool again. After a few months, it will probably get upgraded to FF (First Fiancé), then maybe in a year, an FW (First Wedding). Watching that unfold would surely be a welcome relief from the nonstop scandals and “bugs” our old Nokia 9210 had. Will Noynoy give new meaning to the term “Air Force One”?
But controversial new feature of our new President is this whole smoking in public thing. Noynoy is currently facing strong political pressure” to quit smoking. It’s understandable. He’s top model now, kids will look up to him. But would we rather have an honest smoking president, or a lying one? We’ve had too much of that last one already, don’t you think?
Maybe a compromise could be reached: Noynoy could just promise to stop smoking in public, or anytime kids are around. He can quit when he can. Making him quit smoking cold turkey after we gave him the toughest job in the country, would be like breaking up with your girlfriend, then immediately asking her to make you lakad to her hot friend.
And finally, an interesting new feature discovered by a Supreme Deep Penetration Agent is that our new President is into trance and house music. Say what? You’re telling me he’s not only a bachelor and a smoker, he likes to party, too? That’s just awesome! Will we have a First Rave? Or perhaps a First Chillout Session? Malacañang events with a Hed Kandi DJ playing in the garden anyone? The jazz, classical, and rock and roll lovers have had their time, it’s house and trance’s turn! (Perhaps in 2016, hip-hop fans will get their time when we have our first black president)
Love him or hate him, you can’t ignore the fact that our new President brings some new stuff on the table. In this regard, he’s truly like the iPhone HD. Not everyone will buy this new device from Apple, but its very presence and the new features it brings, will definitely raise the bar in the mobile phone industry. Let’s all hope our new top model will do the same for our country.
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