SO far, so good.

This was the assessment of Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, Executive chairperson of the Dagupan Bangus Festival 2008 a week into the 19-day festivities that ends May 4.

Fernandez hailed the mammoth crowd participating in the festival, especially those who lined up in the streets even under the blazing sun to watch the featured “Gilon-Gilon ed Baley” street dancing last Monday afternoon.
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RIGHT off the bat, we ask: Would you prefer listening to the bad news messenger or to the good news deliverer?

Your answer to this and that of the rest of theoretical respondents will quickly reveal the percentage of the nation’s populace that want to bring this nation down and those who want it to rise – despite all odds.

Taken against the current preoccupation of media to herald the bad news about the rice situation by incessantly ranting from its own safe “pulpits” on the air, on print or in the blogs as though Armageddon was nigh and coming terrifyingly real, we can only wish many of these characters were the true pundits they proclaim themselves to be.
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