It Could Be Noynoy by a Mile

by Sonny Pulgar

Is Noynoy it?

By all indications, Noynoy as a mobilizer wears it up his sleeve. He has a share of tragedy. In his interviews he said that his great grandfather Servillano was incarcerated in Fort Santiago as a revolutionary against the Spaniards; his grandfather Benigno Sr was jailed by the Japanese and by the Americans; his father Benigno Jr suffered imprisonment courtesy of the dictator Marcos. He didn’t mention the bullet still lodged in his neck from the rebel guns of Gringo Honasan. All these is topped by the recent death of his mother, Cory, who was at odds with the sitting President.

In his acceptance speech in Club Filipino he recounted an encounter with a boy who engaged him in a conversation and whose one question brought the house down, “asan ho si Kris?” While at it, his three other siblings with striking hint of Cory were beside him, and, just a little oblique to the right obscured by yellow boys, was his pretty La Valenzuelita.

Lastly, this senator is an economics major and a 3-term congressman. As the man to beat, Ernie Maceda threw the muck autistic kitchen sink at Noynoy. All told, Noynoy is in the middle of the Pinoy fiesta. He is the Hermano Mayor, the Big Brother who makes the celebration worth our while.

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