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Posted by Lani on Friday, December 28th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
The first attempt last year started with a bang - advanced publicity in newspapers and national TV plus a live TV coverage of the event - but went pfft when the mat failed to beat the current world record. In a few minutes from now, in its second attempt, San Juan will unroll what COULD be the world’s longest buri mat. The still-rolled up mat, held by a mini-trailer, is right now waiting for its grand roll-out at the Magsingal-San Juan boundary, while spectators wait for the parade to begin at 2 p.m. Will San Juan make it to the book of world records this time? We’ll know in a few hours. Standby.^_^
nakakahiya nga ang nangyari jan sa burimat na yan!!! nasa papuntang Barbar pa lang sila “nakulkolen dayta nga kamen awanen ti tao nga nanguray ken dayta nga kamen, mano ti nagasto da wenno adu man ti naibulsa dan…”
1 | dianne January 7th, 2008 at 4:11 pmThanks, Diane. So you were there, too. Such a shame, isn’t? Let’s be kind enough to the authorities concerned and understand why the 2nd Burifest was again poorly implemented. First, it was just the 2nd time, practice makes perfect. So we expect better performance next year and in the years to come - if there will still be a buri festival. Second, the committee in charge of the burifest must have been so stressed that it didn’t bother, or this simply didn’t cross their minds, to do a test run to check how the trailer would fare when it would have to ascend and descend Bessang Hill. Third, again, they probably didn’t have it in them to explore other alternatives of presenting the purportedly longest buri mat. What they could have done was to instead leave the trailer at the boundary and let the participants - who actually waited along the road for nearly three hours - pull the mat as it was being unrolled. Now, that would have been a grander way of presentation, with Lapoguenios proudly parading the mat from the Magsingal-San Juan boundary northward for all to see while there was still sunlight. With what happened, unrolling the mat became a nuisance to motorists; one even sent a text message to express their exasperation at how the event stalled traffic. Now that I think about it, it’s a good thing there was no TV coverage of the event.
2 | Lani January 7th, 2008 at 5:19 pmyes mas maganda sana kung ipinarada na lang ng mga barangay officials yng buri mat na yon kaysa yng trailer ang naglakad pa at tsaka nakita mo ba yong mga t-shirts nila, that costs Php 200 per t-shirt… nakakapanghinayang na gumastos sila ng t-shirt na ganun kamahal at ganun lang ang nangyari sa kanila… tshirts printed at the back are these things “i found it” “i am a witness” ” i was there”; i just don’t know what do they mean for these.. why is it the traditional costume ball was no longer existing in our town, sana naman mapaghandaan nila ng husto at maganda ang next december festival natin kasi we really missed the happenings there…
3 | dianne January 8th, 2008 at 3:33 pm