It’s when you’ve been there and back when you can rightfully judge a given event. When you’ve been audience, critic and organizer when your opinion matters more than the others’. Having said so, I can rightfully say, bad is bad. And Hibalag 2011, which is supposed to mean “coming-together” has sadly become a neat example of an “irony”.
Ironic, because people were scattered. There is no sense of collective community and thus, no coming together. Not only on an emotional plain that there is no sense of togetherness, also in the very physical. Heaven and earth had made it sure that perfection was out of the question. Bagyong Mina (Tropical Monsoon Mina) has plagued the whole city and Silliman. The Hibalag has been divided into two, east and west. Chasms of mud and icky stuff forming between booths.
Just disastrous.
Sad.
The shows were sub-par. People didn’t have fun, and the hosts were just plain boring.
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