Year of the Fiery Cock

What’s in store for Fire Rooster Year 2017? Wrong question! – What’s cooking?

It reminds me of a mall cashier I asked, miss, what is your Chinese zodiac sign? Feng shui being all too popular now as manifested in her answer with Visayan accent: “Sir, ‘Roaster’ po ako!”

So there, the rooster is already cooked by her own words.

But seriously, the outlook for rooster is one of clashes in the environment – political, personal and clash of ideas! Borrowing from the UAAP basketball league peg this year: It will be a Mayhem Year 2017. There would be saber rattling in terms of ‘foolitical’ adventurisms again or it’s business as usual!

In cockfighting or rooster aficionado lingo: “Coup coo rooting will be peddled by rabble rousers out to finagle or make monies out of political bounty be it in the military or police ranks and echelons, as well as their usual foolitical patrons or consultants – the “sulsultants!”.

But all the cockfighting dust will settle after the first quarter with renewed investor and business confidence in the air. The only cause of stirrings will be the attempt of the opposition to glorify their bet in the person of a symbolic hen of their ideology. “May hen sila that will stir mayhem”.

No matter what, the pressing question that will be posed by the masses and all sectors to the Duterte incumbency is how they can bring home the bacon daily during his watch. “May ham ba sa table!”

All told, the barometer of the fieriness of the Fire Rooster 2017 depends on the political center of gravity that is in the realm of the senses of the masses with their humane question posed to the Presidency and the executive departments: “Paano ako kaya yayaman on U?” (Acronym:  P.A.K.Y.O.U.) In English: “How can I be rich or prosper on you?”

So, quo vadis 2017? What is cooking? Mr. President, you and your Cabinet are the pressing issue in the days ahead, beyond extrajudicial killings and drug war!

It is time for one and all to participate in this 2017 feng shui challenge.

Are you ready?! Kong Hei Fat Choi!