Friday, September 16, 2005

Zani Ara fan’s moss ran aria…

O, Draconian devil!
O, lame saint!

Talk about anagrams. Blame Dan Brown’s fiction – The Da Vinci Code.

I was challenged by that word game. The title above was a phrase that contains my full name including my middle initial. Tough one. I had another but it was more a negative than a positive phrase. I discarded it.

The first word zani is zany in its true form. It is a misnomer. I opted to use it because no letter y is available in my name. Ara here does not pertain to Ara Mina. I am not a fan of hers. Ara here signifies a group of stars. I love stars and everything in the sky – even the tsunami that hovers in it.

Moss here pertains to turf and aria symbolizes the pop song, which is one type of arias.

More or less, you can derive what the above phrase means. It intends to picture the times when our family (Papsie’s) got addicted once to singing videoke songs, most of which were pop songs. Whenever there were visitors, we would always prepare the equipment and let them enjoy singing.

I remember one of my birthday celebrations where the only visitors were my work peers. We only served beer that time. One of them, Gerry, would not allow anybody to have the mike once he started singing. Glo (and the others) was so irritated that she really went her way pulling the mike out of his grasp. But Gerry was not persuaded. It was when Papsie shouted “O, si Gerry naman ang kakanta! Pakantahin niyo naman si Gerry!” (“Let Gerry sing! Let him sing!”) Gerry was like awakened from sleep then grinned almost laughing, “Glo, here is the mike.” Everybody laughed. (Tinablan din.)

Gerry and his family are currently based in Saudi Arabia. I haven’t heard news about him for quite some time.

So… why don’t you try the game? It would be fun if you would share me the phrase that was created from your name.

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