The sixth sin

The Philippine campaign in the Southeast Asian Games mixed national emotions, from celebration to disappointment and many more in between, and beyond.

- Ferdinand G. S. Gujilde

Kayla Sanchez awed as most decorated Filipino athlete with 3 golds and 5 silvers.The awful part is her being a solitary gold medalist from a body of water studded with islands, high tide or low tide, without reference to the iconic answer of a Filipina beauty queen whose statistics is drowned by technology that discovered more islands unaccounted before.

The track and field army struck five golds, punctuated by EJ Obiena who cleared a new record height. But the king is warned his kingdom may soon be invaded. He had to earn his fourth consecutive gold by count back, as opposed to bareback, that unsafe sexual practice that cause HIV infection. The runner-up from Thailand had it perfect until it mattered.