'I' for Interesting
Published Nov 3, 2022 12:02 am
MEDIUM RARE
Jullie Y. Daza
We have enough celebrities, A-listers, and VIPs shining bright and constant like the stars. Maybe it’s time to find another meaning for the “I” in Very Important Person or Persons. For a change, how about I as in Interesting?
My first nominee for Very Interesting Person is Matteo Guidicelli, or Matteo G to match his lovely wife’s name, Sarah G for Geronimo Guidicelli.
What makes Matteo more interesting than the usual good-looking guys his age, including those in the public eye (pronounced I, there you go), is his wide range of interests, pursuits, and abilities which makes him, interestingly, multidimensional. He’s a race car driver. He cooks – how lucky can you be, Sarah G -- and he hosts a cooking show. He’s a model and endorser of consumer products, though not as prolifically as Lucky Manzano.
On top of which, MG is a second lieutenant in the Philippine Army’s reserve force. Not content with looking spiffy in his uniform, he has trained for a spot in the Presidential Security Group as a presidential bodyguard, the first celebrity hereabouts to do so. In that new role, his uniform will be a white barong-like shirt. No need to don a uniform as composer-lyricist of songs for his Sarah who, according to the grapevine, charges an astronomical fee to sing one song at any one event.
VP Sara Duterte, if you need a poster boy for your campaign to revive the ROTC program to train our young men for their patriotic duties in war and in peace, MG fits the bill. His latest choice of a job as soldier and presidential guard says he loves his country without parroting it like a press release. What inspired Matteo of good old Italian stock to join the PSG? It seems highly unlikely that it was Clint Eastwood as the American president’s bodyguard who saved him from an assassin in In The Line of Fire, shown in 1993, when Matteo was only three years old.
In the season of bright lights and merry anticipation, the only cheerless note for Very Interesting Person Guidicelli is his beloved Sarah’s FB post to her parents, in which she repeats her plea for their forgiveness two years after she defied them to marry Matteo.
Jullie Y. Daza
We have enough celebrities, A-listers, and VIPs shining bright and constant like the stars. Maybe it’s time to find another meaning for the “I” in Very Important Person or Persons. For a change, how about I as in Interesting?
My first nominee for Very Interesting Person is Matteo Guidicelli, or Matteo G to match his lovely wife’s name, Sarah G for Geronimo Guidicelli.
What makes Matteo more interesting than the usual good-looking guys his age, including those in the public eye (pronounced I, there you go), is his wide range of interests, pursuits, and abilities which makes him, interestingly, multidimensional. He’s a race car driver. He cooks – how lucky can you be, Sarah G -- and he hosts a cooking show. He’s a model and endorser of consumer products, though not as prolifically as Lucky Manzano.
On top of which, MG is a second lieutenant in the Philippine Army’s reserve force. Not content with looking spiffy in his uniform, he has trained for a spot in the Presidential Security Group as a presidential bodyguard, the first celebrity hereabouts to do so. In that new role, his uniform will be a white barong-like shirt. No need to don a uniform as composer-lyricist of songs for his Sarah who, according to the grapevine, charges an astronomical fee to sing one song at any one event.
VP Sara Duterte, if you need a poster boy for your campaign to revive the ROTC program to train our young men for their patriotic duties in war and in peace, MG fits the bill. His latest choice of a job as soldier and presidential guard says he loves his country without parroting it like a press release. What inspired Matteo of good old Italian stock to join the PSG? It seems highly unlikely that it was Clint Eastwood as the American president’s bodyguard who saved him from an assassin in In The Line of Fire, shown in 1993, when Matteo was only three years old.
In the season of bright lights and merry anticipation, the only cheerless note for Very Interesting Person Guidicelli is his beloved Sarah’s FB post to her parents, in which she repeats her plea for their forgiveness two years after she defied them to marry Matteo.