Red is the color of my movie and golf dates

I love the red letter days.

There are days for work, and then there are days for going to the movies with your child and for playing golf with friends.

Red letter days come once in a red moon. But I will always look forward to that. Especially in March.

I rebounded with that kind of two days after one very stressful week after another. I kind of tell me that the experience was anatomically, functionally, perceptually and existentially refreshing. And like the wolf in the fairytale story, I huffed and puffed and I was blown away.

Yes, blown away practically by a red storm. Red for the Red Riding Hood movie. And red for Coca Cola.

It was not the most spectacular of movies. Red Riding Hood was not the kind of story I expected from the story told to me in Kindergarten. But sending it with your child makes it worth watching every strip of film. We have not done this for a while. The last movie we had together was Harry Potter 7 which was on November last year.

After Red Riding Hood came another red letter event. The following day, I played golf with friends on the invitation of the Beverage Industry Association of the Philippines (BIAP) at the Apo Golf and Country Club. The friendly tournament was a treat by Coca Cola to its Davao friends and media partners.

I had as flightmates the guys from UMBN Bong Gonzaga, Roy Geonzon and John Servillon and young protégé Billy Tapucar. Bong and Roy went on to be among the winners in the tournament. And as luck would smile for the second straight year, Bong won the raffle’s major prize—a Sony Bravia 59-inch flat tv. Billy also got his wish—an Apple ipad.

Another media friend Alan Basong of Gold Star, though a non-playing guest, won the other Sony Bravia in the raffle. Alan said his wife could not be happier as she was celebrating her birthday on that same day.

The other media friends who played were Jon Develos of Mindanao Times, SCOOP Davao President Lito delos Reyes and hotog Tommy Inigo. Also on hand were Sunstar sports ed and DSA prexy Charles Maxey and ace photog Roland Jumawan who’s Canon 5D camera fitted with 70-200mm lens made me drool.

It was also fun to see former PBA cagers swing golf clubs and sink the dimpled ball. Kenneth Duremdes, Dale Singson, Rodney Santos, Gerard Francisco, and Cesar Catli were among the former cagers under the Coca Cola franchise seen in the fairways of Apo.

BIAP President JB Baylon personally made sure everyone gets to have fun at the links and at the raffles. With two Bravias, two ipads and two itouch as major raffle prizes, this is surely one tournament where winning the raffle is more than winning the tournament itself. The food was great and the Coca Cola products overflowed. We even had to carry home some canned loot to boot.

With friends like this and a golfing day like that, who needs to win anyway?

I did not play all too well, but there is much to enjoy in golf. Like trying to tame a wicked drive all day long and trying to hit between branches after branches. Brandishing a new driver courtesy of Cho Leonor, I found out the Srixon driver is an untamed beast.

And like the wolf’s victims in Red Riding Hood, a man bitten is a man cursed.

If at all a bad day in the fairways is a curse, I’ll look forward to the next red moon.

I love the red letter days.