Avid Reader's e-mail said: "YOU! You have something to do with that circus happening at Makati! That wasn't an EDSA 3... that's a menagerie! And I KNOW that YOU are the only kook who could turn a respectable rally of ideals into a something so showbiz!"

I don't know whether the reader's exclamation points refers to excitement or rabid protest against all things colorful and silly. No matter, I believe she is giving me a compliment. Truth is, I never sweat an armpit helping the monkeys in the goverment to round up a bunch of whiners whine down the pint-size wire-tap superstar with a lisp to resign.

It never is my style to go policticking. Especially Policticking Pinoy-style, which in my opinion, just happens to go round and round. And besides, my nail engineer (translation: manicurist) will never forgive me if I even sneeze at my 4 hour session nails, much less dip my hands into the mud.

"What's the theme color of the rally, by the way?" my secretary asked. Every fashion conscious creature in the Philippines know that important rallys - such as this - is punctuated with the hottest color. The people are out in the streets trying to bring down a president, but the crowd has to wear uniforms first to further exclaim their solidarity.

"Yellow." I replied. Yellow is a great color, but it's so last season. Cory has a lot to do with why it has become an eyesore. Opening up my file cabinet, I reached for my color pallette and my sketch book. In a perfect world, a rally never has to be the excuse to wear bad outfits.

"Ummm... what do you say we make green a statement? Military green to be exact." I asked my secretary who was, at the moment, busy watching Jesse Hahn squabble with Justin Lee on tv.

"Wfsdlfkyset,kudf". My secretary, doting as she is, immediately reduces to a pile of burbling goop when she's watching her favorite koreanovela. "So military green, it is." I muttered. And glitters too, I think. If your going to take a dull color to shine, better match it with something sparkly.

Of course, by now, you are probably thinking that I wasn't taking the whole "cheaters must be punished" demonstration seriously. Believe me, folks, I am doing my revolution in my own little way. If you would look at the economic status of our country, you'd cry. But then, of course, you don't really need to look at stock exchange rate and an update for the stability of our Peso to know that our country is spiralling down as deep as the Marianas Trench. Nowadays, people have to force themselves to squeeze some tears so they'd be able to save up from buying salt.

While people are cuddled in a gathering that a pin couldn't penetrate, I am slaving away in my drawing board in the name of commercialism. Making people BUY is POWER. Peso circulation can make the world go round again and the rally should come off as "just sales gimmick to sell and an opportunity for people to start burning their moolah." With this happening, the investors need not confuse that our country is very unstable.

"Guys, this is like Circus de Soleil of Promises with politicians as the main contortionist of minds. It's entertainment. Everything is in apple pie order." And with the showbiz people also coming to the rally, we could pull this idea off.

And since it is a known fact that there will be loads of teenagers in the rally, I know that my market worries are over. Teenagers are sucker to the "coolness factor". All I have to do is make a juicy couture and simply declare that it has the "IT" chutzpah for the occasion. Flipping open my steno, I decided to make a list for more ideas.

"Do you think glow-in-the-dark watches with built-in video camera will sell? That'll replace the candles and the camera will enable you to document your "day at a rally" for your blog."

"VDasdrkjasduy....adiaiuage"

"How about 42 hours cotton candy flavored deowhitener for armpit protection?"

"asdfnoaie, asd aweqawlje"

"Isn't it important that we sell some sort of aircon-cool chewing gum that has minty fresh flavor with anti-bacterial enzyme action to reduce possibility of sorethroat?"

"QWEasdaisuydyh.asdnayusdue"

It's futile. My secretary will continue to be so for the next 15 minutes. And frankly, the economy cannot wait for another second. In this dire times, we need an icon for the revolution for change like Mao Zedong and Che Guevarra whose communism ideals were packaged as the "IT" factor for rebelling youths. I flipped open the newspaper for some idea.

Then I found my guy:

http://news.inq7.net/lifestyle/index.php?index=1&story_id=43662

Then maybe, just maybe... after I printed his face in my military green outfits, he will be ten times more popular than Erap. Should he ever decided to run for presidency and won, then we might earn the distinction of the best dressed poor people in the world.