02 February 2010

Sarah for Joy

Lookalikes Sarah Geronimo and Quezon City vice mayoralty candidate Joy Belmonte during their first meeting. Sarah is endorsing Joy’s candidacy.

What happens when virtual twins Sarah Geronimo and Quezon City vice mayoralty bet Joy Belmonte (Q.C. Vice Mayor Herbert Bautista’s running mate) finally meet?

Both shy and reserved, the lookalikes simply swap “Hi’s!”, press each other’s hands in warm handshake and try to “feel” each other.

“I was actually starstruck,” said Joy. “I’m a Sarah fan and that’s how fans react when they see their idol in person, right?”

The merienda getting-to-know-you meeting happened at the coffee shop of EDSA Shangri-La where Sarah’s endorsement of Joy’s candidacy was sealed, witnessed by Viva Group of Companies big boss Vic del Rosario Jr. and his son Vincent and Joy’s Kuya Miguel, President/CEO of this paper.

“Sarah is what I always expected,” added Joy, “sweet, well-mannered, magalang and soft-spoken with quiet, winning ways.”

Joy might as well be describing herself. Like Sarah who keeps a cool front even when confronted with malicious, often unfounded, issues, never breathing a harsh word, Joy has maintained a positive style of campaigning way above some of her opponents who use the muckraking/mudslinging below-the-belt tactic.

“I don’t want to ruin the good name of my parents,” smiled Joy, referring to incumbent Q.C. Mayor Sonny Belmonte (who’s running for congressman in the Fourth District of the same city) and the late Betty Go-Belmonte (for whom a street in Q.C. was named), this paper’s founding chairman.

It won’t be the virtual twins’ first meeting. Sarah will join some of Joy’s campaign sorties. Other Sarah diehards around Quezon City are invited to cheer them right on!

By Ricardo F. Lo

The Philippine Star

February 01, 2010