My Favorite Moment of the Bee

I don’t remem­ber join­ing any spelling bee dur­ing my school days. I can spell bicy­cle, but for sure, I won’t be able to spell catar­junes cor­rectly as what Rajo Lau­rel did.

Last Fri­day night, I went to RCBC Plaza and just wished for any avail­able tick­ets. As I arrived at the venue, the tick­ets left were already reserved and the guys at the recep­tion, who kept on speak­ing in oh-so-fluent-English even if I inten­tion­ally kept on speak­ing oh-so-barok-Tagalog, asked me to go back after 30 min­utes that if any of the tick­ets will not be claimed, they can then sell them to other patrons. And so I came back after 30 min­utes, after eat­ing the thirty-six-peso-jumbo-hotdog-sandwich-meal at 7–11 which made my stom­ach full. I eas­ily get full these days, I won­der why?!

The 1100 peso ticket is too expen­sive for the fru­gal me, but I am will­ing to pay for it just so I can watch a musi­cal for the first sec­ond time. Good thing, some good guy gave back a reserved 500 peso ticket. So the guys who speak in oh-so-fluent-English called me and with no sec­ond thoughts, I imme­di­ately paid for the ticket.

Hav­ing that ticket was my favorite moment Beefore the Bee.

I had fun watch­ing The 25th Annual Put­nam County Spelling Bee.

I liked the girl who sang The I Love You Song.
Oh, I remem­ber, her name is Olive and that if you change the first two vow­els of her name it will be ilove.

The beau­ti­ful lady who played Olive was Carla Gue­varra.

Oh, My name is Niño. And if I change the first two vow­els of my name it will be Noñi. Nya­ha­haha!

I also liked the guest spellers from the audi­ence. I find it funny that they were given easy words to spell like lamb, sil­ver and run­way and that the other spellers would com­plain as they sing Life is Pan­de­mo­nium. Though Rajo Lau­rel was the only per­son I know out of the four guests. I just learned that Lea Salonga and Jet Pan­gan also took turns as guest spellers on an ear­lier play date.

I also liked the part where the spellers would ask the def­i­n­i­tion of the word and its usage in a sen­tence. The one I remem­ber was the word lamb. When used in a sen­tence, Sick of hav­ing turkey, Mary had a lit­tle lamb.

Rona Lisa Peretti’s favorite moment of the bee is right before it starts. As for me, I’d say it’s when Olive, her par­ents, and Mr. Panch sang The I Love You Song.

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