Visitors to Baguio’s premier horseback riding area, Wright Park Riding Circle, are usually surprised to see a white pony with a shock of pink hair, or sometimes a brown one with a bright orange mane. In recent years, the Pony Boys, experts in giving little kids their most memorable first pony ride, have learned that children prefer white horses (thinking they’re “nicer,” i.e. “more mabait,” than the brown ones) and to make them even more attractive, have taken to dying their hair or puttiing a little pink paper flower on their hair. Don’t worry, the hair dye does no damage to the horse.
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And what does this news have to do with Baguio City?
1. First, I was asked last December to design the Go Dumaguete! website, and I will have to go there to do my research (junket!!) because some folks liked the Go Baguio! website and wanted the same for their “City of Gentle People.â€
2. Except that it’s a lot of sand and sea, Dumaguete is much like Baguio City: laid back lifestyle, lots of university students, koreans arriving in droves, small town where everybody knows everybody, jump off point to Apo and Siquijor Islands (like Baguio is to Sagada and Banaue), the Boulevard purportedly designed by Daniel H. Burnham (yes, it’s the Burnham Park guy, our city’s urban planner), everything cheap (ok, cheaper than here even), a thriving cottage industry, and a beautiful natural environment.
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Three years ago, before the age of what Oprah calls the “new 30,” I decided that I was going to learn to build a web site. This is coming from someone who used to type her term papers on mom’s extra portable typrewriter, who used to mimeograph forms, whose best buddy was a product called “Touch & Go.” Remember when xeroxed pages were dark gray and the letters white?
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