Jingle balls all the way

IF

YOU’RE wondering and pissed off why it was really heavy traffic around noontime on General Luna Street last Wednesday, it’s the time of the year and it has nothing to do with the Christmas season. Yes once again, it’s the time of all out in full Monty. the year when naked students, Yup, it was the annual “Oblation mostly males, of the University of Run”, a time-honored tradition in all the Philippines Visayas or UPV ran campuses of UP usually done as a around the campus showing off their prelude to the annual Lantern Parade “cute thingy.” This much to the delight in the university. of screaming UPV coeds trying hard And for the uninitiated: to be prim and proper while feasting “The  ( sometimes their eyes on naked running boys referred to as the

Oblation Run  with their “balls” jingling all the way. Brave) is an annual event held by

Ritual Dance of was in a jeep en route to SM the  University of the Philippines  (UP)

the City on Diversion Road when our jeep chapters of  Alpha Phi Omega  (APO)

Moi was caught in a standstill just in front in different UP campuses. The of the main gates of UPV Iloilo City runners are male, and traditionally campus along General Luna Street. run completely naked in public

At first had no idea what was places, with their genitals fully going on other than it was probably visible, on a designated route. The

moi just your hordes of Christmas event was first organized in 1977 shoppers off to a sale in SM City, when at  the University of the Philippines suddenly there were wailing sirens Diliman  to promote  Hu and from out of the UPV gates about ( for  ‘ Hero’),

bad na 10 naked young men came running a film. It draws its name from

Bayani  Tagalog  Naked towards General Luna Street. the  Oblation, a statue of a nude

Well, they were not completely man located in every University naked as they were all wearing light of the Philippines campus, which blue and white colored masks and symbolizes ‘ a selfless offering of running shoes but as far as their one’s self to the country.’ The event “birds” were concerned, these were is usually done on Dec. 16 and serves as a protest to contemporary national issues. Participants of the Diliman Oblation Run are male APO members numbering 24 on average. Women participating in the event, however, are not unheard of. Runners usually bear masks to hide their identities, and may wear leaves to cover their genitals. They usually hand roses to a number of female spectators.”

Since the jeep was stuck in traffic, we had no choice but to watch the “Oblation Run.” It’s just wishful thinking that there would be female participants as a couple joined in full naked splendor during the 2005 edition of the run in UP Diliman. Sadly, they were all male runners. But that was not the case with

fellow passengers; there were four female college students from the moi’s University of San Agustin and their immediate reaction was to reach to their bags and get their cell phones not to text or call someone but to use the phone’s camera to take pictures of the naked boys.

There were also a couple of Senior High School girls from St. Paul’s University; one remarked “Oh, a smorgasbord of ‘you know what’ and

they come one after the other” while her companion said, “Yuck, I just had

and boiled eggs for breakfast, now they’ll never be the same again for chorizo me.”

And the two male students from that maritime school were giggling as if they were enjoying something that they’re not supposed to.

While the rest of the working class passengers seemed like they were probably not aware or interested in what was going on; they were just in a hurry to go home.