Stay, Stray, Play and Feast: SM City Naga's Grand Christmas Parade: Naga City Christmas 2013 Series 2

SM City's Grand Magical Christmas Parade

Gone is the Grandeur & the Magic has Ceased

(Naga City Christmas 2013 Series 2)

SM City Naga’s Grand Magical Christmas Parade

is becoming an annual Christmas tradition in Naga City,
and my family got to witness their 2012 edition

and I raved about it in my blog a year ago.

So we came early to SM City Naga to watch this

year’s 2013 Grand Magical Christmas Parade,

…and found the mall decked in one of the most

beautiful and pompous Christmas displays in the city.

There is no doubt about it, SM City Naga

is the most modern and definitely, the

most beautiful mall in the Bicol Region,

…with or without the Christmas decorations.

Then the most anticipated parade began with

the usual parade of colors and banners.

It was then followed by a fake Marching Band,

that did nothing but pretend to be playing

musical instruments and pathetically danced

with the music blasting in the mall’s sound system.

This phony marching band was a big turn off.

If SM wants their parade to be grand,

then put a real grand marching band on it.

What’s a parade without a real marching band?

This dismal display of mediocrity of con artists

posing as musicians dampened the grandness

of what supposed to be a grand parade.

This was followed
by Frosty the Snowman.

…and his Golden Stars Court.

Then came a Red Nosed Reindeer

mascot whom I presume was Rudolf.

After the counterfeit marching band, came a group of young girls dressed in

colorful ball gowns and cheap looking multicolored wigs matching their gowns,

I initially thought that this was a group of transvestites, pretending to be
princesses but my daughter caught my attention while I was writing this
blog saying ‘those are real girls, Papa and even I know some of them’

When I zoomed the photos in my computer screen, I realized
that they were young girls alright.I was watching at the second
level of the mall and my aging eyes are starting to betray me.

Then came the Christmas Fairies and were also

dressed in candy colored fairy costumes,

…and they were followed by
the Gingerbread Man.

Penultimately were
the Elves and Gnomes,

...and lastly, it was Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus waving and
sending flying kisses to the crowd. When it was over, the kids
looked up on us and exclaimed. “Is it finished? That was it? “