Even when read backwards, “Bukas Nang Pag-asa” (Hope is now open) as Hotel Supreme opened another chapter for an opportunity to keep the faith, it’s still hopeful. As it should be, amidst uncertainties, hope is what we’re holding on to. Thus, “Pag-asa Ng Bukas” (Hope Of Tomorrow) is yet what keeps the light bright enough till hereafter. And in the middle of it literally and figuratively, in “Pag-asa Ng Bayan”, the ‘Ng’ family of Hotel Supreme is lighting it up… Currently taking center stage is Hotel Supreme’s “Christmas Tree of Hope.”
Quite the sign in SIGNificance, other than a sign to move forward, it’s appreciably for the very basic as to the center of all hope, the ‘Supreme Hope’. Through Him, whom all the graces from our aspirations were founded are yet achievable. Basically so, there’s no better way to brighten the essence of hope than going back to the fundamentals of its purpose. Hotel Supreme’s Christmas tree’s simplicity and modesty may be inferior in comparison to the lavishness and grandeur of other notable Christmas trees but not in the magnanimity of the positive message it is conveying. Socially sensitive, Hotel Supreme rather willed a more down-to-earth Christmas tree and its lighting ceremony. True enough, their “Light Brightens, Hope Enlightens” event presented “tomorrow” as something to look forward to as they lit up hope.
And similarly as basic as light’s predecessor, it was also symbolic of a passing of the torch kind of occasion. Meaningfully, the opening prayer resonated through the angels’ voices of “mga apo NG may-ari” (Mr Ng’s grandchildren). They’re Hotel Supreme’s 3rd generation… Much like a “future feature, a picture of hope”, it corresponded with the hotel’s 3rd building’s harmonious echoing of hope with its community correlations. They’re taught early on. They didn’t just sing, they carried a tune for a melodious collaboration.
And true to that societal interdependence, in the middle of it and now at the helm is Hotel Supreme’s middle generation headed by Jeff Ng. He ensures that the ‘middle management’ lives up to balancing their well-rooted tree of aspiration branching into the realization of those hopes and dreams beyond their own. As part of the celebration, the Ng family, in their own little way, gifted a few individuals with noche buena baskets much like a wish for a fulfilling communal subsistence; a basket of hope while the tree of hope itself illuminates. Befittingly, Hotel Supreme’s first ever Christmas Tree of Hope lighting event was indeed a bright manifestation of not just what is to be anniversarized but more so, what is yet to be shared, whereas, we have to keep the faith and remain hopeful.
