The 30th edition of the Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) the county is hosting that started last November 30 reached its halfway mark on Friday and by the looks of things, host Philippines is on the way to clinching its second overall championship it first won 14 years ago in 2005.
After five days of hostilities, the Filipino athletes, who their detractors diagnosed as ill-prepared and incapable of vaulting back from the sixth place grave their predecessors dug themselves in in the 29th staging of the biennial meet in Kuala Lumpur, started like a house on fire digging 23 gold medals in Day 1 to catapult themselves up at the top of the standings they never relinquished since.