Chicken Little singing "I am the Champion" (according to Nauval from Singapore, a narcissist version of "We are the Champion") under a spotlight made from a torchlight put on his bed is an appropriate analogy of the recently concluded 25th Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines where our country emerged overall champions for the first time since joining the games more than twenty years ago and amidst the backdrop of a limping Philippine economy, the specter of terrorist attacks and grandstand politciking of our leaders.