FOR YOUR GUIDANCE MALU, we of certain socioeconomic background are not stupid people. We don’t lack common sense. We may not have been fully educated or graduated at the best school but we can read anything thicker than a magazine hence we didn’t find your article funny at all. It’s not because we didn’t understand that we are angry, it’s because we can distinguish crudeness from decency. You have blatantly marginalized us. Isn’t it the responsibility of every respectable and prudent human being to continually bridge the gap between people- rich and poor, educated and not? It’s not for the politicians alone to do. We sure hope never to get the culture of the elitist world you’re living in. But see, I am not so exact of which elite class you belong to because a true elite group of this day and age enjoying distinguished intellectual, social or economic status have breeding and grace and are mostly involved in philanthropic work. You are an embarassment if you claim to be a part of them.
I’ve read some of your works from the newspaper online. What a waste of my time but in order to address you, I have to get to know how you think. Your writings are mediocre at best. They say that you are what you write. Your writings are part of you and it shows your character. After reading your articles, I can pretty much size you up- no pun intended. I therefore conclude that you are insignificant, frivolous, status seeker who constantly has to name-drop just to show that you live a so-called fierce and fabulous life. There is a stark distinction between a "sosyal" and "pa-sosyal" person; and "nakakataas kilay" and nakaka-relate ako" in one’s writings. Flaunting it to be honest is quite a bit, pathetic and irritating. How ignorant of you to say that you are writing for a certain target audience in a newspaper named Manila Standard and in a magazine called People? People Magazine is a celebrity and human interest magazine. It talks about people from all walks of life. Its readers cross gender and socioeconomic standard, so does the newspaper. What are you doing in such a medium where people of different background read it?!
The article in the bone of contention is entitled "From Boracay To Greece". I didn’t get it. I have been to Boracay. It is one of the country’s best island known for its blindingly white and powdery sand beaches. The first time I went, I didn’t have the best of accomodations but I had the best of time and all you could talk about was the algae collecting on your adidas all-terrain. Of course you had to point out that you refuse to wear your Havaianas under such condtion. I don’t recall such a need to disinfect my whole surroundings with baygon and lysol so much that it would have nearly killed me either. And then you lament on your tragedy flying economy class being packed like sardines with OFWs and be disgusted by it as though they carry the plague.
I envied you for seeing Greece. You walked into ancient Greece, stepping into the greatest of all architechtural works. How exciting to be where the the finest of writings in literature was born such as the Greek Methology! You were in Athens, home of the most admired thinkers- Plato, Aristotle and Socrates and the dramatists- Euripides and Sophocles. I expected some exciting triumph in your writings, to be able to touch history. Instead, you mentioned about shopping and eating at a food chain. You did mention Parthenon and the Acropolis, "climbing every step in my gold, open-toed sandals". "After a whole day of sight-seeing I decided I have had enough of the historical sites," you continued on. You have just seen one of the the most beautiful, historical-rich countries of all, a country that practically molded western civilization and all you could muster was you have had enough of it and that you ended up shopping some more for the rest of your stay.
Sigh. You wasted the entire spread on YOU! You talked about your shallow self in the 2-paged article and you titled it ‘From Boracay To Greece’! And you actually believe, that makes you fierce and fabulous?! I have nothing more to say. I rest my case.
