“Thar she blows again!”
I was alerted to this article by a post in the Pedestrian Observer. Seems like the chronicler of OFW fashion and fragrance is now dipping her hoof in sociology and punditry.
She wrote:
Perhaps it is the Filipino culture to foster backstabbing because they never mean what they say face to face. Just how many times have you dealt with co-workers who will smile in your face when you ask them to perform a task or engage in just plain conversation, when in fact they are quite uncomfortable with the situation and are forced to do what they absolutely detest with a smiling face. I guess it’s the kind of culture brought about by 300 years of Spanish colonization. To one particular blogger of Spanish descent but with an Indio face, don’t act like a peninsulares and quote Spanish words from the generation of your abuelita… jeez and they call me elitist. The Spanish rule is over, get over yourself and your Español relatives who used to have power… but I digress (oops, my bad…) Let’s move forward.
It’s just like all this hullabaloo about ousting GMA. You deposed ERAP in Edsa Dos. Now you’re unhappy with his replacement. Make up your minds. (For the record I’m not pro anybody I’m pro whatever lesser evil is out there). You can’t overthrow one president then decide you made a mistake with your second choice. I’s not like buying a green Hermes bag and suddenly deciding, oops I should have gotten the black one instead. Unfortunately that’s the kind of nation we have become, a bunch of wishy-washy whiners who whine about everything under the sun and found the blog sphere to be the new medium for whining. Yes we do what we have to do as a nation to get things done and stop corruption and evil (I’m all for that) but we never seem to be happy with what we have, hence the complaining and whining. It just never stops.
Profound.
So I don’t understand why the chronicler is so humble about her intellect: “I’m always a glass half full kinda girl anyway…” is how she ends her column. (She couldn’t have been referring to her hourglass figure, could she?)
Anyway, there’s an old Pinoy saying about drinking that I’m going to quote because I don’t want the lady to think I’m one of those who pine for the return of Spanish colonials; I feel just as comfortable with affected Americanismos like “Let’s move forward.”
The saying, in the vernacular, goes like something this:
“Iwanan ang alak sa tiyan, huwag papuntahin sa ulo.”
The saying comes from experience. People who let drinks go their head get into trouble. They say things without thinking and they become offensive, like diarrhea.
I guess all I’m trying to say is the lady shouldn’t take xenecal and let it go to her head. Specially not when she is about to discourse on sociology and politics.
Anyway, the good news is diarrhea-stained apparel is not going to be a problem for xenecal users anymore. Thongs are going out of fashion.
Lingerie is going big again, big enough to hold adult diapers, those safety mechanisms that defeat the whole purpose of wearing thongs in the first place. Imagine strange bulges and no panty line. (Link on lingerie trends comes from Bambina, the wiser Wise.
Of course, the good news about adult diaper accommodating panties does no good for those who need to wear those diapers over their mouths. That’s the bad news.
Unless one wears a panty over her head too.
on March 13th, 2008 at 9:55 am
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on March 13th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Good heavens, Manuel, she does look very much like a mummy whale, doesn’t she?
on March 13th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Malu says: “But blogging, aside from Perez Hilton and the other big time bloggers (you know who you are) is for me a slacker job or a medium and pastime for lonely people to connect.”
Lol, so Perez Hilton is the blogger she admires?
Naknampucha naman oh.
on March 13th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Kris of the Nightdreamer had a nice way of dissing her:
http://nightdreamer.i.ph/blogs/nightdreamer/2008/03/12/acerbic-wits-extraordinaire-at-it-again/
Happy reading
on March 13th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
hmmm… maybe her “attention meter” is getting quite low… thus this new “malucious” commentary by her
on March 13th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Manuel, if you have a look at that Manila Standard page, there’s a link to another story called “Leading by a nose”. Thinking it was somehow about the Gucci Gang, I clicked on the link, only to realize it was about the launch of a new Axe cologne. A nice little bit of irony there - isn’t that supposed to be the favorite scent of the OFWs along with Charlie?
on March 13th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
bambina,
or was it some nasty staffer from standard making fun of her? Or maybe too much of the good stuff is making me paranoid?
on March 14th, 2008 at 2:07 am
I just love your sense of rumor este humor, lol throwing the thong and diapers into the picture got me laughing just imagining the imaginary diva in it. You should have used the image I posted at my blog for this entry……… oh but the drawback is it might totally gross out your readers, lol.
on March 14th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Saw that pic and it was hillarious.
on March 14th, 2008 at 5:07 am
This Malu Fernandez is so kadiri. She feels like she is some sort of aristocratic member but when in reality she is just a upper class social climber. Her so called English Literature Intellect probably comes from her self study of American tabloid writings. What kind of upper class Filipino man will marry such a woman. Yun beauty niya bagay sila ni Tony Boy Cojuangco.
on March 14th, 2008 at 7:27 am
KSP talaga! I suppose the MS is losing more money thus she needs to make some controversial article to improve its readership. Just imagine if MS closes down, she’ll be out of work. I am sure that no straight-thinking publication would ever hire her.
Want to know the real story behind this, look it up here. http://delfindjmontano.blogspot.com/.
on March 14th, 2008 at 9:13 am
There is one word that always come to mind whenever I hear from Malu Fernandez. Arriviste. It means a person who has recently acquired unaccustomed status, wealth, or success, esp. by dubious means and without earning concomitant esteem.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the real rich people shun from being with her.
on March 14th, 2008 at 9:23 am
This pork chop would just not keep quiet.
on March 14th, 2008 at 10:26 am
“I’s not like buying a green Hermes bag and suddenly deciding, oops I should have gotten the black one instead. ”
Why not…if the green Hermes bag morphed overnight into a butas-butas na tampipi? Kadiri, di ba?
“Unfortunately that’s the kind of nation we have become, a bunch of wishy-washy whiners who whine about everything under the sun and found the blog sphere to be the new medium for whining. Yes we do what we have to do as a nation to get things done and stop corruption and evil (I’m all for that) but we never seem to be happy with what we have, hence the complaining and whining. It just never stops.”
Hey, don’t knock whining. I’m all for whining, especially if it rewards you with column space in a crony newspaper.
on March 14th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Nightdreamer,
Malu is not a recian llegado naman. Her dad was a prominent doctor and they had a nice house in North Forbes and she and her siblings went to good private schools and they were members of Polo, I think.
In macroeconomic terms she belongs to the A class. However within the A class, her family was not exactly in the A class. They more or less second or third tier there. And that’s probably where the insecurity comes from.
What makes her look new rich is when flaunt her familiarity with name brands that people who grew up with a llittle money take for granted.
People with money and breeding will never say they will never be caught wearing Axe cologne or something like that because they don’t shop in places that sell those products. I mean those products don’t exist in their world. The most they would probably say is what is that strange smell? But then Malu flies economy so I guess she has to remind herself that she’s the prized heffer in the cattle car,
on March 16th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
That tub of lard is blabbing again?
I thought this was the Year of the Rat, not the Year of the Pig.