In the middle of our review (read: cramming) sessions for the exam next week, I can't help but take a quick break and share my thoughts about this issue that had taken the globe(oh yeah!) by storm. I won't add to the myriad of expletives and insults that had been said to her, she deserved each and every one of those and maybe more. Hny and I were talking and I told him that her President should do something about this, maybe declare her as persona non-grata and boot her out of the Philippines. If the government truly sees the OFWs as modern-day heroes, it shouldn't go easy on imbeciles trying to be cool by defaming its heroes. Obviously, she wasn't thinking when she wrote that crap. Didn't she know that the Philippines would have been long wiped out of the map without the OFWs remittances? Ignorance is a total bitch, isn't it Malu?
Maybe it's true that all Malu Fernandez wanted was to show off her "acerbic wit," and in doing so, incidentally ended her career and worse, got forever branded as "walang kapwa-tao" which if I remember my Psychology 108 (Sikolohiyang Pilipino/Filipino Psychology) class right, is the worst kind of label one could ever get in the Filipino society. Which leads me to the final point I want to drive at courtesy of the fine movie hny and I had finished watching just now (V for Vendetta): "You can kill a wo/man, but you can never kill an idea." And Malu's story just shows how potent and life-changing an idea really is, however brilliant or sickeningly stupid it is.
Got this from peyups.com, it's Malu's friendster profile, her friends names and photos blurred/covered up for the sake of saving them from further humiliation.
Guess who has 11 friends in friendster?
Sometimes, we have to learn our lessons the hard way.
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