ok lang yon, mga tech glitches that i should look at which is why i make it a point to answer every comment, kaso minsan sandamakal kaya i am not able to check as much as i could and i know na pag di ko sinagot mga comments, nag ta-tantrum yong iba!

You are sorry. Apology accepted. If I sounded a bit pissed, it was merely because I felt I was not asked. Pero okay na ako…and thank you for seeing my point, too.

Have a good day, dear!

This is going to be in today’s Manila Bastard paper hitting the streets.

we said all our piece and I respect every opinion you laid (pertaining to ed particularly), but let us be reminded that this is not our blog. This is my good friend’s blog.

sana konting hinay hinay tayo coz i feel it will end up in a bitter argument. Respeto sa reyna… kakahiya naman kasi.

Hindi lang sya naimik because she wants all of us to be free with our expression pero siguro when evrything is said and done at hindi natin mareconcile ang views natin, I think we should at least respect the owner of the blog.

Just an unsolicited advice from a friend. No intention of getting into an arguement. let’s just respect Reynaelena.com which is supposed to be home for fun and laughter.

Peace all!

You impress me. Kung marami kang mga lahing napatalsik sa kanilang posisyon dahil sa inalipusta ang ating lahing Pilipino, pano mo ginawa yon?

Kasama ba yon sa work contract ng mga workers diyan sa kinalalagyan mo yung kapag inalipusta nila ang lahing Pilipino, they lose their positions?

Are you with the UN…pero ang alam ko kasi sa UN, di naman puedeng gawin yang sinasabi mo? Sa International Court? Wala din akong alam na nangyayaring ganyan.

I wonder what your job is that you can have people lose their job positions simply on the basis of a slur on the Filipino race? You really must be weilding such awesome powerfs in your job!

You mention na sana nagtagal si Malu sa Greece para nakatikim ng litson ang mga tiga-riyan? I presume you allude to Malu’s weight…I do notice she isn’t on the lean side. In fact you use the term “baboy” to refer to this…sa Pilipinas kasi, ganyan nga ang mga salitang naririnig ko. You are angry with Malu, I can see that, too.

Do me a favour. I respect it that ” palagi mong iniaangat ang ating pagka-Filipino” diyan sa kung saan ka man naroon. Please, I am a Filipino and I am proud I am but I prefer to fight my own fight. You do it your way, and I do it mine, yes?

Seemingly, you did not notice the quotation marks I used. I was quoting the person I was writing to. Clear up your confusion first before you take me on.

tas sabi mo ulit:”However, I refuse to understand ” sobrang baba na nga ang tingin mo sa sarili mo, discriminated ka pa sa ibang lahi, dinedegrade ka ng kapwa mo Pinoy.”

eto pa: “I work. Whether it be a local job or an overseas job, guarranteed yon na may boss na mapang-api, may maltratuhan in many forms na magaganap.”

pwede paki-review ulit nung sinabi mo? Alin ang hindi mo naiintindihan?

Ang sunog, habang maliit pa eh inaapula na! Hindi na dapat palakihin! Kung pababayaan sya (Malu) sa posisyon nya, eh baka ma-promote pa yan! At hindi mo alam kung ano ang susunod na isusulat nyan!

Ako dito sa bansang aking kinalalagyan, palagi kong inaangat ang ATING pagka-Filipino, pag meron sa “king nang-alipusta na ibang lahi, right away eh makakatikim sya! Ginagawa ko hindi para sa aking sarili lamang, kundi para sa lahat ng Filipino! (marami-rami na rin ang ibang lahing aking napatalsik sa kanilang mga posisyon, pero pag hindi kinya ng aking power…ako ang talsik, hehehehe)

Ikaw na lang ang sasagutin ko. Kasi yung isang reaction, halos gaya din ng sa iyo.

It is true what you say – we OFWs (yes, I am one, too) work away from home, from our loved ones.

I work away from my family most time of the year. Yung I miss them, I miss certain foods of home, I miss family developments and events, pysical and emotional exhaustion, etc. I go through that as any normal family person does.

However, I refuse to understand ” sobrang baba na nga ang tingin mo sa sarili mo, discriminated ka pa sa ibang lahi, dinedegrade ka ng kapwa mo Pinoy.”

I am a highly-prized worker in another country. OFWs, among other types of people have this blessing, something that some people in the country I work in cannot claim. My work foreign superiors have a high regard for me as a worker primarily because I am a Filipino. OFW ka, Filipino ka, huwag mong maliitin ang sarili mo!

Discriminated ako ng ibang lahi? I do not feel that way. It is true, there are those who look down on me, who may even consider me a lesser human (kung meron mang ganun). If they look down on me, it is their smallness, not mine. If they practice racial discrimination, that is their smallmindedness, not mine.

This goes for my own countrymen who degrade me. If they think they are more human than I am, let them labour under that impression. I have no intentions of disproving them. I know who I am…magkaka-iba tayo ng skills, ng economic circumstances pero it doesn’t mean na lamang ako ng iba pagdating sa pagkatao ko.

Malu F can write what she wants…blog format or newspaper column format. I read and understand…kung totoo ang sinasabi niya, I will agree. Kundi naman, eh di tahimik lang ako. I do not have to prove anything to Malu F. We both know our rights. The printed word is for reading…be it for one reader or for the world.

I work. Whether it be a local job or an overseas job, guarranteed yon na may boss na mapang-api, may maltratuhan in many forms na magaganap. Ang maltrato sa katulong , nangyayari din sa Pilipinas. Minsan, mas masahol pa sa nagaganap sa Middle East. Slaves and masters are acknowledged even in religions…and both are also admonished and adviced.

The missing of loved ones because one works miles away is a given pag one chooses to work as an OFW. It is unfair to factor that in when you read the columns of Malu Fs…it muddles the issues.

Ang pagkakamali ni Malu, though karapatan din naman niya, nag-resign siya sa trabaho niya. She apologized. Now she should raise her journalism a notch she’s become more aware of her weakness as a writer. Resigning deprives us of her development as a journalist…it’s her lose as well as ours.

Ed

actually everything is true on what she wrote both on her side and on the side of the OFWs. But waht’s bothersome about it is the sensitivities of the people. Yes its nothing new anymore considering that we also encounter it on a daily basis from people around us. Pero syempre pare iba yung sinulat at nabasa ng lahat kesa sa iilang tao na nagsabi sayo o sinabihan mo.

the big deal about this issue is its social relevance. Do you know the feeling of going home from work in a foreign country, coming home without your mom cooking your fave dish or you wife kissing you as you enter the door or perhaps your kids who removes all your stress and exhaustion just upon seeing them smile at you… walang ganon sa OFW. ang punto debista pare, malayo ka na nga sa pamilya mo, sobrang baba na nga ng tingin mo sa sarili, minamaltrato ka pa ng mga amo mo, and discriminated kapa sa ibang lahi, tapos idedegrade ka pa ng kapwa mo pinoy na in the final analysis wala ka namang magagawa bilang isang OFW dahil kailangn mo kumita ng pera para lang mabuhay ka at pamilya mo.

if that is not a big deal, comparedto a newly sliced lemon squeezed at your gangrenous wounds, e ewan ko na. siguro nga walang nasabi si malu-ang na masama. at siguro nga dapat we should slice our wrist just to shedd off from our skin the truth of being Pinoy and OFW at the same time.

God Bless.

About being “elitista” how is this proven and how is it detrimental to, for instance, a reader? Yung idea na detrimental ang gusto kong i-focus kasi that’s how I sense you want to tackle it…correct me if I am wrong

Kasi whether we like it or not, society is always layered so di maiwasan yung may elitista, meron hindi…I may not agree with either layers pero ganun kasi yon…in fact I notice this layering in almost any organization and I’m sure you notice this pehonomenon, too