MERGED: Manila Standard's Malu Fernandez unpleasant article of OFW's

[potterboy]

“I forget that the hub was in Dubai and the majority of OFWs were stationed there. The duty-free shop was overrun with Filipino workers selling cell phones and perfume. I wanted to slash my wrist at the thought of being trapped in a plane with all of them,” she wrote.


“I had resigned myself to being trapped like a sardine with all these OFWs smelling of AXE and Charlie cologne while my Jo Malone evaporated into thin air,” Fernandez said.


mao mani highlights sa iyang gipanuwat. hehehehe...

[Velvett]

as a reader, i cant look at it and just get angry, coz nothing will happen. if all of us will seek the truth in what she writes, dump the "lies" and better ourselves, then we can be more productive. but if we just flap our jaws and sweat about it, it will just be any other article that hurt us or make us mad. eventually all this sensation will die to make room for new issues.

reality check. the irresponsible writer has resigned and apologized publicly. if there's anyone who needs to better herself/himself, it's Malu Fernandez. now she's a good example to those who don't get it yet.

in seeking the truth, you read between the lines. you don't limit yourself to "axe cologne" and "noisy kababayans on the plane". oh yes, you see and feel BIGOTRY and CLASSISM with an article.

i would say the "jaw flapping" was all worth it.

[bisaya70]

reality check. the irresponsible writer has resigned and apologized publicly. if there's anyone who needs to better herself/himself, it's Malu Fernandez. now she's a good example to those who don't get it yet.

in seeking the truth, you read between the lines. you don't limit yourself to "axe cologne" and "noisy kababayans on the plane". oh yes, you see and feel BIGOTRY and CLASSISM with an article.

i would say the "jaw flapping" was all worth it.

whatever u say

mam velvett please dont waste ur time getting upset with my entry--it is not worth it. i am not sure what u are talking about, but like i wrote "it takes a while for govt tasks to get done--based on my experience"--that is what i agree with what she wrote, again like i said i only reacted to the one article that was written before this thread was merged. i have to pick and choose my battles for there will always be people like that. now since i have read about the OFW part, my reaction is just "oh well, she is just some rich snob, she should have gotten the business class ticket, good for her and i am glad she got stuck with some situation she hated, serves her right for acting like the OFWs are beneath her". mostly i dig deeper and ask (this is the part the makes me mad and give me a stroke sometimes, hehehe!!)--should we not get mad to all the corruption that sent me and thousands of filipinos abroad, that crams the planes that this writer hated? that is how i look at things (please note the" I") and that how i analyze things---you see miss velvett, I am one of those people she finds repulsive--I cram the plane!! but i will not give her the benefit of my anger, instead i will pick the the things she wrote that will better me. as for her resignation, i am sure thousands will be happy--i am--but did it better the "more important issues she talked about?--like the govt services being slow for example"-- nope. We're back to square one, heheheh, peace

[Velvett]

whatever u say

different opinions make for an interesting discussion. cool.

[yokam]

@bisaya70:

By reading between the lines, we all know what she meant, it's clear. What causes a lot of commotion around here is on how the way she presented it. There's a lot of articles circulating about the dismal situation the Philippines are in now, the corruption in the governement, or even the lazy habits Pinoys have, yet most of it were written and presented in a "professional" or should we say, not in a degrading manner. What Malu Fernandez wrote was demeaning, she's says it's humor, everybody says it's an insult. Now is that right? Her end won't justify her means. No matter how she justifies, what is done is done, she never took into consideration the middle classed Pinoys and OFWs. As what I have been posting around here, as a writer, she should know the line between an insult and a humor. Clearly what she wrote was not funny.

Whatever her purpose was for the article, it's overlooked because of her approach.

[Velvett]

mam velvett please dont waste ur time getting upset with my entry--it is not worth it. i am not sure what u are talking about, but like i wrote "it takes a while for govt tasks to get done--based on my experience"--that is what i agree with what she wrote, again like i said i only reacted to the one article that was written before this thread was merged. i have to pick and choose my battles for there will always be people like that. now since i have read about the OFW part, my reaction is just "oh well, she is just some rich snob, she should have gotten the business class ticket, good for her and i am glad she got stuck with some situation she hated, serves her right for acting like the OFWs are beneath her". mostly i dig deeper and ask (this is the part the makes me mad and give me a stroke sometimes, hehehe!!)--should we not get mad to all the corruption that sent me and thousands of filipinos abroad, that crams the planes that this writer hated? that is how i look at things (please note the" I") and that how i analyze things---you see miss velvett, I am one of those people she finds repulsive--I cram the plane!! but i will not give her the benefit of my anger, instead i will pick the the things she wrote that will better me. as for her resignation, i am sure thousands will be happy--i am--but did it better the "more important issues she talked about?--like the govt services being slow for example"-- nope. We're back to square one, heheheh, peace

ey this is just an exchange of thoughts here. don't worry too much.

[kazuya]

I only read the article posted in this thread, i find it true that it takes a while to do a task sa government, whether it happens selectively or everywhere, i cant tell u. but it does happen. I have no idea what kind of a person or a writer she is, nor do i care. i read what she wrote and found truth based on my experience alone, not anybody else. hurtful? sure, but true? yes!! to all?....probably not. i am not here to pick a fight with anybody. I wrote my comment objectively, peace.

as a reader, i cant look at it and just get angry, coz nothing will happen. if all of us will seek the truth in what she writes, dump the "lies" and better ourselves, then we can be more productive. but if we just flap our jaws and sweat about it, it will just be any other article that hurt us or make us mad. eventually all this sensation will die to make room for new issues.

why are u talking about our gov'ts flaws? we know that already.. what made us furious is how she presented her articles... she was nothing short of a bully... the way she wrote it whether there was a tinge of truth or not was not the point....

[bisaya70]

why are u talking about our gov'ts flaws? we know that already.. what made us furious is how she presented her articles... she was nothing short of a bully... the way she wrote it whether there was a tinge of truth or not was not the point....

bai kalma lang bai, i interpret the article my way, and u interpret it ur way. i will talk about it how i want to. but one thing i think we can agree it the lack of tact but i still stand my point, that i picked that part of what she told was true. basaha lag usab bai

[kazuya]

ai... wa man ko nasuko hehe... sige sige ako basahon ha... saonz... mao pud lahi2x lang jud tag pagsabot jud...

[yagit]

kalma lng mo woi....hehehe expalining or giving opinion doesnt mean nasuko... kng naa mu comment sa isa ka opinion doesnt mean nasuko sd.. ma claro mn nang suko ky daghan exclamation point....hehehe or nangisulto b rn....

anyway, from the article of connie veneracion regarding malu's article.... i like the way she points out to where the humor ends and the insult begins. mka reflect mn sd ta ani hehehe...but still i think malu's article is not funny at all! and her apology is way too good... maayo jd cguro iya lawyer.. sa iya pgka tactless cya ra sd ng camang karn og apologize...