"...mojos (that's mobile journalists like you and me)..."
Anyway, as a recently-self-realized mojo, I bring you this week's Saturday Soliloquy, hot off the.. er, Madarang residence's narra table (Note: that's where I read the Saturday paper).
1. What would actually happen if I texted/called the number, 0908-893-3333? Yes, that's the number on billboards, print ads and TV ads that begs AXE men to call her, or it? I don't quite get what the logic behind this whole campaign is. Is it just a scam to get people..uh, no, scratch that, AXE men texting and calling that number? Because at the bottom of the ad, it says: *Standard telecom rates apply ...and so on and so forth. Tsk, tsk.
2. CamSur, the new tourist destination spot? "Boo ya, Boracay" is what Camarines Sur, or more fab-ly called 'CamSur', seems to say to that place that is becoming to be a thing of the past. CamSur, aside from hosting six Survivor series (French, Israeli, Bulgarian etc versions), "may soon be the Ironman capital of the Philippines" said writer, Tanya T. Lara. I'm not into triathlons but I think this is a good thing. Promoting the place as more than a tourist destination is certainly a refreshing idea (a la Batanes' brand of tourism).
3. I've heard of, and seen the effects of different types, kinds and classes of racial discriminations--from Burma to Africa to America--but I haven't heard of gypsy discrimination until today.
"Roma, or gypsies, are a nomadic ethnic group believed to have their roots in the Indian subcontinent. They live mostly in southern and eastern Europe, but hundreds of thousands have migrated west over the past few decades in search of jobs and better living conditions."
Thanks to Madonna (who condemned widespread discrimination against Roma at her concert in Bucharest) I learned of such prejudice against gypsies that is continuing to exist across Eastern Europe. The Associated Press article further said:
"...Roma probably suffer more humiliation and endure more discrimination than any other people group in the continent. Sometimes it can be deadly..."
Radu Montoc, an official with the Soros Foundation Romania, said, "There is generally widespread resentment against gypsies in Eastern Europe. They have historically been an underdog." Hmm, smells like a historical-Oscar-winning film plot. If a film brings the issue out into the open, to enlighten more minds about this gypsy prejudice, why not? I'm sure the Roma will appreciate all the help and support they can get considering Eastern Europe is not actually small.
4. A girl going to school (or maybe, going home from school) gets abducted, vanishes for years--sometimes decades--resurfaces as a grown woman with kids--usually with the abductor as the father, and claims to live a perfectly normal life. If you've read Alice Sebold's wonderfully-crafted, and heart-warming novel, Lovely Bones, you're familiar with this plot. But, truth be told, this "plot" actually happens in real life--in the US mostly. Recently, Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was abducted 18 years ago when she was 11 by Phillip Garrido (now 58) on her way to school in South Lake Tahoe California, was reunited with her family--her mother, her sister and another relative. Garrido was said to have kept Dugard and their two kids (she became a mother at the tender age of 14) in tents in the backyars of this Antioch (also ni California) home.
Bakit uso ang kinikidnap sa US? Kidnappings in the US differ from those that happen here in the Philippines in terms of motive. Kidnappers in the Philippines aim for the ransom while kidnappers in the US aim for.. uh, the sexual gratification. Tsk, tsk. I hate to say this but.. maybe my professor was right when he said "malilibog ang mga Amerikano." Yes, sir, I'm starting to think you're right.
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