Flabby Racist

please... for the last time, don't mistake me for korean. i know sometimes it's supposed to be a compliment (considering colonial mentality prices high on filipino society) but there comes a point when mistaking someone for another race simply signifies ignorance of hybrid culture plus ignorance to recognize a compatriot...

i was in shakey's a while ago buying dinner when a big fat lady approached me and told me "hello??" (with arms flailing...) "could you please move to somewhere else coz we need this table..." apparently she brought her whole family of fat-flabs and she wants me to give them space. well at first i was more than happy to move since i didnt want their family day be destroyed, but the fat girl whispered under her nose "dapat sinesegrate ang mga resto dito eh, ung mga koreano sa labas na lang..."

wow. the nerve.

it was obvious that she was a bit of a patriotic slab, but the racism??? in defense to the koreans, they rank higher in terms of political correctness compared to americans or the europeans even to us! and there's nothing really much to hate about them. but what bugs me more is that she didn't even care if i was just a korean looking pinoy half-breed or whatever, she just blurted out, not knowing that i am more tagalog than she is...

i didn't have the courage to bite back, coz she has her army of big flabby teletubbies in tow, so i just left the restaurant after i got my to-go pack.

sometimes filipinos tend to cross the line. and they hurt their fellow filipinos in doing so.

...

i was in multiply a while ago, and i read a post from one of my best buddies in town. it says: "confessions of a metrosexual" and it's about him going out to the public proclaiming that he's a metrosexual. he even recounts a number of things that makes him one. it says there he has like 2 kikoy kits full with stuff i don't even know exists... he has lip balm, tongue cleaners, body lotions, lip gloss, etc. he has an arsenal of moisturizers, from facials to hand to body moisturizers.. man. it's crazy.

this is all due to powerful media. what with david beckham and marcus schenkenberg and brad pitt... hay. soon there'll be a legion of metrosexuals and all woman vanity will be reduced to dust.

but im not judging. it's just that i can't find the way to appreciate uber-vanity just yet.

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