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how lucky of me to be infected with the cold by my good seatmate jeck. yipee.
i spent the whole day watching coffee prince, sleeping, uploading (super duper late)pictures and drowning myself with salabat. i feel terrible... i don't want to memorize article 6 and i don't want to do my poster... crap. my entry is starting to become a rant entry again...
i had a talk with an acquaintance... he's a foreigner and somehow our conversation turned somewhat serious. he told me that our environment, our country is "free" or liberal (our topic was homosexuality) i couldn't really understand what exactly he was trying to say because he had a different accent and he seems to be struggling to search for the right words since he wasn't that good in english but i think i understood him... when he was done speaking, i just smiled and nodded at him... but in truth, i wanted to tell him that it was just a facade. that our country is not that liberal as he thinks it is because we are still bound by the old traditions and prejudices in our society. just because we have a corrupt, plastic, power-hungry female president doesn't mean filipinas are not discriminated in the work place, battered by their husbands, and toyed by men... just because many gay people are coming out of their closets doesn't mean they're not harassed by their egoistic father and uncles... i didn't tell him that not because i wanted him to think highly of the Philippines, but because there was a part of me who wanted to believe. but i guess i wasn't just fooling him, i was fooling myself... and this really feels stupid.
i spent the whole day watching coffee prince, sleeping, uploading (super duper late)pictures and drowning myself with salabat. i feel terrible... i don't want to memorize article 6 and i don't want to do my poster... crap. my entry is starting to become a rant entry again...
i had a talk with an acquaintance... he's a foreigner and somehow our conversation turned somewhat serious. he told me that our environment, our country is "free" or liberal (our topic was homosexuality) i couldn't really understand what exactly he was trying to say because he had a different accent and he seems to be struggling to search for the right words since he wasn't that good in english but i think i understood him... when he was done speaking, i just smiled and nodded at him... but in truth, i wanted to tell him that it was just a facade. that our country is not that liberal as he thinks it is because we are still bound by the old traditions and prejudices in our society. just because we have a corrupt, plastic, power-hungry female president doesn't mean filipinas are not discriminated in the work place, battered by their husbands, and toyed by men... just because many gay people are coming out of their closets doesn't mean they're not harassed by their egoistic father and uncles... i didn't tell him that not because i wanted him to think highly of the Philippines, but because there was a part of me who wanted to believe. but i guess i wasn't just fooling him, i was fooling myself... and this really feels stupid.