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[…] The Index: Bitter, Spiteful Snob (UPDATED!!) Si Consuela Swine Mentality: UPDATED Fierce and Fabulous Ingrata Still more on “La Diva Loca” More on The Diva or was it Di Na Bale (Never Mind) Malu Fernandez Matapobre Ba o Nagpapakatotoo lang? Matapobre Ba o Nagpapakatotoo lang? MAHADERANG MATAPOBRE SA OFWS Just another acerbic wit? Elitist Mindset in Action The Devil Wears Jo Malone Putting on the “Other’s” Shoes Malu Fernandez: The hate continues… Malu Fernandez’ Condescending Statements on OFWs The abominable snob-woman The Bigotry of Malu Fernandez and In Defense of the Filipino Migrant Workers Panawagan: Patalsikin, Boykotin On the Democracy of the Pinoy Blogosphere a.k.a Malu Fernandez, Take Your Cue Fire Malu Fernandez, Boycott Manila Standard, and People Asia Magazine I am Filipino and Proud to Be One! Malu Fernandez: What’s Economy Class? How To Piss Off Hardworking Filipinos And Pinoy Bloggers? YOU’RE BACON, BITCH!!! (or how the Pinoy Blog Community is frying up Malu Fernandez) Malu Fernandez - Persona Non Grata Dear Malu Fernandez Episode 18: Paglipas On Malu Fernandez: we have feelings too you know […]

@kuto: nyahahha, sakto!

a vermin deserves a better attention.

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ka G-A-G-A nya e!!!

ako pa nmn ‘yung tao na bati ng bati pag me nakikilala sa plane or sa bus or sa trike… dapat sa circle of friends na lang nya sinabi ung mga un na makakarelate at tumawa sa “joke” nya…

moks: long time no see ah! napamura ka pa tuloy hehe

OFW: sinabi mo pa

@airwind: social climber nga. name dropper pa.

@henry: tama. she should’ve just kept it to herself.

@marco: hehe, sakto! magsama nga sila ni tim yap mga leche un

nakakapangilabot balahibo pinagsasabi netung Malu’ng eto.

Ngayun pang ilan sa ating mga kababayang mga domestic helpers ang nakaranas ng mga kahindik hindik na panggagahasa ng mga arabo na kinunan pa ng cell video. Panu kaya natatanggap ng kanyang konsyensya ang magbungat ng ganung kataga sa likod ng paghihirap, pagpapakasakit at sakripisyo ng mga ordinaryong mga Pilipino OFW.

Panu kung naging katabi pa nya sa economy class itong mga biktimang mga DH natu, na sa palagay ko’y hindi na rin kanais nais ang mga amoy dahil nalimutan na nila pagalaga sa sarili dahil sa kanilang sinapit na karanasan.

Patawarin nawa sya, hindi nya alam kanyang ginagawa… amen

@yevah: ang nakakalungkot sa nangyari, alam nya ang pinanggagawa nya. at unrepentant pa din. at nagmamalaki pa.

@via: even if she were tho. mlq3 said it best on his blog e; cursi. pretentious.

Well look at it this way, Malu Fernandez is a “lifestyle” columnist writing for pretentious rags in the Philippines, I mean, how lame can she get? And she flew coach to save up on a few pesos.

Dahling, you flew coach! You can complain all you want…the bottom line is you’re no diffrent from the OFWs. We have our own private idea of hell…my kind of hell is being stuck with a bunch of snobs,like you, in coach! Oh and Jo Malone is sooo last season. Honey, the OFW’s are the ones keeping the economy afloat…shame on you.

change your nationality bitch!!!! you’re a disgrace to the Filipino people.

Malu Fernandez exemplifies the educated yet ignorant socioeconomic elites in our country. I have met many affluent filipinos and, although some of them share Malu’s sickening egoistic hegonism views, many of them are humble and down to earth.

This pathetic little excuse of human fecal is obviously demented. She hates herself so much (for possesing such beastly, disgusting, nauseating, odious, repugnant, repulsing, and revolting appearance . I know I just committed an Ad Hominem but, then again, Quid Pro Quo) that she takes instant gratification and self-fullfilment in putting people down.

Her opinions (she is entitle to one, of course) have not only offended the OFW’s, but it also offended the majority of the working class filipino people. It is sad to admit that there are people like this in our society… people who are heartless, myopic, ignorant, nefarious, rotten, infernal, and just down right despicable.

Instead of just minding her own business and live in her own little world of luxuries (there is nothing wrong with that), she had to let the world know how better she is, and her circle of friends, than the rest of us.

I would rather have a conversation with a poor yet hardworking pinoy than socialize with the likes of her.

Now, to personally attack the turd. Don’t you ever wonder why she is still single in her 40s? You would think that with all her wealth, she should at least be able to find a guy who would marry her for money. Could it be that even the poorest of all paupers cannot stomach of being with a Hag like her? It is something that makes you go… hmmmmm.

very very well said mr jorge cosgayon. finally, someone who addresses the real issue, not her corpulence.

I feel terribly sorry for such insensitive lines of Ms. Malu Fernandez “From Boracay to Greece”. If she writes for lifestyle section, I pray that such lifestyle of insensitivity must not be tolerated. She has to bear in mind that the OFWs kept this country going no matter what their smell is. While I admit that she speaks rather candidly, yet her lines were written rather contemptuously. It is such a pity that a newspaper section which should have been the window of finesse was made by Ms. Malu Fernandez as a platform of insensitivity, contempt and arrogance. Have we relegated finesse to rudeness? If higher society could be such, then what right do we have to expect better from the rest? Really ad nauseam.

I used to travel long haul from work site to work site, economy class; even if I hold gold membership to almost all of the airline alliances because I wanted to interact with other OFWs while in transit. My supervisees are all foreigners. I have expats from almost all continents reporting to me. I am the boss and I am Filipino. And mind you, all of my supervisees have distinctive smell, worst than the cheap cologne or maybe worst than the smell of Malu Fernandez’s expensive perfume. But come to think of it, no matter how expensive the perfume one wears, it does not, to the very least, add to his/her sense of humanity much less to finesse and decorum. Smell or no smell, I respect my staff, nationals and expats alike and I do not use smell as reference in writing their performance appraisals.

If we do not have sympathies with certain groups of people at least we should be constructive and engaging. Words do hurt; let us be responsible in dispensing them. Journalistic license is not an excuse for insensitivity and arrogance. Truth to be productive, should always be constructively articulated.

I am an OFW and I am proud of it. I may smell unpleasant to Malu Hernandez, but I am part of those who contribute billions of dollars to the Philippine economy every year to keep it going.

Salvador R. Caluyo Jr.
Programme Coordinator (tsunami response)
United Kingdom
jcaluyo@gmail.com

Poor woman. What was she thinking?

sana natuto ka na malu fernandez…….

You couldn’t have said it any better. Two points:

On acerbic wit and journalistic license: If I had called her fat that PAGASA mistakenly declared an eclipse after she walked by their telescopes and wrote it down in my newspaper column, would that save my soul from eternal damnation?

On the so-called elite: Does anything they do contribute to our nation’s economy? (Maxing out Daddy’s/Husband’s credit card at Louis Vuitton doesn’t count) When they receive their salaries (hahaha) bi-monthly, does that in any remote way affect the peso-dollar exchange rate?

If the answer is NO, then it is best to remember: If you don’t (or ahem, won’t) lift a perfectly manicured finger to make a difference, then shut up and leave those who do alone. They have enough on their minds without gits like you mouthing off about Jo Malone and flying coach.

DJB: i’m not a de quiros apologist (well, i don’t think so), but as offensive as his remarks may be to OFW’s, Malu Fernandez was offensive to me personally, for reasons I’ve stated. That, combined with the tone and source of the comments, put things in perspective. For some odd reason, a fashionista’s comments on me and mine are just simply more offensive, because I mean, really, where does she get off?