TSUNAMI # 1

Well, a personal wave of tsunami came tumbling through my week and it really caught me off guard. It must be one of my work hazards as a media person but it was my first time to ever meet an opportunistang bading.

My beautiful EP called me up one fine day telling me that someone called in the office and tried to threaten our show. This guy said he would expose us in GMA (our rival network) because of the following accusations of which was directly pointed at me:

1. I dropped them of somewhere and they got lost

2. Bastos daw ako

Now, being a blogger, this is my shining moment to defend myself in an invisible court of hallucinations cast by some bading of the block.

1. I did not drop them off somewhere because they were the ones who chose not to drop them off in their place since it will take long. and how could they be lost, it was just a block away from their home. They were the ones who instructed my driver to drop them off that fucking bend so that means they know that friggin place. And now they tell me they got lost in their own place.

2. I am capable of being bastos in extreme situations. i know that. But i know that i was not bastos with him. They were the ones who tried to make me an uto-uto by demanding that i give them extra 1000 pesos. After giving that homosexual my personal money of 500 pesos fare to fetch his mom in Pampanga, now he wants another 1000 because they have no money to leave sa probinsya. Ateng, alam ko mukha akong uto-uto pero di ako tanga.

Oh and He didn't fetch his mom as we agreed but he fetched his Tita instead. He knew that I needed his Mom's story and that was the whole point of me trying to give them money and even offering to fetch them in Pampanga. He didn't even brief his Tita that she was to appear on TV and retell their supposed abusive past. I found out from true blue Pampanguenos living in Manila that the fare going back and forth costs around 300-400 for 2 people. I asked the boy to keep the trip ticket so i can have it reimbursed, he said he forgot about the ticket and tried to act by telling me that he was so tired in the bus and was so worried about his Mom and things were kinda crazy. Honey, you are talking to an actor here. You were trying to act. It wasn't a performance level. Ergo: di ako tanga.

The wonderful things a callused lipped bading can plot just to have money and be on TV at the same time. That's a double jeopardy. I cannot believe I could be threatened like that to ruin my name. Me, in an expose segment, as if im a corrupt congressman. I can almost imagine myself in a hidden camera set-up with Mike enriquez's booming voice.  

They've had their supposed 15 minutes of fame. I' ve had 10 minutes of fuming madness.

I prayed to God for 30 minutes just to block all the curses i made to someone who was just victimized by the hallucination that is television.

Amen.