Why, Conrado, did you say this: “Cory may have spoken with an inflection that little varied, but it was enough to make the prostitutes of Mabini Street freeze in their tracks and dream of a better life when they heard it.” Let me guess (and I mean guess) why. One, you mean to be literary (speech figure use). Prostitutes constituted wretchedness and the worst of them found hope in Cory. Two, Cory was so compelling even those whom we assume to be indifferent found Cory worth listening to. And three, why, we were
there (somewhere in Mabini) during those times when you and I were younger? Maybe we do have many things in common.
Ingming Aberia, Tacloban City, via e-mail
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:16 am
de quiros is as quick in crucifying erap and gloria for corruption and malgovernance as in crowning cory as a leader with magical tongue that even the prostitutes in mabini will be consumed by its vision of a better philippines. well, the economic and political elite during her tenure regained what has been taken away by marcos and our country has not changed positively and in fact getting worse.
prostituted filipinos? well, de quiros is not after all different from the rest of us, prostituted filipinos. the sting of his pen has become irrelevant when he starts using it for convenience.
November 22nd, 2008 at 1:21 am
“Most Pinoys Feel Worst off - Poll by Pulse Asia”
I think the above poll by Pulse Asia doesn’t make sense. Do they expect a better economy than previous one prior to successive oil price hikes by OPEC and the present economic meltdown experienced worldwide? We can say this poll is purely political in nature to give in order to give wrong information to the public that GMA’s Administration is totally to blame for the present economic downturn happened in our country. This is the kind of news that is not worth to read and a waste of time to even glance at it.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
He (de Quiros) probably meant it to be literary although it can be said there were those kind of women who were among the million of people at EDSA I. Yeah, a million people, chanting Cory’s name. That’s how enigmatic and relevant Cory’s persona was…those years ago.
November 21st, 2008 at 9:41 am
Normally there would be always a red light district nearby a camp. Subic base has the Olongapo honkytonks. Clark has Angeles, Malacanan, then under the US governor and his guards had Mabini that doubled up to serve the port area. So whats the dope about Cory and the prostitutes and Conrado?
November 20th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Hopelessness is the better term instead of wretchedness.