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To those with a fast eye, you know as much as I do that there is no such thing as a PICKPOCKER. I was browsing through the photos taken during the Camiguin trip (by the way, I have been feeling extremely lazy for the past few days, so it might just take a few more days, maybe years, before I could get to write about the trip), and I came upon this. Whoever took this, or when it was taken, I am no wiser, but I certainly found it funny.

Which reminds me. I have been blog-hopping lately, and I found this hilarious blog. The blog is supposedly owned by a Romblon-born and raised maid, who, like any other maid, managed to find themselves in the arms of rich employers in the city. Her name is Chona Mae Banaag (”Chona for sure” ). Her blog has been nothing like I’ve ever read before. It’s humor is relentlessly merciless - death comes instantly to those who know not how to breath in between long bursts of laughter. The comments were equally interesting.

Here’s the link to her page : CHONA IN THE CITY

By reading the comments, one would realize that people really do not think alike. People expressed certain hatred for the blog saying so many things that do not even impose an important or meaningful idea (to me, at the very least). Well, here’s what I think.

The blog is a good way of making people place themselves in the shoes of their housemaids. Let’s face it: a lot of Filipinos work as housemaids - both within and outside of the country. And being who they are, they are not to be blamed if they did not receive the best of what education has to offer, and if it shows. But they are to be blamed if they did not make the best out of life even if they were shortchanged on a few things. Chona’s blog is a humorous point-of-view of something that many a luckier person would consider as an unfortunate event. Chona (she be real or otherwise), embodies a person with great gusto for living and a faith like no other. I see in her the things I like most about my countrymen, thus the attachment. She is as human as any of us could ever get (and maybe even more), despite her losing end.

To meet Chona Mae Banaag, Chona for sure, click HERE

This is Vikki Fe Albino y Doromal signing off…

…Oh, and by the way… That’s Andie, for sure.