WARHOL ::: Don't Be Hatin'

There was a contest on the MTV Mobbed (TV program commissioned by Motorola) blogs a couple of weeks ago for best response to the topic "Tell us the ONE thing you love most about your country and why." Well, guess what? I won. Below is the post.

The happy people. Ask any expat who keeps coming back to the Philippines and you'll get this answer. Filipinos are fun, creative, laid back, loving, happy and VJ Max knows this first hand.

Happiness. It's the one thing that sets us apart from the rest. It's not that we're blissfully lumbering around like deadbeats while the rest of us starve. It's mainly because Filipinos have a unique way of looking at life that makes it stress-free.

We know how to have fun regardless of how little we have. Sure, we're lagging in economics but we do our best every day to get better. What feeds this resiliency is our inate love for life. We take things one day at a time. Being happy demonstrates what Filipinos value most--over financial statistics, GDP, gratuitous flak from other national leaders...heck, even natural calamities. Where else can you see a woman smiling at the news cameras as she was being carried out from her house that was washed away by flood? Certainly not in New Orleans.

That last part was not a dis, OK? Just an illustration of the contrasts.

So they're supposed to give me any cd of my choice as prize but how're they gonna do that when they haven't contacted me yet? I was thinking I should make it a little more challenging for their lazy asses. Any ideas?