Screwed

I’ve been staying up late since yesterday following a blog that’s been creating waves in the Internet. It’s a blog created by an Australian named Brian Gorrell who apparently was the former lover of a certain Filipino guy. I don’t know who the hell this person is, but from what I gathered from the blog, he is allegedly an unsuccesful restauranteur, a social climber, writer for the Philippine Star (which I don’t read) and who allegedly swindled $70,000 dollars from Brian, who is, by the way, HIV-positive. Allegedly involved in this infamous mayhem is a Filipnia socialite, who I barely remember. I’m sure people from the upper echeleons of Manila society and Embassy-trotting kids know them but if you’re from the government-legal-suburban -middle class world where I belong, you just raise your brow and shrug "Who the hell?". 

But the blog is akin Gossip Girl, only this is real, very real.  And like the typical Filipino, I can’t help but make "usisyoso", finding myself entertained by this tell-all blog.  Talk about airing dirty linen in cyberspace. Reading the blog is so irresistible.  It’s like taking a glimpse of Manila’s high society only to find out that they’re very much fucked up. Come to think of it, describing them as part of "high society" is very apt because allegedly they’re always "high" on coccaine and from the looks of it, so "high" on themselves too.  My favorite entry thus far is the one about how Brian always treats the ex-lover to lunch at Fridays.  Fridays is quite expensive ha, but when Brian suggested to go to Andok’s or Inasal, DJ refused, saying "He can’t be seen there". WHATTHEFUCKIN"HELL! Makes me want to laugh at all that superiority complex for an utter nobody.  

But seriously, if all what the blog is saying is true, then it just confirms that money can’t really buy happiness, decency or good breeding. It also teaches us a lesson that even the so-called stylish people can be swindlers and complete airheads. That wealth does not necessarily make you a better human being.  

It’s 2:00 am, still awake and trying to access the site for updates.  Tsk. Blogspot is down. I want more of this minor scandal (it’s not big as the NBN-ZTE) and the juicy infamy that goes with it.  It makes me a little thankful really, since after all, even if I’m quite poor by their standards…

I’m not as screwed  as they are.