Qouting the famous Melanie Marquez’ line: Don’t judge my brother, he’s not a book: i still believe that one should not be judged by physical apperances and one’s way of dressing in particular.
You just never know, even the grease-man posing as mentally derailed beggar could even be a spy working for the intelligence group or something. So I never care much about how one should be dressed, although I always had to dress for the occasion. Nothing fancy but just right. So when I first came home 2 months ago, since I’m not going to report to any office but just need to sit in a net cafe in town, i didn’t bother dressing up.
So i just go daily in my shorts or old blue jeans, plain shirt and slippers. But then I noticed that people don’t bother taking a second look when I’m inquiring at bank or window shopping cellphones. Perhaps I look like I cannot afford a 3G phone or do not have enough money to open a new banck account so the salesperson or bank employee always looks short of shooing me out and calling the guards.
Anyway, I really don’t care but these people are taking this thing a little too far. So I’ve been dressing up lately, like I’m going to the office or something. Still plain though and not flashy like one OFW-japayuki looking woman i met in the jeepney yesterday. All 6 of her fingers each has a ring, her neck wearing a 3 inch thick necklace and her ears has three pierces therefore three pairs of earrings too.
It’s not that I don’t have jewelries. I just don’t wear them all at once but one at time depending on my mood. But then wearing them all doesn’t look good either, it doesn’t earn you the deserved respect. So I’m still plain old me, I might have colored my hair red recently but I can never be as flashy as that. He he.
June 21st, 2006 at 12:32 pm
stereotypes are quite a hassle in terms of social relations.
judgments based on how one looks is very superficial. based on my own experience, i get a lot of raised eyebrows when i tell them that i’m a punk-rocker who works in governance. why? because of punk’s anti-authoritarian image, its a bit difficult to digest the idea of a punk in social work.
June 23rd, 2006 at 9:31 am
that’s what i learned in LB. Yung mga mayaman and professionals dun, you can never tell sa porma nila.
June 23rd, 2006 at 10:34 pm
I am a very judgmental person. However, I do not judge people based on what they are wearing but more on what comes out of their month.
June 23rd, 2006 at 11:11 pm
hi, glo… there is one officemate who dresses in style, palaging nasa uso. what is ridiculous is when asked to buy a P15 peso pancit, ang sabi niya mahal, and the pancit is packed in a styrofoam, complete with sahog. gusto yata e P5 peso na lang itinda ang pancit
they look at other people as so baduy and yet, when asked to explain something, alang masabi. clad in signature clothes, but empty ang utak.
July 11th, 2006 at 12:24 pm
Maybe your officemate spent nearly a thousand pesos (almost $18) for those stupid Havaianas, which is nothing more than a pair of flip-flops. That’s why he couldn’t afford about 30 cents for pancit.