The moronization of Philippine TV is an established fact – one need not go into details. But when someone whom you think at least carries some semblance of the effects of higher learning proclaim on national television an absurdity that even a slum book-toting second grader can point out, you’d be just plain depressed at the nadir in which Philippine TV has fallen in.
This morning, on the creatively named ABS-CBN morning show Magandang Umaga Bayan, a reporter on the field was interviewing an entrepreneur who set up a shop devoted to scrapbook-making. Everything you need to craft a scrapbook – colored paper, assorted decorative frills, scissors, glue, even empty scrapbooks – can be had from the businessperson’s shop. Along comes Tintin Bersola, one of the hosts of MUB, asking if busy people like her can just pay the shop to make her a scrapbook of her own.
Bear in mind that that was aired on a Monday morning, that single time of the week which is abhorred by perhaps 99 percent of people with daytime jobs. You’re desperately trying to drag your deadened carcass off to the shower, and then you hear something on TV that is outright stupid. The word irritation, a kind word at this point, comes to mind.
First off, making a scrapbook is a hobby, which is basically something that you enjoy doing. As Mr. Canaveral, my first-year high school English teacher put it, a hobby is something you can’t do without. (That’s why eating and sleeping can’t be considered as hobbies, contrary to what some schoolgirls like to indicate in their slum books.) You have a hobby because it fills some emptiness inside of you and that emptiness is something you want to fill yourself. Not being able to leaves a gaping hole in your psyche.
The same thing is at work when it comes to scrapbooks. You totally miss the point of scrapbook-making in particular and hobbies in general when you ask – no, pay – others to do it for you. Not to mention the sense of fulfillment that goes with the sight of a completed project. And it’s more satisfying to say “I made this” than “I paid for this”.
You say you don’t have the time to attend to a hobby personally? The solution is simple: Don’t start one. Not doing it keeps you from insulting true hobbyists, the hobby itself and yourself. You also don't make a fool out of yourself in paying someone to do it for you.
Anyone would think that sensible media personalities, in spite of the rampaging idiocy of the idiot box, have at least the sense to know what a hobby is. Apparently, such is not the case in the Philippines, where moronization reigns supreme. As evidenced by the everyday Juan dela Cruz, who gets his daily dose of information from the likes of Bersola et al, sense is not a particularly strong suit among Filipinos.
This morning, on the creatively named ABS-CBN morning show Magandang Umaga Bayan, a reporter on the field was interviewing an entrepreneur who set up a shop devoted to scrapbook-making. Everything you need to craft a scrapbook – colored paper, assorted decorative frills, scissors, glue, even empty scrapbooks – can be had from the businessperson’s shop. Along comes Tintin Bersola, one of the hosts of MUB, asking if busy people like her can just pay the shop to make her a scrapbook of her own.
Bear in mind that that was aired on a Monday morning, that single time of the week which is abhorred by perhaps 99 percent of people with daytime jobs. You’re desperately trying to drag your deadened carcass off to the shower, and then you hear something on TV that is outright stupid. The word irritation, a kind word at this point, comes to mind.
First off, making a scrapbook is a hobby, which is basically something that you enjoy doing. As Mr. Canaveral, my first-year high school English teacher put it, a hobby is something you can’t do without. (That’s why eating and sleeping can’t be considered as hobbies, contrary to what some schoolgirls like to indicate in their slum books.) You have a hobby because it fills some emptiness inside of you and that emptiness is something you want to fill yourself. Not being able to leaves a gaping hole in your psyche.
The same thing is at work when it comes to scrapbooks. You totally miss the point of scrapbook-making in particular and hobbies in general when you ask – no, pay – others to do it for you. Not to mention the sense of fulfillment that goes with the sight of a completed project. And it’s more satisfying to say “I made this” than “I paid for this”.
You say you don’t have the time to attend to a hobby personally? The solution is simple: Don’t start one. Not doing it keeps you from insulting true hobbyists, the hobby itself and yourself. You also don't make a fool out of yourself in paying someone to do it for you.
Anyone would think that sensible media personalities, in spite of the rampaging idiocy of the idiot box, have at least the sense to know what a hobby is. Apparently, such is not the case in the Philippines, where moronization reigns supreme. As evidenced by the everyday Juan dela Cruz, who gets his daily dose of information from the likes of Bersola et al, sense is not a particularly strong suit among Filipinos.
