The Truth About The Globe Media Excellence Awards 2015
You want to be somebody. You want to be somebody without pretension. You can become somebody by reading all of James Salter novels and imitate his prose so you can write your trashier, uglier and more successful version of Fifty Shades of Grey. But you can't do that.
Or you can use your friends, and start a pyramid scam, so you get rich quick, or at least quick enough to fool your friends that your success means you're better than them.
Or you can just be true to yourself, and be a prostitute in the government.
Prostitute your values, and start selling your votes, so you get rich and famous so fast, they need to put you in jail.
But you want to be the kind of somebody that isn't phony, that is true, that's not just a ctrl+v of the ctrl+c of your parents' idea of you.
How can you be that?
THE SOLUTION: START A BLOG
Last Saturday was The Globe Media Excellence Awards (GMEA) at the Grand Convention Center and The Bisaya Short Films force was there to probably get material to write about for the next short film project with Lav Diaz, hopefully.
The GMEA is the Oscars of Cebu, and like the Oscars, anybody who's somebody knows about it. Did you know about it?
The GMEA is the Oscars of Cebu, and like the Oscars, anybody who's somebody knows about it. Did you know about it?
Anyway, one award was for Blogger of The Year won by Ms. Gladys Reyes, who we suspect is an enemy of Juday. Yes, an award was given to someone for being a blogger. Anyone can be a blogger. Heck, that journalist interviewing Gen. Luna in Jerrold Tarog's Heneral Luna was a Spanish-times version of a blogger. And because a blogger is where you're truest to yourself, it's where you can be most authentic.
If you blog about Aldub vs Pastillas Girl, or if you blog about the death of depth because of the shallowness Lea Salonga accused Aldub was promoting, then you're one step closer to an award. You can even blog about your cat's favorite movies, good luck with that. Anything, everything, anything as long as you care. When you do, others will. And when others start caring about you, then what does that make you?
A somebody.
