A Scandalous Letter For Rodrigo Duterte About Enlightenment From Bisaya Short Films

Dear Rodrigo Duterte:

Hi. Remember me? I'm the guy who made you The Duterte Experience documentary. I did that in the rawest, non-DSLR video quality because although DSLR shots are good, there should be a more eco-friendly way to produce good work that delivers the essence of the video's message without wasting Internet Bandwidth. 

High-resolution videos could be the reason why the Internet Situation here in the Philippines is bad. Maybe it's our unimportant videos from Christmas Parties that are draining our limited internet data? Unless you're just bragging, do we need to see all your large file size photos of your Hongkong trip when everyone who has one peso can go to Hongkong now? Do you agree, Duterte?

Chapter 1: Transport Fuel

Speaking of saving energy's resources in our path to Subtractive Progress, where we deduct things in our life to become better, what do you think about the attempt of this fuel company called Total promoting Safe Motorcycle Driving? Is that pretentious, which I learned is your favorite word? Is that just a marketing trick out to people the way you sometimes market yourself as Honest, Unpretentious and Ready-To-Kill? What is your stand on Traditional Dirty Oil versus More Costly But More Sustainable Clean Energy, by the way?

Bisaya Short Films presents Piolo Pascual Lookalike From Total

Anyway, the Bisaya Short Films Force interviewed the Executives (including the one who looks like Piolo Pascual; see photo in left) behind Total's new products and they were all excited about how they're expanding here in Cebu.

It's their first time to join the annual Motorbike Convention held in Plaza Independencia this weekend, and they gave away Powerbanks, and were generous enough to give away freebies that are literally useful for Filipinos in the Tropical Climate, e.g. folding fans, UV-rays-protection Arm Warmers.

For more info of Total Oil's complete product, so you can be part of the Vigilant Team to monitor how the France-based company is behaving in our motherland, click HERE. Thanks, Duterte.

In the bigger perspective, I don't know if the multinational oil companies'presence is good for your general vision of the Philippines because diba, Duterte, you said in the Bisaya Short Film above that we're so kawawa as Filipinos because we were enslaved by Spain for 300 years? Total is from France, so what will you do to prevent this history to repeat?

Perhaps we can help prevent history to repeat by watching a Piolo Pascual movie? You know, the one where he plays Simoun, a character in Jose Rizal's El Filibusterismo. Not the one where he sings with Sarah.

Oh by the way, the next time you're here in Mactan to do a campaign, you can just get food delivered to your Headquarters and save Earth's energy and gasoline by getting one FoodPanda motorbike to deliver you some good food, instead of using two cars to transport your people to a resto. Foodpanda is now in Mactan, with 30 stores in.

But don't forget, Duterte, to pick the food that's not filled with transfats, hydrogenated vegetable oil and aspartame because those will poison the supposedly enlightened Duterte Workforce that will bring eternal change.


Chapter 2: Food Ethics

How can you, Digong, expect the rest of us to change when you don't try to change your bad food diet first? I'll wager the next messiah that the reason we're all sick and corrupt is because we eat and drink too much junk. 

But thats just me, a person who was saved by ego-detachment modules from Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now, novels of J.D. Salinger and James Salter, and non-fiction work of Sarah Silverman, Tina Fey, Tim Kreider, Jenna Lawson and David Foster Wallace.

After the Foodpanda meal, you can go to SM Seaside and eat desserts at Room For Desserts; their Cotton Candy-wrapped Ice Cream is said to be half the price of that in Milk Cow. Will you go taste it for us The Rest of The Filipinos, Digong, and tell me if it's worth spending my money that I worked hard for and the money that I shouldn't be just spending on food that doesn't nourish me to become a person worthy of your leadership? 

Speaking of money worth spent, how many times have you seen Lav Diaz' 8-hour movie Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis, a movie no one who doesn't like German Expressionism should watch? You should watch it because you like torture.

Love,

Richard Abad
bisayawriter(at)gmail(dot)com