Earlier last month, Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago treated her fans and followers all over social media (to date, there are over 2 million likers on her Facebook page, and 930 thousand followers on her Twitter account), to a question-and-answer portion called #MiriamMondays. The interaction is also known as another hashatag #AskMiriamAnything.
Say, it appeared more than just either
a Formspring or Ask.fm forum, aye?
In lieu with her announcement on
September 10, yours truly was one of the numerous (can't really tell
if hundreds or thousands or even ten thousands responded to her news)
people who hit back at the senator by asking some questions. It doesn't
really matter how many you had in mind. As far as I recall, I have
tweeted three queries.
The first version of #AskMiriamAnything (the alternate hashtag for #MiriamMondays)
was posted Sept. 22, or just merely two Mondays ago as of this
writing (and perhaps, three as of publishing time). And the next came
Sept. 29, or just this past Monday.
To be honestm I never expect she will
answer back considering: first, my questions were seemed to be
generic to deal with a public personality like her, or to any other politicians in general. Let's face it: you heard questions like “Who's
the greatest president we never had?” Hey, some media reports
already interviewed certain personalities with that question.
Yes, I'm surprised things happened
right away after having numerous notifications on my Twitter profile, and
some of my Facebook friends actually noticed that thing first before
I do. Upon checking on Tuesday, I received several timeline review
posts tagging my name with the said timeline photo.
How about her stepping down to
supposedly being an International Criminal Court (ICC) judge? I know,
it might be stale either considering that the lady Ilongga senator
had done the movement months ago (or even years, forgive me for being
“outdated”).
As much as I want to shut my mouth and
refrain my fingers from tweeting, I can't help but to ask. Maybe I’m
just too selfish to crave for information and save myself from any
possible signs of ignorance brought by our mainstream media and the
society as a whole.
But heck, it's #AskMiriamAnything
anyway, it's like a no-holds-barred wrestling match where everything
goes. Meaning, users like me, you and even everyone who's reading
this post with you (in other words, nakiki-comsat, este, usisero),
can actually ask any kind of questions no matter how silly they
really are in an intellectual's mindset.
And it just so happened that me,
alongside Atheena Mae were the users got involved last Sept. 29. Of
course, the third question, coming from here tackled moving on. And
to be frank, Santiago's answer was a very straight-forward one. Very
well-needed considering we have a lot of romantics and emotional
human beings in this country (after all, who among us did not
experienced relationships, or even love for somebody from the
opposite sex alone, right?) especially with the advent of technology
we had.
As expected, it was a sellout like
hotcakes, and not a biggie much. Though if you ask me about the low points, it's not the Q-&-A itself, and not even the general
reception from the cyber public.
Well, who's to diss on this? One
certain oh, sorry, popular news portal which kept my name into
anonymity. Yes, despite having two questions answered. It's like, are
these news researchers lazy enough to scout or verify names? Of
course some may berate about my identity but I can only understand
your argument if and only if you know that this is my pseudonym in
the cyberspace. Pen de nome, or alias, as they call it.
It just proved how mainstream can make
everyone dumb. No freakin' wonder. They're all for shallowness.
If there are something worthy to notice
are from the likes of Coconut Manila, Bubblews, and even the Snitch
Network. They tell the story without much words, but at least,
acknowledging you both. In other words, fairness in giving any piece
of credits, especially if due and deserving. Maybe because the title
post tackled only “how to move on” while in fact it's even
misleading.
Okay, quit the ranting part.
Overall, I think that was the
most-balanced Q&A post I have ever seen from Sen. Miriam,
considering the first ones were perhaps more elite-appealing.
Well, we wish for more #MiriamMondays
to come. 'Cause the public needs to know, as the defunct Infopop
segment says.
Author: slickmaster | ©2014 september
twenty-eight productions
Good on you! I know a lot of people who would just keep their questions to themselves because they're scared that people will berate them.
ReplyDeletenow i have to look for threads about this *curious*. Sen. Santiago usually gives witty answer. I am curious to know if someone asked her about her mental state coz some people would tend to call her lukring or at least how she felt when people refer to her as such...
ReplyDeleteThat's too bad. I agree with the parts you dissed, it's like they didn't have the energy to dig a little. Congrats on getting responses on your questions though.
ReplyDeleteMiriam's actually the only one left "sane" in the senate
ReplyDeleteSenator Miriam is a "puzzlement" ( a word from "The King and I"). She seems so sensible and sane. But sometimes she can go into a tirade which people find crazy. I wish she can make reforms happen for our country. - Fred
ReplyDeleteMiriam is really a person who I idolized. might share this
ReplyDeleteGood observations. I do like Sen. Miriam. :)
ReplyDeleteNo doubt about it, Miriam is very witty. And she's probably one of the few honest politicians we have. It is just a pity she never became a president.
ReplyDeleteGreat that We can pick what's inside Sen. Miriam Santiago's brain by answering those strange questions from strange people in social media..:)
ReplyDeleteShe knows everything as they say, and you don't have to be 'engulfed' with the news. She needs people to uplift her standards, I mean as advertisement.
ReplyDeleteIf she will run for President, I will surely vote for her.
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