Generation Why ohh Why Delilah!

A lot of things happened to me in the past days, I’ve been wanting to write something for this blog but my time (err, more like my mood) won’t permit me. Lemme start with this tiny feeling of admiration that I’m feeling for someone I met recently. I’ve always been attracted to writers / artists/ profound men and God has once again introduced me to an interesting guy. It’s not like I WILL FALL, but it’s just nice to wake up again with this giggly feeling that I might talk to him again during the day. Too early to talk about him, let’s move to something more “academic”…

Last Wednesday, I went to the Generation Why3 at the Ateneo De Manila University and tried to be a part of a group of young people trying to make a difference. As usual, my greatest concern was what should I wear, coz I was thinking that if we wanna make a change, I’d rather do it with fashion. Haha.. so, I decided to wear my red off-shoulder top, pink skirt with diagonal stripes and my pink mules. I was with my friend Bon, who was equally stunning in his own ensemble.

When we arrived, I was in a way disappointed because it seemed like only the speakers and the organizers are dressed for the part. I was glad that Tim Yap came ‘coz it gave me the reason to flaunt my fashion sense,haha.. I know, you might think that the students who came didn’t attend the conference with a fashion show in mind, but they could’ve at least exerted some effort right? They would wanna represent their own universities in style. But the bigger disappointment was the level of thinking displayed by some of the students who asked questions during the open forum...

Some where merely trying to show off by starting with.. “I know that… (blah,blah,blah)” and ends it with a, “ so, why (a question which is not in any way related to whatever the speaker talked about or something so shallow that anyone can deduce the fact that he just wanted to brag about something he knows)”. It was very disappointing because I didn’t see the point of trying to play the part of the intellectual with such lousy attempts. I’m no genius but at least I know when to ask the right questions. There were also those who wanted to play the part of the “activist” though it was obvious that they really have no idea what it takes to be a true-blue activist. It’s not just about opposing whoever is in power, it has to be opposition with the right reasons to back it up.

In the end, I had fun during the conference plus I had my own share of the limelight. I asked a question during the latter part of the conference ( I wanted everyone to know that someone from the UP School of Economics was there, harhar) about the Digital Divide and the Knowledge-driven economy, it was actually impromptu because the question I really wanted to ask was about the characteristics of the call center industry with respect to it not really solving the country’s problem of unemployment in a long term kind of way. Unfortunately, the person I wanted to ask left so I had to device a new question ( I didn’t wanna go back to my seat since I was already standing on the aisle and I was next). Besides the fact that the photographer took some pictures of me ( I hope to see it in Inquirer! Hehe), I was actually quoted by the closing speaker of the conference, Mr. Michael Tan from the UP Anthropology department. I was overwhelmed, because when he mentioned my name, almost everyone looked at me. Dyahe. Haha.. then, someone approached me and started to ask me a lot of funny questions. Hanep, sikat! Haha..