A Grave Mistake
IF YOU were to promote a nutrition campaign would you consider commisioning Angelica Jones and Megastar impersonator Ate Shawie?
INREDIBLE. Angelica Jones Promoting Good Nutrition to students in Alabel, Sarangani Province
In fairness to these two personalities, they are good at their craft — making people laugh. However, I think that the National Nutrition Council made a grave mistake, choosing these two to promote the Accelerated Hunger Mitigation Program.
This is not an attack on the two personalities but a criticism on the manner of entertaining the students who were asked to attend the program.
Last Thursday, January 29, 2008, all our students were asked to go the Municipal Gymnasium in Alabel, Sarangani Province to attend the program regarding the nutrition program of the national government.
The letter stated that we have to be at the venue by 1:00 PM as they will start at exactly 1:30 PM. And we were there at the stated time. Angelica Jones and Ate Shawie arrived at about half past two. They had a motorcade, so the program started a few minutes past three. Not a good example to follow.
Ate Shawie (Marvin de Leon) came out first with games. As early as the first two minutes of his/her speech, my ears already rang with his/her foul language. (Okay, let’s refer to her as her)
She facilitated the Bring Me game. Okay, it fine. Wholesome. But not the second thing that she asked. She then asked, “Sino ang makakapagdala ng gwapong lalake na magpapakilala sa akin?” (Who could bring a handsome guy in front who will introduce himself to me?)
Packed with pupils and students from Grade Four to Fourth Year, the gymnasium turned into a comedy bar, where comedians throw foul jokes. I found it obscene. What she did could be acceptable if the audience were different. He even proposed a kiss to the guy. In front of the kids.
Wearing skimpy attire, Angelica Jones then performed a sexy song-and-dance number, which was far from entertaining. She just mumbled the words. She delivered a speech that was far from convincing.
It could not have been the fault of the artists as it is band of comedy. But they could have been avoided if the artists were given proper orientation and reminders that they are performing for students.
The blame, in other words, in on the organizers.
This is call to the National Nutrition Council. What kind of values are you promoting? Is that how you promote good nutrition? Our student body organization can do better than that.
I and my co-teachers, and even our students, agree that all of it was a waste of time and money. It was worse than not having a nutrition program at all.
They did show episodes of the Busog Lusog TV Program hosted by Tin-Tin Bersola-Babao on ABS-CBN but those things are already taught in schools.
Their veggie-mascots, who happened to have stage fright, were not much of a help, too.
The problem of hunger and malnutrition in the country is a serious one. It cannot be solved by making people laugh or making them angry.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Man, that’s bad.
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January 31st, 2009 at 4:44 pm
ulk…sue the organizers of the show. :-/ what they were thinking?
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January 31st, 2009 at 10:02 pm
she’s pale, doesn’t look like she’s into good health either, or is she? That Angelica Jons is not fit to promote health foods, ugh!
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ayel Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:43 am
@sheng, haha. that made me laugh, sheng!
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February 1st, 2009 at 2:54 am
@cors, and they are doing it in other pRovinces, too! Probably, ours is the last one they have visited.
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February 1st, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Total crap. I wouldn’t listen to them,not even my mom. They’re not that convincing kasi. They, the organizers, would’ve made the program more helpful if they chose someone who is like, a mother or a doctor or someone like them, in which people would think that he/she can be trusted on matters like these.
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Ayel Reply:
February 1st, 2009 at 12:25 pm
@jes, did they stop by gensan, too? I really don’t understand why the organizers chose them
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February 2nd, 2009 at 2:17 am
waaat! maxadong far out talaga ha. Isa pa may elementary students tapos ganun ang promotion may halong malisya.. very bad! well, it was the oraganizers fault, agree ako dun. haaay! I hope next time they’ll do good in organizing a campaign.
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ayel Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:44 am
@rammyboi, buti ka pa you’re still hoping that they’ll do better next time. gud luck na lang sa kanila. hehe
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February 5th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
That was desolately substandard. My, i hope next time, they can do better than that. That surely was not an excellent example to demonstrate to a room-filled crowd of intelligent students. They just made fun of their selves, perhaps. I pity them, really.
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ayel Reply:
February 5th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
@xiao, knw wat? They had an0ther perf0rmance in gensan.
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xiao Reply:
February 7th, 2009 at 5:28 am
@ayel,
Where??
I hope they’ll do better than their last performance..T_T..
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April 25th, 2009 at 7:07 am
wow, what’s happening to our system?
They should have gotten artists who are credible enough to talk about the topic. . .
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