From Reel to Real

(photo: blogphilippines.com)

It was a day after Claudine and Raymart, both reared by showbiz families, punched the hell out of a fifty-something Mon Tulfo when I checked-in NAIA 3. I wondered why the airport personnel became a bit strict than the usual... I was uninformed how the two products of showbiz made a scene inside the terminal as if Pablo Santiago is filming an FPJ flick while sister Gretchen cajoling the younger sis to "fight for her rights" by slapping, clawing and shouting obscenities to an old man.

During the press conference that followed, Raymart insisted that his parents did not teach him to hurt elders but he said that it was because Tulfo kicked Claudine first. He had to protect his wife... (by beating him up?). Claudine then showed her legs with an alleged clot caused by Tulfo's kick. Some netizens claimed it was only mud but we could not know...

I don't have anything against the couple but I started to question their rationalities when they filed Child Abuse case to Tulfo. What about the time when Claudine badmouthed the Cebu Pacific personnel while her children were present? Isn't this the root of all the brouhaha? Could this also be a cause for the "trauma" they're insisting that the children are experiencing? A child could be traumatized seeing her mother treat another human being like a "lesser person"!

Yeah Tulfo could be wrong as well. He overheard a commotion near the baggage counter. He saw it was Claudine. His journalistic instinct prompted him to snap some pictures. One element of a news is Prominence. This scene could be news since an award-winning actress is doing something newsworthy. He heard the words and felt empathy for the employee being badmouthed. His anger simmered due to the words he heard especially the time when the actress said that the personnel could be kicked-out of her job due to the actress's connections! Then, the couple got distracted when they saw someone taking pictures. The negative energy was rerouted to the journalist. Negative x plus negative x equals NEGATIVE 2x...He kicked the couple who "thought they own the world" as they approached him with all the high-pitched questions!

Then, that You Tube video...

The thing to annoy me is Claudine's actions when she punched the face of Tulfo while Raymart held him on the neck. Even if a friend already tried to stop Claudine, she continued being ballistic! I'm a bit uninformed about her education. All I remember is her photos donning beautiful clothes by top designers; her being photographed by top photographers and her gracing the covers of expensive magazines... Then we saw her doing those things.

Someone told me it was mother's instinct. The luggage was not with them and there were medicines in the bags. But could we still count her rampage "mother's instinct" where in fact that was another case?

We could all be wrong here. We need to see more videos when the action all started.

Then, I would understand how it feels to be a has-been.