Dear Myrtle Gail Sarrosa,
I'm an expatriate living in the United Arab Emirates, 27 years old, and an unwed mother. I'm not even sure why I'm writing this message to you; you might even agree with me that I'm a little too old to be such a huge fan of a 17-year old lady like you in a show called PBB. Lest Laurenti Dyogi gets me wrong, let me make it clear that I am not a fan of Pinoy Big Brother.
Simply put, I am, instead, a huge fan of Myrtle Abigail Sarrosa.
I guess I am writing this message to you because we have a lot in common.
First off, I, too, studied and graduated from UP in Diliman campus. Like you, I excelled in school during my time. I was a student leader and was good at it.
Second, I can say that I am also an achiever in life. My former teachers used to call me a "born winner." I have had consistently displayed a pattern of excellence when I was your age. And I never had to brag about it. There are people around me such as my friends and my mentors who would go out their way to brag about my achievements and awards but never, never in my life had I felt any tinge of whims or caprices to brag anything about what I've achieved in my life. I am guessing that just like you, I just feel very comfortable under my own skin.
Our third common denominator is this: Most of the girls my age (when I was your age) do not like me. I did not know why. There were times when I would spend hours and hours thinking why I can't get the other girls to like me. I was not sure if they hated me. But one thing was certain: most of the girls do not like me. They have always talked behind my back for reasons that I did not know.
Fourth common denominator: Most of the boys like me. And the only boys who did not like me were either gay (like in your case, someone like Vice Ganda) or totally out of my league (like in your case, maybe someone like Roy).
Our fifth common denominator, which, by the way, was I think the ultimate reason why I'm spending my time writing this message to you is: Our BEING BULLIED for no apparent reason.
Sixth thing in common around us: The "bullies" who bully us are the people who are average... the average Joes... the plain Janes... the mediocre... the bunch of insecured, unintelligent people. The mediocre.
Myrtle, in your case, I hope you realize that Karen and Roy are not the ultimate bully. They are just "baby bully." They're just the tip of the iceberg.
In your case, Myrtle, there are a lot of many other bullies, the ultimate ones:
1. Laurenti Dyogi. - Myrtle, this person does not like you. And that's for sure. Period. You are not his pet inside the house. This person is now very busy thinking big of himself, feeling full of himself, thinking how genius he was to have created the BBE strategy to drag you down.
Myrtle, I hope you realize that both the BBS and BBE are set to give PBB and Dyogi a win-win situation. Both BBS and BBE mean money for them. A win-win situation meaning more money for them and not the Big Winner title for you. These are the two things they want: (1) More money for them & (2) not the Big Winner title for you. Two things... both in their favor. Win-win situation. For them.
You are their sacrificial lamb. Tin Patrimonio has been their milking cow last season, I hope you take a notice of that. The only difference is that Tin Patrimonio is not smart and skinny like you. They just cannot throw you the way they trashed Tin Patrimonio after Tin has given them money for the high vote rates she has garnered. But let me make it clear that I did not feel any remorse for what they have done to Tin simply because I think she's really not deserving; but this time, that I am seeing "their manipulative pattern" being done to you, I think I can't just let this pass. You are just too smart and too special to be treated like that.
Laurenti Dyogi maybe shrewd; maybe powerful in this one game. But it's okay Myrtle, for sure, Mr Dyogi also has a soul. We may not know as yet at this point what the good Lord would award Mr Dyogi's dishonest and unfair soul, but the Lord will perfectly know in his perfect time.
We all studied Hinduism in UP, didn't we? So what do we call it in History? Karma?
Exactly.
Laurenti Dyogi and PBB can play favourites in PBB. But we all know that Jesus plays the game of favouritism, too. Yes, Jesus does play favourites, too.
2. Toni Gonzaga. - The pretty PBB puppet. Myrtle, on this now very popular Facebook Fanpage wall of yours, I have read a comment of another one of your MANY avid fans which goes like this:
"Myrtle, pati so Toni Gonzaga insecure sayo! Ikaw na!"
True.
Dear Toni, Miss Pretty, I request that you closely watch (and watch again) your expressions and reactions during your interview with Myrtle during the last night's no holds barred episode. Toni, you tried to hold back your biases but you just can't get a control of them.
It was painful to watch that you could not even manage to let Myrtle speak a complete sentence before you cut her off. It was painful to watch not for Myrtle's side but for you, darling. You did not manage to control your biases against the 17-year old Myrtle who was consistently very honest during the interview.
Toni, what kind of answers did you want from Myrtle? Why did you not let her finish her sentences instead of cutting her off? And I thought you are one of the few hostesses in Phil showbiz who have integrity? What does Myrtle have, or what does Myrtle's presence exude which has caused you to be as obviously biased as you were during the interview?
Now I remember when Toni was a neophyte in ABS-CBN, a new face very fresh from GMA 7. She was the Toni who exuded a personality of a fighter. A survivor, a Toni who braved her way fighting all the bullies who came her way, trying to drag her down - including Joey De Leon of Eat Bulaga.
Toni used to be one of us then - BULLIED and BRUISED.
But now, Toni G. is beginning to become one and among the bad ones - the bullies, the insecure, the mediocre. And please allow me to reiterate the exact word - MEDIOCRE. And once more - Mediocre.
Toni, the pretty puppet of PBB, I've got two words for your ugly hosting the No Holds Barred episode of the PBB show tonight, here take this: Career Suicide.
You should know that Myrtle's fans are intelligent; do not underestimate them. Myrtle's fan base is a solid pool of educated people, the kind of audience who have learned and educated expectations.
Toni, we saw that your hosting of Myrtle's Q&A was ugly, bitter, insecured, irresponsible, unreasonbale, and most of all, not the Toni-style we used to know and admire.
Questioning why a growing up teenager whose passion is dressing up and putting on make up, and the question coming from Toni G. was painful to watch. Very disappointing, Toni. Your biases were showing from your crossed eyes and flaring from the tiny pair of your nostrils of your flat little nose.
Why ask Myrtle again and again why she likes putting on make-up? She already said it's her PASSION. It was like questioning a little girl why she breathes the air she, in the first place and naturally, is very free to breathe. It was like questioning a hopeful young lady why she dreams the kind of dreams she chooses to dream for herself.
I'm not telling you that I hate Toni now. What I hated was the way she threw questions at Myrtle. The way she tried very hard to destroy Myrtle's image on national TV in the eyes of her fellow youth. The way she consistently cut Myrtle off while she, in all her honesty, tries to answer in a good sport spirit.
If cosplaying is Myrtle's passion, so what's the big deal? The young lady is displaying a BURNING PASSION for this one thing she chooses for herself. And having passion at one thing than not having any passion at all, in itself, is what's important. Maybe even more important than Toni's self-proclaimed passion for hosting which, by the way, is now losing every integrity to her claim.
Not too late for you, Toni. Redeem yourself. Don't be too hard on Myrtle.
Admit it, Toni, you, yourself is a fan of Myrtle. You just have to admit it to get rid of the ugly power-tripping masquerade you now have going on inside yourself.
Toni said, "Ang hirap pala maging ikaw." Yes, Toni, Myrtle is way more intelligent than you are. Deal with it and leave the teenager alone. It is not her fault that she is not like everybody else.
3. Vice Ganda. - Myrtle, this person does not like you, as well. But we won't care about him. You are from UP and this guy is from Recto, so there's the big difference. People in Recto do not even have an inkling on what intellectual property is. Their ideas are almost always copied and plagiarised from unreliable sources; that is why, most of the time, people from Recto have uneducated opinions. They won't appreciate your uniqueness, Myrtle. And they won't care how special you are. These people are almost always used to the the very common of things that they are not bothered by obsolescence anymore.
4. Janice De Belen & Yayo Aguila. - I don't know. They're fat and you're not. Fat people do not feel good about themselves, so they project their bitterness to people like you who are almost too good to be true.
Dear Myrtle, please always remember that there may be many bullies inside of school, but there will always be more bullies, more monsters outside of it. They will try to destroy you, drag you down, gang up against you, even try to befriend you on the surface.
It is still very premature to say that what you're going through right now which started when you joined this PBB show is the biggest fight of your life. You are only seventeen. Still a long, long way to go for you, Myrtle.
One piece of advice: Please just continue to be you, Myrtle. You are unique, you are special. And many people, not the mediocre ones, adore the genuinely unique and special. It just happened that this PBB show which is supposed to be promoting and encouraging creativity, development of uniqueness and personality, etc, in every Filipino youth, is a fake.
You have been very brave since Day 1, Myrtle. And you are only three nights away from that hard experience. No matter how painful it might have been for you, just continue to be you. Do not ever let them take your passion away from you.
You are correct, Myrtle. Maybe you are just different from anyone else. You are unique, you are special, you are genuine. Just continue to be you. You may not know me maybe even after you come out of that house, but I would like to let you know that I am very proud of you from the deepest of my heart.
I am an OFW living hundreds of thousands of miles away from the Philippines but your sincerity has touched my heart and captured my soul.
Simply, YOU REMINDED ME OF MYSELF 10 YEARS AGO. And I am guessing that this very long letter contains the words that I would want to tell my 17-year old self should I be given the chance to go back in time and come face to face with her. Ten years ago when it always seemed that all odds were going against me.
I am a 27-year old unmarried mother who still has to wake up at 7AM tomorrow and perform my duties as a compliance consultant in one of the world's largest bank in the Middle East region, but here I am, talking to my 17-year old self 10 years ago --->Myrtle. Time check: 3:29AM in the Middle East. (Another thing in common for us: You are an Accountancy student; I work in a financial institution.)
Win or lose, you have already made it this big, Myrtle. You are one tough girl.
Win or lose, you have already made a remarkable image in our hearts.
Just continue to be you, Myrtle. Please just continue being you.
If they will be honest and proclaim you the Big Winner, then that will be good. They are making themselves a big favour of displaying the impartiality they are supposed to have since Day 1.
If they will choose to be dishonest and manipulate the results, we will pray for them.
Congratulations, Myrtle. You are a born winner!
Yours faithfully,
CR1mson university
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