APOLOGY
To all the members of the FW, especially to the creator of this very internet savvy website, I, in behalf of my classmates, apologize for what happened. I had read your message to Mr. Villanueva and I realized how grave of an issue we have gotten ourselves in. I understand that you really love this site. It was not in our intentions to ruin the FW nor to disappoint all of you as professional writers. Maybe you just misunderstood what our professor wanted to teach us—he wanted to expose us to this kind of environment—with professional writers for us to learn from, and at the same time, for us to appreciate literature, and give importance to it. What’s the sense of learning all the basic information about literature if we students would not widen our minds about art and literature? If we, ourselves wouldn’t understand literature internally, externally, and most of all socially. All we wanted was to learn from your comments and reactions about the blogs that we posted.
I admit that some of us plagiarized documents, some didn’t know how to use correct grammar, and were not really good in writing compositions, but those are the reasons why we were at FW—to learn from you and, if luck would allow it, for you to discover some of us who have potential in writing but needed to improve. We need to be exposed to the world not limited to the confines of our classroom and we find FW as a very encouraging teacher and an accommodating environment.
On the other hand, I fully understand your point. We still had done something wrong and I was hoping that all of us, as Mr. Villanueva’s students, will learn a valuable lesson from our mistake and become an improved individual someday because of what happened. This is a very serious issue and we want it to be resolved. You made us realize that posting blogs in FW should be a task for us to learn from instead of doing it just in completion of a requirement. Most of all, we would also like to apologize to the one and only person who had put his name at stake for us—Mr. Villanueva. We are really very sorry for what happened. I know that what we’ve done was really an insult to you but still we thank you for letting us find ourselves and for giving us the chance to change.
Both of you made us realize how irresponsible we have been. Thank you for the guidance and we are sorry to the FW members and to Mr. Villanueva.
Lastly, to my classmates: guys, please cooperate and be responsible. We are no longer high school students; we should know when to be serious and when not to play around. This issue serves as a lesson for everybody. Let us clean up our mess here in this site.
Thank you and good day.
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thanks Pamela, mukhang
Submitted by Rom on August 9, 2010 - 2:16am.
thanks Pamela, mukhang ikaw lang ang matapang na humarap at sumagot sa dinami-dami ng tanong ng mga taga FW tungkol sa kung anuman ang pinaggagagawa ninyo kasama si Mr. Villanueva. i was hoping na si Mr. Villanueva mismo ang sasagot ng mga tanong. anyway, maganda rin naman ang mga sinabi mo, at hanaga ako sa pag-intindi mo sa mga nangyayari.
naiintindihan naman halos ng mga taga FW ang sentiments at layunin ninyo, in fact wala naman talagang masama kung mailalagay lang sa maayos ang pagpopost.
kung gusto ninyong matuto ng mga bagay-bagay tungkol sa literatura mayroong mas maayos na paraan. ganito kasi ang nangyari: gusto ninyong matuto ng gawaing bahay kayat naghanap kayo ng isang bahay na mapupuntahan kung saan makakakita kayo ng mga taong nagwawalis, naglalampaso, naglalaba, nagluluto etc. sa pag aakala ninyong natututo kayo ng biglaang pagpasok sa bahay at basta-basta dampot ng walis, sandok, at planggana--nagkamali kayo ng paraan. hindi man lang kayo muna nakipag kilala sa mga taong nakatira sa bahay na iyon, nakipag kwentuhan at nagtanong kung paano bang matuto ng gawaing bahay. bigla bigla na lamang kayong dumampot ng mga gamit at nagkanya-kanyang halihaw ng gawa. ni hindi ninyo nga tinanong ang mga tao sa bahay na iyon kung ok ba ang gawa ninyo o kung anong nanapupuna nila. palagay ko alam mo naman ang ibig kong sabihin di ba?
huwag ninyong ipasa sa amin bilang responsibilidad na punahin namin kayo sa pamamagitan ng mga comments sa mga akda ninyo. hindi kami dito critic. nandito kami upang magbahagi rin ng aming nalalaman sa literatura at ang mga ibinabahagi namin at galing mismo sa kaibuturan ng saloobin namin--hindi dahil required sa school. hindi namin tungkulin ang ituwid ang pagkakamali ninyo sa pagsusulat. kaya siguro napapansin ninyong naiirita kami madalas kapag nakakakita o nakakabasa kami ng mga mali-maling grammar (nagsulat ng collage imbes na college).
magbahagi tayo dito ng mga akda bilang pantay-pantay na manunulat wag ninyo kaming ituring na "baby-sitter" at tagapunas ng pwet ninyo kapag nagtatae kayo ng mali-maling grammar o maling paggamit ng salita o maling ispeling. hindi namin gawain yun.
hindi pa naman huli ang lahat. tara inaanyayahan ko ulit kayo (yung mga talagang nasa puso ang pagsusulat) na magbahagi ng kanilang akda at honest na magtanong ng opinyon ng mga nariritong manunulat at maglakbay tayong pantay-pantay sa mundo ng literatura. lilinawin ko lang: hindi kami ang titser nyo, kaya alisin ninyo ang burden sa amin na ikokorek namin ang mga maling gawa ninyo.
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SLOW CLAP
Submitted by Luca on August 10, 2010 - 8:15am.
para sayo Pamela Denise Besa...
Natutuwa ako at nahimasmasan ka. Alam kong maaaring hindi representative yan ng quorum ng klase niyo pero kebs na. I'll take one over none.
Sana natuto tayong lahat na ang pagsusulat, hindi yan basta-basta. Maganda siguro yung gustong mangyari ni sir niyo. Gaya nga ng binanggit ko sa una kong litanya. Pero nakakalungkot (at in fairness, nakakaASARRR din) na hindi ganun kahalaga ang adhikain na ito para sa inyo.
Siguro next time, titingin muna tayo sa paligid bago tayo bumira. Kasi mataas tingin namin sa community na to. Hindi lang siya basta site na paututan lang.
Maraming taong nagpakamatay para mapreserve ang culture of expression na ito (literal) kaya nakakalungkot naman na makitang may mga taong hindi nagpapahalaga doon diba?
Subukan niyong magbasa ng gawa ng mga tao dito, at makikita niyo kung bakit siya importante sa amin. Buhusan to ng mga damdamin namin at mga obra, kaya may sakit factor kapag binababoy siya.
Yun lang.
I forgive you.
Echos...
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pasasalamat
Submitted by pamela denise besa on August 10, 2010 - 10:01pm.
pamela denise
Thanks po sa pag intinde at pagbibigay nang mga payo, lubos ko pong naintindihan ang nais nyong iparating.Lahat po nang mga sinabi ninyo,comments and suggestions ay ako na pong bahalang magbahagi nito sa aming klase.Salamat din po sa pagkakataong matuto kame,at pagkakataong muli ninyong ibinigay upang muling makapag bahagi kaming muli na mga interesado sa literatura.
Nawa'y matapos na po ang issue nato,matapos ng may matutuhan tayong lahat sa mga pangyayari,lalo na po kaming mga estudyante.
Sana'y mas mapalawak pa namin lalo ang aming kaalaman sa pamamagitan ng pagsayasat sa mga bagay na maaaring makatulong pa sa amin at di lamng sa FW.
Muli po maring salamt at pasyensya po.
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Finally. Someone
Finally. Someone replies.
Personally, I never saw an article that had bad writing or with incorrect grammar in it. Every one I saw were copy-pasted.
You know, you can never learn by just writing, and writing, and waiting for others to comment or teach you how. You also have to read. And you also have to like it. Thing, though, is that from everything you guys have posted in this site, there wasn't anything in it that could say you were all interested in what you were doing. What you did was flood the site with inanities, and that is almost a cyber crime. Almost.
Now, if you really want to learn, read Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. You've probably read them in high school. But this time, read them.
And, since you guys are already in college, do your research. You insult your high school alma mater with the kind of stuff you come up with.
Thank you.