Setting the record straight by Lorra Elena Angbue-Te

Hi everyone,

I didn’t have any prior intention of creating a WordPress.com account because I already maintain too many social networking and blogging sites but I felt the need to when I found a blog, hosted on WordPress, that was posing as mine. I will no longer link back to the fake blog because I’ve realized that’s what this person wants.

There are a lot of malicious people in the world and this person probably had nothing better to do. I am taking this action, however, to set things straight and to be able to spread the word about this.

This all started when I posted a critique of the Information Design seniors’ thesis exhibit in Ateneo de Manila University. I admit that some of the words I used for the theses that I didn’t like were harsh but that’s just the way I am. I try to be as honest as possible. I felt that they weren’t able to communicate what they wanted to convey with their design output. I also believe in excellence, whether you’re doing a small project or something as big as your senior year thesis. A lot of the exhibit output were half-baked, in my opinion and I do feel that I have that particular right to exercise. My opinions are my opinions and hopefully, the criticism that I shared would make the student designers realize what they can improve on and what didn’t work. After all, I’m a part of their audience.

Although I’m not an Information Design graduate or practitioner, I do believe that I have an eye for design and aesthetics because I’m a freelance illustrator. This fake blog is potentially harmful to my starting career in freelance and obviously derogatory and untrue. I am not the most brilliant person to ever walk on the face of the planet but I’m certainly not clumsy, nor am I ditzy. I am very particular with my actions and every action I make has been, most of the time, thought out thoroughly.

Aside from being a freelance illustrator, I also work as a homeroom adviser for the Ateneo’s freshman InTACT program. I am also a preschool teacher, hoping to set up my own school in the future. Although unlikely, this fake blog might still be harmful to that aspect of my multifaceted career path because parents might look for details about me and the kind of education I can offer and they’ll find the fake blog. The impostor made sure to write with bad grammar and spelling. I’m sure no parent would want their child to be taught by someone like that.

Furthermore, this person has been calling me a coward, saying that I’m scared, by leaving an anonymous message on my chatbox and in this fake blog. This is certainly something that I am not. I have been calling out to this person to meet up with me on campus for the past month but I have received no reply. This means that this person is the true coward, which is probably the only true thing about him/her. His/her comment came from my decision to take down the said critique from my main blog because my boyfriend, who’s an Information Design teacher and thesis adviser asked me to do it. Out of respect, I did it for him.

I doubt that this person will ever surface because I’m fairly sure by now that he/she prefers, excuse my French, half-assery. Like my boyfriend said, I can’t really fight back if the enemy is hiding in a hole.

So with little options left on my plate, I’ve decided to fight back intelligently. I’m also planning to write about this for a national paper and have gotten in touch with a section editor. It’s something that’s very rampant today. There are a lot of people who have nothing else to do with their lives and have chosen to slander other private citizens in this way. Also, I am taking measures to find out who the culprit is and hopefully, something turns up. If so, I plan to submit a complaint to the Ateneo’s Office of the Associate Dean for Student Affairs. This illegal action taken by a student is certainly no manifestation of MAGIS.

If you want to help me, please spread the REAL word to your friends. Help me catch who the culprit is. Help me catch a coward. Thank you so much!

Sincerely,
Lorra Elena Angbue-Te

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