I have just been on the phone with Carr and she has sent this mail to me for posting ....
Patrick, I hope you don't mind......even if I myself, get banned from here, I won't mind just as I hope you won't mind giving someone a second chance....
First of all, Patrick, I have sent you a private email but since this is a public board it is just appropriate for me to post this apology.
I am sorry for re-registering under a different name. Please know that it wasn't with malicious intent but because of ignorance of your board policy. I will be careful next time.
Hum, I apologize for that post. I realize now that it was tasteless but it wasn't done maliciously. It was meant as a joke and a teasing but if you are hurt by it, then please forgive me. I love you as a brother and friend and I didn't want to add to the Pinay hurt.
Jean, please take that post as a compliment. You are an attractive woman and I was just teasing Hum to maybe get him off from hounding you and your sites.
The rest of you guys, I'm sorry for that small stunt. It was the evil Carrisse that have taken over.
There are also events that happened during the past few days that needed my honest explanations as to my involvement.
Why I left: Simple, Mr. Peabody said it well. I got tired of defending the Filipinas. I am a feminist, a Pinay feminist. I am not beholden to anyone but my husband and my fellow Pinays. I tend to defend them first before others. I also do it with women regardless of race or creed. I tried to go out quietly and I wish Patrick didn't post my intention to leave the board. I emailed select friends and tried to do it without fanfare. Well......
Why I came back under a different name: Really, it was stupidity on my part and a good ounce of missing the board. I wanted to come back as a non-entity with full of one-liners. I didn't know that I have disrupted the board by doing so.
Being the Queen: This is funny. This title was given to me by a poster and it took off from there. I accepted it gracefully as a joke. Really now, if I want to be queen of this board--I would have married Patrick but we are both taken so fat chance on my being a queen. So, there's really no need to dethrone me as I didn't have a throne in the first place. I am a princess and a goddess if you guys care to know.
Spam aka Put Up or Shut Up - Why? I delete spam and I don't even eat the meat variety. Jean may be right didn't come from her site but it came from one of the sites that linked to hers. My fault was I replied back to the spam and it just confirmed my live email. After that post, the spamming stopped.
Nasty posts at Mag-Anak - I don't care what you guys want or don't want to believe. All I am going to say is I don't swear. Not in real time and not online. I'm too sophisticated for that. The only swear I say is SHUT UP.
If that post was done by me then it was maybe during one of my drunken stupor (Dabe, this is a joke -- I don't drink.)
I'm going to touch on also some delicate subjects here mentioned by May in one of her few posts:
Penpal sites - The opinion expressed here is mine and mine alone.
While I have nothing against those who use this service and I know some relationships and marriages forged on this board are the by-product of this service -- in my opinion, is trafficking Pinays. And its giving credence to the general misconception that Pinays who married foreign men are MOBs or putas who married their GI lovers (don't get offended, this is not my opinion but of others who have expressed them to me). We are more than just a pretty face with a number that you can purchase from page 17 of a MOB magazine. We are more than the biography that you see in those MOB ads.
Generalizations - this is not an attack against Jean but against some generalizations that have been posted on the board. My opinion is that generalizations such as Filipinas Make the Best Wives --- contribute to the rose colored glasses syndrome. This statement can also be said to women of different race. I know about you guys experience with AWs but sad to say I can't relate bacause the AWs I know are all in their first and lasting marriages. My in-laws alone are celebrating their 46th anniversary and relatives on both sides have enduring marriages. In my family however, I have several relatives whose marriages are on the rocks and one cousin who divorced her second husband is now pregnant with another man's. I'm not airing dirty laundry here, I'm just debunking this generalization. Zeb, Hum, Larry as well as others fully know that this statement is not true. A lady's values and upbringing will determine her wifely duties. Choose wisely.
I've made great friendships from this board and I intend to keep them. I also don't want any enemies. So, if I offended you in some ways, please know that it wasn't the intent and I extend my apologies.
Carr
