Mia, Author at Mia Marci

February 8, 2012

An Open Letter to Globe Telecom

Dear Globe,

This is a profile of your average prepaid user. It would benefit you to read it.

I’ve had my prepaid number for about 10 years now. I do not have disposable income. I cannot apply for a postpaid line because I cannot promise to abide by its lock-in period, and my usage fluctuates according to use. Also, I cannot risk paying more than I sign up for.

So, for the purpose of additional work: just a little job for a little extra contacts and some money to keep me and my sister afloat, I needed to make calls. I wanted to sign up for Globe Duo. I was dangerously in my last 3 digits of my expense account, but those calls needed to be made. I forked over an equivalent to P400 worth of credits for the sole purpose of using your services.

I am told, though I’ve followed each keyword and number to a tee, that I have inputted the wrong keyword. I call up the call center service and a perky recording advises me that the service may not be availed because of the hundreds of thousands of people trying to avail it at the same time.

It has been 4 hours, and innumerable attempts to availing of this service to save me money. I still get an error message.

I am forced to make my calls at normal rates, which will use up even more money. More money I don’t have.

Thanks to you, I am down to a ridiculous sum in the bank that I have to magically stretch till payday. I invested in you as a service and you didn’t deliver.

Educated and fairly brought up as I am, I think in light of this foul, foul service, I have earned the right to say: you little shits.

January 30, 2012April 14, 2025

Change for the Better (2012)

Client: Kremtop Agency: TBWA \ Santiago Mangada Puno
Client: Alaska Milk Corporation Creative
Director: Bryan Siy
Copywriter: Mia Marci
Art Director: Arnel Villanueva
Post-Production: Fluidpost
Producer: Francis Bagnes
Production: Arkeo
Director: Joel Ruiz

January 3, 2012

5 Songs for the Spirit

The biggest thing to happen to me in 2011 was the decision to take The Walk. I consider myself a progressive Christian: a lot of my views are deemed non-conventional, evidenced by my support for Mideo Cruz’s “Poleteismo”.

I believed in Christ, it was difficult to reconcile what I felt was right in conscience to what was being preached in churches I’ve attended over the years.

Then I found Church Simplified. Click the link and see for yourselves what it’s about. Maybe I’ll see you on Sunday?

The songs below are just some of the highlights of my journey through Christ thus far. For me, faith is a very personal journey, but wherever you are in your life – may these songs seek to uplift and inspire you.

After the Cut:

1) Gungor’s – “Beautiful Things”

You make beautiful things out of dust, You make beautiful things out of us

2) Sara Groves – “Painting Pictures of Egypt”

The place I was wasn’t perfect, but I had found a way to live,

It wasn’t milk or honey, but then neither is this

3) Jars of Clay – “Shelter”

May this place of rest in the fold of your journey, Bind you to hope

You will never walk alone

4) Steven Curtis Chapman – “Remembering You”

And I watch as the cold winter melts into spring, And I’ll be remembering You

and I’ll be remembering You, I’ll be remembering You

5) Jay Enrile – “Thank You”

Thank you for emptiness, thank you for rage

Thanks for confusion and the labyrinth it’s made

Thanks for denial, thank you for lust

Thanks for rejection and all the hurts from those I trust

Thank you that I haven’t heard the sweetest sound

Cause I know that’s the only way my knees will scrape the ground

Continue reading “5 Songs for the Spirit”

December 13, 2011

miiEtiquette: Play Nice, It's Not Your Party

To my dear guests,

You are cordially invited to my totally awesome Christmas party. I promise you it will be epic: fire dancers, Cirque du Soleil, Michael Jackson rising out of the grave, with a 5-star Michelin buffet. The party I have in mind will be the stuff of rap videos. And I want all of you, people I consider my friends, to be there. We will have fun, sober or not.

I only have one condition: leave your baggage at the door.

I don’t mean your bags. I also mean the baggage you have inside you. Because my guest list includes your ex something, or the person you find annoying, maybe even your distant cousin from your Dad’s third family or something. They are not on my list to spite you. They are on my list because I find them fun. Look, there’s room enough for warring parties to do their high school thing and form cliques. Heck, just for that night, fake being nice. Ignore them even. But don’t ruin it for the rest of us by dragging your dislike and hatred through my front door.

I am your host. I am there to make sure you have fun. You are a guest at my party and it is your responsibility to have fun and stay clear of those who ruin it for you. Or hey, there’s the door.

I’ll be blunt: it’s not my problem if you had a one-night stand with so-and-so who happens to be there. It is not my problem if you don’t like whoever for whatever reason. So don’t make it my problem by picking a fight and putting out my fire dancers while toppling over my 5-star buffet. That’s when I get pissed. And I don’t want to be pissed on Christmas.

Remember the wise words of Marshall from How I met your mother, “It’s only awkward if you make it.”

So don’t make it awkward. Make it fun. Or you’re going to miss one hell of a party.

Sincerely,

Mii