Name: Daphne Haour-Hidalgo
Birthday: 29 June
Birthplace: Quezon City, Philippines
Citizenship: Filipino – French
Education: University of the Philippines, Diliman
Character:
• I am told that I am generous to a fault.
• I can be very direct, but often misunderstood.
• I am intolerant of people who are all talk and no action.
Job: I first worked as Convention Officer for the Philippine Convention Bureau, then as Manager of Sicogon Island Resort in the Philippines, before moving to Tokyo where I was a Marketing Research Manager for a French Marketing Research firm. Then I went on hiatus to be a full-time mother. I am currently running a privately-owned business enterprise.
Hobbies and Pastimes: I play bridge. I collect French stamps. I used to play tennis everyday before moving to Tokyo, the only city I know where your name is drawn by lottery and the lucky winner gets to use the public tennis courts (the private tennis clubs cost an arm and a leg). A new hobby for me is photography. I also make some attempts at writing.
Authors: Roald Dahl, William Somerset Maugham, Kahlil Gibran, Alfred Sheinwold, Guy de Maupassant, and most classic novel writers (with the exception of Henry James)
Colours: Blue and Yellow (some people think there’s some meaning to that)
Music: classic Rock and classic Jazz
Religious upbringing: Roman Catholic
Religious thought: Agnostic (You do not need religion to have moral values and a sense of ethics).
One other note: I look Asian, I think American, and by virtue of a document, I am officially French. I am Kosinski’s painted bird.
I was born in the Philippines, but have lived way over half my life outside of the country. Whenever I’m in Manila, it is unfortunate that, although I can be as patriotic as the next countryman, Filipinos consider me a foreigner. But perhaps I am a foreigner because like most foreigners, I am easily fooled by devious and unprincipled Filipinos who are quick to sniff out a naive and trusting person unfamiliar with the Filipino ways. For all their Catholic religious upbringing, one would think that these people above all others who are not Catholic, would at least be more virtuous and upright, but no. This country is one of the most corrupt nations in the world, ranked up there with the Africans.
I am not American, but having studied in the United States for five years in my youth, english is my first language. American education at a young age, has marked me far more than any other. If you find me critical here of the American government, it is only because I believe the Americans deserve better. The way things are, it is a government for the capitalists, for the very rich, and for the Jews. Israel has a powerful ally in the American nation, and with disinformation that has been touted to the point that these are now considered fact, the Arab world and their religion has turned Israel’s enemy into America’s enemy and the World’s.
I love France. I am proud of its history and culture. I am honoured to be counted as one of its citizens. But I will never get used to the abominable hostility, the condescending attitude, and the arrogance of the Parisians. I have not come across another people who are so shamefully unworthy of the honour and respect their culture and history bestows upon them.
Being a social mongrel and not seeming to belong to any society, allows me to stand back and observe with an open-mind the world at large.
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