the world according to imelda

little blurbs in the film which i find aboslutely amusing. i never thought imelda marcos would have such great entertainment value.

• when one part is lacking a man is not whole. you can also draw eyes and a mouth, and he looks like a pac-man.
• the seven orders in the world... here is the most exciting part (and she writes the roman numeral 10) the age of the computer... binary system of 1's & 0... when you draw an apple it looks like a 1 and a 0... apple. computer.
• goodness, i didn't want to die with such an ugly bolo. if he were going to kill me couldn't he have used something that didn't look so ugly? maybe make it look nicer, like put a yellow ribbon on it.
• once imelda spoke to me for four hours, non-stop. i didn't say a thing... by the third hour she was winding down, so she put in a tape of herself. then i had imelda twice! one on video and one beside me.
• there's a little imelda in all of us - oh how lovely.
• when i left malacañang there were around three thousand pairs of shoes. now there's only a thousand left, i don't know what cory aquino did with the other shoes.

if i could get a copy of imelda's doodles as filmed in the documentary by ramona diaz, i would post them with this entry. a picture speaks a thousand words. you just have to see it.