Travel Manila Haiku - Imelda's 3,000 Pair Of Shoes Poem by john tiong chunghoo
Travel Manila Haiku - Imelda's 3,000 Pair Of Shoes
3,000 pairs
but not one
did i get to see
it's not much for First Lady
to own 3,000 shoes
my friend defends Imelda
My friend, a Korean woman married to a Filipino commented thus about Imelda Marcos's 3,000 pairs of shoes when I visited Manila in 1991. 'She was first lady for so long. If you divided the nujmber shoes by the years she was First Lady, that does not work up to many pairs a year. On top of that she was Miss Philippines. What do you expect? '
she defended the Imelda quite vehemently which awed me. However, I did not get to see even one pair of those shoes because the museum holding the shoes was close. I flew off the next day to Sabah in East Malaysia.
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4/18/2024 7:59:15 AM # 1.0.0.1119
If Imelda Marcos, the former beauty queen and first lady had 3 thousand pair of shoes...guess who in the Philippines who broke the record? ? ? She has more than 3 thousand pair of shoes, a fashion designer, a socialite, a columnist etc... If an ordinary employee could have a more than 10 pair of shoes in just a year or two what else an Imelda Marcos or an artist like Ruffa G. or Kris A? ? ?