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Charo Santos discusses 'Chika or Chismis' in 'Dear Ate Charo' reel

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Reyma Deveza

ABS-CBN News

<p>MANILA -- The chika we all love to hear.</p><p>Screen veteran Charo Santos once again charmed her followers o<span style="background-color:transparent">n Thursday as she uploaded a new installment of her &quot;Dear Charo&quot; series, this time discussing &quot;chika o chismis?&quot; </span></p><p>In the reel, Santos can seen reading a question from a netizen in her iconic &quot;Maalaala Mo Kaya&quot; (MMK) style.</p><p>The question was &quot;Dear Charo, paano po maging updated sa chika pero hindi maging chismosa?&quot;   </p><p>The topic maybe funny but Santos&#x27; reply was on point -- true and meaningful.</p><p>&quot;Alam niyo okay naman maging updated. We all want to be well informed to be socially aware of what&#x27;s going on around us and keep up with the trends. Pero may chika na maaaring hindi makabuti or maaaring makasira ng ibang tao. So for example, may lumapit sa atin. &#x27;Huy Charo, alam mo ba &#x27;yung kaibigan natin &#x27;yung engagement hindi raw natuloy.&#x27; So tatanungin natin out of concern &#x27;yung kaibigan natin. Tatanungin mo &#x27;huy, totoo ba hindi  natuloy ang engagement mo?&#x27; O chika &#x27;yon, &#x27;di ba,&quot; Santos said.</p><p>(You know, it&#x27;s okay to be updateds. We all want to be well informed to be socially aware of what&#x27;s going on around us and keep up with the trends. But there&#x27;s &#x27;chika&#x27; that may not be good or could harm other people. So for example, someone approach me &#x27;Huy Charo, did you know that our friend&#x27;s engagement didn&#x27;t push?&#x27; So you will ask your friend out of concern. &#x27;Huy, is it true that your engagement didn&#x27;t happen?&#x27; That&#x27;s chika.)</p><p>&quot;Pero ang chismis ganito yan &#x27;Huy Charo, alam mo ba &#x27;yung nangyari sa kaibigan natin. Hindi raw matutuloy &#x27;yung engagement, kasi may third party.&#x27; Dagdag-bawas. Hindi tama. Kapag may malice na at may intention ka na na makasakit, makapanira and you don&#x27;t stay with the facts, &#x27;yan talaga ang chismis. At ako, idi-discourage ko talaga &#x27;yan no matter how tempting it may be. Dahil ang bawat salita na bibigkasin natin about other people ay maaring makasakit at &#x27;yan ang iiwasan natin,&quot; Santos added.</p><p>(But chismis is like this: &#x27;Huy Charo, did you know what happened to our friend? Their engagement didn&#x27;t push through because of a third party.&#x27; Adding and substracting details is not right. If there&#x27;s malice and you have intention to hurt or damage someone&#x27;s reputation and you don&#x27;t stay with the facts -- that is chismis. And me, I really discourage that, mo matter how tempting it may be. Because every word we say about other people might hurt them and that&#x27;s what we have to avoid.)</p><iframe class="instagram-media instagram-media-rendered" id="instagram-embed-1" src="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DG22uVTh_GM/embed/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=607&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fod2-workbench-web.abs-cbn.com&amp;rp=%2F#%7B%22ci%22%3A1%2C%22os%22%3A7984652.600000024%7D" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="881" data-instgrm-payload-id="instagram-media-payload-1" scrolling="no" style="background:white;max-width:540px;width:calc(100% - 2px);border-radius:3px;border:1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219);box-shadow:none;display:block;margin:0px 0px 12px;min-width:326px;padding:0px"></iframe><script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><p>It was last month when Santos started her &quot;Dear Ate Charo&quot; content on her social media accounts.  </p><p>Santos&#x27;s &quot;Dear Charo&quot; reels triggered nostalgia among Filipinos with most of the comments saying that they missed &quot;Maalaala Mo Kaya,&quot;  which bade farewell from Philippine television in November 2022. </p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/11/21/22/after-31-years-mmk-to-bid-farewell" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">After 31 years, &#x27;MMK&#x27; to bid farewell</a></div><p>Santos, who has been reading the letters that inspire “MMK’s” episodes since 1991,  announced the end of the drama anthology after 31 years on air.</p><p>As presenter of “MMK,” Santos-Concio cemented her status as a household name, aside from being an acclaimed film actress and a respected showbiz pillar. </p><p>Currently, Santos can be seen in the ABS-CBN&#x27;s hit action drama series &quot;FPJ&#x27;s Batang Quiapo&quot; as Tindeng.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEOS:</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Me4Z4bPIWdQ?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Vx8OlJ5TaKU?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xk6Kd4RWpjA?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>