The Myth of Pure Authorship
Ang dami kong ideas.
As in, sobra. Yung tipong habang naghuhugas ng pinggan, may script akong nabubuo sa utak.
Pero pag tinype ko?
Wala. Nawala lahat. Para akong nagka-amnesia.
That’s when I realized:
Hindi pala ako writer.
Creator ako. Visionary. Ideator.
Yung utak ko, punong-puno ng kwento. Pero yung kamay ko, tamad magsulat. O baka takot lang talaga.
Then dumating si AI.
At hindi ko na kailangang magpanggap.
"The Myth of Pure Authorship"
Lagi nating iniisip na ang tunay na manunulat — siya lang dapat ang gumawa ng lahat.
Dapat solo. Dapat raw. Dapat hand-written.
Pero tanong ko lang: Kailan pa naging requirement ‘yun?
Paano yung may speech writer?
Paano yung may ghost writer?
Paano yung mga songwriter na binubuo lang ang melody pero may lyricist na katulong?
Galing pa rin sa kanila ang puso — yung AI lang ang tumulong mag-ayos ng sentence.
Same with me.
I didn’t use AI to replace my brain.
I used it para tulungan akong mailabas ang laman ng utak ko.
Real Talk
Hindi ako magaling sa grammar.
Hindi ko alam kung kailan ako maglalagay ng em-dash, or kung double space ba dapat after a period.
Pero alam ko kung paano ako magpapa-iyak ng audience.
Alam ko kung anong eksena ang sumasapol.
Alam ko kung paano gumawa ng kwentong hindi mo makakalimutan.
And now — sa tulong ni AI — kaya ko na ‘tong sabihin nang buo.
Hindi Ito Panloloko
Hindi ako nagnanakaw ng ideya.
Hindi ako nagpapasulat ng buhay ng iba.
Ang ginagawa ko ay bumubuo ng sariling mundo —
at nagpapasalin sa AI.
Kahit ang pinakamagaling na direktor, may scriptwriter.
Kahit ang author, may editor.
Kahit ang presidente, may speech writer.
Ako?
May AI co-writer.
Pero ako ang director.
Ako ang pinanggalingan ng vision.
Ending ko?
Hindi ako nahihiya.
Masaya ako — kasi sa wakas,
naririnig na rin ang boses ng mga hindi marunong mag-type ng maganda.
Creator ako.
At ito ang panahon ko.
Kahit may kasamang robot.
Not all greatness is loud.
Sometimes, the quiet ones leave the deepest mark. 🫶
And the strongest move… is knowing when to take the shot — and when to let others shine.
🎱 Just before turning 70, Efren Reyes finally said what he never needed to shout:
“I’ll be 70 next March. I never chased cameras. Never needed bodyguards. Never stopped calling it ‘just a game.’”
I was never the loud one in the room. I didn’t wear gold chains or demand an entourage.
I just let the cue speak for me. And when it did, people listened.
I grew up in Angeles, playing pool in dusty halls with cracked balls and cigarette smoke in the air. We didn’t have sponsors — we had instincts. I learned to aim not just with my eyes, but with my gut.
I remember sleeping under pool tables as a kid, dreaming not of trophies… but of meals. We hustled, because we had to. I was never promised greatness. I just kept showing up.
At 30, I became “The Magician.” They called me that because I made shots no one saw coming. But to me, they weren’t magic. They were just possibilities others hadn’t looked for yet.
At 40, I beat the best in the world. Americans, Brits, anyone with swagger. I smiled. Shook hands. Then went home to eat with my family.
At 50, I started losing more. Reflexes slowed. Eyes got tired. But the love for the game? Still sharp. I’d show up at bar tournaments where half the crowd didn’t know they were playing with a legend.
At 60, I stopped playing to win. I played to teach. I played to remind the next generation:
“You don’t need noise to prove you’re great.
Let your cue do the talking.”
Now, nearly 70, I spend my days watching the sun rise slow over rice fields. I teach kids to line up shots, and sometimes, I let them win. I tell stories — the quiet kind — over coffee and warm pan de sal.
If I could tell you one thing, it’s this:
A humble life is not a small one.
Not everyone needs to dominate. Some of us are here to outlast. To endure.
To watch. To teach. To take the shot when it feels right — and walk away smiling, win or lose.
There’s dignity in silence. There’s wisdom in restraint.
And sometimes, the strongest hand on the table… is the one that knows when to let go.
With calm and chalk-stained fingers,
— Efren “Bata” Reyes
May mga taong kumikita ng P50,000 pero laging kapos. Samantalang may ibang kumikita ng P25,000 lang, pero payapa ang buhay, may direksyon, at may ipon.
Hindi palaging nakabase sa laki ng kinikita ang kaginhawaan. Mas mahalaga kung paano ninyo pinapamahalaan, pinagpaplanuhan, at pinagsisikapang pagyamanin ang bawat sentimo.
Dahil sa totoo lang, may mga mag-asawa o mag-partner na ang lalaki ng sweldo, pero laging may kakulangan.
Puno ng stress, bangayan, at paninisi. Walang ipon, walang plano, walang kapayapaan.
Samantalang may iba, simpleng kinikita lang ang hawak pero marunong magkasundo, may respeto sa badyet, may pangarap na sabay tinutupad, at may malasakit sa isa’t isa.
Ang tunay na yaman ay hindi lang nasusukat sa pera kundi sa pagkakaunawaan at pagkaka-align ng magka-partner.
Yung hindi lang sabay kumikita, kundi sabay ding nagbibigay halaga sa kinikita.
Yung marunong magplano bago gumastos,
Yung handang magsakripisyo ngayon para sa mas magandang bukas,
Yung mas pinipili ang pangmatagalang tagumpay kaysa pansamantalang luho.
Yung sinasabi ang “huwag muna” sa mga gustong bilhin, para masabi ang “handa na tayo” sa mga pangarap na sabay ninyong binuo.
Dahil ang tunay na pagmamahal ay hindi lang kilig, ito ay commitment. Ito’y pagtanggap sa mahirap, pagtutulungan sa gitna ng kulang,
at pagbangon nang magkasama kahit gaano pa kabigat ang pagsubok.
Packed lunch sa halip na mamahaling kainan.
Budget meetings imbes na spontaneous gastos. Mga tanong na “Kaya ba natin ito?” at “Saan tayo patungo?”
Hindi mo kailangang maging mayaman para maging matatag.
Ang kailangan: pagkakaisa sa prinsipyo, pangarap, at disiplina.
Kapag marunong sa piso, hindi matatakot sa milyon.
Ctto!
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Kalma lang, Guys!
Hindi para sa’ mga ordinaryong mamamayan ang 20% tax na ‘yan, at lalong hindi ‘yung deposito natin sa bangko ang binabawasan!
So, while scrolling here sa FB, nabasa ko na madami na naman ang nagpa-panic dahil sa misleading narrative na naman na pinapakalat ng mga walang magawa sa buhay. Kesyo “buwis sa savings” daw ang bagong pinirmahang batas ni President Bongbong Marcos, yung ang Capital Markets Efficiency Promotion Act or RA 12214.
But wait lang. Can we take a moment to read beyond the headline, please?
First of all, the 20% final tax on interest income ay hindi na bago. Matagal na po yan. Matagal na po ‘yang umiiral. This isn’t some new “pahirap” law.
It’s just cleaning up the system to make sure the rich pay their fair share.
Para mas malinaw, , ang tina-tax ay ‘yung Interest, HINDI ang principal. Yes, hindi ho hinahawakan ang mismong pera mong naka-deposit.
Example time:
Let’s say meron kang ₱50,000 in a time deposit account. After one year, kunwari, kumita siya ng ₱2,000 na interest. Ang 20% tax ay kukunin lang sa ₱2,000, that’s ₱400.
So you still have your original ₱50,000 untouched.
You just get ₱1,600 interest income instead of the full ₱2,000. Not bad, not unfair, just normal.
Kaya ‘wag OA. Hindi po ninanakawan ang pera natin sa bank. (naks, natin? Sanaol!)
Hindi sinasagasaan ang savings niyo.
Sino lang ang mas apektado? ‘Yung may milyon-milyon o bilyones sa time deposits, trust funds, or foreign currency savings.
Mga corporations. Mga oligarchs.
Not Juan. Not Maria.
Most of us na may payroll account or basic savings account lang, na wala ring interest, safe po yun. Not affected. Hindi mababawasan ang pera natin sa bank. At para sa mga medyo may pera pero gusto ng alternative: UITFs or Mutual Funds are still tax-free. Pero yes, may konting risk kasi naka-link sila sa stocks or commodities.
So the takeaway? Don’t panic.
Magbasa. Magtanong. Huwag agad maniwala sa mga maling naratibo. Hindi ito anti-poor. In fact, it’s the opposite. PBBM just approved a law that actually hits the rich.
DOF Sec. Ralph Recto, Sen. Win Gatchalian, and Rep. Joey Salceda, lahat sila ang nagtrabaho para dito.Pinag aralan nila ito ng maigi kumpara sa mga maiingay na hindi naman sanay sa facts.
By the way, kasama po sa nag apruba dito ay ang Duterte bloc like Bato Dela Rosa, Bong Go and Robin Padilla, so bakit Marcos Admin lang sinisisi? Haler. Namimili ng sisisihin?
Again, Kung wala ka pang ₱10 million na naka-time deposit...Breathe in, breathe out. Kalma Lang.
Let the millionaires, and of course, the billionaires worry.Hindi po kayo ang tina-target, hindi rin po ang pera natin ang gustong bawasan sa pamamagitan ng tax. Yung kita lang ng mga may sobrang pera ang tinamaan, and frankly, it’s about time. 🤗
A Tale of Two Finance Ministers
Why is Indonesia, one of the most corrupt countries on earth, part of the G20, representing 20 of the world’s largest economies?
Let’s look at the fiscal policies that shaped the nation’s growth for the past 15 years.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati is an Indonesian economist who first served as the Minister of Finance in 2005 under then President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
One of her first acts was to fire 150 corrupt tax and customs officers in the finance department and penalize another 2,000 officers.
She successfully reduced political corruption and initiated reforms in Indonesia's tax and customs office. She also revised incentive structures for civil servants in her ministry and began paying higher salaries to tax officials deemed to be "clean" so they would have less temptation to accept bribes.
Indonesia attracted $8.9 billion in foreign direct investment in 2005, Sri Mulyani's first year as finance minister, a significant increase from $4.6 billion in 2004.
In 2006, she was named Euromoney Finance Minister of the Year by Euromoney magazine. In September 2006, Emerging Markets selected Sri Mulyani as the Asia Finance Minister of The Year.
In 2007, Indonesia recorded 6.6% economic growth, its highest rate since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. In July 2008, Sri Mulyani was inaugurated as the Coordinating Minister for the economy, replacing Boediono, who was to head Bank Indonesia.
Growth in 2008 was 6% despite the Great Recession. By January 2009, public debt was reduced to 30% of gross domestic product from 100% in 1999, making it easier for Indonesia to sell debt to foreign institutional investors.
Having served 5 years under her post, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono reappointed her after his re-election in 2009.
She continued to grow he Indonesian economy by 4.5% despite the Great Recession affecting most of the world economies. Along with India and China, Indonesia was one of just three major emerging economies to grow faster than 4% in 2009.
Under the supervision of Sri Mulyani, the government increased the number of income taxpayers from 4.35 million in 2005 to nearly 16 million individuals in 2010, and tax receipts grew by around 20% each year to more than Rp 600 trillion in 2010.
She was on to her 10th year as Minister of Finance but was disrupted because of her refusal to play politics. Amidst controversy, she resigned from her post.
Her resignation was viewed negatively; the Indonesia Stock Exchange closed down 3.8% after the news, amid a broad selloff in Asia, while the Indonesian rupiah fell nearly 1% against the dollar. The drop in Indonesian stock exchange was the sharpest in 17 months.
There was widespread speculation that her resignation was due to political pressure, especially from Aburizal Bakrie, a powerful tycoon and leader of Golkar Party.
Bakrie had enmity toward Sri Mulyani due to her investigation into tax fraud by the Bakrie Group, her refusal to prop up Bakrie's coal interests using government funds, and her refusal to declare the Sidoarjo mud flow, which was caused by drilling by Bakrie's company, as a "natural disaster".
As soon as she resigned, Sri Mulyani was appointed as the Managing Director of the World Bank, responsible to work in 74 countries in South America, Caribbean, Eastern Asia–Pacific, Middle East, and North Africa.
Sri Mulyani began her work in uplifting these nations out of poverty and increasing the livelihood of its people. That was her expertise.
When President Joko Widodo won the elections, he immediately called for Sri Mulyani to return home despite being comfortably ensconced in the World Bank as Managing Director for 6 years.
She heeded the call to serve her nation and, for 10 years, she continued to grow Indonesia and from 2017 to 2019, Sri Mulyani was named the best finance minister in the Asia-Pacific region three years in a row by FinanceAsia. In 2018, Indonesia recorded its smallest budget deficit since 2012.
During the pandemic, Sri Mulyani announced a 10.3 trillion rupiah economic stimulus package to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 recession. In April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sri Mulyani released a global bond series with a 50-year maturity, the longest loan offered in Indonesian history.
Indonesia’s MSMEs, retail, tech, and digital finance boomed during her time. The $10 billion dollar GoJek, or what Angkas aspires to be, the $100 billion Go-To, the local e-platform of Indonesia, and an increase in public listings.
Small-medium sized entrepreneurs and owners were given access to finance and encouraged to grow by limiting taxation.
The principle is: all the goods bought by the people have already been taxed, if their personal income grows then there’s a higher chance to participate in taxation. Let their businesses grow first before taxing it since everything they bought have been taxed, their business spaces are taxed, their permits have tax. No need for VAT for small businesses. Let there be a cap, a threshold, and quit messing around with online sellers trying to make a buck from products they’ve purchased abroad that’s already been taxed.
And that, my friends, is how Indonesia remains to be the largest economy in Southeast Asia, one of the 20 largest economies on earth, and has grown economically and progressed industrially despite corruption.
After a decade as Minister of Finance under then President Joko Widodo, Sri Mulyani was reappointed to the same post by President Prabowo Subianto, making her the only Minister to have served under 3 presidents.
Ralph Recto, the Secretary of Finance of the Philippines, is a veteran politician who will now tax the 6,000 pesos you earned for a year from your bank savings with 1.200 cut.
Isang taon mong tinipid pera mo sa banko, kumita ng 6 na libo, binawasan pa.
Kementerian Keuangan Republik Indonesia
Department of Finance
Levi Strauss didn’t invent jeans for fashion. He made them so miners would stop tearing holes in their pants.
He wasn’t chasing style—he was solving a problem.
Born Löb Strauß in Bavaria, he immigrated to America in 1847 with his mother and sisters after his father died of tuberculosis. He was 18, Jewish, broke, and determined to make something last.
He started as a dry goods merchant, hauling bolts of cloth, buttons, and canvas across gold-rush California. When miners kept complaining that their trousers ripped too easily, Levi saw an opportunity—not in gold, but in durability.
With tailor Jacob Davis, he patented trousers reinforced with copper rivets—a simple fix that turned into a revolution. By the 1870s, Levi’s jeans were being worn across the American West: by cowboys, railroad workers, farmers. Tough clothes for a rough life.
But Strauss didn’t hoard his fortune.
He gave to orphanages. He helped fund scholarships at the University of California. He built one of the most successful companies in American history—and never forgot where he came from.
Levi never married. He stayed behind the scenes. His name became iconic—but he remained, quietly, a merchant at heart.
Levi Strauss didn’t strike gold. He stitched it.
And in doing so, he created the one thing that never goes out of style: usefulness built to last.
Things They Don’t Teach You in School:
1. Money Management: Understanding how to save, invest, and manage debt is important but not often taught in school.
2. Emotional Intelligence: Learning how to handle your emotions and understand others’ feelings helps in life, but it’s not something you learn in class.
3. Building Connections: Making friends and networking can open doors for you in life, but schools don’t always teach you how to do it effectively.
4. Thinking Critically: School teaches facts, but it doesn’t always teach how to solve problems or think in creative ways.
5. Managing Time: Learning how to organize your tasks and make the most of your time is crucial, but it’s something you mostly figure out on your own.
6. Negotiation: Whether it’s asking for a raise or solving a disagreement, learning how to negotiate is important but not usually covered in school.
7. Staying Motivated: School doesn’t always teach how to stay focused on your goals when things get tough. You learn this through experience.
8. Handling Failure: You won’t always succeed, and learning to bounce back from failure is one of life’s most important lessons, but it’s not in textbooks.
9. Mental Health: Understanding how to take care of your mental well-being, deal with stress, and stay calm is something that should be taught but often isn’t.
10. Selling and Persuading: Whether convincing someone of your idea or selling yourself in an interview, knowing how to persuade others is key, yet school doesn’t always teach this.
11. Branding Yourself: How you present yourself to the world, especially online, can affect your opportunities, but school rarely covers this.
12. Healthy Relationships: Knowing how to build and maintain good relationships is essential, but it's not something they typically teach in school.
These skills are often more important in the real world than what we learn in textbooks. While school provides us with foundational knowledge, it’s the practical lessons about managing emotions, relationships, finances, and personal growth that truly shape our success.
Life doesn’t come with a textbook, and these essential skills are learned through experience, practice, and sometimes even failure. It’s up to us to seek out opportunities to learn these valuable life lessons, as they’re not always given to us in the classroom.
🕯️ Death Through the Eyes of Science — And the Truth of Our Existence 🕯️
Just 24 hours after burial, something astonishing begins beneath the earth.
The bacteria that once helped digest food now begin to digest the body itself from the inside out.
A horrible stench starts to rise — an invisible signal that invites insects, worms, and scorpions to the feast.
Soon, all kinds of creatures begin moving toward the body.
The same body that once walked with pride, lived in comfort, and claimed status — is now nothing more than a decaying mass.
The Timeline of Decay:
📅 Day 1 – Intestinal bacteria become active; worms and insects enter the body through the anus.
📅 Day 3 – The nose begins to deform; scorpions and bugs start consuming flesh.
📅 Day 6 – Noticeable changes in facial structure begin.
📅 Day 9 – Hair and nails begin to fall off.
📅 Day 17 – The stomach bloats and eventually bursts, revealing internal organs.
📅 Day 60 – All flesh disappears; only bones remain.
📅 Day 90 – The skeleton disintegrates.
📅 After 1 year – Even the bones turn to dust.
So where is pride now?
What happened to:
Arrogance?
Greed?
Ego and status?
Titles, wealth, beauty, and power?
All of it gets buried.
The king and the beggar become equals in the soil.
The one who once ruled lands now can't even protect his own body from insects.
💠Think deeply.
We are made from dust,
we are returned to dust,
and in the end, we become dust.
That’s the reality of every human being.
🌿 So what truly matters?
Kindness.
Humility.
Remembering God.
Sincere worship and good deeds.
Asking for a blessed ending.
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UP GRADUATE GIVES HEARTFELT SPEECH -
“Sana Hindi N’yo Na Lang Ako Pinanganak”
(A Graduation Speech That Shook the Nation)
In a society that romanticizes resilience but often overlooks the pain that fuels it, the graduation post of Jaynard, a Magna Cum Laude Chemical Engineering graduate from the University of the Philippines Los Baños.was not just a story. It was a mirror. A cry. A plea for understanding.
"Sana hindi n’yo na lang ako pinanganak."
It is a sentence that cuts deep, not just for parents, but for anyone who has ever questioned their place in this world. Jaynard’s post didn’t go viral because it was sensational. It resonated because it was real.
•Growing Up with Dreams Bigger Than Circumstances
Jaynard grew up in a home filled with love but void of luxury, comfort, or even stability. His parents were hardworking, his father juggling every job he could find and his mother taking on multiple roles just to put food on the table. Yet, love does not erase hunger. It does not pay tuition. It cannot silence the questions a young mind asks when it sees his peers eating full meals while he and his brother split a single egg, fighting silently over who got the yolk.
He excelled in school, not because it was easy, but because it was the only way out. He believed in education the way some people believe in miracles. But hope is heavy when it’s carried alone.
The sadness in his words is not rooted in hate or ingratitude, but in exhaustion. In the relentless burden of being the family’s hope. Of constantly sacrificing one’s own desires just to survive just to make meaning of the suffering.
•When Childhood is a Battlefield
At only 11, Jaynard had his first taste of deep emotional despair. A simple request to ride with his friends during a local fiesta was denied due to lack of money. A child’s innocent wish turned into a bitter reminder of poverty’s grip. It wasn’t just about the ride; it was about being reminded, again, that they didn’t have enough. That he didn’t have enough.
That night, he uttered it for the first time: “Sana hindi n’yo na lang ako pinanganak.”
To some, this may sound ungrateful. But to those who have known poverty intimately, it’s not about blaming your parents. It’s about the heartbreak of knowing they’ve given everything, and still, it’s not enough.
•Even in College: Hunger, Guilt, and a Heavy Crown
Fast forward to UP scholarships, stipends, and a title: “Iskolar ng Bayan.” But while he bore that title with pride, he also bore the weight of unpaid debts, of siblings still in need, of bills piling up. His allowance, instead of covering his daily needs, was sent home. His stomach empty, his mind tired, he whispered those painful words again.
In those moments, he didn’t hate his parents, he hurt for them. He grieved not only for his own struggles, but for the dreams his parents never got to chase. What if his father had become the engineer? What if his mother, brilliant and ambitious, had finished college and become a professional?
“Don’t Let Your Child Be Like Me.”
This wasn’t a message of bitterness. It was a warning.
“Parenthood isn’t just about love,” Jaynard stressed. “It’s about readiness.”
He wasn’t condemning his parents. He was confronting a cycle, a system where people bring life into the world out of pressure, tradition, or accident, without the resources to truly nurture it. Where poverty births more poverty. Where children grow up carrying not just their own burdens, but the dreams and debts of the generation before them.
•To future parents, he had a powerful message: Think. Wait. Prepare. Don’t have a child simply because “it’s time” or “everyone else does.” Ask: Can I give them a life where they don’t have to choose between eating and studying? Where they don’t have to feel guilty for existing?
•And Yet, Love Endures
Despite the pain, Jaynard never stopped loving his parents. His story is filled with longing for a better life, not just for himself but for them. When his mother responded publicly, affirming her love and pride for her son, it was a full-circle moment.
She had no regrets. Her child, despite the odds, had become someone extraordinary. And that, perhaps, was worth everything.
•To the Silent Fighters: You Are Not Alone
To every student who skipped meals to buy school supplies. To every eldest child who became second parent. To every dreamer forced to grow up too soon:
Your pain is valid. Your journey is hard. But you are not alone.
As Jaynard said, “Living in poverty is no joke. But let’s not lose hope.”
Let us dream of a world where no child has to justify their birth. Where being born poor doesn’t mean being born doomed. Let us break the cycle, through compassion, through accountability, through readiness.
So that one day, no child will ever have to say,
“Sana hindi n’yo na lang ako pinanganak.”
And instead say,
“Salamat, dahil kahit mahirap, hindi ninyo ako pinabayaan.”
May this story spark not just empathy, but action. Toward a future where every child is a choice, a blessing, and a promise fulfilled.
-GalawangFrancisco
•In Photo: Jaynard, a Magna Cum Laude Chemical Engineering graduate from the University of the Philippines Los Baños
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