larawan, pahintulot mula kay Mr. Harold Fadriquela.)
Isa na lang, isang beses pa
Bago mo tuluyang lisanin ang mga pinagsaluhang tuwa at luha
Baka maaari pang pag-usapan, hindi ganyang lagi kang tulala
O kayay tatawa, pagdaka’y iiyak
Ano ngayon ang kahulugan ng katinuan?
Gayong pilit mo itong tinatakasan
Wag mong sabihing nagsawa ka na
Sa hirap, sa buhay sa politika?
Hindi! Ang buhay ay hindi matematika
Na mayroong tiyak na sagot, at tiyak na husga
Kaya huwag muna, huwag muna
Marami pa tayong tatapusin, marami pa tayong makukuha
Gurlis, damit na may mantas, paa na may tibak
Isang pirasong bag na hindi mo pinakikita ang laman
Malayo masyado ang iyong nilalakbay
Ngunit saan ka pupunta, gusto naming sumama, gusto naming makiisa
Huwag muna, huwag muna
Maanong lingunin panandali
Marami kang kasama, masyado ka lang mabilis, o masyado kaming mabagal
At hindi tuloy nakita ang kagandahan ng iyong ginagawa
Ligtas ka sa kamunduhan, dahil hindi mo ito naisip
Ligtas ka sa kasakiman, dahil ayaw mong mag-ari
Ligtas ka sa kasalanan, dahil hindi naming abot ang iyong naiisip
Ngunit bakit ka nag-isa, sandal muna, sandal muna
Maaring isa pa bang pagkakataon?
Na makisabay kami sa iyong awit tuwing hatinggabi gabi
O makikain sa hapag na nilikha na iyong isip
At doon, muli nating ibalik ang realidad na sabay-sabay nating hinabi?
"People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma....."- Toffler
In his book, Future Shock, American futurist and writer Alvin Toffler once said the statement in our heading. Nakakalungkot mang aminin, bes, we are the people of the future, and we will be carrying this curse as long as we breath.
Tama ka, hindi natin ito pinili. Unti-unti, nare-realize natin na nagiging alipin na tayo ng gadgets, ng Android. It is as if, we could no longer breath, and talk. and think without them....
Tingin ko, hindi sinabi ni Toffler un nang wala lang. Its almost an accepted norm that we human beings of the 21st century are exposed and most of the times hooked into Android gadgets. From the year 1940, where the first Artificial Intelligence machine proto-type was developed ng imperyalistang US, until this very moment, obvious naman na talagang inherent na sa ating mga tao ang pag-rely sa Android and artificial intelligence, in its strict sense, for whatever reason.
Mayroon tayong inner attachment sa mga bagay na may kakayahang gawin ang mga ginagawa ng tao. Sino ba namang hindi mahuhumaling na makapag-ari ng isang bagong Android gadget!
Inadvertently, naa-akit tayo sa social status na dala ng gadget na ito. Most of the times, we fell victim (being helpless consumers) to various models and modification ng isang gadget, be it a phone, a laptap, or a piece of self-learning devices. At sa sobrang bilis ng pagpapalit ng mga modelo at features ng mga gadget na ito, madalas hindi na tayo makasabay.
From the year 1940, where the first Artificial Intelligence machine proto-type was developed ng imperyalistang US, until this very moment, obvious naman na talagang inherent na sa ating mga tao ang pag-rely sa Android and artificial intelligence, in its strict sense, for whatever reason. Mayroon tayong inner attachment sa mga bagay na may kakayahang gawin ang mga ginagawa ng tao.
Sino ba namang hindi mahuhumaling na makapag-ari ng isang bagong Android gadget! Inadvertently, naa-akit tayo sa social status na dala ng gadget na ito. Most of the times, we fell victim (being helpless consumers) to various models and modification ng isang gadget, be it a phone, a laptap, or a piece of self-learning devices. At sa sobrang bil9is ng pagpapalit ng mga modelo at features ng mga gadget na ito, madalas hindi na tayo makasabay.
"Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time." - Toffler
Let's face it, gradually, we are being forced to learn and re-learn technology; be it by choice or by necessity.
The Internet of All Things
Ed Oswold of DIGITAL TRENDS explained the "internet" of all things in households. Simply put, we are now in the age were almost all of the stuff in our own homes are automated by the internet, sort of A.I. engines that will make our doors locked automatically through a pre-defined command. Then you have a face-detection technology that opens or unlocked a particular device should it recognize an attempting familiar face.
AI in house or public places revolves around the idea of "smart hub", or simply put, a galaxy of wireless router that has its own language system which performs a pre-defined task when triggered.
Sounds spooky bes, parang haunted house lang. Imagine light bulbs opens by itself when it detects infrared heat?
Pero nangyayari talaga ito bes. Hindi lang ito nakikita sa pelikula nila James Bond or Mission Impossible.
Sa katunayan, a multitude of wireless technologies now exist for smart home wanabe owners. We have — Zigbee,Z-Wave, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and more. And there’s more smart home platforms to consider than ever before too. Isa-isahin natin ung mga nakita ko
Lahat ng mga na highlight sa taas ay may kakayahang sumunod sa ating gusto basta bigyan natin ng pre-defined commands, sa isang pinsot lang. Well, thanks to better AI and chatbots that understand context a whole lot better than ever before.
Aside from making our lives more convinient, and our tasks more productive, more jobs will also be automated. In factories, mass production will see much increase in prosuction rate, surpassing Ford's computation. Even journalist’s work on writing the news (don’t worry, we aren’t going anywhere).
At dahil nga intelligent, AI machines and gadgets are also capable of "learning" our life patterns and preferences, thus increasing antipation in our decision-making process. Imagine, gadgets and machines may well decide for us.
Applying the Law of Nature
Sabi ni Newton, every action has a corresponding counter reaction, or something like that. While we see the promising prospects of artificial intelligence and android in our lifestyle, we also have to anticipate its counter-development effects.
Mass Lay-off and Employment Insecurity
Minsan nang napag-usapan sa android forums ang pag-remove sa human component from food service. Imagine bots taking our orders and humanoid serving our foods which are systematically cooked in time-calculated cooking ranges. On top of that, delivery services may be done by drones. Well, thats a humongous retrenchment and mass lay-off of human workers. Kung buhay pa si Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin at Mao Tsetung malamang isumpa nila ang 20th- century proletarians!
The Death of "Tongue" Communication
While artificial intelligence and android tech in theory should make things easier, we also have to take into consideration the cons of automizing our lifestyle, lalo na sa konteksto ng pamilya.
We may hear complaints for a long time about the lack of interpersonal communication these days. In the context of this essay, I would call this synthetic relationships. Mga pekeng relasyon, as proliferated by AI bots and android applications.
Sincerity has been the least aspect of non-personal comms. Much that have to worry for communicating with unknown conversants. Talking with an unknown person and building trust is the worst thing that we could do. Diyos ko, ilan na ang nagahasa at naloko ng mga halang na kaluluwa na nagkukubli sa built persona ng isang android app i.e. FB, messenger, taptalk.
To give you a precise example: these days, mas gusto pang titigan ng mrs ko ang Vivo Y51 niya kesa lumingon sa pagmumukha ko!
To sum things up, artificial intelligence was initially meant to ease our toil, to build relationships and to further enhance our sense of humanity. Android only screws us up kapag we do things outrightly na kabaligtaran ng tunay na dahilan kung bakit ito inimbento.
Bes, alam mo bes, antagal ko nang kinikimkim to. bakit ganun sila bes? Bakit hindi nila pagbigyan muna si Tatay? Ang hard nila talaga! Oo tama, siya ang tinutukoy ko, si Tatay Digong, na minsan sa aking buhay ay hinangaan ko at minahal. Siya nga, at siya pa rin ang susubukan kong isulat!
Actually, nakausap ko na mga mahal ko sa buhay. Nagpa-alam na ako. Sa gagawin kong ito, malamang babaligtad ang mundo natin sa mga komento at argumento at marahil, mga kabobohang pwede iaanak ng sulatin na ito. Pero ika nga, tulad ng marami, Bes, masakit talaga lagi ang perstaym. Pero what the heck, walang basagan ng trip, isang batak lang to, promis, pare-parehas na tayong maha-high! Tanong mo pa kay Papa Paulo!
Sige, simulan natin sa araw kung paanong bumida si Tatay Digong sa kampanyahan, base sa pulso ng mga Pilipino bes.
(ung link na yan, CNN article yan bes, baka fakenews site, wag agad maniwala mga ka-DDS. Kahit basahin nyo pa)
Oo bes, sa limang kandidato sa pagka-pangulo, nangunguna noon si Tatay Digong, bes. Pero dahil sa CNN ito, di agad tayo naniwala. Mas maniwala tayo sa facebook, kasi sabi ng Facebook, si Tatay Digong ang nangunguna sa mga usapan sa post, sa messenger at tweets.
Imagine, noong November 20, 2015 to April 20, 2016, 17.9 million na katao sa buong mundo ang nag-uusap tungkol sa Philippine election. Wag ka bes, sa 176M, 68% ng usapan ay pabor kay Tatay Digong, oh ano ka pa! Ibig sabihin, kung may isang buong tinapay, lampas ng kalahati nung tinapay ay para kay Tatay Digong, na kulang na lang ay isungalngal sa bunganga ng kapit-bahay mong maka-Roxas, maka Poe, maka-Binay (only Binay2x chorus) bes.
Hiihihi, nakasama din siguro dyan bes sa mga naniwala kay Tatay Digong ung mga na tokhang na ngayon? Ilan na nga ba yun bes, di ba lampas nang 7,000 ung deads? Dapat lang naman! kasi bad sila, di ba bes. Bah, we have to kip our promis, basta adik, ligpit! Kahiya naman kay Gen. Bato!
Ilan kaya bes ang nasunugan ng sinaing, or natuyuan ng kalan at nasirang relasyon dahil sa kakapindot ng LIKE AT SHARE sa FB para kay Tatay? Ilan kaya ang kumita?
Pero wag lang natin bes ipagsabi na nung panahon na yan, dun din pumutok yung joke ni Tatay Digong tungkol sa pag-rape sa isang Australian missionary na si Jacqueline Hamil. Joke lang naman un bes di ba. Balat sibuyas sila masyado.
Kahit ako bes, kahit biruin ung asawa ko, o kapatid kong babae, o tita ko, o nanay ko, ok lang naman un, joke lang un di ba ng prisidinti?
May karapatan siya dun. Haaaaay, parang di na tuloy buo ang araw ko pag walang joke sa rape.
Kasi nga sibilisado tayo, at nid ng women sector to make intindi and understand all of these social nuances, my gosh bes, 20th century na tayo.
Alam ni tatay Digong ang ginagawa niya. Masyado lang silang nana! Eh ano kung gahasain ng mga sundalo at kapulisan ang nanay natin, ang ate natin, ang kapatid nating babae, anak na babae, o tita kaya. Kahit tayo bes, kahit gahasain tayo kapag Martial law, ok lang sa atin un bes! Sarap kaya magahasa kapag Martial Law, aminin.....
Saka yung link sa taas, fake news yan bes, dapat mas maniwala tayo sa mga blogs ng Thinking Pinoy at ni Mocha, uhhhhmm, aaahhhh Mocha! Yan ang journalism, the Asec style.
JOURNALISM ETHICS 101? journalism nyo mukha nyo. Mga bayaran. Bes tingnan mo dito si Asec bes, daliiiiii! Hihihihihi.
Cencia bes, nawala ako galing lang CR. Nasaan ba pamunas ko dito?
Ok bes, where were we?. Alam mo bang sumaya ako noong araw ng May 24, 2015, kasi di ba Bes, nag promis si Tatay Digong na papatay siya ng 100,000 na criminals at itatapon niya ung katawan nila sa Manila Bay?
Halos maihi ako nun sa salawal sa excitement! Biruin mo, masusunod na ung rason kung bakit natin binoto si Tatay? ANG PUMATAY NG SUSPECTED DRUG USERS! Ang saya ko kasi perstaym ko makaka kita ng nagsu-swimming na bangkay, hihihi. Alam mo bang malapit na tayo mag quota sa datos? Libo-libong adik na rin ang pinapatay bes. Tapos sasabihin lang ng Commission on Human Rights eh EJK daw, eh nanlaban naman ung 7000 na un ah;
Kabig tayo nang kaunti. Magaling talaga mangiliti ng imahinasyon si Tatay Digong. Naalala mo un bes, nung April 2016, nag dyowk si Tatay na sabi niya; "Mayor daw dapat nauna......" na mang rape sa isang dayuhan dati, nung 1989 sa isang kulungan. Hihihi, nakakakiliti talaga magsalita si Tatay Digong, haaaaay karinyoso talaga si Tatay noh.
Wish ko para kumpleto package, dapat magpatubo din siya ng balbas katulad kay Paquito Diaz at Dick Israel!
Inuulit ulit ko nga tong video na yan eh, parang nakikiliti ako bes.
Pero alam mo bes, ung pinakamasayang araw ko eh nung i-declare na siyang panalo noong May 30, 2016, batay sa siyentipikong pag-aaral ng Congress. At dun na nga nagsimula ang lahat bes, ang pagiging pangalawang Singapore ng Pilipinas kong mahal.
Walang puwedeng umepal sa Tatay Digong ko bes, kahit ung balugang si Obama bes, di nakahirit nung binungangaaan ni Tatay Digong. No show tuloy si Nognog noong bilateral meeting nilang dalawa sa Laos. Eto un bes.
Buti nga sayo Nognog, imperyalista kasi kayo, sabi ng Bayan Muna.
Pero bes, alam mo ba, kinabahan ako, nung lumutang si Edgar Matobato sa Senate hearing nung Sept. 15, 2016. Biruin mong pinagbintangan at idinawit si Tatay Digong sa Davao Death Squad! Aba! Hindi kayang pumatay ng tao si Tatay Digong! Kahit ung pag amin niya pumatay siya noong December 12, 2016 nung mayor pa siya, joke lang yun! Those people just dont know how to read between the lines!
Kahit itanong nyo pa kay Ate Jessica;
Alam mo ba bes ung pinakabagong pinupukol nila kay Tatay Digong? Natatawa ako bes, kasi, may kinalaman daw si Tatay sa droga, bes. Alam mo yun, si Paulo daw ang nasa likod ng merkado ng droga sa bansa? Dili uy! Joke lang un ng bayarang media!
Ngayon bes, ano sa tingin mo ang gagawin natin? Magpapasama sana ako sau para ipagtanggol natin si Tatay. Kaso dili na gyud uso ang rally. Nalilito na nga rin ako sa political spectrum ng Pinas eh.
Parang everything and everyone na could no longer differentiate ideology and oportyunisim. oooooppppsss.
Kaso ang daya mo bes, nauna ka na. Sori, wala ako nagawa para sa iyo. Ayaw kasi maniwala ng mga pulis na nagbago ka na, at di ka na bumabatak....minsan. Na tokhang ka tuloy, di man lang ako nakapag-paalam, di man lang nagpaalam, wohowohooo (repeat 1st stanza then refrain)
Ang sakit bes. Ansakit talaga.
Sana masaya ka na dyan sa puntod mo habang kinakain ng uod ang nabubulok mong katawang lupa, na sa kasalukuyan ay sumasailalim sa proseso na kung tawagin ay decomposition. Oo bes, magiging bahagi ka na ng lupa, na minsang nagluwal sau. Oo bes, bahagi ka talaga ng lupa.
Hindi ka talaga nanggaling sa puki ng nanay mo! Baog si Manang Flor! Nabuo ka lang mula sa lupa na hinugisan ng imahinasyon ko.
Sana masaya ka na dyan sa nitso mong second hand na ginamitan ng Bulldog Superglue, para di mabuksan ang pinto ng kabaong mo, kung pinto nga talaga ang tawag sa bwakanang inang yan.
Ako bes, alam mo, hindi ako masaya dito, kahit buhay pa ako at di pa nato-tokhang. Oo aaminin ko, kahit ganon pala kalalim ang panatisismo ko sa kahit anong gawin ni Tatay, deep in my heart, I know, may isang bahagi ng pagkatao ko ang nasasaktan kapag may pinapatay na kapwa-tao; suspect man siya o biktima.
Anyway, sige na, stay put ka lang dyan. Mag soundtrip na muna ako.
Template ng isang resignation letter na gawa ng isang fed-up na empleyado
Kumusta kayong lahat? Ako si Malayang Juan o Juang Malaya. Actually, ang apelyido ko talaga Malaya, kaya mas totoo sana na ang pangalan ko ay Juan Malaya. Hindi ko alam bakit naging Malayang Juan ang pangalan ko.
Siguro, nagkataon na nung panahon na nagpipirma ng birthcertificate ko si Amang, dala na rin marahil sa gutom at pagod sa pangungutang ng ipambabayad sa ospital, nag-fill up siya ng birth certificate form ng baligtad ang papel, o kaya siya ang nakabaligtad habang pumipirma.
Anyway, ako si Malayang Juan, kahit hindi naman talaga malaya. Ikaw ba naman ang maghirap ng kung ilan taon dahil sa kawalan ng trabaho at kakaunting sahod. Hindi ka rin malaya kapag nagtrabaho ka ng matagal, tapos babaratin at babalasubasin ka pa sa workplace mo.
Kaya hindi na ako nakatiis noon sa trabaho ko, sabi ko, sobra na ito, magtintinda na lang ako ng kamote. Gumawa ako ng resignation letter para ipasa sa boss ko. Ang problema, hindi ako marunong gumawa, kaya eto, ipinaskil ko na dito,
December something, 2011
The National Coordinator
BALATUBA Company
Hi Pepe Smith and Wesson,
First of all, Id like to greet you and those who could read this a meaningful Christmas, remembering not only the things that could be bought by a deducted 13th month pay annuity, but remembering also the true spirit of this season, that is, the virtue of humility, forgiveness and love, even to oppressors and manipulators.
I would like to formally tender my irrevocable resignation effective today.
Being a helpless witness with the sudden resignations of my colleagues, and even my immediate superior, my National Coordinator, I came to think and asked myself of the vulnerabilities inside the BALATUBA office. I keep on asking myself if there is something in me that forces my co-workers to resign?
But the remarks of my co-workers, the team are heart-warming and vindicating, as they too believe in my compassion to pursue the delivery of the program components.
Perhaps, we have to talk to other people who really know me, the people that I have ate with, I have dreamt with, I have hoped with. I know that you know that it is not proper and effective to define a person with adjectives and noun coming only from one vantage point. Perhaps McLuhan is not effective in saying that the “medium is the message”.
You know Pepe Smith and Wesson that I have been silent, and kept on being silent on issues that require high-profile discussions with regards to governance, even if it will affect the program staff.
This is because I know, I have to observe protocol, especially when the discussion and communication is obviously for the eyes of the BOARD only, or for the eyes of DISTANT BOSSES ABROAD.
I have never, in my whole stint in the organization, air my insights and thoughts with regards to the welfare of the staff, without consulting it to you.
For my 5 years of stay, I always looked upon you and have always asked you to please air our concerns. I have never personally emailed them of any concerns which I am telling you from my second year in BALATUBA1 until now. For the past five years, I have always asked you the following questions;
Were the salaries of our staff equitably distributed? Will these salaries be enough to sustain and feed their families?
Do we need to give them fringe benefits like SSS, Philhealth, hazard pay, overtime pay, rewards for good performance, and other benefits as mandated by the Philippine Labor Code?
Is the fluidity of program funds really transparent? Do we really know who disburses our funds, aside from what the program team knows?
Are the budget expense declarations concise?
Is the organization policy responsive to the organization itself and to the staff? Was it agreed upon in consensus?
Who should really manage us? This I will have a statement, that you should do that, as you have positively and gainfully done for the past four years. Here, I have to commend you for training me, and most of the staff to effectively deliver program objectives.
What is the difference between program management and program monitoring? Are they interchangeable or not? You are my immediate superior I know, but who is my not-so-immediate superior?
Is it proper to disclose program information without the prior consent of the program head? Are personalities higher than you authorized to extract sensitive information of a staff without your approval? Have you approved extraction of information of a staff, without the concerned staff’s knowledge?
What is the difference of salary deduction and unnotified annuity deduction?
You know Pepe Smith and Wesson, that I have always asked you to please stand with us, you colleagues, your immediate partners, your countrymen, that by the end of the day, we hope that you will gain the fruits of our labors or suffer also the consequences spawned by our efforts to pursue genuine staff dignity.
By this point, I know and I believe that you did it. I am thankful for that.
I would like to thank you for your continued training on how to work pro-actively. Until now, I know that you are still teaching me how to be pro-active. And yes I am still struggling to learn that. But with the present condition in our office, I am sorry that still have to unlearn that. I cannot be pro-active if I am still asking these questions:
Are there personalities intervening in our program implementations?
Are there program staff being brainwashed and lured with opportunities to sell their co-workers leading to the latter’s professional deterioration?
Are there staff being tried by publicity? Heresy
I will have to admit this to you that there are personalities encouraging me to state negative statements against other people. People who are also making ways to underestimate me by wicked propaganda and false heresy.
But I will not do that, that is not within my value system. I shall only thank them that for once, in my professional life, I have met and learned with them. And I will value these learnings so that wherever I may go, I shall be cautious on dealing with multi-faceted persons.
Again, I am thankful for the trainings and learnings that I have gained from the Inclusive Education program. I pray and hope that the institution, the BALATUBA and all the personas working with and within, will have the greatest time in pursuing the cause of the sector of persons with disabilities, WITHOUT PAYBACKS POISONING THEIR HEARTS.
Love and Kisses,
Malayang Juan
Dito ko ginawa resignation letter. As in dito talaga, binuwal ko to at ginawa kong patungan ng yellow paper na susulatan ko. After mabasa to ng boss ko, namatay siya sa bangungot.
