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Mayor, maraming salamat.
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Thank you for the invite. It's an honor na nasama ako dito sa episode na ito, Tito Boy.
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You were saying that in the beginning, takot ka magsalita sa harap ng publiko?
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Actually, I grew up being the scrawny kid, mahiyain, always back of the class.
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And I remember back in college…
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Scrawny as in payatot.
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Payatot. So mahiyain talaga ako.
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I knew I had to do something about myself.
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If I knew that I stayed the way I am, being the shy kid, I wouldn't achieve a lot.
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Kakusapin ko sarili ko na kailangan mo magbago.
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You have to get out of your comfort zone for you to grow.
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So that's where it all started.
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And sakto, my dad asked me, do you want to serve?
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Do you want to serve the public?
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And sige, sabi ko, for me, it was outside the comfort zone na iyon eh.
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Public speaking, public service.
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And my dad told me na, if you want to serve, you should be at the lowest position para masubukan mo.
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And it was barangay captain.
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So it was the lowest form of government and it's a good place to start.
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And I saw my dad growing up being a public servant.
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And nakita ko naman yung benefits in a sense na the way he helps people.
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Nakikita ko yung impact na pwede mong ibigay sa tao.
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And nakita ko, if there is a chance for me to serve,
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and at the same time help me get out of my comfort zone being that shy kid,
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then why not take it?
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So it's like hitting two birds in one stone.
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So you get to try this certain thing and at the same time,
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you get out of that comfort zone which you have been wanting to do.
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Pero hindi siya nabi ng dad na kung interesado ka,
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kailangan ka tumakbo dahil kailangan kang sumunod sa akin.
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Walang gano'ng pag-uusap.
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I would always remember that my dad would always give us a choice.
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Kaming mga magkakapatid.
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So if you said no to your dad, you wouldn't have been in politics or public service?
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Because I would like to get your take on the very controversial political dynasties.
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Anong iniisip mo?
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Political dynasties are not necessarily bad.
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And in a sense, hindi naman siya pinipilit ng mga dynasties.
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It's not them that pushes for it.
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It's the people's vote that brings us into the positions we're in right now.
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If you want to battle the negative effects of political dynasties,
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it's a matter of educating the voters.
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The hands of the title, the positions we're in, are in the power of the voters.
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So it's much more on educating which people to vote even if they're a dynasty or not.
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But are they actually doing something good or not for their respective jurisdictions.
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I totally hear your point.
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Gaano kalala ang vote-buying sa Alaminos?
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Well, it's not as rampant as in other provinces.
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Because in our city, ang nakikita pa rin talaga ng tao is yung servisyon ng tao.
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No matter how much you pay someone,
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as long as you've helped this particular person with the programs that my father has done,
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siyempre hindi nila kakalimutan.
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So it's not as bad as other areas?
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Elections can be scary.
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It can be so negative.
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It can be so chaotic.
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It can be so toxic.
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Nariyan na yung negative and positive campaigning.
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Pwede ka naman lumaban na hindi kayo nagsisaraan.
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But what was your experience like in the two elections you've been through?
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Sabi mo nga, Tito Boy, that's very, ano na yan?
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Wherever you go, whatever you do, meron at merong mema.
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May mamay lang masabi.
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Of course, it's going to sting a little.
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Pero sabi ko nga, when it's election time, walang magbabasa ng comments.
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What was the biggest issue raised against you?
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For me, it was my age.
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They would mock me.
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This kid is too young.
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May gata sa labi, walang alam.
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Sinabi pa nga, umuuhog pa.
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How did you fight that?
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I just told them, at the end of the day, it's your choice if you want to try me.
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Yan lang naman yung sinasabi ko.
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Just give me the opportunity to serve.
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Ngayon na ikay pangalawang term na as mayor, pag-usapan natin yung style of leadership.
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Are you in the shadow of your father?
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Are you crafting your own style of leadership?
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Sino ka bilang isang leader?
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My dad and I are very different.
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Different in a way na I'm very meticulous.
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And your dad is not?
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Basta when he was the mayor, he was like, I want this done.
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I look at the data, I look at the resources, the pros and cons.
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So, I look at everything before actually deciding.
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And I look at my peers for evaluation.
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What do you think of this?
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What do you think of that?
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So, it's more of a collaborative leadership that I do in the city.
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If you were asked as to what your biggest achievement is for your town, anong sasabihin mo?
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Yun, ang ginagawa natin ngayon is we're actually developing a new downtown.
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And that's something that I would want to leave a legacy.
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Kasi, syempre, that's the vision that I have.
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Since nung last three years was mainly on pandemic response.
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And majority of the funds went to the pandemic response.
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So, in terms of infra, infrastructure development, wala masyado.
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Because you have to focus on other things, which is the pandemic.
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So, marami kami mga plano na ginagawa ngayon.
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And hopefully, in this term and the next term, hopefully that I get,
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ma-fulfill yung vision ko for Alaminos to have to be its own commercial hub in Western Pangasinan.
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How much political resistance do you have in the City Hall?
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Ka-alyado mo ba ang mga konsehal?
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Ka-alyado mo ba ang mga katrabaho mo?
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Or do you fight for your programs, for your policies?
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Nung 2019, I could see the tension of the munisipyo noon.
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Kasi, syempre, bata and all the department heads were more or less double my age.
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So, I knew that I had to do something.
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I had to gain their respect somehow.
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So, it was a challenge for me.
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And that's how I did, nung pandemic.
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All the services were good.
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And people saw what I did.
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And, syempre, naging snowball effect.
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And a lot of people were proud of me.
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And then, sila na rin nadala na, okay, this is my mayor and I'm proud.
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Do you have a local party?
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Do you belong to a national party?
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With the Villars.
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Nationalista party.
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Okay, how important is that?
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I mean, do you believe that the multi-party system in this country, from the lens of local government, does it actually work?
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Are you for a multi-party system?
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Are you for a two-party system?
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You know, something, ano talaga eh, that's the thing, that's the scary about a two-party system.
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It might get too polarized.
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So, that's the scary thing when it becomes a two-party system.
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But, with what we have now, parang, oo, nandyan na yan.
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It doesn't talk about ideologies or whatever.
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You're basically going to a party because someone's here, someone's there.
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Kasa kaibigan mo yung ganito, o ganon.
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Oo, medyo wala siyang effect in the way that you want to.
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But, it's just scary when you put a two-party system and the country becomes too polarized.
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Polarization happens also in a multi-party system, which happened very, very clearly in the last presidential elections.
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Napaka-divided pa rin, napaka-polarized pa rin.
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Well, elections in general are polarizing.
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Pero, ang paniniwala mo, Bryan, pag dalawa, mas lalong magbabakbakan.
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And, for me, it doesn't really have an effect.
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Parang, being in a political party doesn't really give that a big of an effect, in a sense, when you're managing.
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When you're managing.
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But, in election, it helps.
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So, for me, political parties are there when election comes.
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Four, five years into politics, what are the things that you still want to learn in government service, in public service, in politics?
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Actually, one thing that I would want to learn more is urban planning.
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Kasi, that's one thing that really…
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Ano yan? You're managing a city.
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So, when you want to make something, a lot of politicians would just do projects in a pitchy-pitchy.
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And then, pag dating na 10 years, 15 years, you would think back, you should have done this.
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We did this, and now, mali pala siya.
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And, it takes a lot of…
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What are you doing to adjust this?
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Do you have experts advising you?
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So, itong development na ginagawa namin.
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It's not pitchy-pitchy.
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That's why we're developing a 40-hectare property.
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Hindi siya yung basta-basta lang.
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Kasi nga, that's hard to undo.
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That's the thing that I realized before.
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Kaya, ang hirap ngayon, like yung traffic in Alaminos.
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You're spending people's money.
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That's why you cannot rush things.
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Tama yung sinasabi mo.
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Hindi ka nahihirapan.
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From urban planning, to education, to climate change, to tourism.
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Tapos, may araw-araw kang buhay.
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Expectations are very high.
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Kasi kung disadvantage yung youth mo during the elections,
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pag nanalo ka naman, napakatasang expectations.
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In a study, somebody said that,
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tumataas naman yung expectations sa mga tao,
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dahil you have so much energy,
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you have so much to give,
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hindi ka napapagod.
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Well, sabi ko nga eh.
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I tell my friends, kasi I have other hobbies as well.
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They tell me, like small hobbies,
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like photography.
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I used to make short films.
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So, they tell me,
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ba't may time ka pa niyan to do all those things?
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alam mo, we have 24 hours in a day.
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You say, 8 hours of that is for you sleeping.
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Another 8 hours is you working.
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So, that's 16 hours.
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Another 4 hours of that is you eating or doing whatever.
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And you're still left with another 4 hours that you can do.
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And an hour of doing something,
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maraming malaking bagay.
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Malaking bagay na when you do it every day.
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So, that's one thing that I try to manage.
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So, 24 hours, how many hours are for love?
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Love for the people.
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Ano yan? 24 hours yan.
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But you also have to take good care of yourself.
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I mean, not just health-wise,
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but holistically.
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Diba? Yung natutunan natin.
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Of course, of course.
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At the end of the day,
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malaking bagay yung mental health.
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Mahirap yung nagsisimple ka nang wala ka sa mood.
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Kasi the days grow longer.
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You know, one of the greatest leaders of the world said one time,
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na ang kanyang political equation ay,
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what is it that you want in the end,
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and what is the best way to get there?
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I tell this to my friends.
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And sinasabi ko sa kanila,
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the one thing that makes me happy in life
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is not to actually make me happy,
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but to see others happy.
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And I know that a part of them being happy is because of me.
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So, that's one thing that resonated with me.
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And for me, naging sustainable in a sense na you'll always be fulfilled.
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That's servant leadership.
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You'll always be fulfilled.
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Kasi you see the happiness in other people's happiness.
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And when you focus on yours,
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at the end of the day,
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there are always going to be people that will have a better life,
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that's always going to be more happy,
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and you're always going to want more
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when certain things make you happy.
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And yun, it's very sustainable
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when certain things that make you happy
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are other people that are happy.
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If you have the power to do this, Brian,
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as a public leader, as a public figure,
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nagkasala ang kapatid mo,
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kaya mong ipakulong?
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Halimbawa na patunayan na may sala.
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O siyempre, the law is the law.
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You could have been into business.
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I know your dad asked you to get into politics.
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You could have been really rich.
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You could have been so much,
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you could have been a big entrepreneur or a businessman,
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but you chose to get into public service.
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I know you've been in politics not for a long time,
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in hindsight, you're happy with that decision?
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being rich doesn't really make me a fulfilling person.
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It's the one thing that,
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seeing other people happy is the thing that makes me happy.
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Sabi ko sa mga kaibigan ko,
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I mean, when they see politicians,
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they see them up there.
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They see politicians as someone who's above everyone else.
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And I told my friends,
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actually, you know,
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I would give it up just to have a simple life.
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And I think I still stand by it.
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Four years in being a mayor,
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having all the authority,
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people would corrupt.
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Absolute power corrupts.
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And there are instances,
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being in a certain position as I have right now,
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that it will give you the opportunity to use absolute power.
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Last night of the world,
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you were supposed to host dinner,
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and you were to invite five guests.
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sinong iimbitahin mo at bakit?
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Of course, it would be my family.
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Sakto, lima sila.
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You will have dinner with your family?
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Actually, that's one thing na medyo nawala,
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being a politician now.
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I mean, being a mayor.
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Kasi we all have separate lives.
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my dad still lives in Alaminos,
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but he's a congressman now.
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lagi siyang nasa Manila.
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And whenever I'm in,
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whenever pag weekend naman,
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ako naman yung nasa Manila,
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never nagsasabay.
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So, long story short,
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never nagsasabay yung time namin,
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especially with my siblings.
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And that's really something that I miss.
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Na nakikita na lang kami
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pag special occasions.
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That's something that you really miss.
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If you have your way,
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would you want to get married
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in your 30s or late?
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Because I want to grow up with the kids.
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So, I'm really inclined to being
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a family-oriented person.
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Probinsyano ka, probinsyano ako.
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I'm sure tinatanong ka
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ng mga kababayan mo,
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Mayor, kailangan mo mag-aasawa?
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I'm sure you get that question.
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It's about three years from now.
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Actually, before yun.
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Ah, yun ang sagot mo?
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come to think of it,
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I have to rephrase my answer
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nagtatanog sa akin nun recently,
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but my life goal would hopefully
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Mayor Bryan, are you single?
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If you were to create
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a slogan for Mayor Bryan,
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not the slogan of
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the family of the party,
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what would that slogan be today?
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It would be something
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that would resonate
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in a lot of people.
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Being in politics,
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syempre, like I said,
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people see you differently.
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if I were to have a slogan,
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me, Bryan Celeste,
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para lang ikaw at ako.
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Something that goes along those lines.
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It's hard to make now.
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But it's very personal.
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It sounds very personal.
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It's about ikaw at ako.
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You are at the pearly gates.
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You are at the entrance of heaven
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and God is there.
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ano ang pinakamabuting bagay
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na nagawa mo para sa akin?
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Anong sasabihin mo sa Panginoon?
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I wouldn't say something
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that's very band-aid.
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But I think it's,
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I inspired someone to be better.
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Like, holistically.
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Like, as a person.
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And I think that's something
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that I'm really proud of.
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And I had a friend,
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I'm getting a tattoo.
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And I want it to be personal.
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But if you were to describe me
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what would it be?
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Na yun ang ipapatattoo ko.
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pagmamili ako ng tattoo,
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to be a lighthouse.
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Bakit? Sabi ko, bakit?
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Because you helped me find the way.
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Now I have a lighthouse tattoo.
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bakit lighthouse?
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Sabi na, it's so random.
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So you have that now?
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Oo. It's so random.
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Bakit lighthouse? Sabi ko.
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Well, I tell them that story.
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I find lost souls,
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And it's something
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that I'm very proud of.
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because you spoke about
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Congressman Celeste,
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were to describe you
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and don't tell me
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because I will one day.
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If he were to describe you
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ano sa palagay mo
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If my dad would describe me,
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Bryan, maraming salamat
19:17.0
and continue to serve.
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Continue to love your country.
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Thank you, Tito Boy.
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and, of course, our country.
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Maraming salamat.
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