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Katulog tayo ng konti. Nakikita niyo sa ating puffy eyes.

Eto na, eto na.

Grabe oh tignan mo. Ngayon pala magsasunrise dito.

10am na almost.

At parang ngayon lang magsasunrise dito. Grabe yung schedule natin dito.

Thank you Lord. Medyo safe tayo. Nakapunta dun sa isang iceberg area, yung Russell Iceberg.

Really fantastic place. I really suggest people to go there.

And just as a test no?

Nagpalit tayo ng sapatos. Actually sabi ko gamitin ko yung isang sapatos.

So eto, eto, eto, eto. Yung mga interesado d'yan.

Go for ano, Cloud Monster version ng on-shoes.

Especially kung makahanap kayo ng sale edition. Nakahanap ko ng sale edition nun.

So sobrang sulit yung Cloud Monster kasi sobrang lalim yung kanyang mga dun sa ilalim niya.

So ang dami niyang snow na makakuha.

So even if hindi ako gumamit ng icebreaker or snowpiercer, sapat na sapat yung shoes na yan.

So very very good shoes. So I suggest go for Cloud Monster on.

Yun po yung ginamit natin kahapon. Especially kung nakahanap po kayo ng...

Wag magagag na yung mga usual stuff. Mga Adidas, Nike ganon. Go for Cloud Monster.

Very good. Yung Cloud Monster version ng on ha.

Hindi yung mga normal. Kasi yung iba may normal silang on na medyo flat version.

Hindi siya masyadong maganda daw dun sa...

Salamone na lang mas maganda daw.

But yung Cloud Monster sobrang lalim. So pag kanyang mga pag tapak mo ng snow,

Krrsh krrsh krrsh, you can hear talaga the crunch.

So go for it. Anyway,

siyempre hindi naman tayo travel vlogger per se but I'm looking at making a number of videos sana based dito sa mga

ibang travels natin. Especially you know as a form of encouragement dun sa mga ibang kababayan natin na

gusto you know to go to the frontiers of the world.

At yung mga tao na gusto makita ng ano no? Yung mga

people who want to see

you know kasi hindi natin alam gaano katatagal to eh.

Maybe in 50 years, 100 years wala na yung mga ibang icebergs dito.

Greenland has the largest iceberg ice sheet overall in the world outside Antarctica

and biggest in the northern hemisphere. So makikita mo talaga yung remnants ng ice age and deep into the horizon no?

You peer deep into the horizon. It's like an abyss of frozen dunes no? So sobrang magical yan.

So yun ang suggest ko sa inyo. So make sure if you come here you use

icebreakers, mayroon kaming dala ng snowpiercer, icebreakers, whatever you want to call it.

So very important yan. Pero certain parts na hindi masyadong icy and snowy,

Cloud Monster on addition should do the trick right?

Tinest ko yan talaga kahapon. It worked very very well.

So yung Cloud Monster addition kasi nga yung mga flat addition hindi ganon ka ganda yata dito sa mga snow.

It has to be the taller Cloud Monster addition naman. Anyway, yun yung suggestion ko dun sa mga gusto mag

climb climb ng intense.

Now as you know mga kamayto of course I would be happy to post nice pictures and all but

as you know

well you know our heart goes to to all of the people are suffering right now

in the Middle East. Ako sabi ko I don't care what's your color your creed or country

when you know thousands of children are dying whether it's on this side of the border on that

side of the border that's that's something that's gonna really really hurt us but I just felt it's

not the right time to post yung mga imang pictures na and I tried to make um you know to make sure

now we we get the best pictures possible but siguro medyo later pa natin yung post unti-unti

because I'm just not in the state of mind. Actually last year nasa Europe din tayo back to

back to pa ang dami ko muna hindi na post ng picture kasi nangyari yung giyera sa Ukraine.

So parang you feel it's it's a bit insensitive no to to post about you know mga glamour shot feels

uh when you know so much suffering and pain is happening especially when children and women

are affected or elderly affected. Ibang usapan yan eh. Ibang usapan yan. Now going back to the

Philippines obviously hindi ako nakapagpoto. Medyo malayo ata yung voting boots. I think nandun

pa sa NUC sa kabila at best if not all the way back in Copenhagen. So unfortunately I was not able

to vote. So here we have barangay elections. Now barangay elections are interesting because

well in many ways ito yung microcosm ng ating politika. It gives us idea about the fundamentals

of Philippine politics. It gives us ideas about the fundamental problems of the Philippine

politics. So base sa mga reports na nakita ko kanina mga ilan po namatay. So a report that

came out a few hours earlier said at least tatlo po ang namatay related dun sa barangay elections

na nagaganap dyan sa Pilipinas. So you know dun pala nakikita mo na this is a microcosm of

Philippine politics. Guns, goons, and gold. And I wonder you know if there are going to be some

comprehensive reports about corruption etc. Atsaka yung mga sanggunian kapataan, SK

Elections pa or kahit sa barangay elections level dun pala nakikita natin na andun na yung

ugat ng problema. Yung mga sinasabi na batang-bata palang trapo na or barangay level palang

parang malapresidente na yung kilos, yung mga the moves. At alam natin million-million dolyar na

ngayon ang ginagastos pag tawatakbo sa barangay elections sa ibang lugar. So this is insane.

This tells you that there's something fundamentally wrong talaga sa ating demokrasya.

Because barangays are something unique to the Philippines. Because if you look at the Philippines

prior to the arrival of European colonizers whether it's the Spanish, whether it's the Americans,

or whether it's the Japanese at some point also colonizers, actually we had political entities,

political institutions and polities pero relatively small size. And barangay of course

comes from the word balangay and it will go back to yung story ng mga bangka na ginagamit ng ating

ancestors roaming through seas and oceans. So a lot of us have DNAs that can be traced all the way

to Madagascar. So our ancestors crossed the Indian Ocean all the way to places like the Philippines.

Yung malayan roots natin can be traced all the way back to Madagascar. So for some of you who may

have met people from Madagascar, I have a friend from Madagascar who's actually French,

Paris-based. So you look at it, our ancestors went through oceans. And some of them went all

the way to Hawaii and all the way to the other side of the Pacific near Chile. So we have amazing

ancestors. So when China says that, oh thousands of years ago, I don't know, Admiral Zhang He was

not even a Chinese, he was a Muslim, Central Asian, Persian person. And when they say, oh our

ancestors roamed these areas, blah, blah, blah. Excuse me, no, our ancestors roamed the entire

Indian and Pacific Oceans for thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of years. Kaya nga

yung mga people similar to our DNA, malayan race, can be found all the way to actually here.

All the way here, you can say perhaps mga Inuits related, not sa malayan race, but asiatic races.

And all the way also of course to the Pacific Islands, to Guam. So we can have a long

conversation about it. I really suggest you guys read the book, The Dawn of Everything. It's a

pretty long book, a thousand page book, but it tells you a lot about archaeological and

anthropological discoveries of the late, which helps you to appreciate things that put things

into context. Now, meron akong isang interview, ehabol ko yung issue ng Philippine vote sa United

Nations at saka yung approach natin sa Middle East. But before going there, speaking of Barangay,

sabi ko nga, the best way to appreciate Tatay Digong's foreign policy is Barangay

geopolitics. Yung kanyang pag-intindi sa nuances and sophistication of foreign policy

ay ka-level ng isang Barangay official na wala pang napuntaan masyado around the world. May

rami akong kilala na Barangay chairman na may mas maraming alam kay Tatay Digong. At mas

sophisticated na maraming napuntaan sa mundo. Pero yung kay Tatay talaga ito yung parangay level

lang. And speaking of how pang-barangay, yung kanyang politika was this. Yes, he was correct to

raise questions about the Philippines' dependence on the US, pero nag-jump siya kaagad sa China at

tignan natin ano nangyari sa mga proyekto ni Tatay Digong noong panahon niya. So six years. Six

years si Digong sa power. He was promised 24 billion dollars of investments by China. He was

promised multiple high-tech modern railways by China, including one in Mindanao and two others

in Luzon area. We're talking about billions of dollars and wala, nada, zilch, nilch, nothing.

Nothing happened. Nothing happened. Kaya nga sabi ko, mali yung mga kaibigan natin na iba na

nagsasabi. Debt trap. Ang debt trap po yung mangyari kung may nangyari investment. Sa atin wala

po nangyari. Pledge trap po yung nangyari. Puro pangako lang, purong pledge lang. Walang

nangyari sa parte ng China pero si Tatay Digong ay purong ganyan-ganyan sa China. So eto po kanina

si Transportation Secretary Bautista. Sabi niya itong mga projects estimated at 4.9 billion dollars

ay officially wala na. Sabi niya, we have three projects that won't be funded by the Chinese

government anymore. We can wait forever and it seems like China isn't that interested anymore.

So wala na. Accordingly, the Marcos Jr. administration is looking for better deals

proposed from Japan, Korea, Australia, or from the United States or the European Union,

which also have a lot of experience with the high-tech infrastructure projects,

and they provide interest rates that are way better than China. In China, interest rates are 3%,

4% plus. Japan, interest rates nila mga point something, right? Under 1%. So much better terms,

and of course, pagdating sa Japan, ang ganda ng quality. So masalamat kay Aquino, salamat kay

Digong, at salamat kay BBM na at least yung subway project natin na led by Japan ay tuloy-tuloy na,

and hopefully within two years, some of the new stations will open up. So yung mga susyal diyan na

mga taga BGC, Makati, baka makikitan yung mga first stations na yan, and hopefully before the end

of this decade, kompleto na yung subway made by Japan. I look forward to more railways in the

Philippines made by Japan since mukhang wala nangyari dito sa China yan. In fact, ayon sa

Philippine Senate, hindi lang itong tatlong railway projects ay medyo malala dahil sa sobrang

palpak ni tatay mag-negotiate ng mga international deals. Yan kasi, amateur nga, yabang-yabang.

That's what happens when you have iron will and yabang attached to little knowledge.

It's a very, very bad combination. So dito, ayon kay Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, aside from dito

sa mga palpak na China project na hindi na tuloy, six other projects under ODA have also been delayed.

Sabi ni Sherwin Gatchalian, we convene an overnight oversight on ODA so I know that many of the ODA

funded projects are delayed due to the implementation of the right of way and bidding.

Consider the economics and if the benefit outweighs the cost, will it be cheaper and will

the benefits be better? We need to balance it. That is never free. We need to pay for it.

So the six projects funded under ODA by China are the Mindanao Railway Project, Tagum-Davao-Digos

Segment, Closed Circuit Television Project in the cities of Marikina, Parañaque, Pasig, San Juan,

and Valenzuela, New Centennial Water Source, Kaliwa Dam Project, Philippine National Railway South

Long Haul Project, or the PNR-BICOL, Samal Island-Davao City Connector Project, and the Chico

River Pump Irrigation Project. Ayan kay Gatchalian, we should study the ODA based on the economy,

interest rates, and grace period. These are the important aspects. Geopolitics, that's just the

third. Are there greater benefits when it comes to economic activities? Now, as of the Department

of Finance earlier, nag-inform sila kay Chinese Ambassador Huang Shilian, ayan, dan pa siya,

na yung Philippines request for ADA from China for P83 billion dun sa Mindanao Railway Phase 1

was being pulled out. So, wala. It's over. Wala. Purong scam. And of course,

mahabang usapan yan. We can have a different vlog about this, mga kameta. Of course, on the side

of China, sasabihin nila, ang problema po ay hindi galing sa kanila. Ang problema po ay galing sa

Pilipinas. Ang sinasabi po nila, you know, yung Philippines laws and regulations, yung right of

way, sobrang komplikado. Yung right of expropriation ay komplikado. Tsaka, yung isa sa tama

sinasabi ng mga ibang Chinese yan, ay napakakurakot yung mga counterparts nila sa Pilipinas.

So, ito po yung project. Tapos, biglang iba na yung nagiging itsura ng project dahil daming gusto

mga kung ano yung kalokohan. Especially, nangyari ito dati, diba? So, okay, I kinda see the argument

of our pro-China friends or Chinese friends who are saying that actually ang problema sa Pilipinas

side. But let's be also honest, hindi lang sa Pilipinas nangyari yan. All around the world,

nangyakita natin na China makes billions of dollars of promises and really not much happens. Or

when it happens, it's Chinese workers, Chinese technology, Chinese engineering, Chinese

infrastructure, Chinese logistics. Alas walang participation in local countries tapos ang taas

pa yung interest rates as we saw in Sri Lanka, as we saw in many, many countries. Also in Laos. Yung

Laos mayabang sila kasi may speed railway sila. But there are big questions whether these are white

elephant projects. Many of the other projects that China built in Africa. Now, having said that,

that doesn't mean that necessarily maganda rin yung ginagawa ng ibang atbansa. Ang tanong ko

ngayon ay nasaan ang US? Nasaan ang US? Nasaan yung mga infrastructure projects naman ang US

sa Pilipinas? Japan? Okay, that's good. Pero hindi pwede na sasabihin ng US ay babash lang nila

yung China pero wala silang replacement. So the question right now is what is the US

and our Western partners gonna offer us now that essentially all of these tatay-era

belt and road projects ay wala nang say-say. Dahil wala naman talaga say-say to begin with.

But that shouldn't make us give easy pass to the other side because ano naman yung offer ng US

sa atin? Now, so far in fairness, pagdating naman dito sa West Philippines issue, President Biden

just the other day made it absolutely clear that the Philippines-US 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty

will apply should there be an attack on our troops, personnel, et cetera, and that the US

and Philippines will jointly, quote, defend themselves against external armed attack.

So President Biden in a press conference said the other day, I say defense against the Philippines

is ironclad. Any attack on the Philippine aircraft, vessels, or armed forces will invoke

our Mutual Defense Treaty with the Philippines. So we will jointly defend ourselves against any

external attack. Yun ang sinabi ni President Biden. So in short, tutulungan tayo pag if ever

na kaya na escalation sa West Philippine Sea. Now, na kailangan tayo mahabang discussion like

how is the US gonna be involved in three potential conflicts simultaneously, Ukraine-Israel

conflict right now in Gaza, and also the West Philippine Sea. I have my doubts about it. I

have raised some issues about it, but let's see. But so far, mga kameta, on the South China Sea,

it looks like there's more reassurance from the US, but my tanong is this. Okay, na-exposed na,

na medyo scammy, na pledge trap lang yung mga investment pledges ng China. Wala po nangyari,

nakacancel lahat, walang funding, et cetera. And yung kalabuhan na yan, nangyari, and by the way,

before Marcos made a decision on EDCA, which is in February of this year. August palang last year,

alam natin wala nangyari sa mga projects na yan. So, this problem of China making pledges,

empty pledges, precedes the EDCA decision by BBM. So, hindi natin pwede blame yan.

But it's the same, as I always say, ano naman i-offer ng US sa Pilipinas when it comes to

economic incentives and investments. Hindi pwede purong EDCA lang, purong mga weapons,

military. Dapat may economic infrastructure investment ng Amerika, mga Europeo, yung mga

ibang mansa. Hindi lang pwede mga Japon lang forever. Kasi limitado din ang kakayaan ng mga

Japon, eh. But we'll discuss more about mga Japon this week. There'll be developments,

don't worry. I know what I'm talking about. We'll talk about more Japan this week.

You'll know why soon. But going back to this, mga kameta, eto talaga, eto talaga,

na-expose talaga, pang barangay lang talaga yung foreign policy. Purong palpak. Purong palpak.

Andami din na, billion-billion na sinabi niya, walang dumating. Cancelled na lahat. Walang

nangyari. Ilan years na? 2016 pa lang pumunta sa China, 2023, mag-2024 na, wala pa rin nari.

Alright, on that note, thank you very much mga kameta. Talk to you soon. Inaharap na ako

dun sa kabila. Alright, kailangan natin ma-interview. Ayan na.