FruitLoops

BTS (Rap Line bias)

[FruitLoops @FruitLoops0805]

Overall, this is my favorite album from the group. I actually love most of the B-sides. Just Say Yes is definitely my most played.

#RUN_TO_YOU
#AHOF #아홉

[FruitLoops @FruitLoops0805]

I enjoyed #RUN_TO_YOU. It's a song I can listen to in the car. The choreography is really good. But I do agree they the line distribution could've been better. Is Daisuke part of the group?

#AHOF
#아홉

[AHOF @AHOF_official]

AHOF The 3rd Mini Album
[RUN TO YOU]

'RUN TO YOU' Official MV
🖇 https://t.co/g8w0aUxkfE

#AHOF #아홉
#RUN_TO_YOU

[Inquirer @inquirerdotnet]

Chinese academics claimed during a symposium last month that the Philippines’ northernmost province of Batanes belongs to China through Taiwan, prompting maritime transparency initiative SeaLight to warn of an apparent “lawfare” campaign aimed at advancing a new legal narrative over the strategically located island province.

READ MORE: https://t.co/4MfQTTjujN

[𝘀𝗵𝘆𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 ✰.ᐟ @yence_xx]

one of the biggest reasons it’s difficult to speak up in this fandom is because the discussion always gets hijacked. some people dismiss every concern, while others drag the other members instead of holding the company or producers accountable.

i’m tired of both extremes.

[Drevvy‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ 2✧✺☠︎ @drevv_y]

I need ppl to know that PPOP is NOT JUST AN ALTERNATIVE to KPOP. It’s an entirely new cultural experience, new fan experience and genre. Tapos ano,,,, mas garapal yung mga management nila hahahaha

[FruitLoops @FruitLoops0805]

Also, I never really understood why @fnfent_official scheduled the concerts and album release so close together. And still stuck with their 2 weeks notice for fans to prepare for albums.

[FruitLoops @FruitLoops0805]

This is bad. It goes to show how the fandom never grew. I think it even gotten smaller. You can only blame @fnfent_official for that. They never really took risks in promoting the group. They only relied on an existing fanbase and never-ending fan sign events.

[KOREAN SALES @koreansales_twt]

[HT] #AHOF    (@AHOF_official) 1st Day Sales

The Passage ㅡ 81,279
WHO WE ARE ㅡ 71,276
RUN TO YOU ㅡ 16,000 🆕️

[banter 🎧 @banter_po]

ang tawa kooo 😭😭😭

[Cristian Cofino  @cristiancofino_]

Wittiest among them all 😭🤣

Tawang-tawa ako sa Lay Bare. Ginaya nila yung iconic line ng Nike for Alex Eala, pero with a twist:
"Kapag huminto, lalong lalago." HAHAHAHAHAHA

[ESPN @espn]

“Maybe for someone like Iga who has won so many slams … or maybe someone like Serena or Venus this achievement may seem small, but for someone who grew up in the Philippines. … for her this is everything.”

Alexandra Eala after her win ❤️

[GMA News @gmanews]

‘LOOK WHO’S GROWING UP IN THE WILD’ 🐣

The Philippine Eagle Foundation (PEF) shared a rare glimpse of a South Philippine Hawk-Eagle chick tucked safely in its natural habitat.

“This observation is part of the MSc research study by our PEF Biologist Tristan Senarillos, following the species' breeding biology and ecology from nest building all the way to the eagle's first maiden flight,” PEF said.

COURTESY: Philippine Eagle Foundation/FB

[안녕 🦦🍃🏎️ @forL_H_A]

she really summed up that alex eala vs maya joint match perfectly 😂

[jayvee @uarmyvibe]

A FANCAM WITH A PERFECT ANGLE FOR ALIEN HOSEOK

[I-Witness @IWitnessGMA]

Kilala bilang "Galapagos of Asia," ang Sibuyan ay tahanan ng mayamang kalikasan at pambihirang biodiversity o saribuhay. Ngunit higit pa sa ganda ng isla, narito ang kuwento ng mga taong nagsisikap na pangalagaan ang isa sa mga natitirang paraiso ng bansa.

[cocojm⁷ @cocojm_0t7]

THIS PICTURE.

[kin @sakinayoongi]

Yoongi's smile today look at his hair so soft and fluffy

[ꜱʟʏᴛʜᴇʀɪɴ_ᴊɪᴍɪɴ_ot⁷ @jimin_lil_devil]

OHMYGOD THIS VIDEO IS INSANE

[radar PH @radarph_media]

(Editor’s note: This is the full commencement address delivered by journalist Atom Araullo at the University of the Philippines Baguio graduation ceremonies on Tuesday, June 30.)

“The Right Kind of Difficult”
by Atom Araullo

Isang mapagpalayang araw sa inyong lahat. Magandang hapon, UP Baguio!

Bago ang lahat, gusto ko munang marinig ang buong batch na nakaligtas sa deadlines, thesis, enrollment, sociopolitical crisis, at existential crisis. Class of 2026, kung proud kayo, relieved, at medyo hindi pa rin makapaniwala na nandito na kayo, let me hear you make some noise!

Ngayon, magbigay pugay rin tayo sa mga magulang, pamilya, kaibigan, guro, kawani, at lahat ng tumulong para makarating kayo rito. Sila rin, in their own way, gumraduate ngayong araw. Some emotionally. Some spiritually. And most of all, financially. Gumraduate na rin po sila sa kaka-GCash sa inyo.

Pero jokes aside, isa pong karangalan na makapiling kayo sa espesyal na araw na ito.

Aaminin ko, medyo nakailang graduation speech na ako nitong mga taon. Kaya kung may marinig kayong medyo familiar, please be gentle with me. Huwag ninyo po akong isumbong sa Turnitin. I am the original source of my own clichés.

Ang totoo, challenging magbigay ng payo sa mga bagong graduate. Graduation speakers are expected to give life advice. Pero minsan, nagiging gasgas o palasak na ang mensahe. Maganda pakinggan, pero paglabas mo ng auditorium na ito, hindi mo na alam kung saan gagamitin.

Sabi nila, “follow your dreams.” Tama naman.

“Believe in yourself.” Ok po.

“Failure is part of success.” Totoo, pero minsan failure is just failure. Minsan ang lesson lang talaga ay: basahin nang maigi ang email, sundin ang instructions, at kapag nagising ka na sa alarm, huwag mo na itong patayin.

But it’s true. Out there, life is messy. The choices we have to make are rarely as clean as they sound in a speech.

Noong nagsisimula ako sa journalism, akala ko simple lang ang prinsipyo. Huwag tumanggap ng kahit ano. Don’t let your emotions get involved. Stay objective.

Tapos pupunta ka sa isang liblib na lugar, sa mga komunidad na biktima ng kalamidad o karahasan, at ang unang gagawin ng pamilyang halos walang-wala ay paupuin ka, alukin ka ng kape, saging, o kung ano mang meron sila.

How can you not root for people like that?

Doon mo matututuhan na ang integridad, hindi ibig sabihin palagi kang malinis tingnan. Minsan, ibig sabihin lang nito alam mo kung ano ang hindi mo ibebenta. Hindi suhol ang alok na kape. Pero pag inabutan ka ng sobre, iba iyon. Lalo na kung makapal.

Sa kabilang banda, paulit-ulit ding nababanggit sa mga graduation speech ang kahalagahan ng paglilingkod sa bayan. Siyempre naman, lalo na sa mga estudyante ng UP.

Kung gusto ninyong marinig ang unang draft ng speech na ito, heto iyon:

“Congratulations, graduates. Please abandon joy, money, sleep, and your love life. The nation needs you.”

O, di ba? Courageous. Impressive. Also, not very inspiring. At baka hindi rin very practical. Hindi ako nandito para magpalaki ng isang henerasyon ng martir. Hindi po yan kaya ng konsensya ko, at wala rin naman akong moral ascendancy.

So ngayong araw, susumahin ko na lang sa isang linya ang hiling ko para sa inyo:

I hope you become difficult.

But I don’t mean difficult in the sense of being impossible to work with. Not difficult in the sense na hassle ka bonding. Not rude. Not performative. Not contrarian for clout.

I mean the right kind of difficult. 

Be difficult to fool. 

Difficult to buy. 

Difficult to discourage. 

And difficult to turn indifferent.

Let’s break it down, shall we?

First: be difficult to fool.

UP teaches us to question everything. Authority. Tradition. Power.

Pero hindi tayo nagtatanong para lang kumontra. The point of critical thinking is not to become the most annoying person in the room. The point is to become harder to manipulate.

That matters because we live in a time when truth has begun to feel optional. If something gets enough likes, it starts to feel true. If it goes viral, it becomes validated. If it is repeated often enough, it begins to sound like history.

And the powerful have learned this—in government, in business, in propaganda. They have learned to use noise to bury truth. They have learned to turn confusion into strategy. Dahil kapag hindi na natin alam kung ano ang totoo, mas madali tayong pagurin. Kapag pagod na tayo, mas madali tayong patahimikin.

This is where the discipline of journalism becomes useful to everyone.

Not because journalists are always right. We are not. We have made mistakes. We have been careless. Some have been complicit. If we want to be trusted, we have to work to deserve that trust.

But journalism is not only a profession. It should also be a public habit.

It is the habit of asking: Is this true? Who said it? Who benefits? Who is missing from the story? And what happens if we look away?

Those are not questions only for journalists. They are questions for all of us. And as graduates of UP, you have a special responsibility to ask them. Because as recipients of one of the best educations this country has to offer, paid for by the people, we must not be easy to fool. We must not be easy to use. We must not be easy to recruit into cruelty.

Second: be difficult to buy.

Let me be clear. I am not saying don’t make money. Please make money. A reasonable amount is fine. Your parents are tired. Some of them have been tired since your second year. Wanting a good life is not a betrayal of the country. Wanting comfort, stability, even success, is not wrong. 

Ang tanong lang: ano ang handa mong ipagpalit para rito?

The problem is not ambition. The problem is ambition without memory. Ambition that forgets who helped you get here. Ambition that forgets who is left behind. Ambition that becomes so polished it can no longer recognize suffering.

Sa totoong buhay, hindi naman obvious agad kung sino ang mga kontrabida. At lalong hindi nila sasabihin sa’yo ng hayagan na “ibenta mo na ang kaluluwa mo” complete with evil laughter. Mas madalas, maliit lang ang hihingin. Konting pananahimik. Konting kompromiso. Konting pakikisama. Konting “huwag na nating palakihin.”

Pero doon nagsisimula yun.

So while you are still young, while the world has not yet made all your choices feel inevitable, decide what is not for sale. Your name. Your integrity. Your compassion. The Filipino people.

You don’t have to kill your dreams in the name of service. Just make sure your dreams don’t require you to kill your conscience.

Third: be difficult to discourage

Akala ko matindi na ang pressure sa amin noon. Pero iba ang pressure sa bagong graduates ngayon. May expectations ng pamilya. May comparison sa friends. May job market na uncertain. May social media pa na araw-araw nagpapakita ng mga taong mukhang na-figure out na ang buhay at age 23.

Sabi nga nila, comparison is the thief of joy. Pero paano iiwasan kung araw-araw mong nakikita ang ibang tao na nagbabakasyon, bumibili ng bahay, umaakyat sa corporate ladder, sumisikat, nagiging influencer, at kung anu-ano pa.

So let me say this first: papalpak kayo. Maraming beses.

Sigurado akong narinig ninyo na ito dati, pero kailangan pa rin ipaalala. It will be a wild ride. Be at peace with your failures, but do not be passive about them. Ask what went wrong, then ask what you can do better next time.

Be difficult to discourage, but easy to correct. That combination will save you.

And while you’re learning from failure, please respect your own timeline.

Noong nasa grade school ako, ang tatangkad ng iba kong kaklase. Kapag sinabi sa amin, “Form a straight line according to height,” lagi akong pangatlo o pang-apat sa pila.

Then puberty hit. Hindi pa rin ako uubra sa basketball ngayon, pero mas matangkad na ako sa marami kong batchmates. Iyon nga lang, wala nang teacher na nagpapapila.

May mga nauuna. May nahuhuli. May naliligaw. May bumabalik. May nagshi-shift ng career. May mga akala late na sila, pero hindi pala. May mga akala panalo na sila, pero kailangan palang magsimula uli.

At real talk: kahit gaano tayo kasipag o kagaling, hindi pantay ang starting line. May mga taong ipinanganak na may mas maraming safety net. May perang masasandalan. May koneksyon. May lugar na mas malapit sa oportunidad. May mga graduate ng school na mas madaling pagkatiwalaan ng mundo.

Hindi ibig sabihin nito walang halaga ang sipag at talino, pero hindi ito sapat sa sistemang hindi patas sa simula palang. Intelligence, skill, and hardwork cannot fully compensate for a world where some people have to work twice or three times as hard just to reach another person’s starting line.

Kaya kung papalarin kayo, huwag isipin na patunay lang ito ng inyong superior virtue. At kung hindi kayo agad papalarin, huwag isipin na wala kayong halaga.

Fourth: be difficult to turn indifferent.

Belive me, the world will try. 

Through ambition. Through disappointment. Through comfort. Through fear. Through success. Little by little, the world will try to make you numb.

You will see injustice repeated so often it begins to look normal. At some point, you may be tempted to say: pagod na ako. Ayoko na. Wala rin namang nagbabago.

Naiintindihan ko iyon. Okay lang mapagod at magpahinga. Sa dami ng problema at krisis na kinakaharap natin, makaka-relate tayong lahat sa feeling na iyon.

Ang nakakatakot, kapag sinimulan na nating kumbinsihin ang ating sarili na wala na tayong pakialam. Na mas mabuti pang intindihin na lang ang sarili at kalimutan ang kapakanan ng iba.

Dito ko gustong banggitin ang isang personal hero ko. Isang anak ng Cordillera: si Macli-ing Dulag.

Marami na sa inyo ang nakakakilala sa kanya. Macli-ing was a respected leader of the Butbut people of Bugnay, Kalinga. In the 1970s, he opposed the Chico River Dam Project of the Marcos dictatorship. The project threatened indigenous communities, rice fields, homes, forests, and burial grounds.

On paper, it was development. But for the communities who would be displaced, what was at stake was not just land. It was where they lived, where they worked, where they buried their dead, and where their children would inherit a future.

They were pressured to move. Threatened and militarized. Offered bribes. Told that sacrifice was necessary for progress. But Macli-ing and other Cordillera leaders stood their ground.

On April 24, 1980, he was murdered by government forces in his own home.

There are people whose lives are so brave that we must be careful not to reduce them into advice. Macli-ing Dulag is one of them. His life is not a template we casually hand to new graduates and say, “O, gayahin ninyo.” That would be unfair. And frankly, quite a lot to ask.

But we should still admire, honor, and learn from their courage and sacrifice. They are not supernatural beings sent down to earth to save us. They are people who have looked at the world and saw more meaning in it than serving themselves.

Most of us may never be asked to pay the ultimate price. But his life reminds us that there are moments when the question is no longer, “What do I want?” The question becomes: “What and who must I defend?”

One danger of a comfortable life is that it can make courage look unreasonable. It can make sacrifice look impractical. It can make people who defend land, memory, and community sound like obstacles to progress.

But sometimes the difficult person is not the obstacle. In a world where injustice abounds, often, the difficult person is resistance. 

So protect your capacity to care. Let it shape your ambition, not erase it.

Class of 2026, chase your dreams. Seriously. Chase them with skill, discipline, and joy. Build good lives. Help your families. Find work that excites you. Rest when you need to. Fall in love if you must, although please remember that this is not required for nation-building 😬

But as you go, carry something stubborn within you. The country does not need more “successful” people who are pleasant, polished, and harmless. It needs people who are difficult to fool, difficult to buy, difficult to discourage, difficult to turn indifferent.

Not everyone is called to give everything. But everyone is called to protect something. And when the world becomes overwhelming, when you begin to feel hopeless or jaded, I hope you remember this place, these mountains, and the people who taught us that love of country is not an abstract idea. Sometimes, it is the courage to stand your ground so others may keep their dignity, their memory, and their future.

Congratulations, UP Baguio Class of 2026. May you live good and meaningful lives. And when the moment calls for it, may you be the right kind of difficult.

#radarPH

[daan 🦋 misses BTS :( @highlyshua]

double kill… #BTS_WORLDTOUR_BRUSSELS

[FruitLoops @FruitLoops0805]

This is such a beautiful song.

https://t.co/uyLfxslov3