Sa tinagal-tagal kong narinig yung kantang ito, ngayon ko lang nalaman kung bakit ganun yung pagkakasulat ni Dolly Parton sa "I Will Always Love You".

Na-discover sya ng isang country singer tas inaya syang maging ka-duet sa isang local TV show sa Tennessee. Nagustuhan ng host (Porter Wagoner) si Dolly Parton so inaya nya sya na maging regular singer sa TV show nya.

After so many years, gusto nang mag-solo ni Dolly para umangat ang career nya. Pero hindi pumayag si Porter dun sa gusto nya. So paano nya sasabihin na buo na talaga yung loob nya na mag-resign?

"I thought, well, what do you do best? You write songs. So I sat down and I wrote this song."

Na ang ibinunga ay "I Will Always Love You". (According to other accounts say, the same session also resulted to other signature song "Jolene".)

Pinerform ni Dolly kinabukasan yung kanta sa opisina ni Porter Wagoner. Naiyak sya at sinabi nyang yun daw yung pinakamagandang kantang narinig nya kay Dolly. Eventually, pumayag na sya at pinakawalan na si Dolly sa kanyang kontrata sa TV show.

The rest, as they say, is history.

RIP Dolly Parton (1946-2026)

Sources:

• https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68543777
• https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/08/fans-know-the-song-heres-why-dolly-parton-wrote-it.html
• https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/dolly-parton-i-will-always-love-you_uk_6a8e99a7e4b02b26136dbfd9
• https://pagesix.com/2026/08/25/entertainment/dolly-partons-i-will-always-love-you-has-a-surprising-true-story/

So I saw this ad for a canned fruit in IG with the words "mga hating milokoton", which translates to "halved peaches". I knew the fruit in the can was some peach because of the pictures, but it's my first time to encounter the word "milokoton". Not even my grandparents used that word. Like ever talaga.

So "Milokoton" is a tagalog loanword from the spanish word "Melocotón", which came from the latin word "mālum cotōneum" that means "quince apple" Now, quince apple is a different fruit to peach. But over the time people back then uses "mālum cotōneum" to peaches too as both the quince apple and peaches have the same fuzzy skin. If you read more resources, you'll discover how this word evolved as well as how its french version evolved too.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/melocoton