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<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=2805034" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>MANILA -- (UPDATED) Broadcast journalist Bernadette Sembrano-Aguinaldo has launched her first book &quot;When Bad News Is Good News: Stories To Keep Your Hope Alive.&quot;In an interview on ANC&#x27;s &quot;Headstart&quot; on Friday, Sembrano said the book is about finding hope in the face of adversity. &quot;I think the main reason for why I wrote the book is really out of gratefulness. A lot of us have gone through a lot in our lives including myself ... but all the time whenever I would go through something so difficult, ang hugot ko would always be the experiences, the people that I met on the field. Iba &#x27;yung faith that I witnessed so sabi ko it was just so hard to not write about it,&quot; she said.&quot;I think I&#x27;ve seen the worst case of problems of our kababayans -- distressed, frustrated, health issues, poverty issues -- and yet ang tanong ko &#x27;Bakit nakakangiti ang Filipino?&#x27; I guess that&#x27;s the question that a lot of people have about Filipinos. &#x27;Bakit tayo nakakangiti? Bakit ang resilient natin?&#x27; &quot;And somehow because I&#x27;ve been exposed to them all the time, nung ako &#x27;yung nagkaroon ng mga pinagdaanan din naging hugot ko at inspiration ko ang mga kababayan natin din. So this book is actually an offering to honor all the Filipinos that I&#x27;ve interviewed in the past 20 years of my life,&quot; said Sembrano, who is also ABS-CBN&#x27;s &quot;Lingkod Kapamilya&quot; anchor. In the book, Sembrano also opened up about her and husband&#x27;s journey, which she also shared in her vlog.<ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/life/11/11/22/bernadette-sembrano-on-miscarriage-loving-beyond-death">Bernadette Sembrano on miscarriage, difficulty of bearing a child, and loving beyond death</a></li></ul>&quot;The message that I want to say here is dapat hindi tayo judgmental of people and we have to be more compassionate of others because we don&#x27;t know what others are going through. This is not just about my journey; it&#x27;s about each one of us,&quot; Sembrano said. Meanwhile, Sembrano also launched her new single &quot;Bubog,&quot; which explores the importance of unconditional love. It&#x27;s based on the love story of composer-arranger Homer Flores and his wife Rocky.Sembrano wrote the lyrics of &quot;Bubog,&quot; with music and arrangement by Flores.&quot;Para sa akin, music healed me and I know music can also heal people in their journey. So that&#x27;s the lyrics that I write, that&#x27;s also the melody that I write,&quot; Sembrano said.&quot;Bubog&quot; is now available on various music streaming platforms, while the track&#x27;s official lyric video is now available on Sembrano&#x27;s official YouTube channel.

In an interview on ANC's 'Headstart' on Friday, Bernadette Sembrano said her book 'When Bad News Is Good News: Stories To Keep Your Hope Alive' is about finding hope in the face of adversity. 