What Do You Want to Be?
As the school steps into its 63rd year many changes have had happened, infrastructure design have been greatly change and developed though few of it remain in its old designs but some of the buildings were furnished through in time and the ambiance are very lovely and comfortable enough for everyone who wishes to stay to make their projects etc. As you entered the campus the plants that are perfectly placed in different angles are as if gently approach us with its graceful shakes and waves of their leaves when they were smoothly moves by the breeze.
Behind this paradise like place there are a lot of question lies within this university that remain unclear to the students. The comfort rooms and parking area are supposed to be part of the basic services provided by the school in exchange of our tuition and miscellaneous fees. Instead giving it for free, the students are required to pay when we are going to use this facilities.
Another awful and very disgusting policy imposed by the university is the "NO PERMIT, NO EXAM POLICY" that has been discourage by the Commission on Higher Education through its CHED MEMORANDUM NO. 2 of 2010. The said policy of Foundation University clearly violates the right of the students to their access to education by prohibiting them taking major exams because they simply not able to comply their obligations in fact this can be settle during and after finals or close season we know for a fact that we can't proceed looking for a job if we can not comply all the requirements including our transcript of records and diplomas so we must have to settle our school accounts to get all this things.
My point is, the school should look for an option that would not curtail the right of the students to take their major examinations on time. this might affects the focus of the students on their study by entertaining another problem that is supposed to be settled after the examination.
What I Want to Be is to change this unfriendly and profitable policy of the University that constantly put the students into its unfair and miserable conditions. If this policy would remain firm to this institution surely it would only drop the population of students for the next coming years.
PNOY's SONA
A change of acrimony to horrible life, straight but barbed path to hell and a sugar coated lies.
Pnoy's speech on his 3rd State of the Nation Address was indeed very amusing, very surprising and even more one of the most obvious lie in the history of the State of the Nation Address under the government of US imperialist puppet. It is a mere sugar coated promises that gives a false hopes of the Filipino people for remaining four years in his administration. As I watched and listened to his speech it is between a numbers game a sort of addition and subtraction on the real economic and political situation in the country. As he went farther he was like punching a bubble that had left it untouched.
The Aquino II program were mainly focus on the
intervention of big foreign and local investor on our fundamental resources of
economy under his Public-Private Partnership this aims to hasten the
privatization and liberalization of country's economic wealth by transferring
government responsibility to the big foreign and local investor over its
maintenance and development. He boasted out the country's economic growth (GDP)
has reached into 6.4% higher from the speculated increase. What he doesn't know
the said increase is not sustainable due to the fact that the increased
were pushed by the services sector and Business Process Outsourcing BPO's
(call centers) and export oriented economy.
The country's economy are still dependent on the
global market where most of the first world country are devastatingly hit
by economic depression that slows down the world economy. Thus our country is
vulnerable to the effect of this economic crackdown.
During the speech he boasted the
unemployment as of April this year has go down into 6.9% while according to the
SWS survey at least 26.6% or 10.9 million Filipinos are unemployed in the
second quarter of the year. As of this year alone 55% or 11.1 million of Filipino
families consider themselves as poor higher to 2 million compare to last year
2011. In the first quarter of 2012 there are 23.8% or 4.8 million families who
experience from starvation. This is clearly beyond from what PNOY had touted
during his SONA. He even further boasted his $1 billion dollars being lend to
IMF to justify his fabricated development in economy.
Another very obvious lie and very illogical and
empty promises that even a little child can predict his dubious tale is the
distribution of all lands covered under the bogus land reform program would be
given to the beneficiaries before he will end his term. The CAPER is already 25
years on its existence but majority of the land that supposed to be enjoyed by
the farmers remained at the hand of the big landlords who continue to deceive
and oppress the true owner of the lands. The Hacienda Luisita is still at the
hand of the Cojuanco (PNOY’s family) clan despite of the order from the Supreme
Court to distribute the land to the beneficiaries. The provisions of the CARPER
are clearly favourable for the interest of the big land lords due to its
exemptions and numerous options that has been used by the landlords to prevent
their lands to be distributed to the real owner of their property.
WHY BLOGGING?
Internet blogging seems to be one of the
most interesting kinds of internet journal in this era. Thousands of posted
blogs can be seen every day in the internet sites providing different ideas and
information that can be useful to everyone in the search of new knowledge about
their various activities.
Blog is a posted article in the internet
written by internet users that provide ideas and information depending on the
writers’ focus. Most people of today are
become more interested into blogging there are millions of people ever year
reading and published their articles trough their blog sites personal,
organizational and corporate blog. The most important thing why most people
encourage doing blogging because it develops individuals’ skills towards
writing. As a student I believe that blogging helps individual with poor ability
in writing composition. Second, it helps to augment the ability of a person to
formulate a much more generally accepted idea.
Blogging also provides unlimited spaces for
the writers in publishing their write ups as brought by cyber technology so the
bloggers can produce articles as much as they can and it does not restrict the
numbers of words can be put in article being created.
Recently most of the publications (e.g.
news papers, magazines) require strict compliance before writers can initiate
their writings and sometimes it limits the idea of the writers to be pasted on
the articles to prevent the conflict of interest between writers and the media
company who employed them and most of the works were strictly focus on one
field under the dictate of company’s policy. Unlike internet blogging, it does
not prohibit anyone to write an article that would offer critical idea. But of
course the bloggers must observe what is within the context of morally set
standards.
Blogging also offer another unique characteristic
in developing one’s write ups because the readers are given a chance to
criticise and to give comments on the writers post, the exchange of ideas are
much alive and observable in this situation, so the writers has an options to
either buy out the readers’ idea or to reject it, though the openness of the
writers and their ability to understand the comments and suggestions would still
matter most of the time. What is important there is that the visibility of the
articles to be criticised is open publicly thus it would also help the writers
to sustain its blogs due to the accumulated ideas and opinion receives from the
previous write ups.
SERVE THE PEOPLE AND LIBERATE THE MASSES FROM THE BONDAGE OF OPPRESSION IS MY UNDYING INTEREST.
Photo taken from the hinterlands of Siaton,Negros Oriental during a Fact Finding Mission of the Massive Militarization in the area and worsening human
rights violations committed by the elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.At this moment a gassed lamp provide us light as we were finalizing our
documented data that has been gathered during the talks with farmers.
The economic and political situation remain the biggest problem in the country, from colonial and feudal system to the present semi-colonial and semi-feudal. This system are the crucial point why the vast majority still drown to worst economic crisis and deprived to exercise their rights in political actions, and suffer from state repression though it was protected under the supreme law of the land but in reality these are all in a mere dream of a poor " Juan Dela Cruz" that had been dreaming and never awake.
As an ordinary citizen who dream a descent life, a quality of education that can be access by all the people regardless of their social standing, jobs that at all time provides an appropriate income to sustain our daily needs such as food that are required according to the needs of our body and prescribed by competent medical practitioner, health care that is accessible and free for all, and secured and free shelters when in times of natural calamities at least that very moment we will feel less worries because we can not feel the rain drops into our bed as we are in deep asleep. These are all have been always dream by all the ordinary citizens like me in exchange for a tons of taxes that we have been pay everyday and these are all the responsibilities and the purpose of the creation of the so-called government. In the principle of human rights these are essential to our lives because it is the primary source of our survival.
This is what I've learn as I dig deeply and in search for the truth, but as I tried to integrate and concretely evaluate if this things were applied in the society that I am living. I was in a great dismayed and confusion over the reality that the people in the country and I my self were greatly deprived of these essentials in our life and controlled of things that supposed to be executed in the redress of our grievance and restricted of legitimate actions achieving our economic needs. this all the time I shifted my interest into the desire that is anchor on our greatest task as one of the most advance creature ever created by the fusion of atoms. That every human has a task to protect each and everyone against the forces of nature and harmful act from everyone.
This is the foundation of our rights that must at all time be protected and be defended from political to economic and socio-cultural aspect people should have equal opportunity in promoting and achieving these rights. But in the country like philippines only 1 percent has the right to fully enjoy and exercise such things while the 99 percent are chained of deprivation that result into poverty,starvation and constant economic crisis due to the fact that majority of the wealth were fully controlled and monopolized by those who are in government post. this is were my interest has been molded and shaped. the interest of the majority to liberate ourselves from the bondage of oppression, injustice and inequality.
Internet Etiquettes
Internet etiquette is a guidelines wherein a computer user shape its behavior. In an era of most advance technology people are equipped of things that goes beyond the capacity on their understanding on the ability of the machines such computers, cellphones and any other related devices that has been driven by the internet. this machines can be view in two ways by its advantage and disadvantage in the sense that it bring fast communication to the people in every corner of the world generally it offers a great help from communications to business processing, and faster updates on the real situations in every country.
But in some other way we must be also vigilant on things happening inside the world of internet, most of us are unaware of that ,this technology brought us to the vulnerability of loosing our personal creations that have been made in the exercise of our intellectual capacity and field of expertise. Furthermore, the worst thing is that internet does not have its tools to stop or prevent those lawless and narrowed minded elements that took advantages the weakness of the machines. One of the most common problems that has always been encountered are plagiarism wherein the documents were being copied by the users without the consent of the authors.
Another problem that always been encounter in the internet is the irresponsible manner of writings of posts through blogging and other related again the weakness of this technology were sometimes abused and took advantage by those wanted to maligning other people.Internet as part of the daily life of the people where almost all of the transactions passes through this kind of technology, the exchange of life style that greatly influence in every corner of the world were also the product of internet the brilliant minds of the people bear such unimaginable things ever created by mankind and develop a society driven by a machines and entirely connected people to people which has been known as a " cyber community".
As a community, though far enough in the real world, were people deals in their everyday life must still observe respect to everyone and observe moral conduct to protect everyone and prevent from harming each other and in order for us to a peaceful existence in using the internet, it is essential to a have a guide what is to be perform and what is none. The following are a sort of help that could prevent us from harming other users and maintain harmonious relationships with the other internet users.
EVGENY MOROZOV: A twitter without revolutionaries
Does the twitter verse open up venue for societal engagement and a
political descent?
Twitter and facebook is actually the product of
technological development where connects people in any places with the help
also in internet. As we can see facebook and twitter have been made to fasten
access of people in their desire in arts, music any in sociocultural, economic
and political fields. Basically it fastens the exchange and sharing of
information in modern world wherein it also provide the most updated political
situation in every country where people can react on it. It is also an outlet for political propaganda but
it does fully offer societal engagement or crackdown it only offers a sort information that makes people to decide
whether it really needs political actions or not.
What really offers a
venue to societal engagement or political descent is the physically initiated
political actions with the broad masses and laid it down in the place where it
should be address. Because a true revolutionary and being a political activist
would not just seat on the table and just rely on the availability and capacity
of the technology to lead a change because it might loosen up our ability to
dig deeper the nature of the societal problems that we want to be change. As my
experience being a human rights and political activist for almost a decade the
most important thing to do to concretely understand the nature of the problem
that we want to be change is to integrate ourselves with those affected sectors
in the society and bring it into actions that effectively crash down to those
political leaders who goes beyond the desire of the people who put them on
their position and the political system inimically embrace the life of the
marginalized this is which I think twitter
and facebook cannot provide.
Why is the
relationship between technology and political protest important?
in the high-tech era
facebook and twitter plays important part in political protest basically it speed up the process of sending information
and sharing of knowledge, almost all of the communication can be channel and
spread out to the widest possible with the help of this kind of technology. With
the help of such twitter and facebook it strengthens our access to information
what is happening inside government agencies or the government as a whole where
people can quickly react and through the help of technology information can
reach out and can gather sympathy to its widest possibility. Historically
technology offers a great help in every political actions from manual to
computerized. My personal experience on the importance of technology in
political protest gives a big difference compare in the past few years in the
field of activism, I personally experience a hardship in getting information
and coordination in organizing mass mobilization. Generally offers to speed up
the system of communication and educating the people and organizing political
protest through the use of radio, television, mobile phones and internet.
What is the
disadvantage of Facebook/twitter and what are the potentials?
facebook and twitter basically offers a wide range of propagating information
and in fact it is on this social media where we can quickly receive news and events compare to
the other traditional one. As what I have mentioned it really helps hasten the
communications on making social actions. But in some other way it is also a
path of strengthening and preserving our country as semi-colonial under the
clutch US imperialist. Super power countries need to control the so-called
three super structure on their colony in order to maintain its control, thus it
ensure that culture would be preserved subservient to their economic interest
that is why most of our local arts (music, movie etc.) industry were vastly
bury into its worst condition because in just a matter of an hour we can quickly
access to those newly released albums of music and whatsoever related culture
through social media. Also in economy most
of the businesses transactions now a day are channelled through internet that
is why the effect of economic crisis in most first world country quickly spread
out to the third world like Philippines such the “high-tech bubble crisis” in
US happen during 2001,facebook and twitter are one of the gateway on this
economic crackdown. Facebook and twitter also risky to the security of the
people who are politically critical especially to the US because we know for a
fact the US who controls all the internet cables which can be monitored by one
of their most advance technology and intelligence agency.
Many of today’s political activist and revolutionary forces
are using facebook and twitter to educate, mobilize and even recruiting online
which is for me is not helpful and will only lessen the quality of new breed
revolutionary or a mass leaders who will lead for their struggle because it
cannot help to develop the every individual’s behaviour as a future
revolutionary leader by simply disintegrating himself with the people that
would suppose to help us mould our mind and characteristics as a political
activist and being a revolutionary.
“History shapes
political view”
karl marx on his theory of historical materialism says that “The actual historical process is not predetermined but depends
on the class struggle, especially the organization and consciousness of the working class” “Social
progress is driven by progress in the material, productive forces a society has
at its disposal” so definitely the political view of the people is the product
of their realization and consciousness of their
past social conditions not by in any predetermined assumption because
our knowledge relies on the development of a things in motion, and its
inseparable relationship to the mode of production.
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