Weird Dream

About 3 or 4 days ago I had a dream that seems to be very weird but somehow made me think that it has something to say about the things that will happen in my life soon. The persons and the things involved were somehow part of my life right now. But what makes it very weird but meaningful was that they were interconnected in a way that it shouldn’t be. The plot of my dream goes something like this:

“One afternoon, I was in a mall waiting for my friends specifically the “Ban of Brothers” to have some mall hopping. As I waiting for them, my “special someone” came into where I was standing and gave me a book. The book was the “PhilNITS reviewer” which was given to me during my review sessions before the PhilNITS exam last October 2008. As I received the book from her, she quickly leave without saying a single word. I read some pages of the book when my “Ban of Brothers” friends arrived. After that we started our mall hopping. As we walked inside the mall, I saw my “special someone” with another guy inside the restaurant. My “Ban of Brothers” friends didn’t knew about her so they knew nothing in my dream. But surpringsingly, I had no reaction from what I saw, and decided to leave together with my friends ,and after that I suddenly woke up…”

What does this dream meant for me? Does it denotes something about my future? Honestly its just a dream but up to know, I was still thinking about it. I’m just amazed of how the flow of events and characters were interconnected. First, I am currently preparing for the upcoming PhilNITS examination this October and I am using that book almost everyday for my review. Second, why would my “special someone” gave me that book? She was in no relation on that book or in the exam since she was an Engineering student. Third, my “Ban of Brothers” friends. I haven’t been joining them for the past months in their activities like mall hopping, bowling and playing “DOTA”. Fourth, my “special someone was with another guy” and my “no reaction” effect when I saw them.

PhilNITS+Ban of Brothers+Special Someone+Broken = career in the future?


The way I interpreted it was that, my special someone will be my inspiration in the exam but she will make me broken to become more motivated to pass the exam. Also I should keep in touch with my “Ban of Brothers” friends as they will be part of my success in the future.

I’m hoping that my interpretations will be true. But still it was just one of those funny things that a dream can create. My future still depends on how hard will I work for it.

Thoughts on the Final SONA of PGMA

July 27, 2009 is the set date for the 9th and constitutionally the last State of the Nation Address of Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. She had delivered 9 State of the Nation Addresses since she took oath as the President of the Republic of the Philippines last January 2001. During that time when she first delivered her very first SONA, my interests and views of any political and social issues were not that intimate and very strong as of now (I was only in grade six when the historic EDSA II happened). As what I have heard from my father and have read in the articles, the contents of SONA of our president were projects that have and will be implemented particularly in the fields of education, health and welfare, poverty, employment, infrastructures, agriculture and the economic growth. This has been the common denominator of the 8 times she had delivered her speech right in front of the joint House of Representatives and the Senate. All of what she said in each and every SONA were very promising and for the benefit of all Filipinos.

There are also some unforgettable moments during the SONA like the 3 kids from Payatas who wrote their wishes in a toy boat made of paper(bangkang papel) and then released it at the Pasig River and the walk-out of some opposition legislators who can’t take the lies that the president was saying (that’s according to them). Another was that for every achievement that the president said was responded by a standing ovation for those who are in the plenary specially her allies.

Amidst the 8 SONA's she had delivered in the past, there is only one question that was easily formulated in my mind; where are those achievements and promises that Pres. Arroyo mentioned in her SONA? Why can’t we visibly see the effects of those solutions to the real problem we are facing specially in poverty and education? In the 8 SONA’s, there will always be mentioned such as improvement in the quality of education, additional classrooms, 1:1 ratio of books, less drop-outs in public schools. Where can we find it? Name a school that has all this stuffs? In the rural areas, elementary students walked for 7 kilometers and even cross 26 rivers just to learn. Is that what they called accessible education? What about those who are living below the poverty line? Does their number decreases? According to them yes! But look around and you can find the answers. What about the crisis here in Mindanao? They had proudly said in the media that there were no more Abu Sayaff in Mindanao, but what happened to Ces Drilon, and the 3 Red Cross Volunteers? Why they were kidnapped?It’s been 8 long years and Mindanao was still as dangerous as it is before. What about the corruption that plagued this administration? What about the ZTE/NBN deal, the Hello Garci issue, the fertilizer fund scam, the C-5 road extension project? Were we given a satisfactory explanation from our government? We are talking of billions of pesos in those projects and let me remind that those were taxpayers’ money. What about those who were involved in this scandal, were they properly interrogated? What about the extrajudicial killings? Were they given justice? These are the questions that for the past 9 years, no acceptable answers were given. I believe that these issues and scandals will soon be forgotten as she steps down in position, that if she will step down.

What makes this last SONA more interesting is that the House of Representatives will open their last session under the term of Pres. Arroyo. Take note that before they recessed their sessions a month ago, they magically approved H.R 1109 convening the House of Representatives as a constituent Assembly even without the participation of the Senate. Now everyone specially those who are in the opposition, political and law experts and every single vigilant Filipino are waiting and watching if the House of Representatives will now convene as a Constituent Assembly and start to amend the constitution and eventually change the form of government into a parliamentary. Every one of us knew that convening the congress right after the SONA is illegal and unconstitutional, but what else is new? Remember that the content of HR 1109 was also illegal and unconstitutional. It was clearly said in the 1987 constitution that the House of Congress cannot convene themselves as a constituent assembly without the participation of the senate and the senate didn’t even attempted to discuss con-ass and cha-cha in their sessions. So we must expect the unexpected in the SONA later. Rallies by the opposition and some church leaders were already prepared to counterpart the SONA of Pres. Arroyo. The opposition always insisting that the real SONA were the rallies and noise barrage in the streets and not on the paper and in the 4 corners of the House of Representatives.

Let me clear myself that I am not a pro or an anti Arroyo, what am I is a pro government. I go for those in which the majority will benefit. I stand and fight in whatever means I can in actions that will completely destroy the future of our country. Yes I agree that the Arroyo administration has done its best in providing solutions to the problems they inherit from the previous administration.
It’s time for us youth to stand up and fight for the future of our country. We must learn a lesson from this administration as the future leaders in our country. It’s time to make a difference and I’m starting it RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!- AKO ANG SIMULA!............................

Reviving the Blog (Research Update 1)

It's been a while since I had posted a topic in this blog because of no good topic to write and also I am only online once a week. It is not like our school days where we need to update our blogs as required by Dr. Gamboa at least once a week. The past months was really different. The blogosphere where I belong together with my classmates were not as crowded,busy and as informative as before although there are some that are continuously writing nice posts in their blogs. Honestly I really missed blogging that's why I'm starting to revive this blog once again.

After months of posts recession in this blog, I thought of a nice post to start with and I came up having a post with my pending research topic.

I admit that this topic was the hot topic in our blogosphere where everybody in the class were busy updating about their research proposals, consulting each other about the process. I haven't posted any upodate on my research during that time because I am really confused with the topic that I had proposed and also it was very difficult and time consuming for me to learn new concepts in network simulation. I also asked advice from our dean and then he frankly said to me that the topic is too difficult and very time consuming to develop especially for an inexperienced student like me. With this reasons I decided to look for another research topic that is relevant but can be completed within the alloted time. That's why no updates were posted during that span of time. But now that I had the topic already and I am starting to have the proposal for the research topic so it is time for me to do what I haven't done in the past. For my first update is the title of my topic which I believe will be very applicable to our univesity.

"Level of Awareness of Virtual Learning Environments and the Utilization Level of USEP VLE among USEP students"

This will going to be the title of my new research topic. It is more simple than the first one but I think it is also relevant.

The thing that motivates me to conduct this research was that USEP has not gone online learning yet. The new paradigm of learning nowadays is the combination of distance learning and face to face discussion that we commonly known as "blended learning". Although there are some instructors that are using online resources (blogs,e-mails,forums etc.) to support face-to-face discussions,but still the level of awareness and the proficiency of USEP students are not yet determined. The study could also help the university in the future if they will also offer online courses.

My next update would be the objectives and the significance of this study.