what the president had to say..again

I am not anti-Gloria. I am just not interested in politics. I think the politics and the state of our economy are tiring to talk about. Every time I go out and see the situation of our country – poor roads and bridges, dirty public restrooms, the slums, and all the corrupt officials – it’s disheartening. I wish I am living somewhere else like in the US or Europe where you can see where our money is going.

When I spent a year of studying in the US, I realized that only if the government cared too much about our people then there would be enough chairs and teachers for one classroom or that every child will be educated. But it isn’t like that and I hate to know that the government only made promises but was never faithful to them. I lived in the state of Washington where they include taxes for anything you purchase. That was okay I guess because you can see where those taxes go. But to do taxing here in the Philippines would not be good. I mean can you actually feel that our economy is improving? Pres. Arroyo had this statement to say about denouncing the issue of scrapping Value Added Tax (VAT) in our country: "If we remove the VAT, business confidence will decline, interest rates will go up, the more the value of the peso will fall, and the more commodity prices will rise. If we remove the VAT on oil and electricity, we will lose P80 billion for the poor. It will strip the majority of our people of the means to ride out the world food and energy crisis." Oh yeah P80 billion for the poor? Like where did that money come from? And how come the poor have not benefited from that still? In my opinion, there is no way that poverty will be diminished in our country if the government will not do anything about corruption. I think they should practice honesty and sincerity.

The president also mentioned that she would impose stricter policies on the Anti-Graft Law. I think she should do that in her family as well. I don’t mean to be really cynical about this but if I were the president and I knew I did something really bad to our country, I wouldn’t have the guts to speak in front with the whole Philippines as my audience and boast about the improvements I’ve done in the country. I mean people do not want to hear promises anymore. We want action and making sure the promises will be done.

On the other hand, one good thing I heard is that the cost of texting has gone down to 50 cents but would only last for three months. And this would be effective starting last night. I tried it actually but I guess the telecommunication companies have forgotten what the president ordered them or they completely ignored it. Anyway, at least that would be a good change.

A president could keep having speeches as such every year but what should matter is that these plans would become a reality or else she just wasted the people’s time in listening to her speech. I really hope good things will come.

ORAL AND WRITTEN

Communication plays a terrific role in linking people with one another and so collaborating to achieve phenomenal output. Hundreds of procedures in communicating has been brought to existence and used by man in order come up with more effective and revolutionary results. From an article discussed in class, we have tackled about how communication changed and so reaching its current state in human history. It has given us principles and thoughts on how does the “cyberspace age” plays a role and affects the awareness of each and everyone in the world.

The world has incredibly increased its population and so requires to a huge number of tasks performed by people in order to correspond with the demands of today’s world. The paper is one of the greatest and phenomenal inventions that man uses in order to prolong pro-long the length on their information and making information incredibly accessible to every citizen as well. As the paper is pioneered and becomes globally used, people still required much more rapid and constant communication. Due to this, people have come up with a new era of technology and communication. A medium in which everyone who is capable can communicate tons of information together with the fantastic uses of multimedia. This method can enable people to communicate regardless of their location.

I as an ordinary student, regards the internet as a gigantic source of information. It has helped give out paperwork and researches to my professors in a few minutes without having to go to them and give it literally. It has linked corporate leaders form opposite sides of the globe into working together and give out better opportunities. People from all over the world are then enabled to help collaborate and help each other through online forums. With this method, a single person can sort of influence people in a worldwide basis without having to go into politics for people to listen. All of these matters are made available to people as long as they have a connection.

With all the incredible and fantastic features that cyberspace can carry at rampant terms, the need of the people hasn’t changed. The basic demands of relaying a message, elaborating points and faster reply are still the same centuries ago. We have just improvised and made communication to people far more easier.

The internet experience!

What the internet can do. For me, the internet experience is more than just a search for information but to develop new skills. Like today morning, I seek out more on photo editing. I went to a site where they give tutorials on how to compose pictures adding simple effect, lines and font and come out a result that can blow spectators mind and be amazed at. Such tutorials as these can develop my personal interest and also when it comes to business like graphic design. In the afternoon, I watched a movie called “hip hop kung fu” which made my day since I got stress out from doing paper works the whole weekend. now, I have just finish watching dance move which I can probably adapt so that we can hit the stage in clubbing with confidence. I like how the internet can give more information on practical purposes.

written vs. oral

oral culture is the way for people to pass on knowledge, history, literature and other things without the use of a writing system. for culture it is a way to transmit culture through the voicing out of information. oral culture is very common everywhere for back in the day, especially when human beings were just starting to evolve and writing hasn't even been discovered or used a lot. people just rely on information about their cultures based on stories coming from our ancestors.

as for written culture, it is information about our culture that is written down. it is more believable compared to oral writing because this is actually written down and can be seen. it is more formal. especially if people are trying to prove something it is a lot easier to prove that something is true when it is written rather than stories of other people. written is more believable because stories can change especially how the story is told. whoever it is that is telling the story can twist the story or make it longer than it normally is.

SONA

the SONA had brought up a lot of big issues in the Philippines and how those problems can be fixed. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has sure said plenty of great things to better our country. like she said during SONA it is not easy to make this changes. but hopefully they will be able to fulfill their goals. plenty of the things that were mentioned during the SONA is to always better the country but that is always said. i'd like to see the Philippines eventually get through their rough times because i believe that there are plenty of things the Philippines can show to the whole world. there's just plenty of bad things happening in the country that are seen more rather than the good. which is why people believe that going abroad is better than staying in their own country. that alone is also a bad way of thinking. how can filipinos make their country better if they would rather leave the country instead of stay and actually help fix the problem?

SURF SURF SURF

The upcoming debate in our GRPCOMM class came to my mind, when Miss Cielo Santos told the instruction about the exercise on surfing the Internet.
First, I opened my Yahoo Mail account but it took almost ten minutes to open the webpage. It finally opened to tell me that there’s an error that won’t allow me to enter the webpage. Yahoo offered to use the classic version. Good thing the classic version immediately opened. J
Google is the search engine I prefer to use. I typed in keywords to research for the debate topics for our GRPCOMM class.
I encountered some problems like the slow pace of opening a single webpage. Sometimes I found a search result and tried to open it but when I clicked the hyperlink, it opened another page that says, “Sorry, the file does not exist.” It is one of the drawbacks of using the Internet because when you think you found the necessary information, the Internet will limit you from knowing it because of webpage problems or inconsistencies in content. It took about five minutes to open the page just to tell you that the file does not exist. It turns out to be the opposite fact that says Internet is the fastest way of finding information nowadays.
Another thing is that keying words in search engines would offer you thousand of search results including the irrelevant information. It now becomes tiring to research because among the thousands of results, you can most probably rely only on the first few pages of the search results offered.
These are the problems I encountered during the COMPMED period’s surfing experience. - NCA -

underestimated

We are all capable of changing someone else’s life if we have the will to do so and we all have a choice if we want to do it or not.

President Gloria Arroyo has made her choice. A friend of mine convinced me that the president is up to something good this time and not something will make her look good. I haven’t seen, or heard her speech given last Monday, the 28^th of July. Based on what I heard, the president wanted to prove to the people that this time what she says, will be done.

( not the actually conversation but it is something like this)

Friend: I admit that I do not idolize the president, but her speech is good.

With her past speeches, she mentioned that she will do everything to help the people and she only cared about how people would like her. This time, she mentioned in her speech that she will not care what people would think but she will do what is right.

Me: wouldn’t the people hate it?

Friend: the people left the president with no choice.

Never did I listened to the speeches the president is giving us for the past years because I knew that after it there will be no change. To everything that she said, she has helped the “other” but sacrificed the “others”. The president is very aware of her decisions and yet she still doesn’t know “who” is worth sacrificing for.