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Ang Shout Out ko Sa FRIENDSTER 3

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

"I’m letting love go but not, not loving!!! ♀DP♀"

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Ang shout out ko sa friendster 2

Monday, May 26, 2008

"i LOve you So PoLliTicAlLy!!!!

isang joke mula sa isang E.D. natawa sila di ko magets!!!

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ang di napapagod magmahal

mamahalin ko lang sya kahit na di nya ako mahalin

 

walang pake elamanan ng gustong gawin sa buhay

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May bago akong libro

Maingit kayo!!!

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Ang walang patid na katorpehan

nakita ko sya kanina may dala akong bulaklak iaabot ko sana pero alam mo kung anong nasabi ko.. o eto bulaklak dalhin nyo nalang…. hay reyna ng katorpehan… soness of me…

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Utakan ng Mga Matsing at ang mga kawawang kuto!!!

(UPDATE 2) Arroyo: No tuition hike for state schools

 

By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 09:45:00 05/26/2008

 

MANILA, Philippines — Acknowledging the effect on the public of the incessant increase in prices of oil and food, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Monday announced that state universities and colleges will not increase their tuitions this school year.

In a statement, Arroyo also directed the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to tell private higher institutions to reconsider their plans to hike tuition and other fees for this school year.

Arroyo will preside over a command conference of the Department of Education (DepEd) at 1 p.m. at the department’s main office in Pasig City.

At the meeting, she will be briefed on preparations for the opening of classes next month under "Oplan Balik Eskwela [Operation Plan Back to School] ‘08."

She will also grace the oath taking o teachers who passed the Professional Regulations Commission examination.

At an average of P450 per unit, Arroyo said parents spend about P10,000 for children with 21-unit loads in college, "an expense that eats up a sizeable amount of the hard-earned income of ordinary Filipinos" already saddled by increases in oil and food prices.

"Hence, any adjustment in school fees is an added burden most of them can ill afford during these belt-tightening times," she said.

"For us to keep producing highly-skilled graduates who will lead our country in its leap to first-world status in a decade’s time, government must reverse the drop-out rate and set off an environment conducing for our parents to provide quality tertiary education for their children, be it in private institution or in our state universities and colleges," Arroyo said.

"I am directing the Commission on Higher Education [CHED] to put off any increase in tuition fees for state universities and colleges this coming schoolyear 2008-2009," she said.

"I am also directing the CHED to communicate my appeal to private higher education institutions to reconsider and freeze plans to increase tuition fees and other fees this schoolyear. The last thing that our parents need at this point, to keep their children striving for college diplomas, is another round of adjustments in tuition fees and other school expenses," she said.

Arroyo also directed the CHED to do an "extensive study" on the extent of compliance by schools with the law on tuition increases over the years.

Under the law, Arroyo said, administrators should set aside 70% of the new fees for salaries and other benefits of faculty and non-academic personnel and 20% for modernizing facilities.

"Although government cannot deny private business the fruits of its legitimate investments, especially in lofty causes such as higher learning, it must nonetheless balance this interest with that of the rest of our people who regard college education the lasting legacy to future generations," she said.

"Moreover, this move is in keeping with the Constitutional mandate for the State to protect and promote the right of its citizens to quality education for all from the primary to tertiary levels," Arroyo added.


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Gov’t urged to regulate miscellaneous fees too Schools charge dubious fees in place of tuition hikes, says youth group

Youth group Kabataang Pinoy revealed that school owners are raking in bigger profits without actually increasing tuition.

Kabataang Pinoy President Dion Carlo Cerrafon said schools have been jacking up miscellaneous fees in place of annual tuition hikes.

"Schools are foregoing tuition increases but they have been imposing and bloating miscellaneous fees which are mostly questionable, " Cerrafon said.

"Unlike tuition, miscellaneous fee hikes have remained unchecked for the last few years. This explains why school owners are able to avoid tuition hikes but still manage to rake in bigger profits annually," he added.

Cerrafon said that such tactic has proven to be very profitable to school owners. He explained that unlike tuition, miscellaneous fee of all sorts are not included in the tuition increase consultations provided under Commission on Higher Education (CHED) memorandum no. 13 which was recently reimplemented following the lifting of the tuition cap February this year.

He cited energy fee, development fee, accreditation fee, athletics fee, internet fee, insurance fee and aircondition fee as some of the dubious fees being collected in private schools.

"Even disbursements for capital expenditures and operating expenses, such as electric consumption, infrastructure projects and purchase of air-conditioning units, which supposedly are already included in the

basic tuition, are being charged to students in the form of other miscellaneous fees like the energy fee and the development fee," Cerrafon explained.

"These fees are not only questionable, they are superfluous. School owners are becoming more creative in inventing new fees to justify their lust for profit," he said.

Cerrafon said even Former CHED Executive Director Roger Perez in an interview with a daily broadsheet in 2004 admitted that most tertiary schools were charging various fees that he described as "downright

ridiculous," citing as examples unexplained fees for energy, guidance and counseling, aircon, social action, building and development.

Some of the most absurd fees being collected are the postal fee, insurance fee, Smart fee and copier fee in AMA Computer University; power charge fee in Trinity University of Asia; Land Infrastructure Maintenance and Acquisition Development fee in the University of the Cordilleras; accreditation fee in Technological Institute of the Philippine; and pre-registration fee in Aquinas University in Albay. The study was made by the National Union of Students of the Philipines (NUSP) based from reports submitted by its member student councils.

Last year, the same study shows that Philippine Maritime Institute charged students with a Safety on Land and Seas fee worth P5,000 to P6,000 while the University of the East in Manila collected cultural fee amounting to P162 and Internet fee of P976. The Asian School of Arts and Sciences collected P250 for athletics fee even if the school doesn’t have a varsity team.

Cerrafon added that even state schools collect questionable fees from students. While tuition remains at P12.50 in the Polytechnic University of the Philipines (PUP), the school administration is collecting P250 for development fee. Cavite State Univesity (CvSU), on the other hand, charges students P1.00 for every use of the school’s comfort rooms.

"Unless the government and CHED start to regulate miscellaneous fees, school owners will continue to profit from students and parents through these excessive fees. CHED must also determine the kind of miscellaneous fees which schools can collect," he said.

Cerrafon also urged CHED to abolish exorbitant fees being charged by schools and penalize school owners who will continue to impose questionable fees on students. #

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Ang sinabi at ang ginawa

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CEGP condemns abduction, torture of former student leader

eference:
Vijae Alquisola, Deputy Secretary-General, 09162034402

The College Editors Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) condemns in strongest terms the illegal abduction and emotional and physical torture of former student leader Randy Malayao by suspected Military Intelligence Group agents (MIG).

Malayao was CEGP Vice-President for Visayas in 1991-1994.

Malayao was forcibly abducted last May 15. Last May 20, he was presented by the Philippine National Police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) to the media at Camp Melchor dela Cruz in Upi, Gamu, Isabela.

He was then brought to the Regional Trial Court in Tuguegarao, Cagayan and is now being held at the Cagayan Provincial Jail under murder charges.

Malayao is a Peace Consultant for the National Democratic Front of the Philippines in Cagayan Valley. He was included as one of the co-accused in the killing of notorious martial law torturer Rodolfo Aguinaldo in 2003. Malayao denied the charges.

According to Malayao’s account as per human rights group Karapatan, "… he was grabbed by government agents as he went down the bus at around 9:45P.M of May 15.  He was shoved inside a vehicle, the model and brand of which he did not know.  He was immediately blindfolded… recalls that he could hear the sound of aircrafts passing above the place he was brought to…(h)e did not have any concept of time while under interrogation.  He said the military covered his head with a plastic bag while being hit in different parts of the body.  The soldiers threatened that he would be killed and that his mother will never see him again.  His blindfold was only removed when he was presented to media on the 20th of May, five days after he was abducted."

"We are on one hand relieved while at the same time outraged by this development. Relieved that our dear alumnus is alive, outraged that he has been subjected to severe torture and his right to due process ignored and outrightly violated," said Vijae Alquisola, CEGP Deputy Secretary-General.

"His being presented to the media by authorities after his five-day absence attests to the PNP and AFP’s extra-judicial and unlawful tactics in persecuting government critics. This is shameful and a cause for considerable alarm," Alquisola said.

Alquisola said that regardless of his political affiliation, Malayao should not have been illegally abducted and tortured ‘under any circumstance. ‘ "He has apparently been working underground for more than a decade and his contemporaries and fellow Guilders respect his choice. The AFP and PNP still had no right and license under law to do to him or anyone what they did."

"The CEGP hands to Malayao its deepest respect for his determination to stand up to his convictions, even under torture and duress. He is still what he was and more when he served us our student leader."

Malayao was the Editor-in-Chief for two consecutive years of Mangingisda, the official campus publication of UP Visayas in Miag-Ao. He is also a brother and alumnus of the Beta Sigma fraternity in the UP Visayas.

He was elected CEGP Vice-President for Visayas during Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casino’s term as CEGP President in 1991-1994. ###

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"To Write Is Already To Choose"

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"Ang Unang Ka Bel"

Ang unang beses na nakita ko si Ka Bel

Ay sa isang rally sa mendiola

Noong Desyembre nuong nakaraang taon

Sa ibabaw ng bubong, ng isang pampasaherong jeepney

Sa ilalim ng tila naghihimagsik ring sinag ng araw,

Sa piling ng sambayanan…

 

Bawat matapang na kataga,

Sarkastikong mga biro

Hamon, Papuri na binibigkas n’ya ng taas kamao

Ay nagpapa-antig sa matagal ko ng natutulog na damdamin

Nagpapatibay sa nahahapo ko ng puso

Nagpapatapang sa pinang hihinaan ko nang kalooban

 

Halos di magkamayaw sa pakikinig

Sa pangangarap na darating ang panahon

Kagaya ni Ka Bel,

Sa Mendiola man o sa kasukalan ng kagubatan

Tatanda akong nagsisilbi sa sambayanan.

 

At ang mga katagang kanyang binitiwan

Ay parang hanging patuloy na iihip sa alon ng dagat

na patuloy na hahampas sa dalam pasigan

na patuloy na papalo sa pampang.

Parang apoy na magpapaikli sa mitsa

Upang makamit ang di mapipigilang tagumpay!

Ang buhay nya’t karanasan

Ay magsisilbing aral, inspirasyon,

Na lagi’t lagi’y aming babalikan

 

Kaming mga bagong Ka Bel

at sa mga bagong Ka Bel

Na maghahatid ng tagumpay sa ANAKPAWIS!

 

 

 

 

Isang tula na alay kay Ka Bel

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wla lang

Sunday, May 25, 2008

 papapansin lang

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PALAGAYAN 002

Friday, May 16, 2008

I lOvE You So PoLiTicaLly!!!

 

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