1:57 am... november 23, 2006... it's the usual thing to expect me still awake at this hour.. sometimes even 4am, i still have the energy... but the thing is, my eyes get tired, staying for hours in front of the computer... darn! and yet, i am not wearing my glasses (i left it kasi sa house)...

november 23... a significant day... could be the day of threatening education for the Filipinos.. hours ago i've been receiving text passes saying tomorrow will be a black shirt day and walk out from classes... due to the greatest issue the university is currently facing.. the Tuition Fee Increase or the 300% TFI!!!

in my 4 years of stay in UP, i haven't attended a single MOB or rally... honestly, it's not my nature to go out on streets and rally... but this time, if it calls for one, i would probably consider. or if not, i would want to give any participation that i may be capable with... coz it's an issue of the whole up system, and what bothers me most is losing the opportunity of the next generations who would want to be an iskolar ng bayan, but could not afford the tuition fee... if this is the case, what will be UP's difference with other school? what could make UP a state university, if the less fortunate could not afford, yet they have the brains?

today will be signing of the TFI... and worse, it will be done in UP Visayas, with lesser people, lesser students, no rallies... politics in the Philippines is really dirty.. to the point that even our education gets affected and deprives the poor..

i just pray that fate will favor the up students and the future iskolar ng bayan...if not, then what should we expect with our government in the future? for they have taken away an essential aspect of every individual:
QUALITY EDUCATION....

NO TO TUITION FEE INCREASE!!!!