Puro na lang sakit ng ulo
I’ve been having really bad and recurring headaches almost every day the past weeks. Wala nang bisa sa akin ang paracetamol. I don’t know what to take anymore. I tried paracetamol and ibuprofen already. Barely works to relieve the pain. Undoubtedly, it is caused by stress.
All these headaches gets me into thinking sometimes, what if I wasn’t in the student council? What if I didn’t join the fraternity? What if I didn’t get myself involved in so many affiliations and commitments? What if I didn’t go to law school? What if I just didn’t care about how the government is run? What if I just cared about myself? Life would be so much less stressful. I could surf the net all day, watch all the movies I want to see, go to all places I want to go, spend all the time I want with people dear to me. What if, what if. Not that I’m regretting anything at all. It’s just that it amuses me to think how much stress I would have spared myself had I not gone the path I have tread. But then I wouldn’t be me.
Anyway, somehow related to student council stress… Geez, spare me from all these student council politicking! What a waste of time, indeed. I have my own constituents who expect me to respond to pressing issues. I’m disappointed some of my councilmates talk as if they’re the only ones whose constituents are aggrieved or will be aggrieved. We were popularly elected with the platform of expedient and responsible responses to issues of national concern. Failure to do such is a disservice in itself. I cannot allow the exaggerated ranting of some councilmates to stop us from exercising our mandate. It’s not as if they weren’t heard out or their points considered. It’s so sad that some of us have assumed bad faith against each other. Imagine being called evil and fascist. Hay, try staring at the fascism of Arroyo’s police force in the face! We substantially followed our collectively prescribed procedure. I still hope things could be threshed out amicably. Grabe lang. As public information officer, or the “final arbiter” in statements, palagi na lang akong dehado sa gitna ng party friction ‘pag may statement, kahit sinupaman ang proponent niyan, red, blue, yellow, white, whatever. Whether I release the statement or not, one party would be staring negatively at me. Ang sakit sa ulo.
In the meantime, I would like to prepare for my first midterms in UP Law.
On an irrelevant note, I got new lens for my DSLR! I’ll try to start taking photographs again.
Tags: academics, midterms, personal rambling, University Student Council, UP Law
i hope you get your blogging groove back amidst your many commitments.
good luck with law school!
omg you just described me. haha. thanks i know i’m selfish/
that’s why you’re you and i’m me.
too bad you didn’t come to mco night. i miss the ‘oldies’ (that’s you guys) and it was nice to hang out again.
hang in there. in four years, you’ll be a lawyer with lots of great causes, and i’ll still be shallow. haha.
i know you dont get sleep but i think it would help the migraines.
Actually Patty, it’s almost five, because you have to take into consideration the time spent for preparing for the Bar.
Such is life Victor. Just tell me if you need help. (Yuck, nag-offer pa raw mag-help, ako rin I struggle in studying sometimes) =P
you can make it. try to take panadol. much much effective
kaya mo yan bikoy! alam namin kaya mo yan! God bless sa midterms nating lahat!
Kaya pa yan, haha. I hope to see you and Celeni next month (or during sembreak, hehe).
Ganyan talaga kapag may nagiging produktibo at progresibo. Patibayan na lang talaga ng kalooban, isip at katawan. hehehe
UP students are not supposed to be called “Iskolar ng Bayan” (Scholar of the Nation). They are “paying scholars”. If you are paying more or less PHP 21, 000, would you really feel that you are indeed a “Iskolar ng Bayan”? Upon enrollment, UP students get in line to pay for their tuition holding wads of cash roughly four times thicker than those from New Era University would pay for. I am sure that we don’t need figures, charts, and statistics to prove the veracity of my claim.
Had it been somebody from PUP, PLM, PNU, TUP, or any state university/college who boasted himself as “Iskolar ng Bayan”, I am inclined to agree. Otherwise, if it’s from UP who claims such, I will maintain the same incredulous revulsion.
Braggart, think twice! Admit it or not, you don’t deserve to be called “Iskolar ng Bayan”… in the true sense of the word.
While it can be said that they should not be called Iskolars ng Bayan (as you suggested ‘paying scholars’
because they are paying larger tuitions than the schools you have listed, one can not dismiss the fact that being a Iskolar does not rely solely on the fact that they are paying for their education. By pointing out that there are cheaper schools (by which I mean cheaper [mas mura] in their tuition and nothing more), proves but a few things: one, that UP is not as cheap as your standards define cheap ; or that two, that their services are slowly requiring financial attention for a lot of reasons unknown to you and I (and probably to their students too). Of course, I could go on with a list but let me focus on those two things as for this reply via 3 or so arguments. (And please don’t mind my rudeness, I find that sometimes vulgarity is the only way.)
1. Just because UP is supposedly cheap, it doesn’t mean that the school is for quote poor unquote people. As you have implied, not having the capacity to pay should be a requirement. Why must one not have wads of cash for his/her education? Why must not one spend for his education? Why is it important to define the financial standing of being a student specifically, being a scholar? To say that would lead to, among a lot of things, discrimination and sectoral prejudices. That is, that the school should limit their students to less fortunate people who can’t pay P21,000. What about the people who can pay for it, and want to go there, and actually have the smarts to go there? I’m meaning to say that to imply that the students should not be Iskolars because they pay for P21,000 is to discriminate against those who can pay for more than that. You probably think that this is an elitist POV, and yes, I so agree. But it seems to me that you’re angry with that specific sector. Then this would’ve proven one thing: that prejudice takes direction. I will not discuss the prejudice this imposes on the other classes.
2. In connection to that, pointing out financial capacity as the sole basis is narrow as it is a weak argument. Any dictionary that you can look to will define being a scholar as one of two things: a. a person with high academic achievement (ex. a scholar in the field of physics) or; b. a student holding a scholarship grant. Further, a scholarship (grant) is defined as a financial “support” given or awarded to a student with basis of their academic or other achievement. Being a Iskolar is not defined by wads of cash that is four times thicker. Rather, and obviously at that, one has to have academic or other achievements. Note the use of the word, ‘given.’ It is there because “Iskolarship” requires that one qualifies for it, not because it is cheaper. Lest I remind you that UPCAT has one of the biggest number of failing applicants. O, and UPCAT is not a test of financial capacity, if you must know.
3. You are dismissing the fact that UP is government-run. If you can, connect the dots. Phil. Government, Government-run university, tuition, TOFI, fiscal things, taxes, Government. If you get it good. If you don’t, I will speak no more of the connections. I’m sure this is also true with the other state universities. Have you ever considered that your thinking like that because UP is a famed state university?
Further,
4. The notion that it (Iskolar ng Bayan) is a feeling discharges the idea that UP is UP because it has the oblation, or that it took the color maroon, or that Mang Larry sells Isaw Manok for two pesos (the last time I checked), or that it’s admission test is open to anyone who qualify for it. Being a scholar is not a feeling. As with any aftermath, it is simply the after effect of being there because being enrolled there means being a UP student, and UP wouldn’t be UP if it did not label their students “mga Iskolar ng Bayan.”
And lastly, you can forget all that I have just blabbed about but by all your capacity try to remember to never forget the next one.
5. It’s a school thing. Shallow? Yes. Correct? Very much so! So by this, do you mean that we Blue Eagles should grow wings? A touch of royal blue on our arms, perhaps? Or that we should all live in Loyola Heights? Or that Thomasians have a growling entrance exams? The list goes on, really. Iskolar ng Bayan is not just a term with the true sense that you speak of. It’s an identity. Don’t take this the wrong way but if you weren’t so busy disclaiming Iskolars ng Bayan and their wads of cash for tuition, and instead found(ed) your own then you wouldn’t have to publish this.
As can be inferred I’m from Ateneo. Given your state of mind, I think that you can take this either as some know-it-all who comes from a school that needs wads of cash, dipping his nose to an area he probably has never seen and just merely know about, or an elitist blindly talking because he has an Ateneo education (all implications thereafter, considered). Well, I don’t really care which one you pick (my, how elitist of me). But let me qualify that since I admit that I know nothing of the financial situation, I can see this more objectively (my, how know-it-all of me). And what I really see is an advertisement for New Era University (all implications thereafter considered), and the other schools. (I took advertising principles, I should know; again, how know-it-all of me)
Or a person who is convincing him/her-self that he/she made the right decision of going to the said school(s). In that case, I go back to the notion that it is merely an advertisement.
In the end really, what’s there to judge is your capabilities that you (supposedly and ideally) picked up from college. The taste of the fruit will determine the harvest. And UP seems to be doing a good job at that. I’m just so curious as to why you dramatize it.
and to bikoy.net, hello po.
anong bang problema mo? the term iskolar ng bayan was historically coined before the tuition fee increase.
and “iskolar ng bayan” does not merely refer to the fact that a student is enrolled in a state university, and whose tuition is paid for by taxes. in a grander sense, calling one’s self “iskolar ng bayan” instills in one the idea of social responsibility we have as students– that we are not in a vaccuum removed from society, nor inside the ivory tower of the academe– and thus we should be actively involved in national issues, especially when the rights of the people are at stake.
i think you’re the one who needs to think, and not just twice.
anyway, bikoy, sweetie.. sobrang human ng blog post mo na ito. siyet good luck sa midterms! kaya yan.. di ko alam kung paano.. basta isipin nalang natin na kaya natin ‘to. hehe. we still have a loooong way to go.
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isang beer para sa’yo!
curious lang mr. law student, marunong ka pa mag-KERI at ATE? eh TRUE? :p
nga pala, nasa states na si twin. hindi ka man lang nakapunta sa party niya. -_-
haggard…
bikoy, you are a UP law student. UP law is not a joke. At some point you have to set your priorities.
Your performance in that college is going to have a big impact on your future.
some people are really meant to cross the path you’re in right now. all kudos and goodluck brother!
go lang bikoy! woot woot!
tinawag ka fascist? that’s funny.
anyhow, ganyan talaga ang USC experience. it shows the illusion of “autonomy” and “liberalism” (credits to Sir Gerry Lanuza). their tolerance only extends to any belief system that isn’t hostile to theirs.
on a lighter note, i’d bet thats low blood pressure already. that’s why painkillers won’t work on your headache.
but then again, i’m not surprised pala at the comment. after all, if we care to be scientific about it, error comes from not knowing the reality. hahaha. kaya kung anez anez nalang ang ibabato sayo na mga comments.
That’s politics for you. Hehe. Good luck sa midterms!
offT: That Den has been flamebaiting a lot of bloggers lately, posting those exact words on others’ blogs. Gusto ata ng controversy?
spam catcher, bikoy?