Philippines are the only country in Asia that uses republic constitution. Among other country, the Philippines are the only country that has two or more candidates for one single position in the government.
There are almost 60- 70 Filipinos around the world have the privilege when they reach the age of 18, and that is to vote or to elect a new leaders of the country. There are two kinds of elections here in the Philippines the local and national elections. In local elections we are electing our Baranggay chairman and kagawads, while in the national elections we are electing our new president and vice president. The election process and procedures before is different on what we will be using now. Before the election was quite so hard for the people who counts the result of the election is one by one and sometimes the result of the election is undefined and fraud and sometimes it takes how may days to reveal to the people the total votes and the winner. The voting process is also need or gain more time because they are writing the names of the candidate they want to vote. But now the voting and the election process takes high steps and now it becomes well- advanced than ever. It was called the Poll Automated Election. This program is accepted and approved by the congress and the former president. The election process that we will be using this coming election is also mandatory or manually but not so difficult than before. The PCOS (Precinct Count Optical Scan) machine is used to count the votes and transmit the perfect and the correct result of the election faster and we will not using vehicles to transfer it, we will use the signals and transmitter to transmit and transfer the result easy and fast and sum up the final and total votes as easy as 1 2 3. The machine was invented by the smart matic company who won the bidding process last time. They are also the one who will print the ballot papers that we will use to vote.
At first it was difficult for the people to understand why, how this machine will work until they are engaging to some seminars and trials on how to answer the ballot and how to use the PCOS machine. There are so many advantages on using this machine, one of them it’s easier than the last time election process, easier to transmit the result and easy for the senior citizen because they only shading the circles or the oblongs before the name of the person that they want to elect or to vote. The election time before was too long but now maybe it can only take one day or less for the thousand voters, its amazing….
This machine is a life changing mechanism to some people who will guarded the voters because its easy for them to use and operate this machine. If they have advantages, the machine and the election process have its disadvantages. First of them was the price of every machine and every single ballot papers to be print and to be delivered here. The transmission of the result and the total vote will not be transmitted because of some signal jammers or signal jamming devices that invented for some personal use, but now it’s easy for some people to buy and to use this jamming device to ruin this election. Another one is the malfunctioning of the machine not now but maybe on the actual election process. The machine was sensitive in reading or scanning the ballot papers because even a single cramps or mistakes on the paper, the machine will automatically eject it and it will not be counted to the actual counts.
As a student and a first time voter, this is a big hindrance if I will not too conscious on how to use this machine. This is the first time in my life that I will using a counting electronic machine to count my votes and add it up to the over all count.
This is the time were all the student like me was given an opportunity to vote and to use this new technology…
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azthigenz
I’m . 20 years of age came from Brgy. Tagumpay bay laguna, but now I’m in Roxas city not just for vacation but to pursue my likes and studies.
I’m the oldest son in the family; I have one little brother and sister. My little brother named; Mico Angelo Albar Rivera. He is a third year high school students in San Antonio National High School in our place. My little sister named; Alyssa Jean Albar Rivera, she is a eleven years old little girl who is studying at Tanque National Elementary School here in Roxas city. The name of my father is Sevando Laroza Rivera; he is a proud tricycle driver in our place. My mother’s name is Narcisa Baldomera Albar; she is died because of breast cancer when I’m in my childish days. I studied elementary at Bay Central Elementary School from kindergarten up to grade six. I finished my study in High School at Los Baños National high School in Los baños laguna. After I finished my study I got my first work as a helper in a carenderia in our place and after that I entered the giveaway decorating station in our place also. After a month or two, I entered my third and fourth work in a computer station namely Photonet Computer station. My position is a server manager and also I’m the one who clean and sometimes download and manipulate some data in the said shop every Sunday. While I’m in the said work, I’ve also working as a photocopying man in a photocopying station inside the University of the Philippines there in Los baños laguna every Monday to Friday for almost nine months. Now I’m studying my college level in Hercor College for my first year onwards. I’m taking up the course of Bachelor Science in computer science because this course can be useful to me in finding a work someday.
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azthigenz
The silent of the night makes me think of what theme or topic should I write and put to my next blog. Until I remember my experience here in Hercor College, where I’m studying right now.
My college student life story began when my cousin helped me and assists me on how to be qualified to enter here in Hercor, I was so shy , nervous and scared. All of people and students here is very unfamiliar to me, even the way they move and most of all the way they speak. Until it start my first day of my study. I remember that my first day I was so awkward to communicate or ask to someone to help me or to guide me because I know that they will be surprised why they so called “tagalog” doing here in the province and its just right
I search my section and my designated room to the bulletin board and next I search my room. I was so shock when I see my classmates, they were all quiet, simple and understanding, and finally when someone makes some noice of laughter filled once silent room. Until then, my classmates and also my teachers helped me on how to respect and adopt their language and even their beliefs that likely differ from on what we believe in laguna. I was lucky then because I met so many kind and soft hearted, understanding, loving classmates and also is my friends. They are my very fist group friends that I have here in the province that I will not forget and always have a place here in my brain but also in my heart.
The friends that’s always there if you need a shoulder to lean on and to cry on to, gives you an embrace when you feel cold and lonely, a hand and feet to hold and to guide me everything, an ear and eyes that see and listen to your happy and sad moments, problems and sees the right or wrong, and a heart that can understand, and love me for what I am and respect on what I am doing or not and respect me for what I am saying sometimes true and understand what I can do or not.
Those are my friends from first semester up to my second semester that I will never ever forget even when I’m not see each other or if we go a distance. Friend that will always be a part of my evolving life. Thanks from the bottom of my heart .I miss all of you, my first group friends. I miss all our funny memories, our parties, our gala, our group dates, our bonding, I miss them all, our sometimes called quarrels in making decisions. Hope and I wish, if I could rewind the times, I will do it just to feel again the first feeling that I feel….
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azthigenz
Naging maganda at maayos naman ang lahat, ngunit ang hindi ka halos makayanan ay ang pangungulila ko sa aking pamilya na kailangang maiwan sa laguna dahil sa kakulangang pinansyal at sa iba pang aspeto ng pamumuhay na maiiwan.
Dito ko lubos na nakilala ang aming mga kamag-anak sa side ng nanay ko, maayos naman ang pakikitungo nila, ngunit isa lang ang mahirap, magtiis kung wala ka at kung wala silang inaalok para sayo at lalo na ang makisama sa kanila at sa klase ng pamumuhay na meron sila.
Dito ko lubos na nakita ang kagandahan ng lugar na ito, simula sa pagtingin gaili ibabaw ng eroplano hagang sa pab landing nito sa airport. Ang paglibot ko sa city nila na lubos kong ikinamangha. Ang mga mababait na tao at ang mga sariwang pagkain, magagandang tanawin at ang maaliwalas at tahimik na lugar.
Sabi nila madalang dumaan ang bagyo dito, kaya halos lahat ng mga bahay na nakikita ko ay hindi nawawala ang mga kawayan,simula sa brace ng bubong hanggang sa sahig ng kanilang mga bahay.
Dito ako nagkaroong ng pagkakataong makapag aral sa mababang halaga. Maganda at maayos din ang edukasyon at kame ang binibigyang importansya sa lugar na halos madame ang mga kabataan.
Dito ako naglalage hangang ngaun, sa kadahilanang ako ay nag aaral ng kursong "Bachelor of science in Computer Science ng unang taon sa kolehiyo.
Ngaun ang ika lawang semester ko dito at umaabot na ako ng syam hangang sampung bwan simula ng pagkakawalay ko sa aking pamilya.
Hindi din naman nalalayo ang buhay nila sa buhay ng mga taga laguna, simple tahimik at masaya na sa simpleng kung anong meron sila.
Nakakagulat lang daw sa part nila na ang isang tulad ko na taga laguna ay napadpad at dito pa nakuhang mag aral samantalang mas mganda daw ang mga iniindorsong kurso at magagandang trabaho ang pweding maibigay.
Ang saken lang, i want to see the places that beyond of what i used to see before, ika nga ng iba explorations lang. Pero para sa isang teenager na katulad ko, its not just only an explorations but it is also finding to oneself that i can stand and decide on my own out in the diameter of my father and also to know my own limitations in my own. To gain more friends, and to gain more confidence ta face another people that you don't know eversince.
Ang pagpunta ko dito ang naging daan para maranasan ko almots all the "first time", ang pagsakay sa airplane,ang malayo ng matagal sa pamilya, ang walang dapat paniwalaan kundi ang sarili, ang pagpapahalaga sa mga turo at paaral ng magulang, paggala ng walang inaalalang magagalit, ang pag aaral ng dialect na hiligaynon, at higit sa lahat unang pagkakataong makapag aral sa kolehiyo at ang nakilala ko ang aking mga kamag anak.
Ngaun, second sem na, nagpaplano ulet na umuwi sa laguna sa bakasyon at makasama muli ang aking mga naiwang pamilya...
salamat sa pagbabasa.... Mark Leonard A Rivera.
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