How devastating

How come I never run out of worries?After one passes through, another one goes marching in again. I mean, CAN I GET A LIFE?Can I just get a rest after having one finished before facing another one. When I'm totally busy thinking of my problem/s, I get to think some sayings or quotes applicable to what I am actually going through. One that came up to me is, "Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you but you never come." I wouldn't really elaborate on that but its kind of relative to what I'm experiencing. It would  be totally selfish for me to say that my life is the hardest life you could live in, knowing that there are others who suffer more than I do in this society, but that's truly how I feel and what I say would most likely be appropriate to how I feel. I totally sounded messed up right?Because I totally am. Helpless?I could say so. 

A Miracle

Ah..I actually did it! A miracle it is indeed. After 3 LONG agonizing weeks, my suffering had actually come to an end and I couldn’t thank God enough for what He had done for me. Prayer and perseverance is undeniably effective. Starting from the 1^st week of March where everyone got so busy finishing their research, to the 2^nd week where Friday the 13^th would be the last day of passing of grades for graduating students and the week where I was SUSPENDED for not wearing uniform until the third week where I was literally already grabbing myself up to finish what I have started although chances are already so slim. For that whole 3 weeks, I could say that it was totally the worst moment in my life where it lasted quite long and I actually did want to give up. My other classmates, or those that I am always with, were already done with theirs and they could just go around anywhere celebrating every minute knowing that they were already in the safe box of graduates while I was hardly picking up the tiniest bit of hope that has kept me going on, having double thoughts that I could still make it or it is already too late. It wasn’t really easy making yourself get up from bed so early to go to door-to-door to your respondents just so they would be sort of forced to respond to your study, walking the streets of Davao, rain or shine, hoping that you’ll get more responses, accepting rejects and waiting for confirmation, emailing, calling and visiting them each day. Until March 20 came, where I could hardly breathe anymore, Sir RSG agreed that I could have consultation with my documentation already. It gave me hope and the thorn stuck to my heart for how many days has been pulled out on March 21, 1:00pm. I don’t know but I still got the aftershocks of being a paranoid that there’s something that could still go wrong and I wouldn’t really make it to graduation day until today where Sir RSG has checked my hardbound thesis via phone and I had actually received my final grade in all my subjects. All I could really say is I am so thankful that I had passed through it.

I wanted to take this opportunity to really thank everyone, as I haven’t really poured out my real gratitude in my research paper acknowledgement section. To Sir RSG, for the encouragement, advice, considerations, learning and for giving me the chance to actually let my efforts pay off. We couldn’t deny that it was really up to you, aside from me, if I would really make it. A lot of thanks to you Sir.

To Maam Wit and Sir Bert of IDI, and every officers and respondents, I had quite disturbed with their busy schedules for gathering data. My research was all not that great but I hope it could still be good.

To my ABASHAKE friends, especially Madam, for the offered prayer and encouragements and for the acceptance if I could just only be an ‘Octoberian’ (at least Batch 2009 gihapon).

To my classmates in IC (present and evening batch), for the encouragements also, (although you were just waiting na malibre.hehe) that you still got to say that there’s still hope. For the laughter that made me temporarily forget of my agony.

To ‘pangit’, who stood by my side, gone with me while doing door-to-door survey, rain or shine and really know what I felt and had gone through and gave me every support and strength.

To my beloved parents and family, thank you for bringing me up and worked hard to educate me. You were my inspiration really to finish my study despite the slimmest chances.

To everyone, thank you, God will surely take care of the paybacks multiple times.

To my classmates, who decided to finish their studies later, I really hoped we could graduate together so there are more to celebrate with since we had shared lots of fun and pressured times already. But I just want to say that, whoever graduates first is not really the measure if you were really a good IT student in USeP, though it could be one, but it is really how much you have learned with all the IT stuff or technical things that an IT student should be equipped with. You know what I mean.

A step up on UsEP applications

It is obvious that our university do transactions in the usual way which is manual which invites more negative comments by students, faculties and also with outside individuals that could have a business done with the university. There are already existing automated systems or applications being used into some transactions but there is still a negation present with regards to doing each of those processes. Integrating internet application with the existing applications and data being used by the university would totally take the way transactions are usually done a higher step. It would be really good if all of the transactions done inside or maybe outside the university would be applied in such a way like enrollment, paying all kinds of fees, open discussions between students themselves or important meetings by higher officials. We already have virtual forums that are being used by students and professors as one form of e-learning. There is also doing online quiz but it would be good if the university could have one that is really meant for our school only, in that way, doing long tests or exam online is not that far from doing actual ones like face-to-face. With all of this stated applications integrated into one, as an official use by the university, things could be simpler thinking that we could just go use a single application but with multiple purposes.

USEP security

Having a much "secured" security within every system is not an easy job, especially nowadays with all the hackers and the likes on the loose busying themselves to make others have a hard time protecting several systems existing. You really need to set concrete security policies and regular maintenance to avoid things such as making those data stay as confidential as they should be. With the USEP's electronic security, I think that it has still improvements to achieve to be able to a certain level of security wherein we could really say that it is enough or more than enough to protect the privacy of faculty, staffs and as well as the students. I could say such statement due to instances that may or can prove it. A group of students of this university has effortlessly hacked into the system in our computer laboratory and the method they use might even reached many others who are still using the laboratory and have ease on using time in accessing the internet or using the units there if they weren’t caught or noticed and placed a corresponding sanction for their actions. So with that, employment of a more solid data management and security must be a matter that the university should greatly consider now and as soon as possible work on.

IC - future tech culmination

Alas! One of my or our milestones has been reached and it was totally or just half totally relieving that our Future tech presentation was done...finally. Yesterday was indeed the day we have all been waiting for (well, aside from the toga-wearing day) since it has been moved several times already and it was just like prolonging our own agonies to the max since there are still many things that we should be attending too. I really woke up very early because we still have to go to Matina to get our diorama and should make it to school early to help with all the preparationSSSSS that have to be done. I admit that I was really nervous because we may just embarass ourselves and put a stain to our college's name and as well as to our dear RSG's. There were minute imperfections that were really inevitable with how we prepared everything for that day but all in all it was fun. I get to see the creations of my other classmates and many kudos to them for making it to the actual presentation knowing that behind the presentations, were lack of sleep, tons of pressures and other things that could really blow your mind and it was all not really easy. I hope our dear RSG was proud of it, even though we have failed him many times but honestly, though there was so much pressure, thank you RSG for pushing us to be a great IT students and as well as an individual. One project done, 2 more to go. AJA!

My great grandson in-law could be an AI

"Technology is getting faster and smaller all the time, this we know from Moore’s law. However, life expectancy and quality of life and technology’s ability to alter it, is going to create a number of moral choices for people .."

With the statement above, we were asked to formulate an ethical question with regards to the future technological advancement and my classmate should point out their views about it.There are a lot of things that came into my mind as to be the possible question I would be formulating and I had chosen to talk about human cloning...first. But unfortunately, as I was going to pose it to our forum, my other classmate has already posted something about it. So my topic then shifted to other idea - My topic was inspired by the movie Artificial Intelligence and Bicentennial Man, and it would be great if you have also seen them so we could relate to each other better. Greater advancements is very inevitable and we all know that it keeps on growing more and more powerful and so complex that anything we think impossible would just be a laugh away in the near future. With all these advancements, it is not also impossible that robots or AIs will be mingling with us as someone who is also an individual of a society. They also could talk like us, live the same lifestyle we had, or maybe even eat and have emotions. My question would be, would you agree to the thought of these robots can be 'real humans' such as being registered as one, take part of the important happenings on earth as real humans do, have families and die knowing that they are only machines?



My classmates' answers:


I saw both movies but I had to watch the A.I. again.

The issue here is that is it really good idea to develop AI to the point where it would be like in the movies. There was a moment in the AI movie where the mother is having a big dilemma whether to fully activate the robot child (I forgot his name) and make it her child forever. That moment had her thinking if she can really accept the robot child and use it for her own personal benefit (maybe, therapy from having extreme emotions due to her real living child on the brink of death?). The robot child was used to mediate her feelings and as a distraction for her mind. Later on, the family (especially, the mother) when they were reunited with their true son, had a very complex emotion since the robot was now an obstacle for the reconstruction of their family bond. The mother felt that she had to someway get rid of the robot and concentrate on loving his true son since she thinks that her true son is more important and her son is only one that matters, yet still having the little lingering feeling of warmth she felt with the robot child.

Now this is a critical sample when involved in this issue. Humans are not supposed to create life (I mean artificially, not the other one...). It has been a great issue since Frankenstein and before that time. So if the creation of life is obtained by humans, Chaos is ensured like the sample before. So I personally think that if people want to lead a true and satisfying lives, don't mess with God.
-Michelangelo Macaraeg


Honestly, I have not watched any of the movies you've mentioned by I will try to give my thoughts with regards to the question in general. This issues I believe is still in debate by those who are pro-AI and those who are anti -AI.

For me, there's nothing wrong on having robots lived the way human do as long as they are not created to destroy human. I always believe that robots will never become human. There are human behaviors and characteristics that cannot be done by a programmed machine like common sense.

-Kenneth Roldan M. Tello



i cant imagine AI's do have feelings. it is impossible. only God can give and create emotions to people. But if ever thiis will be possible, i have foresee that the moral issue in here is in the scinetist who created that human. we can question him about his very purpose of creating a technology like that. becasue maybe he was trying to exceed God's power or to be like God.

-Miah Mae C. Bernaldo