Oh great am glad to have known that there is one true leader in the Philippines who brought out big project of tree planting. You know it should have been done earlier but that's okay. Trees will grow eventually.

I feel sorry for those big trunk acacia trees that once flourished and nurtured the grounds in Fort Bonifacio. Acacia are huge shady trees that bring so much shelter in the military area. When I had my last visit there can't find any more of those ancient trees. Some of them were probably over 500 hundred years old. Imagine? Oh well, somehow the first priority in that area is about housing, tenement, condominiums and other multi-national foreign investment output and input to provide revenues for the government. The many  infrastructures, the many buildings and mega malls. You are right the fast paced setting of a global economy remains to be at the hands of the most influential people in the country for without them economic and political situation of the country remains stagnant.

However because of this fast-paced setting what happened to the rest of the majority of the people who cannot afford that kind of life? Not too many can afford the high cost housing, nor the basic necessities. That is the worst problem. People who have problems with unemployment, homelessness and poverty. Not all the inhabitants over there in Philippines belong to the rich or the wealthy. Majority of them have problem meeting both ends meet. Most of them even if they are employed still they are only receiving minimum wage. How can they afford a living. I mean hello people in the government. Make up your minds. THINK.

While those overseas worker worked so hard in other countries bringing in the dollars for their family, and you think that's enough? NO. Honestly, the dollars they usually earned from Saudi and the many parts of the world although in dollars are not enough to sustain their livelihood. FGS! How many times these OFWs have to suffer from their kind of minimum wages abroad and strave themselves in the heat of the sun, worke their ass off and here comes manipulators and greed gluttony in the private sectors and schools and universities who asked too much. My God where is your conscience? How you can raise the tuition fees for these lowly people who are only trying to find the good education that they deserve. There is one thing that only can be rationalize on that matter. probably not too many of you there are good enough to be scholars and the management needs to boot you off their university. Maybe, maybe not. That you can go investigate. Or find another solution wherein you don't need to stay in universities who are tempted to have international or foreign students where they get so much funding. Who knows? That can be one of the problem or other anomaly such as "conflict of interest."

Before the way through college education is determined through a series of test. Whether you'll go to college or to a vocational school. Those who passed the NCEE or National College Entrance  Examination are proven to be deemed to have "rights" to educate themselves in University. Those who received below average grades were encourage to take vocational courses or a two year diploma course. Somehow there are other probabilities and chances to make it to the top by having to resort themselves to "testing once again." Series of test maybe. While few of them just quit because its unfair.

The population of students in the Philippines are overwhelming. It is in my time and up to this present generation. But the tuition fee in those university years ? Middle class families can afford them. NOW? Your parents should be in a salary ranging from P100,000/year or more, especially if they have 2 to 3 kids in college. Its the truth. Life sucks over there that almost every one wants to leave that country. You don't know whom they favor? The foreigners or the Filipinos.