Giving :)

Something inspiring for me and maybe for you as well! Hope we'll never grew tired of giving whatever we can to others! :)

CC goes Coca-Cola

The Creative Circle or CC never fails to amaze me. From a small group of talented social work students of BUCSSP, CC is continuously evolving into something else and into something better. I believe it also continues to break expectations and go beyond the perception of other people. I guess pushing for the formal creation of this group is one of the best things that I did when I was the president of the Human Welfare Advocates way back 2011.

Just today, they qualified for the Grand Finals of the Coca-Cola Regional Dance Showdown (not really sure though of the name of the competition) and is in fact the official representative of Bicol University (and of Albay as well). I believe that they need to step up their dancing skills and push themselves to the limit in order for them to win. I know they can and I know they will try because that's what they have been doing eversince - improving and becoming better.

But I hope that the university and some Albaypeeps will also give them the support they deserve especially moral and physical support on the day of the competition (September 18, 2013 at JMR Coliseum) considering that if the criteria for judging will not be changed, audience impact amounts to a very big 20%. Kaya sana talaga sumuporta ang mga tao.

Of course, my support to them will not be change. 100% pa rin at dadagdagan ko pa ng dasal para sana mas maging effective!

Go CC! Go CC! Go CC! Kaya Yan! Laban Lang! :)

#Save651

I must admit that during the first time i heard about the project of DPWH about transforming the current two-lane maharlika highway to a four-lane highway, my ears clapped and my heart was filled with joy. Come to think of it, widened highways aside from booming infrastructure are somehow indicators of progress. But when things started sinking into me, i started feeling ambivalent towards it because of the immaterial and irreparable costs that it would give cause to the Nagueños.

After thinking things out, i decided that my conscience will haunt me if i say to the world that i would want things like this to happen. Besides, i really do not like the idea of cutting trees (i remember i once wrote an article about the cutting of trees in BU to paved way for the construction of the gate that is still closed up to now despite being completed some three years ago). Moreso, 651 good old tress will be cut and it's very much, too much. I just don't know but i find it not worth it to cut the trees just to have widened roads if there are alternatives. Alternatives that are not far from reality.

So to sum things up, i am one with the people of the city in saying #Save651.

PS. I am not against the project, i am against the cutting of trees. :)

photo courtesy of #Save651 FB page.

#mmk

i wasn't able to watch the mmk episode today but i was able to see it's ending. timely with the agency visit we had at Holy Face Rehabilitation Center for Mental Health in Tabiguian, Tabaco City, the episode was about a girl suffering from mental illness specifically with schizophrenia and was being accused by the people as being the 'aswang.' i took the courage of posting a simple and similar message both in facebook and in twitter. the one i posted in fb is below and i was amazed by the 24 likes it received after two hours.

i displayed the same message in twitter and after two hours, my tweet was retwitted by resaabigail who happens to be a producer of the show. anyway, natuwa lang ako. haha.

anyway, i hope that those people who had retwitted and liked the post will do their own little way of promoting the stoppage of stigmatizing persons who are mentally ill because they also have their worth and dignity and that they are also persons. no more, no less.

Pilipinas, Tara Na! v.2 and v.3

last time, i posted the newest version of Byahe Tayo made by the department of tourism in line with the launching of their domestic tourism promotion campaign (?). haha. well, that was the first version. now there are two other versions, obviously, it's the second and the third version and should you be interested to watch please do so below. haha. (parang may mali lang. basta yun na yun)


ps. i found out about the second version through alfred's blog. :)

Aquino Facts and My Perspective

my curiosity was aroused when i saw a link of a youtube video which was entitled, Aquino Coquangco, facts they don't want you to know. actually, hindi ko ikakaila na i would have voted for noynoy during the 2010 presidential elections if indeed i was allowed to vote because of my belief that he is the most viable lesser evil among the presidential aspirants. ang ibig kong sabihin ng viable ay ang mas may malaking posibilidad na manalo and lesser evil because he and his family is known to have a clean record and a hard stand against corruption. plus, the need of the times dictates that the country needs a president who can inspire the Filipino people to be united, to rally behind their government and most of all, a president who can make the Filipino people trust their government once again after almost 9 years of an administration tainted with graft, corruption and negligence. yun yung kailangan natin sa aking palagay. come to think of it, i could have endorsed Gibo or Gordon to my parents but i just think that more than Gibo's vision of a great Philippines, the Filipino people need a president who can unify the them.


if i will be asked if PNoy unified the Filipino so far, i don't really know what to answer. frankly speaking, i'm having second thoughts now if my decision to campaign noynoy to my parents and friends is correct because of the different issues that faced his barely one year and four months old administration. basta ang alam ko, and based from my observation alone, there's an atmosphere that people are now slowly giving their trust to their government. feeling ko nga, totoo na he's laidback, totoo na he lacks motivation to do what a president should do, totoo na kulang ang performance niya, buti na lang, he picked competent people to run his government (mostly but not all) like DOJ Secretary De Lima, DOE Secretary Almendras, DOF Secretary Purisima, DSWD Secretary Soliman, DFA Secretary Del Rosario and DILG Secretary Robredo to name a few. (parang si DBM Secretary Abad lang naman ang ayaw ko because of the comments he made regarding the budget cuts made in the SUCs which according to him, more funds doesn't mean high quality. ayos lang siya? funds in SUCs would mean more supplies for the professors, more improvement in infrastructure, more upgrades and laboratories and so on? now, is quality and availability of funds not connected? perhaps, i should make a separate blogpost on this).


Going back, dun lang ata siya nakakabawi. if those people will be out, PNoy will be having some hard time of having an image that his government is working very hard for the Filipino people. moving on, i find the video very much biased against the Aquino's. for one, i personally think that we cannot blame the Aquino's with regards to the decisions of Ysidra and is there any concrete evidence with regards to the lost of the treasures of the First Philippine Republic and the rise of Ysidra Coquangco as one of the richest person in the Philippines during the 1900's? Can we blame Cory alone for the flaws of the 1987 Constitution when there are in fact 48 people who framed the constitution and what Cory did was to appoint them and perhaps campaign for the ratification of the consitution? Is it correct and valid to directly drag the name of the Aquino family with the killing of the people who supported the battle of hacienda luisita farmers when in fact, the Aquino family only owns 1% of the Hacienda Luisita property because it is owned by a corporation? Same with the SCTEX, i think the money didn't go to the Aquino's, the money went to the Coquangco-owned corporation which owns the hacienda luisita property. But on the other hand, kung may pinaniniwalaan man ako sa video, that's the part where Cory did nothing or perhaps did not exert much effort in giving the piece of land that the Hacienda Luisita farmers deserve which kahit hanggang ngayon ay hindi pa rin naman inaaksyunan ni PNoy. PNoy have more or less five years to do what her mother failed to do with Luisita but the sooner he address it, the better.


if i had used my emotions while watching the video, perhaps i am now starting to hate the Aquino's because it is what the video implies - that we should hate the Aquino's and the yellow 'propaganda' because it done nothing good to our country. but here's what i think, personally, i'm pro-noynoy but i can say that i'm pro-government. by that i mean, what the Philippines need at this moment is to support their government regardless of the sitting president. but support shall also be coupled with critiquing as the need arises. Filipino people should be open-minded and critical because what the government does definitely affects them. we can never see a GREAT COUNTRY when what we are doing is just criticizing, criticizing and criticizing. try supporting  and doing our own little part and the moment we stood as one in support of our government, that's the moment we can climb up the ladder of progress.

justice for laesybil

a news reached me through sms that a schoolmate was found dead after being raped in an area near their house in bascaran, a rural community in daraga, albay. actually, she is from our neighbor college, the college of business, economics and management (cbem). she is also a third year student who is taking BS Accountancy, a valedictorian when she graduated in high school and a consistent dean's lister of cbem. what could have been a bright future for her and her family was crashed by an immoral person.

yes, perhaps, i don't know her personally but i don't think personally knowing the victim is a requirement for a person to stand-up against rape, violence and other kinds of inhumane acts. that's why when prof. mirabueno (bu cal) encourage the used of black ribbons as DP in fb, i changed my fb profile picture and when i was asked by laisa to make a lay-out of the tarp to be displayed infront of the department, i immediately did it. just like what i mentioned in the bu-cssp social work fb page, our silence is not needed at these times. we need to stand up. we need to condemn all acts of violence committed against any person. we need to join the call for justice for laesybil so that her death will not go in vain. come to think of it, i would not want it to happen to my friends and family members. JUSTICE!

justice!

i was tasked by laisa to help her in the lay-out and in the messaging of a tarp that will be displayed infront of the department in connection to what happened to a student of bicol university and this is what i made:

well, i know its just normal but i'm just happy that our condemnation and message was spread directly to 35 persons and was shared with 20 other more persons. calling for justice is not easy, but together, we can make our voices heard. :)

fail

after seeing the report of Lourd in AksyonTV about the symbolic seven billionth baby in the Philippines, i became curious with one of the featured things in the report is a software run by BBC.com which let you know your number in the seven billion world population that we have today. tipong sinasagot kung pang-ilan kang baby na ipinanganak sa mundo. unfortunately, simula ng nag-umpisa akong magtry hanggang ngayon ay error ang lumalabas. feeling ko tuloy hindi ako pinanganak. siguro ay lumabas lang ako sa kung saan kaya hindi nacocompute kung pang-ilang baby ako. tsktsk. sayang!

PS. IPASA NA ANG RH BILL. SEVEN BILLION NA ANG WORLD POPULATION. NINETY-FOUR MILLION OR NINETY-TWO MILLION NA ANG SA PILIPINAS. MAS MARAMI, MAS MASAYA. PERO MAS MARAMI DIN, MAS MAHIRAP! tsktsk.

vote for PH

since yesterday evening, i am voting for Dianne Samar Necio in the internet voting for Ms. International 2011 as encouraged by the honorable governor of the province of Albay who is almost sleepless just to make sure that Vietnam will not overtake Philippines in the voting. haha. grabe sa suporta si gob. anyway, you can vote and help Dianne in making the country proud. GO PHILIPPINES! :)

CAST YOUR VOTE AND HELP THE PHILIPPINES! HERE'S HOW:

1. Press the link (http://missinter.cn/vote/index.php?1319993360) .

2. Go to the upper right tally.

3. Go to the rightmost box along the row of Dianne.

4. Press the light-blue, it turns to yellow.

5. Encode the 4-number code.

6. When a ^.^ appears, your vote was counted but when it's absent you must cast your vote again.

7. Wait for 2 minutes (disregard the 30 minutes rule) and repeat step 1.

groupdy

one of the most challenging requirements that we had for first semester of our junior college life is the practicum in facilitation under the subject, Group Dynamics. well, honestly, i thought that Group Dy will be an easy subject for us to conquer and that only group dynamics activities will be done during the final period at first and I WAS WRONG.

we went out of the four corners of AH ICTC and went to what i consider as public secondary schools in located in rural Daraga (in our group's case). Banadero, Anislag and Bascaran National High Schools.

my group decided to conduct self-awareness activities, something that our public secondary high school system don't mind because values education is by the books which is something i deem improper. we choose self-awareness because adolescents in high school are experiencing identity vs role confusion (according to Erikson's Psychosocial Stages of Development). through the activities we had conducted, we want high school students to get to know more about themselves because in knowing more about themselves, they can become better persons and that's what we would want them to become - a better person in relation to others but more importantly to themselves.

honestly, the whole of it (at least 21 hours of exposure) was very, very, very tiring but at the end, the smiles of the participants, their exhibit of appreciation and positive feedback made everything (effort, financial expenses and others) worth it and even worth repeating for. more so, perhaps my dream of becoming a values education teacher someday in my alma mater ncshs provided motivation. haha. ewan. pero parang ganun yun. i'm happy that we were able to experienced this facilitation thing and i'll be glad to repeat it, if given the opportunity. i just hope that the kids we facilitated will become successful in knowing themselves more. :)

(ewan ko lang kung tama ang sentences ko dito but i hope the thought is correct and can be understood well)

art therapy

Last September 24, i had the opportunity to share before my batchmates the things i learned during our Art Therapy Seminar-Workshop in Manila (and attend princess Zarah's debut celebration as well). This time, i was one of the resource speakers and facilitators. As usual, masaya pero nakakapagod pero masaya naman talaga pag-Art Therapy. You'll get to know other persons like you've never known them before using colors, shapes coupled with their own interpretation pa. Happiness, ika nga. moreover, i am excited in sharing the knowledge about Art Therapy again to our BU Tabaco counterparts (social work students) before or during the semestral break, i guess.

well, naalala ko lang at natuwa lang ako sa mga pangyayari. a friend asked me kung ano ang mga issues ko sa buhay dala na rin siguro na hindi nila ako kasabay sa Art Therapy and the usual notion with me goes on, na walang problema si russ, na maligaya si russ, at si russ ay SuperRuss. pero sinagot ko siya ng diretso, sabi ko issues ko sa buhay? APPRECIATION and Love (ata), friend. haha. :D 

No to SUC Budget Cut!

a rally against SUC budget cut was staged in BU. sayang i did not attend because i cannot attend dahil may field work kami sa Anislag (a rurban barangay of Daraga in Albay) on Self-Awareness but kung wala kaming field nung mga panahong yun, i will surely attend the rally (first time ko sana!).

Anyway, eto lang mana ang gusto kong sabihin - 
STOP SUC BUDGET CUT!
Higher education must be accessible to all.

RH now

i can't stop campaigning for RH Bill in my own little ways especially that tomorrow (if i am right) is the scheduled debate about RH Bill in the House of Representatives. well, i guess i stated the reason why i am for RH Bill passage. let me state some of my reasons by quoting the staunch RH advocate Carlos Celdran, "the bill aims to provide awareness and education. it isn't about abortion or population control." i would like to believe that at this point in time, i don't personally need RH but thinking about the millions of Filipinos living under the poverty line, we need to educate them. we need to give them the chance and opportunity to choose their path away from poverty by (in this case) giving them access to both natural and artificial family planning whichever they would want to use. we are a nation of strong 92 million and more Filipinos. yes, i believe that population is our very asset but then again, this bill is not about population control and i would like to believe that the bill will paved way for a sustainable population growth which will be very helpful for the country. we cannot waste more and more time. our time is now! i'm pro-life. pro-quality life for the Filipino people. pass the RH bill!

as to the opposition of the catholic church, well, i am a proud catholic but i think supporting the RH bill will not make me less of a catholic because i know God wants the best for His people and God wants better life especially for the poor. but let me quote another statement, this time from Leloy Claudio with regards to the opposition of the Catholic church. "Condoms and anti-colonial novels are, after all, eerily similar: they piss off the powerful because they liberate" and perhaps you can read his blogpost about the RH bill and the Catholic opposition through this link.

now i know who they are

the first time i saw storyline on the abs-cbn news channel, my attention was easily caught. it's unique cinematography including its effects, sounds and others plus the way they deliver the stories of their interviewees is very appealing for the story is first hand and directly came from the interviewers themselves. however, since we do not have a tv at the boarding house in legazpi, i cannot really watch it per episode on a weekly basis on the ANC then. today, it is also shown in abs-cbn but still there is replay in ANC. hm. i think i had seen a couple of episodes including those that of Ninoy, Atty. Saguisag, Sec. Robredo, former senator pimentel and also a couple of episodes involving ordinary people like the story of a "kariton boy" who amused me because of his english speaking skills and interest in comics.

well, i forgot that last night was a storyline night and i don't even have a clue when will storyline be aired in ANC. worse, i saw a comment commending how beautiful the story was. good thing, it happened that i was doing a channel hop and i drop by in ANC and poof... it was STORYLINE. what i saw was the story about Dukot and if i am right it was about the torture victims. but the last story really really caught my attention and even caused goosebumps. it was the story of the "tragic story" of the sweetheart Alexis and Nika who were shot by robbers one night in Alexis' home at times st. sayang naman si Alexis oh! he can make a difference. tsktsk. worse thing is that they were good people who can bring and do a lot for the good of the Philippines. nakakahinayang! i may not know them personally but their story affected me. tsktsk. well, i hope justice will be serve for them anytime soon.

ps. while browsing some tumblr blogs, i came across a cover of UNO Magazine which bears the phrases "Justice for Alexis and Justice for Nika. during those time, i am really ignorant of who they are and i even told myself that maybe they were children who were victims of child abuse. good thing, my ignorance was changed and social consciousness aroused when i saw the episode.

pss. two thumbs up for storyline. :D

psss. JUSTICE FOR ALEXIS AND NIKA! Good people deserve it!

pssss. photos below were grabbed from philstar.net and fb page of in memoriam of alexis and nika.

no2mininginpalawan

i've never been to Palawan. i only saw Palawan and it's beautiful places through the internet, television shows and tourism ads plus the pictures that my mama have when she went to Palawan and went home not just with a bunch of photos but also with a rainmaker courtesy of the good mayor of Puerto Princesa, Mayor Hagedorn. and certainly, Palawan is in my list of MY TO MUST VISITED PLACES SOMEDAY. well, just after the CSC election (or maybe before), ate aubrey gave me two signature/petition forms saying NO TO MINING IN PALAWAN. of course, since i am a green warrior and environmental advocate in my own capacity i asked my classmates to sign and affix their name if they also believe that the Philippines Last Frontier should be protected against environmental destruction and . most of them signed, but sadly not all. perhaps they were attacked by apathy which was the long running disease of many (not all) students of bicol university for the last few years but it's another story. going back to Palawan and mining in palawan, here in Bicol, movement against mining corporations is also strong especially the one that can be found in Rapu-Rapu Island in the province of albay. even Gov. Salceda, a green economist approved a resolution or a provincial ordinance (i forgot) stating strong opposition against mining. the good governor himself stated that mining gets more yet it returns very little. well, we have seen the bad effects of mining but why we are still allowing them? Below is a screenshot of the GIF found in no2mininginpalawan.com wherein i also signed an online petition against mining in palawan.

the bottomline of this is that while it is true that mining is an investment and it provides cash perhaps to the people around the area and revenue to the government, mining destroys the environment. OUR ENVIRONMENT. palawan is such a treasure of the country in terms of biodiversity and we should not dare destroy it in exchange of some coins which mostly will just go in the hands of the crook politicians and rich owners of mining firms. perhaps we can gain money in millions but the destruction it can bring to Palawan's natural resources is priceless for no amount of money can replace the destroyed Fauna and Flora. Palawan is a gift for us and we should not let irresponsible people lead it to the path of destruction. NO TO MINING IN PALAWAN! better yet, NO TO MINING IN THE PHILIPPINES!

if it happened that you have the same sentiments against mining and for the environment, sign the petition online at no2mininginpalawan.com. it's a little step and quite of little effort but it signifies your intention and conviction for environmental conservation. :)

The World Is Just Awesome (Boom De Yada) - Filipino Sytle

i'm a Discovery Channel fanatic and the World is Just Awesome Boom De Yada Station ID of theirs captured me and i personally think that it's great and very beautiful. i found this Boom De Yada Filipino Style while browsing in tumblr. according to the post, this will be probably aired this year.

BOOM DE YADA. BOOM DE YADA. BOOM DE YADA.

THE WORLD IS TRULY JUST AWESOME!

a piece of OUR reality

it is very seldom that i watched a noontime show when i arrived here in naga due to wide array of choices over the different channels (both international and national) to watch. but one noontime, papa watched Eat Bulaga! (the longest running noontime show in the Philippine TV) and during that day, it was Ryan Agoncillo's birthday. of course, it is quite a custom to TV shows especially variety shows to give the birthdayperson a kind-of-blowout and greeting. Ryan's birthday celebration was highlighted when he gave the earnings of his brother-in-law to mang rogelio, an impoverished jeepney driver which he knew from BBC's Toughest Place to be a Bus Driver. So as a curious audience, i searched and actually watch the BBC's TOUGHEST PLACE TO BE A BUS DRIVER which i can say is a real piece of OUR very own reality in the eyes of a foreigner.

The close to an hour documentary revolved around the story of Josh West, a British Bus Driver from London who drives a state of the art double decker bus and the challenge imposed upon him to actually drive and have a taste of how it is to be a bus/jeepney driver in the Philippines specifically in Manila which according to the narration is being referred as the most densely populated city in the world. Of course, as a first timer, Josh found it hard to navigate the streets of Manila and much more to drive using the jeepney which he even described as "a vehicle which he thinks as not roadworthy." But eventually, he made it with the aid of attending to a driving class and with the help of Mang Rogelio.

Well, i decided to post some sort-of-a-review for the documentary not just because a Filipino and the Philippines is being featured but because on the important pieces of our reality it captured while Josh's story is going on. the first of our piece of reality is that many filipinos are still trap under the spells of poverty, that no matter how hard they tried to work and work and work even harder, when the sun rises anew, they are still in the same situation they are in. it's as if a trap wherein poor filipinos no matter how hard they strive will still end up being poor just like Mang Rogelio's situation which happens to be the very sentiment of Mang Rogelio. that everyday, many filipinos do job that at the end of the day will hopefully suffice their needs for that day alone. another thing is that even the Reproductive Health Bill or popularly the RH Bill was featured. well, personally the situation of Mang Rogelio's neighbor (which unfortunately i forgot the name) made my personal stand firmer that there is a need for the passage of RH Bill not because it gives everyone an artificial contraceptives but it gives the couple a chance to choose on what they think is better for their family.

Hmm. so much for the RH Bill. what was truly saddening i

s the part where "pagpag" - a kind of food in tondo wherein it's ingredients are collected, washed and recooked remains or remnants of foods from a fastfood chain is being served. it is shocking and saddening but we cannot blame the people of tondo in making and patronizing pagpag. it is their situation that made them do that. come to think of it, if they have better access to foods or let's say opportunities for employment, they will not do that. Josh even cried upon hearing the story and the sentiments of the pagpag maker (photo below). it is saddening because it once again caught a piece of our reality through a foreigner.

perhaps the reality that the documentary gave Ryan and inspired Ryan's decision to help Mang Rogelio even for the short-term. the realness of the story and the documentary itself is so good because even though foreigners made or produced it, there is no exaggeration but it tells the story on how the people say it. Nonetheless, the documentary made me proud that i am a Filipino. that no matter what obstacles or hurdles we face in life, we fight and we try our best to become better. Furthermore, just like josh for sure, the story of Mang Rogelio humbles me and made me appreciate our and my status now and it inspired to do more once i started working because there are jobs that are worse than mine.

Lastly, Josh was successful with his challenge though there was a part where he was lost along the route and had a hard time with driving and counting change. I hope that Josh's adventure in the Philippines would become an eyeopener to the British people as to how lucky they are that they are developed and perhaps could share some not only to the poor Filipinos but to the poor people all over the world

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ps. Jollibee was kinda featured but not really. it's just that Mang Rogelio and his family together with Josh ate at Jollibee when Mang Rogelio's jeepney was covered by the number/colorcoding. (seepicturebelow)

RH

credits to elpee abias and i support rh bill fanpage. :)

i believe we have our voice

i'm just wondering why while the affected SUCs especially UP was making noise against the budget cut proposed by the PNoy and his budget team to the budget of SUCs all-over the country, Bicol University made no noise. Is 88M budget cut small to BU for it not to raise its voice or is BU self-sufficient enough not to mind the budget cut? i think this is a clear proof of BUenos passivity. look, i am not saying that we should have held rally and shout as loud as we can for the government to hear our sentiments, BU students through the BU-USC could have sent a resolution or open letter addressed to the President expressing the collective position of BUenos against the budget cut. if we will compare BU to a nation, BU is just a developing university and any budget cut could pose potential danger to the growth of the university especially given the fact that more than majority of the students are considered economically poor according to a study which was mentioned by the university vice-president for academic affairs. com'mon, we should and we could be better than this BUenos. we have our voice but why can't we use it? or am i the only student who taught that the proposed budget cut is bad for the university? hm. i really don't know if the proposed budget had been passed as a law or if it was revised but i just hope that next time, when an issue like this or any other issue which could affect the university, students will choose take their stand than to sit at the corner doing nothing. everything is just a matter of choice, right?

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a news excerpt about the issue i am reacting about.

Noynoy aquino in his budget message submitted to the 15th Congress on August 24, Aquino said, “We are gradually reducing the subsidy to SUCs to push them toward becoming self-sufficient and financially independent, given their ability to raise their income and to utilize it for their programs and projects.”

The budget for the University of the Philippines, the country’s premier state university with a population of 52,000, has been slashed by P1.39 billion ($31.52 million at an exchange rate of $1 = P44.1) or by 20.11 percent this year. Other state universities such as the Philippine Normal University, with a population of 10,000, and Bicol University, with a population 20,000, received budget cuts by 92 million ($2.09 million) or by 23.59 percent and P88 million ($1.99 million) or by 18.82 percent, respectively.

Among the SCUs with the worst budget cuts by percentage are:

Philippine Normal University (23.59%) | Aurora State College of Technology (22.21%) | Cerilles State College (21.95%) | University of the Philippines (20.11%) | University of Southeastern Philippines (20.03%)

While the SCUs with the worst budget cuts by nominal value are:

University of the Philippines (P1.39 billion or $31.52 million) | Philippine Normal University (P91.35 million or $2.07 million) | Bicol University (P88.81 million or $2.01 million) | University of Southeastern Philippines (P44.39 million or $1.01 million) | Central Bicol State University of Agriculture (P31.65 million or $717,687)