AS I was reading through the items of the President's much talked about 10-point program such as ceating six to 10 million jobs, bringing peace to Mindanao, decongesting Metro Manila; supporting entrepreneurs as the foundation of a broader middle class, bringing power and water to all barangays, balancing the budget-all that and more, in six years, I slowly drifted to slumber and dreamed that:

     In my editorial I asked Pinoy Balita to set aside US$2 every month which will be collected by UPAK to buy used computers which will be sent to classrooms in the Philippines for the use of teachers and their students.

     I then asked the Korean and Philippine government what help they can extend to UPAK for it to be able to fulfill its objective to bring one computer to every Philippine classroom. Amazingly they agreed and offered the following:

     * The Korean government will contribute an amount equal to the fund raised by the OFWs while

     * The Philippine government promised to shoulder all the cost to be incurred in shipping and delivering the computers to the classrooms.

     I then wrote Bill Gates for contribution and he responded by offering to install Windows-based educational software in all donated computers for free.

     I also asked PLDT  how it can help. Mr. Panganiban was so supportive of the program that he offered PLDT's DSL services for free.

     Through their help and the support of other charitable and patriotic people, all classrooms got internet-connected computers.

     Every day, from then onward, Filipino teachers and their students not only got state-of-the-art quality education but also got connected to top officials and leaders of the country. They could tell top-level government officials what was happening in their communities, what were their needs and what were their hopes.

     The students told their leaders that they want them to be models of moral values; and to make values education the top priority in public and private schools, from the nursery to the graduate schools.

     They also asked their leaders to give protection to the environment as top priority in all agricultural and industrial undertakings. They suggested that economic recovery will happen if they do this because a stable economy is dependent on a healthy environment;

     They pleaded that government solve the foreign and local debts ny its self-impposed fiscal discipline and elimination of graft and corruption starting from the top to the bottom of its bureacracy;

     Then they talked to theier senators and congressmen to voluntarily eliminate, if they can't, then reuce the pork barrel to a reasonable amount and thus lessen the country's budget deficit.

     Then they urged the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to speed up judicial processes starting with those waiting for decision for the past ten years in the highest court's sala.

     Suprisingly all those national leaders responded positively and strongly to the students' requests. Soon a call for moral upliftment reverbrated in the hearts of the citizens and the Philippines started to become a peaceful, prosperous and green country where its OFWs and other aging foreign workers were glad to spend the sunset of their lives together with other happy, healthy, prosperous, and morally conscious Filipinos.

     Then I woke from my dream. I was back to reality, back to the fact that, to fulfill my dream, it's up to us not anybody else...

     So I throw to you Pinoy Balita readers, will my dream be just another dream? Or will you share my dream and together make it come true?!