Alex @ February 17, 2008 | | Money, Personal, Work | Comments (0)
Like many bloggers, I was really excited when Paypal finally had a withdraw option for Philippine banks. With a slightly higher exchange rate than Xoom and without the sending fee, it proved to be really attractive. I was supposed to get some dough from my problogging efforts two weeks ago. I usually get it via Xoom (which worked perfectly fine) but since I wanted to get a bit more extra through the exchange rate, I elected to wait until I get my monthly statement to verify my account before I had the money sent.
I finally got my account verified and I was sent the money. Charge it to first time transactions but the fellow sent me funds via credit card. One thing I just knew then was that, personal accounts has a limit on receiving funds via credit card and that there’s a charge. Since I was desperate for money, I decided to accept the funds despite the 5.4%-ish percent deduction.
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Tags: Paypal, Rant
Alex @ February 9, 2008 | | Personal, Politics and Society, Work | Comments (1)
It’s February and it’s crunch time for university seniors. Dating and partying takes a back seat. Everyone’s rushing his or her thesis. Laboring day after day, night after night to gather and analyze data. Writing page after page of stuff that one would probably just leave behind after everything has been said and done. And to what result? A diploma. For what? The real world. Yes, the real world where, despite your 14 years of education would turn you to a bum.
Yes. The journey through all those years of toil memorizing stuff like Avogadro’s constant and writing position papers end in a dead end. Just because we live in a country where there aren’t any real jobs to speak of and all the opportunities lie in being answering machines for other people and being shipped off to some distant land to wipe other people’s butts. Definitely not the type of work that your bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Management trained you for.
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Tags: Education, Politics and Society, Rant, Teaching, Work
Alex @ February 3, 2008 | | Internet and Web, Work | Comments (6)
It totally escaped my mind. And I have been meaning to celebrate it. So let this be a celebratory post for this new milestone. It has been more than a year since I joined Bloggy Network.
I started to write for Bloggy January 14th of last year. I started out filling LifeSpy with content and eventually, I was tasked to do the same for AutoJab. It’s nice to see your work eventually blossom to something great. LifeSpy is now raking in thousands of uniques per day (and growing) and I hope that I can bring AutoJab to the same level.
I have to thank a couple of people for such an opportunity: Angelo - who e-mailed me out of the blue, telling me about the job and Jacob - who gave me the opportunity to be part of a really great group. Many thanks too to the rest of the people involved with Bloggy (Ahmed, Andre, Erik, Michael, [David who's SplashPress now], Elena…)
Am looking forward to more time spent blogging. Who needs a 9-5?
Tags: Blogging, Internet and Web, Work
Alex @ January 19, 2008 | | Education, Personal, Work | Comments (0)
It’s just a few minutes since I arrived home from UP. For some reason, I feel like I’m in some intra-campus tour since I’ve been “booked” to have a few speaking engagements. Last week, I held a talk on resume writing for students from the School of Statistics (Stat). This morning, I had a talk on organization building for my former organization. Next week, I’ve been invited to give another seminar for the National College for Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG).
Now a few interesting thoughts regarding all of those.
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Tags: Public Speaking, Seminars
Alex @ December 3, 2007 | | Personal, Work | Comments (1)
Finally! Five minutes to write something on my dearly neglected blog. Just been soooo busy with a lot of things that even a few minutes to write something here had become impossible.
Second semester has already started and being inside the classroom is quite the breather that I need. What can I say? I think I love being a student more. The department had difficulty offering the one core course that I needed for my MA so I ended up taking “Sex and Culture” as a cognate course. I just hope they would give me credit for that. I’ve got a great professor and great classmates. (One of whom is Sir Bot Jocano. It’s really crazy if you have a former professor as a classmate inside the class.)
I don’t really know if I should totally detest what happened since not being able to take that one core course means that I still have to struggle with my Master’s degree for a minimum of another year and a half. Yeah. Just about the time when the rest of my friends are graduating their medical and law degrees.
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Tags: Personal, Rant, Work
