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
Alex @ October 30, 2007 | | Personal, Work | Comments (2)
I’ve been living a life of hermitage for the past few weeks now. School’s off until next week and it’s quite refreshing to get my mind of hardcore academics at least for the time being. The past month has totally been crazy with all the tasks and whatnot that I needed to accomplish. I thought my last post was supposed to break the silence but having to write at least 80 pages of papers and a manuscript did not really help at all with my blogging cause.
In any case, I’m back writing here for now, taking a break from all the tech, lifestyle, and automotive posts that I’ve been writing for LifeSpy and AutoJab since early this morning. I think I reached my personal record of posts in a day. What can I say, I got a bit motivated knowing that I’ll buying me something real nice once I get my dough for this month’s work.
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Tags: Teaching
Alex @ August 1, 2007 | | Work | Comments (0)
Three days of DynEd training and I felt I lost three precious teaching days. Now know how the teachers in my teacher development seminars with my former company felt. Well, not necessarily the same, since I was a really good facilitator and we have catered lunches then. And at least I always had the upper hand in terms of IT knowledge compared to my trainees.
Well, the training was okay but the learning software was already intuitive and there was a teacher’s manual as guide to I don’t know why the heck it lasted three days. And compounded by the fact that there are no classes on Friday, officially, my schedule is f*cked up. F*cked up big time.
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Tags: Rant, Teaching, UP, Work
Alex @ July 30, 2007 | | Work | Comments (0)
I’ll be in the DynEd workshop for the next three days starting today. Later, to be exact. I’m actually blogging from UP Diliman.
The college has just recently inaugurated the Computer Room and that’s where I’ll be spending my next three days. Jeez. I can say I’m not too excited about it. I have my evaluations scheduled next week and they expect me to hand in my lesson plans by Thursday. I don’t even get time to prepare myself and my classes mentally for next week.
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Tags: DynEd, Rant, Seminars, Teaching, UP, Work
