Opinions and Writings
Measuring what?
Albert Einstein said it best. "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." Ever since I posted an informative bit on the new DepEd K-12 Assessment Framework (KPUP), educators...
Hindi na maginhawa
Food trips are quintessential to any barkada. Communal gluttony is probably one of the key reasons humans were driven towards the concept of tribes. Even after 10 years out of college, food trips still draw our little band of misfits together. When word got out about...
Premature
A sigh of relief as UP's Men's Basketball Team finally notched a win after two years and 27 losses? No. Talk about going all out to celebrate the losing-streak breaking win with a bonfire. It's the first time in my existence as a maroon that I remember UP holding one....
Tossed in the blend
Despite the hopes of creating a blended learning environment, real limitations exist in how technology can be made available inside and outside the Philippine classroom. As such, bulk of learning experiences still rely on brick and mortar methods. Having worked in...
Getting paid
Funny thing. I was working on the yearly performance evaluation and appraisal forms of staff (and mine) when this article (on "Why You Can't Rely on a Salary to Get Rich") from Business Insider popped up. Talk about the Internet gods doing their inception thing. It's...
The big fundamentals
Fundamentals. Ever since I developed the maturity to self-learn, I always insisted on getting the fundamentals right early on. Bad habits are hard to break and simply winging it can impede progress later on. For some reason, the PBA doesn't quite sit well with me. I...
Why not a project team draft?
We're about to start a new development cycle at work and my fellow project leads and I were discussing how to we'd like to form our project teams. While we all desire a balanced matrix, one function head insists on going strong matrix where her team would function as...
Tunnel of uncertainty
Here's the context. A project's deadline is being moved up and it was decided that more of the shared resources (artists) will be shifted to work on it. Another project is ongoing but it only demands a couple of days a week of select people. A project leader asked,...
Trial by wombat
I really find it amusing to hear stories of people losing it at work. Table flipping episodes and berserker breakdowns are quite rare. I personally have yet to witness such outbursts. I've seen shouting matches, finger pointing, and cursing but no violence yet....