Opinions and Musings
Assessing your skills portfolio
I've been recently mulling over some new learning project that I can work on to further improve my skills portfolio. My current work doesn't really provide any training so I'm pretty much left to my own devices. There's quite a lot of administration tasks involved in...
Grade conscious
For those who have been years removed from schooling, the governments reforms to educational policies are taking effect soon. They've added two years to schooling with the new K-12 program. By 2015, school will be starting in August. Grades would be based on letters...
Blended unity
I have always been a frustrated programmer. I did some school-level programming when I was in grade school and high school but since I decided to go to the liberal arts for college, it basically ended up being a skill-I-used-to-have. Tragic really especially since IT...
Mourning data loss
Data loss hurts. Since most of the stuff I do is digital, it's almost synonymous to losing valued notebooks, journals, and photo albums on which you've invested much time and effort to chronicle your thoughts and your life. It took me a while before I decided to hop...
Photo grab
This Mark Joseph Solis guy is just unbelievable. No one wants to see other people take credit for one's craft. He went full retard when he lifted other people's photographs, entered them in contests under his name, won, and took home the prizes acceptance speeches and...
Shallow draughts
Having worked in the education industry (oxymoron?) for a decade makes me think of the little hypocrisies of what we do. Make it a case of semantics but what is really the difference of sharing knowledge for the enlightenment of the ignorant versus aggrandizing...
The Push
Oh, the plateau. The realization that things have gone stale and stagnant to the point where you begin to sniff yourself just to check if you have started smelling of mothballs and mildew. I have been feeling that for the past few years ever since I earned my masters....
On selfies
No one wants to read about the positives in your life because people will feel envious of your good fortune, and in turn, feel miserable. No one wants to read about the negatives because they will feel as if the negativity will rub off on them. No one wants to see...
Against the default mindset
I'm always torn whenever I step inside my English for the Professions class and talk about the "default" mindset for fresh graduates and their initial practice of profession. While the class should only deal with business communication, I can't seem to just disregard...