Opinions and Writings
Crassroots
The idea of being prim and proper as a "professional" can be overrated. Given all my interactions with so-called professionals, those who display such prim and proper demeanor have a tendency to be boring. Personally, I have tempered my expectations of professionalism...
Suicides and transitions
I've often been asked by friends and family that given all my (supposed) smarts, why wasn't I working for large multinationals where I probably would be in a senior position raking in the big bucks. Once in a while, I do get bothered by those quips since I definitely...
Ilang aral sa pagiging litratista sa kasal
Nakakatuwa na nauso ang pagpapa-workshop. Nakhahanga sa mga eksperto ang pagbabahagi ng kanilang nalalaman at pagsiwalat nila sa kanilang mga sikreto upang makatulong sa mga baguhan. Dumalo kami ni Risha sa workshop ng aming suking photographer. Dati ko pa siyang...
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...