November 18th, 2009

Make Me a Channel...

Dear Lord, let me be Your instrument for good things.

Currently listening to: 96.3
Currently reading: Thesis Chapter Two
Currently watching: Wala
Currently feeling: refreshed
Posted by ayie at 01:39 AM | 2 made me real

November 16th, 2009

:)

I keep reassuring myself.

Currently listening to: Telephone by Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce
Currently reading: Chapter Two
Currently watching: Wala
Currently feeling: silly
Posted by ayie at 11:26 PM | make me real

November 14th, 2009

Gender Discrimination in Corporations

Found two footnotes from a source for thesis: "1. MANAGER, SUPERVISOR and COUNSELOR will be used interchangeably, and will be referred to in this book by the masculine gender and pronoun HE. 2. EMPLOYEE, SUBORDINATE, COUNSELEE and CLIENT will be used interchangeably, and will be referred to in this book by the feminine gender and pronoun SHE." Aba loko 'to, ah. How discriminating!

Currently listening to: Some song by Athlete on RX
Currently reading: Career Counselling: Cases and Techniques by Josefina O. Santamaria
Currently watching: Kanina Hannah Montana hahaha
Currently feeling: contemplative
Posted by ayie at 06:05 PM | make me real

November 8th, 2009

On Time and Making It Work For You and Not the Other Way Around

I used to take my time in writing intricate details on my Starbucks Planner.  I would make sure this would happen on this date at that time at that place.  However, this wouldn't really happen exactly the way I would want them to materialize.

So I figured, just for a change, why not just put general details and not engross myself too much on scheduling activities at exact times?  Surprisingly, I am able to make things happen more.  Compared to those times that I would plan and plan and plan, listing activities for semestral break not on specific days made me look at my agenda as a whole--what I was going to do first, what were my priorities, et cetera.  It's good to remember the implementation in my head first, before putting them on paper.

Scheduling is very much similar to writing Programs of Instruction (POI's) for Wing 3 Operations.  In Ateneo ROTC, the timetables are not supposed to enslave the flight leaders in trying to implement the activities for that training day.  Instead, they're supposed to serve as just guides or blueprints as to what are supposed to be implemented.  As my then-senior officer would always tell me, POI's are not always meant to be implemented exactly the way these are written.  Of course, allotting for idle times must also be taken into consideration, during times when the Military Training Instructors (MTI's) from the Philippine Air Force (PAF) would come to the training grounds at a later time.  Officers should be flexible enough to adjust the timetable for the cadets.

In the same manner of creating schedules for school work, family time, gimmick with high school friends, dates with significant other, and the like, I'm not really supposed to enslave myself with the schedule that I have written.  I don't have to chase time; time has to work for me.  Because in the end, it's not time that does the helping and empowering--it is I who makes these things happen.

(I muse that tomorrow will be the start of my last semester, provided that I just don't screw up with my subjects.  Then, I look at my graduation countdown and I just turn giddy because in just a hundred or so days, I'm off to the real world!)

Currently listening to: Wala
Currently reading: Wala
Currently watching: Nanay Dyonesya on ASAP
Currently feeling: contemplative
Posted by ayie at 03:06 PM | 3 made me real

November 5th, 2009

Group-Centered Leadership

Third day was great!  I finally loosened up because I've been very shy to them.  I had the chance to interview wonderful people.  This doesn't feel like work at all.  It's cognitively demanding, but it's like play.

Currently listening to: Wala
Currently reading: Wala
Currently watching: TV Patrol
Currently feeling: sleepy
Posted by ayie at 07:50 PM | make me real

November 4th, 2009

Experiential Approach

Second day was quite a bummer, but only because I was able to finish lots of stuff ahead of time.  People were really nice, too.  I clearly saw how school concepts were integrated in the organizational setting.

Currently listening to: Wala
Currently reading: Wala
Currently watching: Wala
Currently feeling: bored
Posted by ayie at 07:45 PM | make me real

November 3rd, 2009

Learning Experience

First day was zeh bomb.  I've been learning.

Currently listening to: Fireflies by Owl City
Currently reading: Facebook postsW
Currently watching: Wala
Currently feeling: geeky
Posted by ayie at 07:57 PM | make me real

First Day Tomorrow

I am very very very very very very excited to do fieldwork!  Ahh, I can't even contain it.    I'm really looking forward to tomorrow.  I'm getting ready with my materials.

Currently listening to: Fireflies by Owl City
Currently reading: Thesis materials
Currently watching: Wala
Currently feeling: bouncy
Posted by ayie at 02:26 AM | make me real
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