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Filed under rants, technology, work
So I take a break from writing about cables and signals and transmissions to see if my blog is still up and decided to vent. Okay, I know what PSTN is. That’s not really what this post is about.
I was just overwhelmed these past few weeks about how much I needed to take in, especially when I was in Lexington. And the more I learn, the more I realize how way behind my third-world country is in terms of technology. I consider myself more technically advanced than the average Filipino, but when these lay American people talk, you’d think they have offices in their homes. I could only think, we don’t have that in our mountain.
It was tempting to butt in and say, excuse me, but we only have three telecommunications companies in my third-world country and they don’t offer that service, so can you please bother explaining what you are talking about?
That should have told them how far behind we are, and to be more, uh, considerate of me.
Don’t believe me? Go inside Circuit City, and go inside a Filipino IT store (uh, what do we have, by the way? CDR-King?). The difference screams in your face.
Hear ye, Americans, how blessed you are. I wish you would realize that.
Filed under business, work
One of the good things about being with a business organization, aside from the lunch meetings at posh restaurants (paid for by the company, of course), is the exposure to the exciting world of entrepreneurs.
See, I believe in osmosis. I like it that I am picking up principles here and there, even from random conversations. One of my superiors holds franchises of a popular fast food chain in the Philippines. The other one is an investor.
So, I am learning from those who really know. They teach me, albeit unknowingly, and they give me exposures as well. Just the other day my boss dragged me to a seminar on handling stocks and bonds. Last week I was at a similar seminar.
I am just so amazed at how I am being guided to places I need to be in or introduced to people I need to meet so that I could learn the things I need to know. Is this The Secret at work?
It all started late last year when I ran into a former teacher, who introduced me to their director, who asked me to help them out on a project. I was then introduced to my boss, who, in the past few months that I have known her, have dragged me to here and there, and I am not one to complain. I appreciate the exposure.
I may not be able to do much about what I know now, but I know someday I will need the information that I’ve been getting. I have long accepted the fact that my day job won’t pay for my retirement, and I don’t intend to live from paycheck to paycheck until I’m sixty.
So for now, while my brain cells are still hyperactive, I am going to learn, and learn I will from the masters.
Filed under technology, work
Less than a year after releasing Leopard, Apple announces Snow Leopard at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
It will be the newest Mac OS X version in a span of seven years, after Cheetah (10.0), Puma (10.1), Jaguar (10.2), Panther (10.3), Tiger (10.4), and Leopard (10.5).
Earlier this year we were told that the 10.6 version would be called Thundercat. I wonder how the old man Steve Jobs gets inspiration for the names of their cats?
(Isn’t she adorable? 
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Filed under travel, work
I got what I went there for, except the Donsol part. We were told that we needed at least a day to see Donsol, and the boss would have none of it. If it was up to me, I would have gone seeing places first before doing fieldwork. (I am just kidding, future employers. I am a model employee, cross my fingers.)
I also learned that butanding season is from November to May, so I guess we were there at a wrong time. I wasn’t sad at all because the boss said we’re going back there some other time. I’m pinning my hopes on that. Maybe then I’ll get to play with butandings (ha!), and maybe I could go wakeboarding in Camarines Sur (as if, you can’t even swim without a lifejacket).
Jester, I tried the authentic Bicol express, minus the San Mig Light. I took a picture in case you doubt my honesty:
I didn’t even need the pitcher of cold water that I prepared. I’m a brave girl. Tehee.
I’m told the dish in the photo has less sili than the usual. Whatever. Man, that dish was prepared in Sorsogon. It must have the right amount of sili, right? Right.
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Filed under travel, work
I am finally going to set foot in the land of Bicol Express! I want to try an authentic version of the dish. I want to see the Mayon Volcano and the Cagsawa Ruins. And I want to visit Donsol, home of the butanding (whale shark), the world’s largest fish.
And because there is no direct flight from Cebu to Bicol, I am dropping by Manila, which means I might be able to sidetrack to Quezon City for a few days and witness the centennial celebration of the University of the Philippines.
It’s not all just play, though. When I accepted this extra gig, I thought it would just be a breeze. I didn’t realize the gravity of the responsibility because I was already doing cartwheels in my head when they told me that I would be going to Bicol.
I realize just now that I might need to come up with several books. I need to document the operations of a business that wants to offer franchises, something I’ve never done before, by the way. If I come up with lousy work, the franchisees might lose money. They trust me that much. Didn’t they realize I’m a fake?
