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August 29, 2009
2nd Quarter Clean and Green inspection (0 Comments)
Ugh, I’m supposed to blog about my beerday celebrationS (yes, with an ’s’), but I forgot the pics in my desktop. *lol* Anyway, since there will be another Clean and Green inspection a few weeks from now, I think I should I blog about the inspection from two months ago. >_>
I wish our team would be assigned to first district schools or anywhere else, but the committee has already changed its inspection system so it’s unlikely. The only advantage of this is having to see if there are improvements or not. I remember, before we left for the inspection, I was taught again how to rate the schools. In the first inspection, I was only being honest with grading. That honesty has resulted to some getting pissed at me. >_> I’m not expecting much from the city’s public schools, but it seems they’re telling me to lower my already low expectations. The schools would not have gotten low rates if I was happy with what I saw. They just need to take better care of the school and remind frequently their students to show respect and proper behavior.
The second quarter inspection wasn’t so bad. I didn’t have to go in my office attire and I even brought the BBF. The downside was not having to see any cute kids this time. I guess people pay less attention to you if you’re not in ‘respectable’ attire.
Also, our ride’s ac was broken. Imagine going around the city in extreme heat. I went home greasy and dirty. Ugh~Here are some pictures from the inspection:
Obviously, GIRLS are only allowed to join the GIRL SCOUTS. XD;
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June 17, 2009
1st Quarter inspection (3 Comments)
A few months ago, the Clean and Group group had the first quarter inspection. Our team was in charge of the District 2 schools with 17 in total:
01 – Guadalupe Viejo Elementary School
02 – San Jose Elementary School
03 – Nemesio I. Yabut Elementary School
04 – Pitogo High School
05 – Pitogo Elementary School
06 – South Cembo Elementary School
07 – Cembo Elementary School
08 – Fort Bonifacio High School
09 – Fort Bonifacio Elementary School
10 – West Rembo Elementary School
11 – Tibagan Elementary School
12 – Tibagan High School
13 – East Rembo Elementary School
14 – Benigno Aquino High School
15 – Comembo Elementary School
16 – Pembo Elementary School
17 – Rizal Elementary School
I had to inspect in my office attire because I wasn’t informed of the sudden change of schedule. Other than having to walk around in my skirt and heels (that almost killed my feet), I was even mistaken to be a mother looking for her child. *facepalms* It was a fun experience though. Some of the kids were polite. Not to mention, cute! There was a boy who looked like one of the Korean F4. XDDD I wanted to take a picture, but I might be mistaken for a pedophile. ~_~
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April 12, 2009
Why goofing off boosts productivity (0 Comments)
Goofing off doesn’t sound good. Prolly “taking a break” is better.
Here are eight additional reasons why I think Internet slacking boosts productivity.
1. The subconscious mind keeps working.
Unlike physical labor, which stops when the worker stops, the mind keeps working on mental tasks when you’re not thinking about them. This powerful process of problem solving happens when you’re surfing the Web for fun, watching TV and especially while you’re sleeping (hence the phrase, “Why don’t you sleep on it?”).
Internet slacking helps this process by getting the conscious mind, which is prone to getting stuck or blocked, out of the way.
2. It gets personal things off your mind.
If you’re worried about your kids, or missing your spouse, or preoccupied with some pressing personal matter, you’re not going to hit all mental cylinders in your work. Social networking, Twitter and personal e-mail let you quickly get in touch with friends and family, find out what’s going on, then get back to work with full attention.
3. It builds work relationships.
Companies spend a fortune on lame team-building exercises and outings, which build work bonds only because everybody is suffering from the same forced interactions.
Social networking, on the other hand, can allow employees to build bonds at no cost to employers. Yes, people interact with family and friends who are not part of the company, but usually people interact with co-workers, too, and this can help build teamwork.
4. It converts real-time interactions into asynchronous ones.
A social interaction controlled by others (also known as an interruption) can devastate attention. I’ve found that a five-minute office “pop-in” by a co-worker can set me back the equivalent of an hour. This kind of concentration-shattering interaction is allowed — and even encouraged — in the workplace, while social networking interactions are frowned upon or even blocked. Why? Social networking interactions on Facebook and Twitter are, by definition, controlled by the user. They happen between, rather than in the middle of, bursts of focused concentration. They restore productive concentration without interfering with it.
5. It makes work more enjoyable.
People will hate their jobs if they have a strong desire to check in with Twitter, Facebook and YouTube during the day, but are blocked from doing so. If they’re allowed to wander online, on the other hand, they’ll be happier employees. And happy employees are productive employees.
6. It replaces bad slacking with good slacking.
If you think nobody ever wasted time at work before the Internet came along, well, you may also be interested in a bridge I’m selling on eBay.
People waste enormous amounts of time at work because of messy desks, inefficient processing of tasks, hallway chit-chat, long phone conversations and — the mother of all time wasters — meetings! All these activities look and even feel like work because they exhaust the mind and consume the hours.
Because people still have to meet their work objectives, deadlines and metrics for success, however, Internet slacking is likely to displace not productive work, but other (and lesser) forms of workplace slacking.
7. The Internet is educational.
Scanning blogs, RSS feeds and Twitter will inevitably introduce employees to wonderful time-management techniques, and stimulate the mind in other ways. (For example, this article you’re reading now could be professionally valuable to you in some way. But aren’t you supposed to be “working” instead?)
8. The mind will not be contained.
You can force an employee’s body into a cubicle or office, but you can’t force her mind to follow.
The human mind is a curiosity engine. Give it nothing to do but work, no way to satisfy curiosity or desire for social interaction, and it will rebel. More specifically, it will retreat into the daydreaming echo chamber. It will wander. It will seek ways to sabotage other employees (because that, at least, is interesting). It will employ its natural ingenuity to find ways to avoid work.
Complete article here.
I may agree that happy employee can become productive employees, yet it doesn’t mean that goofing off by visiting social networks (such seem to be an advantage as presented by the author) is often good. Out of these 8, only number 3 is applicable to me.
March 13, 2009
Videcon’s over! WEEE~ + RICKY! :D (1 Comment)
So John Legend’s gonna have a concert on the 26th. D: I’m not a big fan, but I like one of his songs. :3
Let’s make love
Let’s go somewhere they might discover us
Let’s get lost in lust
XDDD
Last week was intense. Work-wise. Days and nights were spent working on climate change. If you’ve been following my Plurk, you’d notice that was what I frequently posted about. ~.~ March 6 finally came… After numerous revisions of the presentation and speech plus hair strangling. Things went smoothly to say the least. Atty. Seva did a good job with her presentation and she managed to answer all the questions (even if some were hard to understand like the Australians *lol*).
Some of those who joined us thought I’m a staff of AIM. They looked for handouts of the Australian speaker from me when all I did was give copies of OUR presentation. *facepalms* Up to there I still had to do errands. ^_^V Oh well, exercise-exercise. *lol* I was fortunate I didn’t trip since I wore my ‘dangerous’ sandals. >_>
It’s a great relief getting that done with and even more so when the boss thanked us. ^^ The embarrassing part was having to apologize to the WB and AIM people about the frequent changing and sending of presentation. At least they don’t know who’s been emailing them. Haha~
When Jan and I went to Greenhills lat week, I met and fell in love at first sight with a cutie named Ricky. This Ricky kept on calling me even — when Jan and I were looking at makeup and netbooks and while eating HK noodles. It was disturbing, but rather cute. XD; I told myself not to give in to temptation. Jan hardly helped at all because all she said was to decide wisely! *facepalms* Oh well, in the end I gave in. ^_^V
MEET RICKY. XDDD
Gawd, he’s so cute that I totally ignored Yotsuba-chan and bought him instead. *rofl*
February 12, 2009
Getting old + Disney meme (0 Comments)
So I’m taking a quick break from climate change papers.
I read from chochajin’s blog that unless you’re a native speaker of English, you won’t be able to teach the language in Japan. A certification will be needed that you studied English in a university. I’m not too sure on the full details, but I know some people who will be affected. *coughs*
*gah* I’m getting irritated at how things are going now. My life in general, I mean. Can I run away from it all now? The problems are giving me dry skin, white hairs, wrinkles, eye bags, back pains, and a long face. It’s making me look and feel old. Like a granny with an L-shaped body. @_@
Here’s a Disney meme stolen from Lez~
Cinderella:
[ ] One of your parents is dead
[ ] You are expected to do a lot of chores
[x] You love to dress up
[x] You love animals
[ ] You are waiting patiently for your Prince Charming
[ ] Your mom is really strict
[ ] You have sisters who seem kind of jealous of you
[x] You’re afraid to speak your mind sometimes
[ ] You have left your shoes at a friend’s house before
[ ] You have blonde hair
TOTAL: 3
Belle:
[x] You’ve kissed someone your friends didn’t like
[x] You’ve been lost in the forest
[x] You love to read
[ ] You are not shy at all, and not afraid to speak your mind
[ ] One of your family members is a bit weird
[x] You have done volunteer work
[x] You have a wild imagination
[x] You love to take care of people in need
[x] You’ve had guys like you only because they think you’re pretty
[x] You’ve rejected at least one person when they’ve asked you out
TOTAL: 8
Jasmine:
[ ] Your dad is very rich/important
[ ] You are very clever
[x] You’ve been with someone way different from you
[x] You’re unique and different from everyone else
[x] You’d never marry someone just because they were rich
[x] You have set a lot of goals for yourself
[x] You don’t have a lot of friends
[ ] You’re independent
[ ] You are wealthy
[ ] Your parents try to control your life
TOTAL: 5
Ariel:
[x] Your parents expect a lot from you
[ ] You really try to follow the rules, but it’s hard for you
[x] You’re a bit of a trouble maker
[ ] You’re the youngest in your family or in the last 2
[ ] You have a lot of sisters
[x] You collect something
[x] You have/had long, hair
[ ] You have/had a pet fish
[x] You’re extremely curious
[ ] You believe everything people tell you/you’re a bit gullible
TOTAL: 5
Snow White:
[ ] You know that you’re beautiful
[ ] Sometimes it seems like your mom is jealous of you
[x] You’ve almost been killed
[ ] You have at least seven good friends
[ ] You’ve had food poisoning
[x] You have/had short hair
[ ] You get along with almost everyone
[x] All of your friends are different
[x] You love to have a good time
[ ] You’re happier when you’re out of the house than in
TOTAL: 4
Mulan:
[x] You can be a tomboy sometimes.
[ ] People wish you could be a bit more girly
[x] You’ve pretended to be someone you’re not
[x] You’ve had a physical fight with someone
[ ] You have/had considered running away from home
[ ] Your parents try to plan your life out
[x] a lot of your friends are boys
[x] You sometimes find yourself in bad situations
[ ] You love your family so much that you’d do anything to protect them
TOTAL: 5
Aurora:
[ ] You live/have lived with someone other than your parents
[ ] You almost died at a very young age
[ ] You are gentle, loving, and/or thoughtful
[ ] You have a decent singing voice
[x] You like to sleep in late on the weekends
[ ] You spend most of your time outside
[ ] You’re adopted
[x] You’re very romantic
[ ] Pink is one of your favorite colors
TOTAL: 2
Pocahontas:
[x] You love to walk around and explore big cities
[x] You are more spiritual than religious
[ ] You’ve been in an interracial relationship
[ ] One of your family members is dead
[x] Your parents are very protective of you
[x] Someone you know has been in war
[x] You love nature
[x] You have/had black hair
[ ] You would love to move somewhere exotic and beautiful
[ ] You’re very adventurous
TOTAL: 6
LULz~ I am Belle-ish. >_>
January 21, 2009
Late post is late lulz~ (0 Comments)
WTF. I didn’t know I still had this in my drafts! This was around the weekend after Dec. 3. Publishing this since I pity my braincells that worked on this and for the lulz~ >_>
For some reason, I felt happy yesterday. Probably because I can afford to buy bottles and bottles of beer again. *lol* I thought I was going to get the free pulutan, but I was too late. That means I have a fuckin’ LOT of things to bring home later. ~_~
So boss attorney was out for the whole day and I worked on ARISE (trying to come up with recommendations and probably additional projects for M1), the complaint of Philippines Clean Air Foundation, and the WB reimbursements while soundtripping. It’s hard to concentrate when I soundtrip as I get the urge to play the guitar. Since I don’t have a guitar at work, I always end looking at Pasig River. ^_^VVV
Haven’t gone out much lately. Last was the Lomolov3d, but meh~ I wasn’t feeling well that time. I felt like puking. But due to empty stomach, I had to keep myself from doing so. My loves kept texting me the whole night asking me to go home already. I was afraid what happened at Jaipur will happen again. I’m glad it didn’t. -_- Oh, I also had family dinner last Sunday at Marina as post-celebration of my Mom’s birthday. Ate lots to make up for hardly eating anything the day before. We had crabs, fried crablets, bucket of steamed mussels, inihaw na pusit, pork sisig, and fresh lumpia. I can’t forget the waiter who, I think, tried to get me drunk. >_> I haven’t even reached half of my bottle and he’s already asking me if I wanna order another. Is there a word ‘alcoholic’ plastered on my face? ~_~
After dinner, ‘rents went to Red Ribbon while me and my brother talked about the GI Rasta headphones. He said he saw one at Park Square. I planned on buying it in Florida, but I was too excited. We checked it out then my cc got swiped again. This is the last purchase of the month as I totally maxed out my cc.
Excuse the mess.
I think I used my cc again after the Skullcandy purchase. I forgot what I bought though. *lol* Oh man, I miss working on ARISE…
NOT.
I dunno when Jaja and I will be able to finish that damn thing especially that climate change work was dumped on me and the World Bank mission for it is already NEXT WEEK. WTF. *deadorz*
