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May 2005 - Posts

Balancing act
Sunday, May 29, 2005 11:08 PM
I sat beside Dr. Dayrit the other evening and I asked him whether he was excited to come back as dean.  He said he was worried.  I asked why.  He said because he was already so busy he wasn't sure how he would manage.I get that completely. 
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Bad moods
Saturday, May 28, 2005 11:29 PM
Sheila Nisperos blogs about having a bad day.  Something must have been going around for the last couple of days because my temper was right at boiling point for the past 48 hours.  Let me just narrate one incident: my daughter joined a
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Dr. Cuyegkeng
Friday, May 27, 2005 10:04 PM
Dr. Achoot Cuyegkeng was acting Dean for one year, while Dr. Toby Dayrit was on sabbatical.  We had a thank you party for her yesterday evening because her term ends on the 31st.Dr. Cuyegkeng is known to be driven, strict, and uncompromising. 
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Social involvement
Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:52 AM
How can I render unto God a service of greater worth?This is the question posed to us during a three-day workshop on the Ateneo's social involvement agenda.  I didn't get to attend all of the sessions, but what I did attend involved
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Lenard Berba's class
Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:22 PM
This is the tentative draft of the course description for Lenard Berba's elective:MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE IN TECHNOLOGY PROJECTSMANAGING CHANGE is an overview elective that takes a practical andsystematic look at the "people and organizational"
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Electives, yet again; thanks
Monday, May 23, 2005 12:23 PM
OK, here are the updates on the electives.  It looks like the J2EE elective is pushing through.  Migs Paraz has agreed to teach it.Ouie Badelles of Comm/Fine Arts/Interdisciplinary Studies has agreed to teach an elective on principles of visual
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Ten days to go!
Saturday, May 21, 2005 10:52 PM
I am so looking forward to June 1.  June 1 is the day my leave begins and I come back to work four months later.I am taking the leave mainly to finish up some projects I have on the outside.  You could say I am taking a break from work
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Electives, again.
Friday, May 20, 2005 11:39 PM
I think we really have to do a survey of what electives our students want.  When the MIS and CS directors were advising, about 140+ students had to sign up for Flash scripting because we underestimated the number of electives that we needed. 
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Electives
Friday, May 20, 2005 9:51 AM
Let me try to give a rundown of the electives lined up for this sem:CS/Programming .NET Advanced Problem Solving Graphics Programming MIS Architecting IT Infrastructures HP elective on Supply Chain Management Lenard Berba's elective on
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What a day!
Thursday, May 19, 2005 7:46 AM
Yesterday and today were sooooo crazy!
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Take this elective!
Wednesday, May 18, 2005 2:49 AM
My blog is probably not the best way to advise students on what courses to take, but I was really happy about some developments yesterday, so I thought I would write about them.A former boss of mine, Mr. Lenard Berba has graciously consented to teach
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Really sweet dreams...
Monday, May 16, 2005 11:48 PM
I admire people who chase after their dreams.  I myself tend to be very modest about what I aspire to do and to be.  Other people I've met though do not recognize any limits and barrel ahead without fear.Good for them.
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Cleaning house
Monday, May 16, 2005 6:24 AM
My daughter and I spent part of the weekend cleaning out her closet.  I'm not a pack-rat yet I was still amazed at how many bits and pieces you accumulate over the years and just forget to throw away.  We were discarding broken hairclips,
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Fish, Homilies
Sunday, May 15, 2005 12:37 AM
One of our fish jumped out of the pond and died last night.  The dogs didn't save it this time.  It was 20 inches long and weighed 3 kilos.  We were very sad that it died.There's a superstition that says that a pet dies to take its master's
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Compliment
Saturday, May 14, 2005 12:44 AM
Several weeks ago, I blogged that Ateneo was accepting applicants for a writers workshop that the school was hosting (all expenses paid) in Boracay.  If I recall correctly, there were only 10 slots and you got in on a competitive basis.  I could
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Professional image enhancement
Friday, May 13, 2005 7:11 AM
There's a professional image enhancement workshop today.  I signed up for it and have been drifting in and out.  I was hoping for makeover advice--something like Queer Eye for the Straight Girl--but it's turning out pretty basic.However, the
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Something fishy, part 2; expressing personal thoughts
Wednesday, May 11, 2005 3:31 AM
To answer dukz: Yup, they're Koi (I don't know what the proper plural form is).  I don't know what they're worth now, but we only paid P75 for each of them because we got them when they were tiny. So from our perspective, the money involved was minimal
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Something fishy
Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:40 AM
For the second night this week, there was a thunderstorm in our area.  The rain poured, the lightning flashed, the electricity died.  After about two hours, our dogs started barking furiously.  My husband and I came out of the bedroom to
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Congratulations and condolences
Monday, May 09, 2005 1:00 AM
Congratulations to Bong and Raquel Olpoc on their wedding yesterday!  May your marriage be long and happy!***Condolences to the family of Ivan Andrei Verallo (BS MIS 1996).  He died of brain cancer on May 7.  Please keep him in your prayers
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Doctors; Happy Mothers Day
Saturday, May 07, 2005 9:28 PM
I went for a routine checkup yesterday.  The waiting time was two hours. The consultation took all of 3 minutes.  At the end of it, I went to the receptionist to settle payment.  He said, "Your bill?  One million."  I was stunned.
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The dreaded talk, shopping
Saturday, May 07, 2005 12:46 AM
OK, so remember the talk of Fr. Ben that I could not have been intended to give?  I'm not the one giving it--he is!  I KNEW there had to be a mistake there somewhere!  <insert sound of extremely long exhaling followed quickly by insane
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Retail therapy
Friday, May 06, 2005 12:18 AM
Had a couple of meetings in Makati yesterday.  They turned out pretty well. I hope I'm not breaking protocol by saying thank you to SMART and PLDT for promising to support the ACM contest.  I am so seldom in Makati, so, in between meetings,
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Beauty queen?
Wednesday, May 04, 2005 10:34 PM
During the opening ceremony of our Pampanga stint, Sandra Lovenia was asked to write down how she wanted to be introduced.  She wrote:BS Management Information SystemsMS Computer Science CandidateThe emcee then announced, "Ms. Sandra Lovenia has
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Disappointment, again
Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:53 PM
Remember that thing I competed for and lost a couple of weeks back?  I received email from the organizers saying, in so many words, that they had problems with their email responses and could I email them again if I haven't heard from them yet. 
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What the...???
Tuesday, May 03, 2005 12:41 AM
According to the letter that was forwarded to me, I'm supposed to take Fr. Ben's place in giving an inspirational talk at this university lecture series thingy.That just ***CAN'T*** be right.
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Career advice
Monday, May 02, 2005 2:28 AM
All this talk of finding jobs had me remembering all the career advice and advice about careers I've received over the years.  Some were very positive, e.g. Follow your bliss.  The funniest ones were were sardonic: If you're looking for
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Killer week
Sunday, May 01, 2005 2:51 AM
My calendar for this week is full of meetings, mainly to try to set up sponsorships for ACM.  I've never done this before and there's no telling how successful (or disastrously unsuccessful) I will be.  I cannot begin to tell you how apprehensive
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