How was August?

It was really anticipated for my birthday for 08-08-09 as I turned 27 but it turned out to be one month of pure exhilarating set of activities.

It was the first implementation of my new schedule that it got so close to my part time schedule. I only have 15 minutes interval every TTHS and well I really felt so challenged 'coz it was really a run from RCBC to CEU Legaspi and a quick drop of breakfast at 711 or Starbucks.

Just last week, August 25-29, 2009 I had the pioneering activity (we made another history in CEU: the first expo) CENTREXPO. It was a result of sheer interest in Marketing and a practical execution of Product Management and Retail Management (courses I am handling as a part time teacher). It was intense and trully breathtaking from the moment we opened our booths to the public and got the chance to get their purchasing feedback. I have trully showed to my junior marketing management students the "Mendiola way". We start their class every 7:00 am and we altogether close the Legaspi campus at 8:00 p.m. I was amazed on how they executed their plans, and suddenly I had flashbacks of my college days with the USC and ABSP (which is SAM today). I really miss my pals and was thankful that I had nearby colleagues working in the area and they both managed to drop by (Miss Grace Leabres from SGV and Dr. Nicolas Lagman from Medical City Plaza). The activity was also partnered with PLDT and thanks to my fellow USC officer, Mr. Christian Villar. Supposedly I should have picked the best booth last August 29 (Saturday) as we have concluded the academic activity but during those five days that I have observed my students, each of them has faced tremendous challenges and even executed remarkable outputs that I could trully say was indeed genius! So at the end I have proclaimed all of them best booths of their own right!

I know it's only midterms and we still have another grading period to ascertain our students progress but I think we're all having some fun and fruitful first semester. Also, by next semester my class was also invited to participate in Mendiola and I was even asked if they could adapt my theme which is CENTREXPO! Wow, ganito kai sa Makati!!!

As we unfold the September, as I get close to the reality check with my real job as sales and genres in IHG, I am starting with a new team as my previous team was dissolved due to a more favourable reason which is promotion. My manager Mrs. Ana will now become part of a different department and most of us have to also start anew. I will now become part of Inargizers which intrigues me because it seemed that they would definitely keep me going. It's a new adjustment and I am just trying to become more optimistic. I was told that the team somehow resembles my defunct team - Ana Republic, so I was advised that it will not be much of a problem. Anyway, change is indeed one permanent thing right? Just before we end the month, we went to our team building/wrecking ( I call it the final stand as adapted from Xmen) at the Kuhala Resort at Cardona, Cavite. It was nice and economical as well. It was also accessible since it was an hour of commuting from Makati to that venue (perhaps it was weekend and that's why there was no traffic). Too bad that we haven't had enough time to get to know more each other but anyway we're still in one company so Good luck everyone.

Now how will my September be? I have my enrollment in DLSU-Graduate school and CEU offered me to still teach for 2 major subjects in Marketing and one is my favorite: Advertising!!! Most of all, it's the start of BER month, yippeee. I'm such a Christmas person. So I really have to start shopping for gifts now.

Centrexpo: the 1st CEU Expo in Makati

The Junior Marketing Management Students of CEU - Legaspi, Makati will hold its pioneering exposition on August 25-29, 2009 at the Student Activity Center of LV Building from 2:00-5:00 p.m. This will be the most exciting way of exhibiting their creative and innovative business approach in both of their Retail (MM3) and Product (MM4) Management.

Come and celebrate the youth empowerment, see you there!

Girlshouse in Boystown, Marikina

07:00 a.m. I came to the CEU-Makati Campus as the assembly for the Community Outreach was done. My sister rang my cellphone, so abruptly came to the meeting place wearing the yellow shirt exclusively designed by my students (BSBAMM3B-I'm getting a lot of good feedbacks kudos (",) ). Then I took a quick breakfast from ministop with my sister, it was a tuna kariman and a nestle lof-fat milk (lol, conscious ba?!) Then we took a 1-hour shuttle trip to the venue and we have met numerous kids along the way as we enter their vicinity but we just headed to one specific area where young girls were waiting for us. Upon our entry to their functional hall, I got to know Melissa- she wanted to be called Iwa Moto. She said she was 6 and she has a petite sister with her who was in cute yellow. They both seemed adorable, probably because they were both discreet and shy. Anyway, the event was trully different - I cannot explain whether I should feel better just because of knowing their backgrounds or should I also feel challenged that we need to have more places such as this. I don't wanna blame anybody for any misfortunes they have experienced, I'm also just as grateful as they are that there are still some people who cares for them.

Have you ever felt that you could have done something more? Perhaps, will be doing somethng more for them?

I have my dreams and I just feel that it also somehow nice to include people like them in our dreams as well. So Melissa, take care and we'll surely be back for more fun.

Nearly 3 Decades

Whoaa! Comin from a night shift from work, I just headed straight to my 7-hour class of mentoring. My B-day was definitely excruciating but still was fun. I intended using the coming days to be my crucial festive mood so I have done my favorite activities such as shopping and movie galore. I also took time to meet friends from day to day as if I were withering tree during autumn, that I wanted to grow old with such splendor and at the same time I just wanted to be more significant to others that's why I love hanging out. For almost three decades now, I wanted to reflect what kind of a person I have become and so far...so good. I can never deny the facts that there are/were things I could have done better but I just don't wanna dwell on them and instead face the new tune of the music which is..."the best things in life are free" and of course "the impossible dream".

Both my jobs are rewarding in different aspects and though it may seemed fatigable, I simply know how to keep my zest and enthusiasm, thanks to multivitamins and healthy lifestyle. I also owe it to a lot of things who inspire me. (I just wish I could have more of them).

So far I'm having fun and I see my works purposeful and I just wanted to keep on improving, and this time I simply know my field of interest. Three years to go and I still know there are a lot of things to conquer and I hope I will never lose my faith and luck at the same time.

Tomorrow Sunday, August 16, I will be at the Boystown Marikina. I have to do my community outreach. I have never done such a thing for a long time now, and perhaps I might read a story to young children there. For the coming days, my planner is really heaping with activities and I just want to do some more (adik lang) something that's fun and yet with sense!

Thank you.

JTS