is it me, or there seems to be an influx of beautiful people (naks!) from LB here at the tech area?
okay, so it's not just from LB, but i do mean it when i said beautiful (naks uli!).
i find it just fair for the ladies here to complain about the station's lack of male staffs. rest assured, though, that this issue -- the station's propensity to be feminine (meaning, having more females) -- has been subjected to scholarly studies by no less than dr. pepe abueva himself and other fellows from the academe.
i have yet to see dr. abueva's full report (done in 1995, if i remember correctly), but i was told that one of the conclusions were "... this organization is feminine in nature".
ahahay!
the world of research, i admit, is not exactly a male-dominated profession. not just by experience (of the total 15+ something in my comm research batch, there were only 4 of us guys), more than a few studies have found distinct relationship of gender differences with several aspects involved in research such as query, numbers, intuition, and human interaction (the word OC comes into mind). just don't ask to me to cite my references now (can reader's digest qualify as a source?).
there's a new catch phrase going around the station lately -- workplace with a heart (no, not the "productive" thingy, that's something else).
the few men here at the station have no complains, really. we may not be the hunky, yuppie-types that lynn is looking for, but just as everyone else, we certainly have big hearts.
happy valentine!!
for editing later ---> post picture of "nasty sisters" here + the new secretary and hr staff. heehee.
Monday, February 14, 2005
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
word play
"my plans assume that i'll be around within the next five years..."
how's that for an answer? it doesn't carry much conviction, does it?
practice makes perfect, i say. i've been asked "will you be staying with us in the next five years" too many times that sometimes (just sometimes) i'm tempted to say "i'll be leaving very soon. tomorrow, maybe." just to have something different to talk about.
if you ask me, making a promise for the next five years is quite a feat. i can't even plan my gym or jogging sessions for the next week.
but there lies the uniqueness of the station, or of most NGOs for that matter: it neither has a firing mechanism nor an iron-clad contract binding any staff to a fixed period of employment.
if i go back to my fresh techie years (which is waaaay back), the answer would have been less vague and with absolute conviction. but after seeing people leave -- the same people whom you've heard answer with the same conviction -- i guess i've grown tired of asking "bakit ka mag-reresign? di ba sabi mo di ka pa aalis?".
two things: opportunities change, and so do people.
i had a taste of high-brow art film yesterday at kampo. i guess it's art when even the title makes you want to ask "why that title?"
but i guess that makes "sex and lucia" a good art film, right? it opens to a lot of perspective, giving the viewers so much freedom to explore every bit of symbol and meanings scatterred and stringed beautifully together throughout the film.
but nay, this is no film review, nor would i even attempt to do one. so enuf blabber.
how's that for an answer? it doesn't carry much conviction, does it?
practice makes perfect, i say. i've been asked "will you be staying with us in the next five years" too many times that sometimes (just sometimes) i'm tempted to say "i'll be leaving very soon. tomorrow, maybe." just to have something different to talk about.
if you ask me, making a promise for the next five years is quite a feat. i can't even plan my gym or jogging sessions for the next week.
but there lies the uniqueness of the station, or of most NGOs for that matter: it neither has a firing mechanism nor an iron-clad contract binding any staff to a fixed period of employment.
if i go back to my fresh techie years (which is waaaay back), the answer would have been less vague and with absolute conviction. but after seeing people leave -- the same people whom you've heard answer with the same conviction -- i guess i've grown tired of asking "bakit ka mag-reresign? di ba sabi mo di ka pa aalis?".
two things: opportunities change, and so do people.
i had a taste of high-brow art film yesterday at kampo. i guess it's art when even the title makes you want to ask "why that title?"
but i guess that makes "sex and lucia" a good art film, right? it opens to a lot of perspective, giving the viewers so much freedom to explore every bit of symbol and meanings scatterred and stringed beautifully together throughout the film.
but nay, this is no film review, nor would i even attempt to do one. so enuf blabber.
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