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When you are an Organizational Communication student, chances are you are Obsessive Compulsive too. This kind of correlation might be brought about by the formalized theories about writing, organizing, managing, leading and, of course, communicating. Except for these, there are more reasons to be properly organized: Lots of homework, tons of reading assignments, several group meetings per day, numerous professional interviews and discussions per month, different org activities and overlapping appointments that could make you insane. Ergo, we need something to make us organized: Planners/Journals! I have seen a diversity of planners among my friends and I want to share it with you. This would serve like a mini-review too. :)
Design Your Life 2009
Featured owner: Ren
The Good: Only a few own one. The design is really cool (different designs per month!). You won’t get bored writing. And there are also spaces for pictures and doodles that would make it a personalized planner!
The Bad: None! I love my planner, nyaha. If there is one bad thing, I think it would be the cover: Its edges are prone to tearing.
The Lowdown: Get the planner if you like designing and all those artsy fartsy stuff and/or if you are a kid at heart. :)
Belle de Jour 2009
Featured onwer: Nancy
The Good: Discount coupons from really nice and popular fashion shops, restos and much more!
The Bad: So many sections. Information overload and begging for more!
The Lowdown: The perfect planner for the girly you!
This Journal Will Actually Change Your Life in 2009
Featured owner: Nikki
The Good: A professional yet hip journal! It does its job well.
The Bad: I think its pages are prone to tearing. Yikes!
The Lowdown: There’s virtually no boring day with this journal!
Cosmopolitan Planner 2009
Featured Owner: Jel
The Good: I haven’t seen anybody using it so that’s a major plus (unless someone sees this and goes buying one tomorrow! wuuh!). But for a planner not exceeding PhP 500 with a bunch of coupons and girly tips, cosmo’s a win!
The Bad: The space for weekend entries are just one horizontal space each! So many things happen during weekends!
The Lowdown: It reminds me of my Candy Mag Diary back in 2nd year HS (and I loved that one!)
Moleskine Journal 2009
Featured owner: Alvina
The Good: My planner is a Moleskine! And it’s Red! Fanboys claim that Moleskine is like, The Apple of the Planner/Journal World, making it very special. Frankly, I only care for its fabulously minimalist design, good paper and color. <3
The Bad: A whole week is crammed on one page! Pages on the right are left for more notes though.
The Lowdown: Really, there’s no competition. Get the Moleskine!
Tomato Planner 2009
Featured owner: Rish
The Good: The cover is nice–it’s not your typical journal cover. Plus cool discount coupons!
The Bad: The spaces each day are really limited and there are not enough spaces for extra notes.
The Lowdown: A very nice planner with a low price!
Starbucks Planner 2009
Featured Owner: Nash (and Bhea :D)
The Good: I like the quotes! And it’s quite spacious :)
The Bad: It’s not aesthetically pleasing (I didn’t receive good feedback regarding its design)
The Lowdown: It suits me because of its simplicity. I love it!
GoNuts Donuts Planner 2009
Featured owner: Alps
The Good: Really spacious space provisions for each day! A discount card from the merchant!
The Bad: Boring! The paper is like a recycled material. Haha. I think some people would like it though.
The Lowdown: With the market bombarded with girly planners, a GoNuts Planner would be nice for male students like me. :)
There you go :) It took me a while before I got a planner. The GoNuts Planner I have is actually a last-resort option. So many girly planners like girls own the world, shame. Guys have the right to be organized too. Haha. I don’t want to use a generic planner just because it’s too mature for a young boy like me. Lahlah. I should have published this earlier to guide planner-hunters out there, but I think it’s not yet late to get one! Plan to be happy in 2009! :)
Last January 21, 2009, The UP Manila Debate Circle had its first Debate Education Program. The target audience were public high school students (but we invited private high school students as well). The goal of the program is to introduce the basics of debate and argumentation to (public) high school students.
The Rationale. The UP Manila Debate Circle felt that:
- …Many high schools students are not aware of the basics of the sport. The organization wants to introduce debating to them so that these kids would be prepared for collegiate debating or at least make them interested in immersing themselves in the scene.
- …Manila (and/or Public) High Schools is (taken collectively okay?) an unchartered territory in the debate scene map. UPMDC wants to train them to have a bigger pool of rookie collegiate debaters.
- …It needs to do have Corporate Social Responsibility programs. Save the nation through the oblation! Haha!
The program’s activity head is yours truly. :D And I feel that I will make this my advocacy–Bringing debate to the masses! (Yeah, sounds like tra[ditional]po[litician] but it’s true. Haha.) Debating seems to be stereotyped as a sport for the elite (almost comparable to football’s image perhaps?). But it’s not. Everyone can debate. Everyone debates. :D
I would like to thank the following people who made DEP possible:
- Ate CiaCia for sparing some of her time for us and for waiting some 30 minutes more before she can finally start her lecture.
- Kuya James for not caring about his topic (Kahit anong topic, okay lang!) –I changed his topic a couple of times and he was just okay with it. :D
- Anzen for staying up late last night to make some presentation slides and lecturing about a topic too :) and oh, for demo-debating too!
- DS for carrying the juice boxes, waiting for the participants at the CAS gate and for Demo-debating.
- Elmer for accompanying DS wait for participants and socializing with them. Haha.
- Kuya Lee for not caring much about his recent exam just to go to the program. Haha. And for demo-debating too!
- Bhea aka crush aka Cassandra aka Dragonessa for dropping by. Haha. And for demo-debating!
- Leah for taking some video and pictures and for tokenistic-adjudicating-slash-lecturing!
- Benralph for taking advantage of his DepEd connections to make red-tape a little less red and for assissting Leah for her tokenistic-adjudicating!
- Keith for dropping by even it is originally impossible to do so and for helping Leah take some video and pictures!
- Clarissa aka triplet for giving some moral support. Hehe. And for helping us do some post-program tasks!
- Alvina aka Supreme Overlord for pressuring me to do my tasks so I can meet the deadline. Haha. And for pressuring the CAS dean to have the opening remarks (who eventually didn’t show up!)
- Kuya Eric for all the moral support :D
I (we) am (are) planning to have a bigger DEP next year, or a Debate Education Camp! The Division of City Schools Manila expressed their interest in tying up with UPMDC for future HS debate activities in Manila!
omina supra ratio. :)
Tomato Planner 2009
This Journal Will Actually Change Your Life 2009
Moleskine 2009
GoNuts Donuts Disorganizer 2009
Starbucks Planner 2009
Belle de JourPlanner 2009
Cosmopolitan Planner 2009
Design Your Life Planner 2009
The Good, The Bad, The Lowdown: A Concise First-person Review @ www.alpsaguado.com
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30 January 2009
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I have said in one of my previous blog posts that my desktop would show how busy I am. I just throw things onto my desktop and would arrange/organize them when I already have the time to do so. Sometime this week, my desktop went crazy again i.e. I, too, went crazy again due to all of these hate-worthy academic to-do’s. But I just found a way to make my desktop look as if it is owned by a sane person:
Anatomy:
- The Folders Strip. This is just a group of folders that contain all of my works on-progress and supposedly-on -progress. These folders may also contain do-or-die files. I treat my desktop as if it’s a bulletin board with URGENT matters posted on it. What I do in the past is to pin everything and anything to my desktop–but I found myself wanting to delete all of them due to psychological annoyance. I had a personal pscyh-consult and I recommended this kind of psych program.
- The Dock. I’m not Mac-envious. I just find ObjectDock (a dock for Windows) a tool to make me more efficient. I can work on a software’s workspace while seeing all of the handy programs I might use without actually minimizing the active program. The eye-candy appearance could also squirt some happy-hormones.
I am happy that I am beginning to be a desktop-neat-freak. There is indeed a direct-correlation between how I work with how my desktop looks like. Following the deductive approach of logic, I am expecting that my working habits would be more efficient amidst heavy academic load*. Wish me luck!
*And that’s the reason I’m not updating alpsaguado.com lately. :| I shall publish entries in advance!
Next week, the UP Manila Debate Circle will celebrate its first ever Debate Week. A celebration wouldn’t be complete without fun activities. I totally encourage you to join all of these events:
A Quiz Bee following the Jeopardy game show format. Everyone in the university is invited to join–the winner takes home Php 2,000.00. Yey!
A seminar for high school students, the Debate Education Program will teach students the basics of argumentation in three hours. It will be held in the RH-303, or the Little Little Theater.
From 9:00 AM – 12:00 NN in the College of Pharmacy Auditorium, the Symposium on Youth and Political Communication will tackle relevant issues, such as the role of youth in the electoral process and the state of student activism.
If you have any questions regarding these events, don’t hesitate to ask me or any member of the organization. Thanks! And, see you there! :)
I spent a few hours staying at my best friend’s crib last week. I also met his dog for the second time (the first one was when his girlfriend bought this dog somewhere near my place). There is something peculiar about this dog. Guess what?
Got it?
He sits like a chicken! Well, actually, he lies down like a (roasted) chicken Haha!
Run towards it, excited; Run away from it, free.
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These are some group pictures we took for our recent audio-visual presentation project (Yeah, I am the only thorn among the roses). Some of the girls here are obviously scripting their run. Haha. Especially Jenna (The girl with the white hat) who did a relatively perky one. :D I am proud enough to publicly declare that I did the less-scripted-run. Haha. I love you groupmates! (Gee, how fun it is to be in a group wherein you are the only guy ;))
New items added on my grand wishlist (January 09, 2009). Haha.
#71. MSI Wind Extreme: U100x, Atom Dual Core compatible chassis, 2.0 GB RAM, 500 GB SATA HDD, and 6-cell battery! Yehaa!
#75. A Red Nokia E63!–The cheaper E71!
#76. 1 TB External HDD!
Are you my fairy godmother?
I’m a hairless dude. I know. Girls tell me that I have nicer legs relative to theirs. Boys ask why I have such legs. People stare at them when I’m with my boxers. Well, that was before, I think my legs now are pumping some testosterone. Haha. I tease myself that I only reached puberty at age 19 (which is my age now, btw). Part of the boy-becoming-a-man process is his first shave! Wahoo! Look dad! I have a razor like yours! Look mah, I need some after-shave wash just like dad’s! Look everyone! I have THE mustache-to-shave! I envy my friends who are already able to shave (Especially Arvin who is one of the youngest dudes in the batch). I envy my friends who are able to grow some facial hair. Huh, I believe girls want some piece of facial roughness and heeeiriness. But I’m here, touching my upper lip as if it has some hair growing from it. HAHA.
Alas, yesterday was THE day! My first time to shehaveh! But I didn’t use this:
I used this instead:
Yes folks, I used a girly eyebrow razor to shave some hair (A prescription from Mom, MD with an assistance from Perky Sister, RN). Why? Because apparently, my upper-lip facial hair only grows at the sides, nothing in the middle. So using a real razor would be hardcore for me. I don’t know why I have such abnormal hair growth. Well, I’m not alone, the Chinese merchants who came to the Philippines back late 17th century have the same get-up, and mind you, I can look like a Chinese trader bartering Chinese goods without any effort:
It may not be clearly seen but his mustache grows the same way as mine. Think of Master Shuli or your favorite Chinese drama antagonist or the protagonist’s mentor during Sunday morning back late 90s. I’m sure you can imagine one. Oh well, I can now say I am clean-shaven. I actually used my dad’s uber-manly-scented after-shave cologne just to imitate the real feeling. The next day, I went outside, dressed with some Hugo Boss, ready to say Hey ladies, what’s up? :P
My 2008 Crystallized
Photos + Journal Entries/Doodles + Captions :)
January
Bought a new laptop, named him “Maxwell” | The first time I got a 1.25 and got dismayed
My first exposure to gay/lesbian films/shows (:O) | UP’s Centennial Celebration
February
Interviewed Bb. Pilipinas-Universe Ana Teresa Licaros (I’m taller than her, wee)
About
Professional Everything who swags like a boss in his plaid boxers.
If you like an About Me like that of a matinée, go here to feel how I play with the grey.Treat me to coffee and doughnuts!
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