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Almost half-a-year has passed after I published my last blog entry. The story of the little boy finding a job reached a climax but no one knows what happened next. I found a gold and screamed for excitement–but the curtains fell down and the audience applauded. The applause died down and the conversations buffet is served. The show stopped, but it must go on–even after 6 months. Hello world, prepare the confetti, the body-sticking glitters and other forms masquerade debris because I am about to enthusiastically go to the stage and heat myself again in the limelight. Ladies and gentlemen, this ain’t a stand-up comedy. This is an exhibition of drama in a comical package. Even if you laugh hard enough, I assure you I won’t defy the standards of my signature scintillation. The black suit, the business apprentice mind and the gentleman stance will never be enough until I speak. Hi, I’m Alfred Miguel Aguado and I’m back.
Most of my recent (an overstatement) entries here at my personal blog were mere links or teasers for my academic blog entries. This is reflective of the fact that I don’t have a personal life since most of my hours were spent for the thing called academics. Now I feel the pressure to tell stories I weren’t able to tell during my leave of absence. To lessen my thinking time (because my crazy brain is tired), I will be posting pictures and I will be telling a short story behind each image.
A rainy Saturday. I’m here at the bus, blogging about my internship revalida at Unilever. Of course, I won’t be pouring so much technicalities about it since I might be sued for breach of contract. Anyway, there is an undying emotion about what I felt about the revalida–I felt I delivered a mediocre one, I felt I left too many loopholes. My panel consisted of relevant people: My bosses and supervisors, and of course, the guys from Human Resources, Learning and Expertise.
In a nutshell:
1. The usual breakfast :)
2. Marketing Module Game
3. Marketing, Branding and Advertising 101
4. Healthy AM snacks!
5. Plant tour (While I am enrolling at UP Manila, sadness)
6. Lunch!
7. Trade Visit at SM MOA, Puregold Sta Mesa and Robinson’s Otis
8. High-school-field-trip style snacks in our bus!
9. Tired interns resting at the convening area
10. Interns’ night-out at TGIF! (Too bad, not everyone came; too bad, I had to leave early)
“U & I” chronicles my life as an intern of Unilever Philippines (ULP). The blog entries under this series would only include my personal affairs with my fellow interns, with the company and its employees. Any kind of corporate information about the said company would never be written here.
Our company-wide project is not only making tangential interference to our department-centric jobs and stints but is also generating some sort of personal corporate dilemma. Sometimes, I just want to escape and make some Absence-Without-Official-Leave diva drama. Every time I have this kind of cognitive ranting, Cezar’s (HR, Learning & Expertise King) words automatically dives into my psychological pool: It’s hard work here at Unilever. I am at least happy that I am touching and learning the corners of the real world in its grandest form. After this internship program, I will let everyone feel my body that’s made of steel.
In a nutshell:
- Pancakes and Bacon for breakfast
- Finance Department’s Ice-Breaker Game
- Finance Department module
- Finance Department Game
- IT Department Module
- IT Department Game
- Italian Lunch
- Selecta Module (Woohoo)
- Selecta Game + 3-in-1-Plus-1 Dance Craze Tutorial
- Bottomless Ice Cream (YEAH!)
“U & I” chronicles my life as an intern of Unilever Philippines (ULP). The blog entries under this series would only include my personal affairs with my fellow interns, with the company and its employees. Any kind of corporate information about the said company would never be written here.
I feel nostalgic when using an old keyboard. While typing on this 90-ish QWERTY, I feel typing my grade school papers. Fortunately, my outputs using this computer is at par with with what is ideal and what is expected. I want my cubicle (and computer) back! In other news, the interns are getting a taste of corporate paranoia. We have our individual daily tasks, stints and projects (some of which are needed for our internship revalida). Moreover, we are also occupied with our company-wide project. It’s work, werk, wurk–different vowels, just the same hardcore meaning. Where’s work and play? I found it when all of the 25 interns of ULP decided to have a Thursday Bonding Night (A night before an Out-of-the-cube Session). We had our first shot of this bonding experience at Katips Bar situated somewhere in Tomas Morato. Work then play. Work then drink. Work then dance. :)
I found an easier (and safer) way to blog our OTC sessions: Photos with caption! Yey!
In a nutshell:
- Ham, Egg, Spanish Sardines and Hot Chocolate for breakfast
- A game and talk by Unilever Department B
- Ham & Cheese, Tuna and Chicken Croissant, cheese sticks for AM snacks
- A talk by Unilever Department C
- CSR Briefing
- CSR Activity at some Baranggay in Paco, Manila
- Group proposal defense back at the office
- Some Chinese-themed PM snacks
- Socials with fellow interns
- Home!
“U & I” chronicles my life as an intern of Unilever Philippines. The blog entries under this series would only include my personal affairs with my fellow interns, with the company and its employees. Any kind of corporate information about the said company would never be written here.
Okay, I don’t have any decent picture for week three–which is actually quite consistent with what Week Three is all about: BUSYNESS (This is not so nice a word, I know; but it’s actually the noun form of the verb busy). I already met my main mentor. I have a new sub-mentor. I have three mentors overall. Virtually, I am doing three separate jobs. Oh well, this is “work”. And I love it.
All Fridays of the Unilever Internship Program are dedicated to a whole-day program filled with fun activities and unnecessary generous servings of food (haha). I skipped the Friday’s breakfast because I arrived at Unilever Manila during the start of the first activity—finding your perfect roommate. Too bad, I didn’t find mine. HAHA. Oh well, the activity tells me to be alone during the night. Anyway, it was fun, not just the activity itself but meeting my fellow interns for the very first time (I missed the first OTC session). I finally met my long lost brother, Carlos Aguado. But hey, his genetic features are almost the opposite of mine. Extraneous forces may have entered the Aguado Genetic Pool that variance assumed a higher value (Why am I talking technical here).
The second talk and activity was administered by and about the Human Resources Department. Their department function is really dynamic and deviates from the stereotype HR department of most organizations. I can’t disclose details and specificities but I can say that this area in Unilever’s organizational chart is goal-oriented and knowledge-driven.
Before we took the DiSC exam (a type of personality exam), we had our morning merienda. I can say that we, the interns, are Unilever’s patabaing baboy. After which, a person from an agency that administers the DiSC exam had a short talk and gave us the test. The results were astounding.
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