172 lbs
Aug 29th
I am 172 lbs as of my last dinner. And hell yeah, I hate it as much as my friends love it. Haha. I really don’t know why I gained weight this much. Well, the most accurate suspect I can point to is my Unilever Internship Life. Wow, we were fed like hungry kids. Okay, that was an overstatement. Unilever is really maalaga when it comes to their 25 growing (physically, intellectually, emotionally) interns. Oh, thanks for adding vitality to my life. Anyway, I started burning these unwanted elements of weight gain (a euphemism for fats) just this week. Jogging, you will be my best friend.
Social Media Marketing
Aug 29th
Trends and current events tell you that this thing called “New Social Media (NSM)” is the loudest buzz in the online ecosystem. With this, not only one’s everyday vanity and spoiled-brat rants are its daily consumers. We could see organizations and big companies slowly penetrating this powerful network. But of course, it’s not the usual three-step-pancake-mix process. It’s more like assembling and detonating a C4 bomb—one misconnection could lead to self-destruction.
UP Oblation Twibbon
Aug 28th
The Oblation was made by Tolentino, then a professor of Fine Arts and posthumously declared a National Artist of the Philippines, with the help of Anastacio T. Caedo, his student apprentice. According to a book tribute to Guillermo Tolentino, it was his friend, Ferdinand Glenn Gagarin, not director-actor Fernando Poe, Sr. (as popularly rumored), who served as the model for the sculpture. Caedo would later become a professor of Fine Arts in the University himself, succeeding the deceased Tolentino. Caedo’s other works include a monument of the Philippine national hero Jose Rizal for the German government that was installed in the Jose Rizal Park in Idelstien, Germany.
GWA to GPA%
Aug 26th
If you are about to have your internship or post-graduation job hunt, one of the things you do is create an account in some popular job search engines such as Jobstreet and JobsDB. These two services ask for your Grade Point Average or your GPA in percentage. You would be then disappointed that our Grade Weighted Average (UP, UST, etc) is of a different form (1.00 highest possible and 3.00 lowest possible passing grade). You would realize too that you are so lazy to do some math magic to convert your GWA to GPA Percentage. Fret not, here is a conversion table that would prevent you from wasting pencil lead and scratch paper in finding and computing for a solution.
This table has three assumptions:
Only a flat 1.00 GWA could yield a 100% GPA.
1.75 GWA (The lowest possible cum laude standing grade) yields an 85% GPA.
3.00 GWA (The lowest possible grade to graduate) yields 60% GPA.
Possible FAQs:
Why do you use whole numbers for GPA% in your conversion table?
Base on experience, most job search engines and corporate application forms ask for whole number GPAs
Why do you assume that 60% yields 3.00? Some subjects have lower standards i.e. 3.00 yields 50%.
True, there are some subjects that the passing grade is 50%=3.00. But the reference point of this conversion table is this: 1.75 GWA yields 85%. The rationale behind this is most companies regard 85% as the lowest possible GWA with honors i.e. 85%=1.75.
Why are you doing this?
During my pre-internship period, several of my classmates ask me to convert their currrent GWA to GPA percentage. Now that we are graduating next year, the same friends could ask me again about it so I am making a convenient tool for everyone in general. :)
DISCLAIMER:
You cannot blame this table (and me at that) if your prospective employer says that your GPA isn’t reflective of your GWA because you used this. However, I assure everyone that this is based on basic mathematical logic.
If you are about to have your internship or post-graduation job hunt, one of the things you do is create an account in some popular job search engines such as Jobstreet and JobsDB. These two services ask for your Grade Point Average or your GPA in percentage. You would be then disappointed that our Grade Weighted Average (UP, UST, etc) is of a different form (1.00 highest possible and 3.00 lowest possible passing grade). You would realize too that you are so lazy to do some math magic to convert your GWA to GPA Percentage. Fret not, here is a conversion table that would prevent you from wasting pencil lead and scratch paper in finding and computing for a solution.
Little, Almost Universal Rules
Aug 24th
Every day, I can witness and experience some petty deviations from little rules. Negligible they may seem but they are an everyday test to a person’s patience, respect to rules and even respect to other people. I will be enumerating these little rules that are so little, most people disobey them.
Face(book) Value
Aug 24th
Last Saturday, we presented a case documentation that exhibits the use of new social media by different Philippine-based organizations to promote their products and services or to perform their functions in general. One of the organizations we interviewed has been using Facebook to screen and hire prospective employees. Now that’s a wake-up call for me to do a Facebook general cleaning. Haha. But I do have rather civil and cultured content on my social networking accounts so the article doesn’t pose so much threat to me. :D Anyway, I was browsing Yahoo! News when I stumbled upon this article:
Job hunting? Take those wild party pics off Facebook
http://vinculum.alpsaguado.com/2009/08/social-media-marketing/
