I found an easier (and safer) way to blog our OTC sessions: Photos with caption! Yey!
“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.
“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.
Week 2 of my internship program at Unilever was all about translating numbers into words. I have two big projects for my department in a specific area in Luzon. Before I can come up with a concrete program plan and an implementation methodology, I need to see the performance statistics for the past 6 and 12 months. Now I can see the point of our statistics class last semester. Numbers, you are a necessary evil.
Yesterday, when I am about to ride a tricycle going home, I saw a group of people convening around a television set inside a food shop. I knew it—a recorded video of Manny Pacquiao’s (MP) fight with Ricky Hatton. With this, I can say that Filipinos are not yet over the two-round bout that made history. The almost magical spectacle will normally last for one week, with the media tackling about every angle of the story: From Hatton’s possible retirement to Pacquiao’s congress candidacy, from The Hatton Girlfriend’s sorrow to Aling Dionisia’s luxurious lifestyle and from Mayweather Jr’s dirty mouth to Roach’s accurate prophecy. The media may opt to, again, rewrite and reread Pacquiao’s biography—which is actually a habit of the media every after the boxer’s fight. This kind of a week-long syndrome also includes netizens or those people found in the world wide web to write their own reactions or stories behind the historical fight. Furthermore, many people also react to these first-hand crafted musings. One of the articles that sparked interest among Filipinos and Pacquiao fans alike is the one written by a supposedly-irrelevant person from Oddjack.com named “JJ”.
I usually read round-per-round post-bout analysis every after Pacquiao’s fight. The reason behind this is not mere curiosity but my relatively short-attention span that I rarely remember what happened in each round or, worse, the fight in general. BBC Sports or Yahoo! Sports are my usual web channels for such articles but I only read brief ones. This kind of length is pretty consistent with what the fight has become–brief.
The BrainBox Team went to Baguio City for an activation. This is also the place where I became insane. Haha. But here’s my pre-insanity photos:
“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.
I decided to make my U & I series a weekly blog-o-drama since I don’t have enough glucose in my bloodstream every after work to tell what happened. Moreover, I believe that making this a weekly entry would reduce the probability of disclosing any corporate secret to the world wide web. But of course, I won’t do that anyway. Before anything else, I want to show how eager I am to work in such company situated millions of light years away from my very own galaxy:
Sagot sa kahirapan: Digmaang Bayan.
When we went to UP Diliman for the Philippine Intercollegiate Debate Championship, my teammates and I saw this activist vandalism written on the chalkboard of one of the classrooms in Palma Hall. :o
“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.
Unilever Philippines is a big, multinational company–even bigger than its direct competitor (Shhh). The 32 interns of the program were divided among the two Unilever sites in the metro: Manila and Pasig offices. I was assigned in the Pasig office. Specifically, I am working with a department which is concerned about Sales and Public Relations of Key Accounts–fwew. Gah, it’s hard for me to filter things since I signed a non-disclosure agreement. Continue reading