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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.
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.
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!)
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.
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.
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