Just bought another Sun Voucher for SCWCD

Yesterday, I just bought another Sun Voucher. I am planning to take SCWCD some time in June. Hay, pwede naman pala magbayad sa Sun Microsystems Philippines office ng diretso eh, nagpunta pa ako sa Banco de Oro Tordesillas Branch. It turns out, magbabayad ka lang sa bangko kung wala pa silang voucher at hand. Pero since they already have a voucher at hand, you can pay directly to Sun's office at the 32nd floor in Philam Life tower in Makati. You will get your voucher and your OR right then and there.

Pooh and Pokwang jokes about AMA Computer College

I was riding an airconed bus this afternoon, and the show that was playing on the DVD player was Pooh and Pokwang's stage show in America. One of the jokes there was about the schools that some of the show's presenters had graduated from. Pooh and Pokwang gave funny names of non-existent schools. However, one of their guests gave this joke:



"Di ba, sinabi nila na kapag ang paaralan pinangalan sa bayani pampubliko ito, tapos kapag pinangalan sa santo, ito naman ay pampribado. Pero wala kayo sa school ko. Mas mataas pa to sa bayani at santo. Ano pangalan ng school kamo: AMA Computer College. AMA, ibig sabhin si Lord na yon... Ang course ko BS CS... as in BS in Counter Strike major in Dota. ... (more followed)..."



The joke was funny but then I stopped laughing because I realized, dito nga pala sa school na ito ako napilitang mag-aral. Oh well, like all the graduates of that bullshit school, I am also subjected to this kind of humiliation all the time. If I am proud of that school, I would have felt outraged by this joke. But the truth is, I myself really feel resentful of that bullshit AMA school and all its subsidiaries. I thought to myself, well, at least, when people hear this joke, fewer and fewer students will enroll in this school (which is a good thing for innocent students). These jokes serve as a subtle warning to those unsuspecting people to avoid this school at all costs. While it hurts, I cannot really be angry to those people who crack up these kinds of jokes.

There is at least one person I am angry at for me having to endure these kinds of humiliation everyday. My father. I would not have ended up in that god-forsaken school had he been logical and generous enough. Well, its a long story... I will give a complete detail about this story in another post. Well, bye for now.

International Studies... is it a fool's game

I always feel sad of how naive I was when I was studying International Studies back in college. Back then, I did not really pay full attention as to what kind of career awaits me after I graduate from this course. Besides, the topic of job hunting and resume building was almost always a topic that my teachers avoided to discuss to us. And whenever we hear an IS graduate that became a flight attendant or a call center agent, many of my teachers had an indescribable contempt for that person that they some foul language and curse is being hurled at without that person even knowing it.

Here are some of the most memorable reactions:

"Kung magiging stewardess lang naman kayo pagka-graduate ninyo, eh wag na kayong magpakita dito kahit kelan..."
(If you will only end up as flight attendants or call center agents, never ever come back and show your face here ever again.)

"P*t*ng *n*! IS pa naman sya! Bakit sya sa call center, sayang lang pinag-aralan nya!!!"
(Son of a b*tch! He was an IS student, how the hell did he end up like that! All his studies were for nothing!!!)

I personally feel these reactions are uncalled for, overly reactive and suspicious at best.

These reactions probably explain why so many IS graduates never come back to tell their experiences about job hunting and the type of careers they end up getting into.

What is the motivation or reasoning behind these reactions?

These reactions are a subtle way of preventing these IS graduates from informing the current IS students about how hard it is to find a job as a graduate of this course. This is like 'damage control' in its subtlest. If these graduates came back to tell horror stories of their job hunting, I doubt if there will still be many students that will stay with, or take up the International Studies course.

Poor students, they will never be even warned of the danger down ahead after they graduate. They are so naive. It is like a fool walking blindly towards the end of a cliff. (Hence the image above).

I remember myself being like this so vividly. I almost always never paid attention to the career I will be getting after graduation because we were always immersed in total academics and the topic of jobs seldom came up for discussion in class. It is like our attention was being diverted from these things so that we would not even notice the trouble that lies ahead of us. Imagine, how you would feel that after working your ass to study hard and spending lots of time and money, you will only find out that there isn't a bright future ahead of you after the journey.

I do not remember any in depth discussion of job hunting and career opportunities being discussed by my teachers. Come to think of it, during the job fair for our department, all we had was a lonely speaker that talked about how she went to a career that was totally different from her course. Other departments, like the Business Administration and Accounting Departments, had job fairs where the students were able to submit their resumes to the companies who visited our school.

Speaking of resume, I do not remember us being taught how to create a resume!!! Imagine that. I was job hunting without even knowing how to create a proper resume!!!

So, to anyone who will be reading this blog: you have been forewarned! Tread carefully now. It is up to you to change the way things are before they are too late.

Friday with Friends

Last Friday night, February 20, 2009, me and my friends in my former company, Accenture, went to Glorietta's Food Choices to have dinner. This is to celebrate them being regularized and, well, me for having found a new job. :) We were also supposed to watch a movie that night but it did not push through because some of us are leaving for out of town and some of us like me, were already tired and sleepy.

There is a such a thing as bullshit parents.

I just want to say that there is as much bullshit parents out there as there are bullshit children. In my case, my mother is a total bullshit. She is a sadistic bitch that deserves to go to hell. More on the details about this as I blog along in the future.

Beware of LoadXtreme

Hayz,

I once bought a Dealer's Kit from this bullshit business (during that time it was under Portal Innovations Corporation). I really had reservations about investing in these kinds of business, but a "friend" somehow convinced me to. (Either I was so stupid, or he was just great at sales talk). Arrgh.

All I can say is BEWARE and spend your time and money for something more worthwhile than this instead.

Here is the LoadXtreme website now. http://www.loadxtreme.com.ph/newmain.html

Try to Google this up and read for yourself on various internet forums all about the bullshit things about this "business".

Courtney Love barges in on Madonna's Interview

Oh gosh, I just love Madonna. You can see here in a 1995 MTV interview with Kurt Loder how elegant and civilized she conducts herself in a particularly embarassing situation.

(Grabe, tama bang magtapon ng compact mirrors si Courtney Love kay Madonna sa gitna ng interview nito.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEsQHenUdo8

Way to go Madz...

SNL and "Tranny Fierceness"

I am a huge fan of Project Runway. This skit by SNL is really old, but I still find it funny.

http://defamer.com/366165/trannies-hot-messes-and-ferocity-snl-does-runway

The best line:

"You are a tikety-tacky Tranny, hot mess, outta control, supah tranny, from Transylvania, who is not apologizing for it!"

Wahehehe

International Studies... was it a total waste of time.

I just realized that I have never earned even a single dime from taking up my first course in College (IS). It has never given me any job whatsoever and probably never will. So, was it a total waste of my time?

Most of my other classmates ended up being call center agents. It would have been better for them to have taken up courses like Marketing, Sales or English Literature, as those courses would have helped them more in becoming better agents. Some ended up in totally different fields of profession that are not even remotely connected to Political Science or the social sciences.

Granted, there were a few, who ended up in the IS related jobs, like researchers, congress staffs etc. A few ended up taking up law. But, how many are they? What percentage of the total IS graduates do they represent? Out of 90+ IS graduates in 2002, how many ended up in those kinds of jobs? 6, 7? 10? Really?! If this is the case, then in my opinion, the IS department (or any political science department for that matter) should not be taking in more than 30 new students per year.

If I would be able to turn back time, I would have taken up an IT course from the very beginning instead.

I just passed the SCJP Exam

I just passed the SCJP 1.5 today.
I am so happy.

Gusto ko pa mag-kuwento, but it is already late in the night and I am already too sleppy.
Maybe some other time.

I just passed the SCJP Exam

I just passed the SCJP 1.5 today.
I am so happy.

Gusto ko pa mag-kuwento, but it is already late in the night and I am already too sleppy.
Maybe some other time.

Interview via Webcam

I had an interview with an IT company earlier this afternoon. Their interview was via a webcam and their pre-employment test was done online. Kudos to them. If only IT companies were like this, they will not waste somebody's time and money asking them to go to some remote venue, only to inform them that they failed the pre-employment tests.

First Entry

Hmmm... blogs have been known for like forever. I wonder why I waited until now to do this... sigh