soceconess

not only did i finish my RRL on time last time i blogged, i also finished my volunteered parts for today! let's celebrate!=)

the last requirement

as most of you may know, classes and exams in UA&P are over and for us who do not intend to take the 5th yr, college life is over. however, we still have this last requirement for one of our subjects. aside from our take home essay exam, this paper will be our professor's only gauge on how she will grade us for our performance the entire semester.







and it is quite horrible for me to not have the drive to finish it.. it is due on friday so i actually have ample time to prepare for it IF i was doing this whole thing on my own... however, this paper is a group paper so if i do not finish my RRL this afternoon, i will cause my other groupmates to lag behind their work as well. haaaaayyy... the only motivating factor for me right now is the fact that i do not want to let my groupmates down.. but i am really feeling lethargic today.. i hate it! i shouldn't be like this...








i tried so many things to motivate myself to finish the paper but somehow i just couldn't..








ok, i'll try to start again.... i'm not letting you guys down... i'll keep my word. you'll have my RRL this afternoon. =)

i just want to whine... hehe

i am really exhausted today. i feel like i did 2 weeks worth of labor in one day. i was up as early as 1am struggling through my soc eco global financial crisis readings so that i would be able to answer our take home essay exam. it was terrible. i enjoyed the readings because i love financial and business stuff but i could not help it but take a nap once in a while.

soon i realized that it will take me a long time to finish reading my stuff so i took a bath first because i won't be able to do so anymore once my eyes get strained and i have a morning meeting. it was a little funny cause i watched the videos that i made yesterday for my soceco exam. well, after finishing episode 3 of commanding heights, i thought it would be a good idea to keep track of the details in the movie but i didn't want to write them down so i took out my videocam and i recorded myself narrating the stuff that i learned from the documentaries. i'm still thinking if i should post the video here... hehe... it's embarrassing and it's 200 mb so... maybe not... hehe...

come 7:30 am, i ate breakfast while i was skimming through my soceco powerpoints and i realized i would not make it on time to my meeting at 9am so i texted jc i would be late. the main factor that made me know i was gonna be late is because i didn't like what was served for breakfast. i do not like hotdogs and local corned beef (i only like hereford and armour). so i asked manang to fry me an egg and open a can of sardines (i love spanish and normal sardines!). anyway, i was able to finish my paper around 930 and i sent it to miss's email immediately cause i thought it was due 12 noon. JC called me and i found out we no longer need to submit a hard copy so i drove off to philip's place (i am never going to take a car to north ave. again! unless i'm in the backseat =p). anyway, we had a lot of problems regarding our regression. The economic model that we worked so hard for has a poor Durbin-Watson result and so we had to look for other variables to put in our model and after hours of toiling... bagsak pa rin yung durbin-watson! waaaaaaahhhh! so i decided to call dr. de vera and dr. u for help and dr. de vera agreed with me that it'd be ok to have a bad DW test since our model won't be used for forecasting so we summed up the meeting and agreed on our variables. however, when i got home, dr. u told me that failing DW could indicate biased t stats so i started to sweat... hehe... but all is well that ends well. he said i could use newey-west to correct my t stats but i'm using white cause it gives me better results... =)

anyway, we have a pretty good model and i hope we would be able to pull this off.

we are off to kish's house tom to finish the paper. i don't wanna drive tom so i'll just take a cab... napagod ako sa traffic kanina...

anyway, tulog na muna ako cause i really need it... i'll wake up early morning to do further research...

personalized quote for the day (inspired by the QC traffic and the durbin-watson failure):

"you do not give up on anything half way. when you are stuck in traffic, you don't stop in the emergency bay, you stop when you already reach your destination.."

SO I ONLY HAVE ONE THING TO SAY: NONE OF YOU CAN STOP ME!!!! GAGRADUATE AKO SA JUNE! AND I'LL GET A N OFFICIAL JOB OFFER SOON!

I hope my profs. and companies read this... hehe... =p

P.S. Mia, I'm really sorry for telling you the wrong deadline. It really said 12nn in the text message.

time is a commodity and you shouldn't waste it

it is fairly accurate to say that i have been following what randy pausch has done over the last couple of months... i DID NOT know that he had another talk in the University of Virginia.. so i was searching through his account in Carnegie Mellon and i found out that there are links to his powerpoint slides and some of his talks that have fortunately been recorded and uploaded to youtube and google video. so anyway, i found one of his talks about time management.

i think he was really in authority to talk about maximizing the use of time considering that he had terminal cancer during the talk. i would like to share a particular part of his intro. Time is a commodity. When you would be working, how much does your time cost? how much would i pay you for an 8-hour work? think about these things. how much does an hour cost? i mean, hearing from dr. villegas is definitely more expensive than hearing from a graduate school student.

it's quite interesting to look at things this way because when you place a price on your time, you don't want to watch TV anymore... hahaha!

Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture Book

i have blogged countless number of times about a video that has been well dispersed in the online community by now. but i was buying some highlighter and sticky notes in national bookstore when i bumped upon a copy of randy pausch's last lecture. i didn't know he came up with a book. well, i actually, i could have downloaded an audio book from torrent but it didn't feel right. he left jai three kids to take care of. they'd need the royalties although i'm sure he left them a significant amount of money but still... they're all below 6 years old. anyway, i advise those who were moved by the lecture to buy one themselves. there are a lot more insights and advices in the book. Buy it and read it!

immortality... take it! it's yours!

when we lost in the finals of ecoknowmics, our professors comforted us and uplifted our spirits by telling us, "don't be disappointed. at least we made it to the finals." This is at least true for our Dean and I would like to think that the rest of the faculty shares the same insight. During our Industrial Organization class, Dr. De Vera told us that one way of accepting defeat is by asking ourselves, in 10 years, will this matter? what about 20? a hundred? (I'm not saying that it wouldn't matter if you won but think about it.)

so i was thinking of immortality or at the very least, the capacity to leave something behind that would outlive us. something that would well exceed our lifespan. A lot of people have left significant contributions in this world and they are always and will forever be remembered. so i was thinking, what could i do to leave something behind? something that will not be constrained in the memories of those that i love? when your funeral comes, people won't talk about your grades or earning capacity or anything. they will talk about the person that you are. problem is, sooner or later, those people will also die and with them, stories about you will fade.

thinking about death at age twen-teen (i refuse to admit i'm no longer a teenager) is a bit peculiar, i know... but there is something in me that wants to leave bread crumbs or ass prints of myself so that i would be present long after i'm gone. it's not necessarily about having my own statue or museum but some contribution to mother earth that would MATTER! something that will be of help... something that will be beneficial for others....

ok. so i was thinking about this when i decided to watch randy pausch's the last lecture. i actually watched bits and pieces of it cause i have to study for econometrics. i might watch the whole video over the weekend. either after the ecodev test on saturday or on sunday since i decided not to join the debate competition. randy pausch exemplifies exactly what i am talking about. i am almost sure he would outlive a lot of best-selling authors such as robert kiyosaki, stephenie meier and even j.k. rowling. this is not to be taken in the literal sense because the great randy paush died of pancreatice cancer months ago but he would mostly be remembered by a lot of people because of the nature of what he has done. he has inspired a lot of people to live their dreams and live their lives well.

i want to do something that will leave my footprint in this world... immortality through impact... is that too much to ask for?














apparently, you gotta earn it... =)

when you find your niche, stay, dominate and then conquer other niches!

well, this entry will be very brief because i have to read several articles for our eco dev paper after this. i am really impressed by the way our Fil-Chi businessmen have dominated a certain industry and have gone on to expand and diversify their products to other sectors so as to have other income-generating vehicles in cases of downturns in any specific industry. i think this is probably a mantra in business. look for your niche and then expand. look at how donald trump dominated the real estate industry and he now goes on to ice, clothes and jewellery lines.

i am really impressed. lesson learned.