Sweet World of Joan

I had an opportunity to catch up on a student of mine who recently graduated, we chatted the afternoon away and talked mostly about his career path and how he choose the company he works for at present and his future career moves. He gave me his permission in blogging some parts of our conversation. I left out his name and the companies we are talking about for his privacy. I had the opportunity to help him prepare in applying for his current company that is why I have some knowledge of his expectations. Backgrounder: A recent computer engineering graduate, he is aggressive, above average academically and have the technical knowledge and background in technical support. At present he is being trained in one of the prestigious multination IT company and has a big possibility in being trained abroad after his training here. And our conversation starts….. How are you now? Have you started your training? I really want the work here(his current company) but we have not yet started in my tra...

I bought my son Lorenzo his school uniform yesterday and since then he can’t seem to part with it. This morning immediately after waking he brought it out and asked to put it on with his new black shoes and proudly parade it to everyone, he even wants to go out of the house and really go to Immaculate . I have to explain to him that he have to wait till next week to go to school. I have to take his picture so that he can see himself in his uniform anytime. His school bus is also ready and we are counting the days for his first school day. Tonight we had a very rainy night, heavy downpour, thunder storms and a very long brownout. We had dinner in candlelight and even before we finish eating the flood can inside the house, flood in the bathroom and leaks on the roof. I concluded that this is the start of the rainy season. We receive a very wet welcome from this season. We live in an apartment compound and every door had been flooded, it was suppose to be repaired this summer by the landl...

Joining this The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007 challenge of Janette Toral is really a good way of knowing your fellow bloggers. It keeps you updated in what is going on in the blogosphere and at the same time it enriches you when you are reading blogs of other people. Here are my Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007 : An Apple a Day I like it being informative on a variety of topics nde nakakauyam Studies in Technoprenuership I like the discussions on everything IT Software and Web Development This site really made me stay put. Its really informative specially on topic of software development and having additional income through your blogs Stay at Home Mom Her blog about family makes me happy and gives me food for thought as I am considering being a stay at home mom too. feistymomma Like everything about her blog most specially the recipes the she shares www.fitsphere.com Its about the journey of losing weight, I am interested for I am also in the same journey. It’s nice to ...

My son Lorenzo is already four years old and we reach an important landmark of his life, “Going to School”, he will be attending Nursery this June 5, 2007. As a mother I am filled with pride, excitement and anxiety. Pride because I know that my child is intelligent and is an avid reader at his age ( he surfs the net almost daily – under supervision of course ). Excitement because I look forward of him learning to read and write, telling me about his day in school and hearing him sing new songs. Anxiety because this is the first time in four years that I will let him go and be supervised by someone else besides me( Oh its tough being an mommy and educator for your standards in teaching is high ). I know at his age many will say he started late in attending school for most schools now a days offer nursery as early as 2 ½ yrs old. I don’t really believe in putting children to school unless they are ready and really want to attend one. There might be a case of school burn-out in the fu...