B-school woes... and dancing

i just got feedback from my professors through my mentor. i expected pretty much the same. i haven't been participating much in our class case discussions. i feel that, although enlightening, most of the ideas shared are too straightforward and easily derivable from the case facts. there is no value addition in terms of industry insight based on experience. my reason for not being the person to input insight on the other hand would be... none. right now i just am not, i don't really know. it seems im more of a listener at the moment. but i do inderstant i have to step up. after 3 months of b-school i'm still in a way, slacking off. so i need to step up.
i went to a reunion with my dance organization in college. i was expecting to meet my old friends but unfortunately very few came to the event. most of them were of the newer batches. i did win the impromptu swing competition with one of the new members. :-) some of my friends from India are looking into Salsa lessons. i'm hoping we can schedule them right so it won't interfere with our cases.
the schedule seems to be better now in B-school. it seems everything is fine. although i need to read a lot more about finance if i want to get the most of my education. everything seems to be converging with finance. it is something inescapable here in AIM. and so i must read again.

moving forward

after our 3-day-exams...
yes we survived. after the sleepless mornings, we had a long weekend. (we do no sleep at night. we take naps instead) and right now i'm in my slacker mode. i just watch the Avatar book 3 : fire online at veoh.com. the interconnection is much more reliable now at the dorm. the diwali was fun although i came late around 11pm. a lot of people were drunk and dancing. too bad i left my camera. our plant visit did not push through last saturday so we had the weekend all to our caprice. and i slept most of the time. we will be having Prof. Cruz to finish our FM subject. so we are all looking forward to a more austere environment... hmm... we kinda gotten more comfortable with Sir LT since accounting... but it didn't help increase our grades. our economics class is done and we are having Marketing Management and Human Behaviour in Organizations again. Ah.... i wish the quantitative subjects will go away but apparently i would have to love that which i ... dont like... abhor is a very strong word to use. its not that i hate numbers. numbers just are too strict. it leaves no room for art. but if i want to have an mba education, i must embrace numbers. :-(
its almost christmas in the malls. id like to be in a festive mood but im looking out for the next pile of assignments.

boomerang

i had a blast going back to my province. i haven't realized how long i've been away and how my cousins have grown up -- i couldn't carry them anymore! my son had so much fun running around expecially in the airport. and i was so tired running after him. he has this penchant for cars and planes... i don't know why. my mom's birthday went well, it was like a reunion of some sort. some close relatives were there also. i didn't have time to meet my friends though. perhaps this december if i can go home to iligan. i might be here are AIM or in cebu that time. its only 6 more weeks before the next break! i have some serious studying to do first. i wasn't able to read any case. now its back to study mode.

the long weekend

i'll be going back to my hometown Iligan City with my gf and little boy in tow. we are gonna surprise my mother on her birthday with her twin. it will be a good time to relax a bit from B-school. just a bit. i am bringing with me 7 cases for next week's class. and about next week, i have 3 major exams :-( hopefully the trip will freshen me up a little, and clear my mind of the pressures in B-school. perhaps it would be a good time to reflect. i'm fond of climbing our rooftop during midnight and gazing at the stars, wondering about life and anything.
i chatted with my high school friends on yahoo messenger yesterday and i do hope we could meet back home. i am paying my debts to my goddaughter whom i haven't seen in 4 years. she's into ballet and her mom says she like girly stuff like barbie and necklaces. i bought her fairy wings from SM that could complement her ballet outfit plus a necklace.
i just got my backpay from Siemens. i'm more than happy with the amount considering what i've done for 19 months on the operations floor. i'm thinking of getting a Palm treo 650 although i'm having second thoughts since there have been complaints about the 650's operating system crashing from time to time. i'm happy with my hand-me-down p910i phone but there is not much free applications that can be used with the p910i. plus the casing is expensive! and if i do sell it at a second hand place, still the casing is more expensive than the price i can sell it at. the treo 650 though is a far better phone as regards to functionality, given the multitude of freeware from Palm. i do miss my old m500. it was a workhorse. i'm keeping my eyes open for a good treo bargain by december. most of the people in mapalad.com, i think, are going for the iphone or the p990 for the WIFI capability. the treo 680 is pretty expensive but its not much of a leap from the treo 650. the iphone is a revolutionary phone, kinda like my p910i without the flip; but i find it too expensive especially that its not yet 3G capable.
we had our batch Operations Management game today. we were tasked to create a device wherein we can put in an egg and drop it from the 3rd floor, without breaking/cracking the egg. our team's 3 design were lemons. we discounted the idea of a parachute to dampen the free fall. we went for other ideas which were good actually but needed more design testing. the main drawback was we spent too much on materials and took too long, plus our product did not work. also, our group isn't really up to speed communication-wise and we're a bit of lagging in terms of cohesiveness.