| business brewing? |
[Jul. 23rd, 2008|04:17 am] |
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it's been roughly two months since i last blogged and frankly i seem to have lost some interest on logging an entry. i don't know why. maybe i was (am) just too tired. or lazy.
but before i forget (again), i'll put on record that i finally was able to cook white chicken the right way and have discovered a very good recipe for noodle broth, hehe.. all those nights watching asian food channel paid finally off, hehe.. now if only i can discover how to cook good squid and shrimp dishes with no fuss..
been through quite a lot for the past weeks. just last week, i finished the teen negosyo magazine for this year, which again, as usual, caused me a lot of stress and lack of sleep. then, the supposed book projects i had turned topsy turvy. i turned from a supposed book author to a book editor to a book project coordinator. i don't mind the seeming demotions, but the thing is, i'm still unsure of what i'm supposed to do and i'm still not getting paid. my transportation and communication costs (for meetings, coordination) is getting quite big and no amount of money's tolerable when there's inflation.
speaking of inflation, i'm really, really, really affected by the rising prices. i even walk some two kilometers now just to save a a ride's cost. i took a week relaxing after my thesis defense and i used to just eat chicken from jollibee every afternoon and for the month i did that, chickenjoy's price rose from P99 to P103 to P106 and in just two weeks! not to mention the chicken pieces got smaller and the batter's consistency got worse.
anyway, i'm off to singapore this weekend. my thesis got accepted for presentation at the national university of singapore and it's gonna be all expense paid of course. i can't afford to go there even if i wanted to. i'd also be presenting in the international conference of philippine studies this week (on thursday, actually), but it's just going to be in quezon city. it's gonna be the same paper and i'd like to think that these opportunities are some sort of a redemption for my paper, hehe.. i've kinda accepted the fact that i'm only graduating cum laude, but i'm still not over the possibility that i could have graduated magna had my panelists been qualitative reseachers. sigh..
it's a good thing ma'am imee (my former boss at pce and gem) was more than willing to help me on my first trip abroad. she even volunteered to make some callling cards for my trip. i know i would need some when i mingle with other researchers, but i was really anxious on what i should place. ab said i couldn't say i'm affiliated with them and i just finished my graduate schooling so i can't use gs too. but ma'am imee said i could just put editorial consultant or something since i actually do those things freelance. she also asked one of her export managers to lend me a suit and luggage so that's less worry and cost, hehe..
she told me that she made cards for her son, who was now into photography. she said her son might as well start a freelance thing or probably a business and even got his cards branded with a name for recall. i know i would love running a business of my own, but even though i have been exposed to a lot of entrepreneuship stuff, i purposedly stayed away from starting my own business. i thought that even if i know i could do it, it's not the career for me in the long run.
but with no stable source of income now coupled with inflation, i'm really considering of formalizing my freelance work into some consultancy business of my own, or something like that. i think i do have enough experience and works done to call myself an editorial consultant. we'll see..
i've got many things to blog about, actually and much as i want to log them in now, i'm pressed for time. my schedule got delayed because of deadline kinks (like two weeks late!) in doing the teen negosyo magazine, so i'm supposed to be fixing up my conference presentations just now. plus, i've got an essay on democratization to write. |
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