Integration of Social Class and Age Range

Version 1

Age Range/Social Class	D	C2	ABC1	TTL
50 and above	9%	8%	2%	19%
40 – 49	10%	9%	2%	21%
30 – 39	14%	13%	3%	30%
18 – 29	14%	13%	3%	30%
TTL	47%	43%	10%	100%

Version 2

Age Range/Social Class	D	C2	ABC1	TTL
50 and above	47%	42%	11%	100%
40 – 49	48%	43%	9%	100%
30 – 39	47%	43%	10%	100%
18 – 29	47%	43%	10%	100%
TTL	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Just playing around with the figures.

If 25 year old reached 60 today

If 25 year old reached 60 today...

63% will be broke

27% will be dead

5% still need to work

4% will be financially independent

1% will be wealthy

- Salve Dupito

So I am in the midway point between 60 & 25 and so far I belong to the bottom 10%. I hope to be part of the 5% when I reach 60 y.o. The goal is 45 by 55.   

PANALO ANG PERSONALITY

Source: image from wikipedia

I first learned of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator in the early 2000 in a company culture building activity. The MBTI was developed by a mother and daughter tandem of amateur psychologist Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. They were inspired by the works of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung.

Over the weekend, I reviewed the materials online on the MBTI and discovered two interesting references: watchwellcast.com and  typefinder.com. 

Guide Questions:
(1) Are you outward or inward focused? Extravert or Introvert?
(2) How do you prefer to take in information? Sensing or INtuition?
(3) How do you prefer to make decisions? Thinking or Feeling?
(4) How do you prefer to live your outer life? Judging or Percieving?

REFERENCES:

Click to watch watchwellcast

Click to watch typefinder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQoOqQiVzwQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHSZ3_VMgjU

Now putting this renewed learning into action, these are my assessment of selected family, officemates and friends:

FAMILY

DSL = ISTJ

CSL = INTJ

JPL = ESFP

JML = ISFJ

B5 = INTJ

MC = ESTP

OFFICEMATES

All Star A = ISTJ

Radar R = ISTJ

Whopping W = ESTJ

Poging P = ESFP

FRIENDS

UAT = ENFP

PNJ = ISTJ

CTR = ESTP

DGT =ESFP

Just a qualifier: these are my personal assessment hence I may be wrong depending on how well I know the person.

HOMECOMING: TEN FIRSTS

Our high school grand alumni homecoming (GAH) hosting chore as silver jubilarians was 5 months ago. After almost a year of preparation, we can now breathe a sigh of relief and claim that we have homecoming preparation experience on our belts. Not wanting to regress from the norm, we had the usual female hosts, entertainers, lechon baka, audio-video presentations and the LED screen.

We have to hand it to our big brothers in batch 88 as they set a number of standards which were actually hard to topple but made us actually do better and work harder. They were the first to use LED screen, an efficient parking management, de kalidad na lights & sound and 80s rock band the Dawn (need I say more?).

In the spirit of healthy competition, this is how I summarize the top 10 homecoming highlights of our batch:

Website.

The GAH’s url is www.dbtarlac89.com. It contains live blog, what's new, videos and pictures, sponsor, registration. As of this writing, it is still up and will be until December this year unless we decide to burn P500 a year for sentimental reasons and keep the site. This amateur-ly done website was completed in under 2 weeks at 20% of the originally budgeted cost.

Data Base Management system.

So this is actually legacy material. I actually think we were not only the first to delivery this in our hometown school but the first country-wide. While it was donated by an alumnus related to me, he could have donated it during his batch homecoming but as fate has it, it was donated during our time.  

   

On line registration.

As a supplement to the dbase management system, we offered an on line registration process. Though it was “fake” in a way because the web registration and the dbase management system was not linked, a work around was put in place and a registrant will not know that the process is “auto-manual.” In addition, a prize was given daily to online registrants. The beauty of this is you avoid the long lines on homecoming day because you’re already pre-registered. 

Video Avatar.

We had a Homecoming Survival guide image file which was actually a summary of tips and reminders when attending the homecoming such as not instigating a beer bath, parking, registration, et al. As a supplement, we included a text-to-speech program where an avatar was verbalizing the homecoming survival guide. I couldn’t say it was effective but the technology was there, simple to do and just could not pass on the opportunity to use it and claim to be the first to use the technology.  

Social Media team.  

We hired a “social media team” composed of 5 techy individuals with photography skills, journal writing skills and part of a university school paper.  It was a very young team (youngest was 18 and oldest was about 25) who had the right skills and experience and led by an able leader who was the university school paper editor-in-chief. I am happy with their output. The handled the live blog via blogger, social media updates through facebook & twitter. All this at 1/3 the cost if we hired professionals.   

Short video.

The audio video presentation was created by a company owned by our batchmate. So that really helped make the output something to be proud and at a very reasonable cost. The video entitled “The Promise” was like a short story matched with the homecoming program. The main characters were selected batchmates and the “mastermind” was no less that our beloved principal during our time. One of the alumni association officials said and I quote “the best AVP so far.”  Pls. click here to watch the video.

Personalized Misalette.

Having been educated in a private Catholic school, it was just fitting to start the homecoming with a Eucharistic celebration. We left no stones unturned and this included the mass preparation i.e. collectors, readers, a line up of salesian priests and our priest batchmate, a choir and most especially, a personalized misalette.

High School Uniform.

One of the best ideas that cropped up during the brainstorming session was to wear the high school uniform. The last time I wore that uniform was a quarter of a century ago and I didn’t mind wearing it again on our special day. We probably would wear that again 25 yrs. from now if I will still be alive by then.  

Highest recorded batch attendees.

Our database contains around 150 students from our batch. Given that 84 attended the homecoming means 56% of our batchmates were present.  To think that 26% (around 39 persons) are based abroad and almost 20% are either missing in action or gone to eternal life. In the 2013 homecoming, the host batch had 51 batchmates who attended their homecoming while we had 52 attendees.

Regulated beer.

Unfortunately, despite the top nine above mentioned firsts by our batch, we might be remembered as the first batch who offered regulated beer. Our batchmates agreed and with the blessing of the school officials and the alumni association, that we will limit the booze to 3 per homecoming attendee. I really hope I am wrong and we be judged on the homecoming’s overall result. 

I reckon some of the items written here are arguable buy hey, this is my blogsite so I can write what I want as long as I can justify it.

DAMA IN DAEJEON

It started with my bucket wish list that needed to be checked. Riding a bullet train has always been a lifelong dream. This should have been checked in 2010 courtesy of Shinkansen (japan express rail) but I just couldn't justify the p100k expense.

So the KTX opportunity came during our latest trip. Originally, the plan was to exit Sokor through Busan. But the travel time was longer, fare was more expensive and not much to see in Busan (compared to Seoul) so we settled with Daejeon. There was not much to see either in Daejeon but fare was cheaper.

So we were in Daejon in day 3 of our tour. The ride from Seoul to Daejeon was abt 1 hour with speeds reaching 305 kph. As expected, there was not much to see in Daejeon so we settled with Hanbat Museum of Education. It was a memorable experience though since I had a chance to play dama (checkers) with B5. After 3 games and almost 2 hours, the score was tied 1 – 1 with the 3^rd game going to a draw.

We would do that trip and adventure anytime again. 

SOJOURN IN SOKOR

As long as budget permits, DyLac and family will not stop exploring. Now as we gain experience in travelling, the factor per person per day should decrease. That is the challenge. Here is a journal of the family’s 8^th country.   

Day 1, April 8 – Manila to Incheon

·         Air Travel from Manila to Incheon via Jeju Air.

·         We left MNL at 11:30PM Tues and arrived in ICN Wed at 5:30AM.

References:

www.joinenjoy.com.ph

www.jejuairph.com

www.hotels.com

Day 2,  April 9 – A World Heritage site

·         Upon arrival at ICN, the first order of the day was to buy a T-MONEY card for our transportation needs. 

·         Breakfast was in McDo, Seoul Central Station.

·         After discovering the location of our hotel, we left our things at KPOP Guesthouse conveniently located near Seoul Station (Exit 11). Savings was:

·         Our first and only World Heritage Site visit in Sokor was the Changdeokgung Palace.

·         Next up was a visit to Myeongdong shopping area where we had late lunch. Believe it or not, we were so tired that we had a quick sleep in the resto.  

·         The tour guide for the day was DyLac.

References:

http://eng.t-money.co.kr/

http://ss.kpophouse.co.kr/

http://eng.cdg.go.kr/main/main.htm

Day 3 April 10 – Run DMZ.

·         Imjingak park

·         3^rd tunnel, 300 meter walk down and incline and 300 meter horizontal walk. The end of the tunnel was 170 meters from North Korea.

·         Dora Observatory

·         Dorasan Station

·         Ginseng factory

·         Seoul City Hall

·         Lunch was at KFC near Seoul City Hall.

·         Deoksugung Palace

·         Seoul Plaza

·         Cheonggye Plaza

·         Cheonggyecheon Stream

·         Starbucks for my wife’s 8th coffee cup

·         The tour guide for the day was Patrick.

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone

http://www.deoksugung.go.kr/index.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonggyecheon

Day 4 April 11 – KTX

·         KTX 123 from Seoul to Daejeon, track 13, car 17, seat #s 4A to 4D, 930AM, 4-11-2014 worth 67800 won RT.

·         Hanbat Museum of Education

·         KTX 144 from Daejeon to Seoul, track 15, car 14, seat #s 6A to 6D, 352PM, 4-11-2014.

·         World Trick Museum at Myeongdong

·         The tour guide for the day was DyLac.

References:

http://www.korail.com/en/

http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=1853439 

Day 5 April 12 – Nami Island

·         Nami Island

·         Petite France

·         Coex Aquarium & Coex Mall in Gangnam.

·         We had to brave the 14 stations from Seoul to Samseoung in Gangnam.

·         The tour guide for the day was Jun.

References:

http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=1853439

http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=815994

http://www.coexaqua.co.kr/

Day 6 April 13 – Lotte World Adventure

·         We heard mass at Myeongdong Catholic Cathedral at 11AM. The mass was in Korean.

·         Picture picture in N Seoul Tower entrance.

·         Short Stop at Gangnam station.

·         Lunch was at Friday’s in Lotte Mall.

·         Dinner was in McDo Seoul Central Station. A quarter pounder cost P270 compared to P152 in Ph.

·         The tour guide for the day was Dylan.

References:

http://www.lotteworld.com/ 

Day 7 April 14 – Hangang River Cruise

·         After checking out early at the hotel, we went to Yeioudo.

·         We rode the E-Land Cruise which took us from Yeouido to Yangwa and back. The views include Hangangcheolgyo Bridge, Seogangdaegyo Bridge and Bamseom  Islet, which is a habitat for migratory birds.

·         The tour guide for the day was Dylan.

References:

http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=266932

After almost 7 days, we were back to reality. And like the eighties song says, there’s no place like home.