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.

Basic Photography Seminar

Basic Photography Seminar
by Photographer's Club of Tarlac
February 5, 2011
Museo de Tarlac
Total number of attendees: 64
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/photographerscluboftarlac?v=info

PCT Personalities
1- Ian G. - 0922 872 03 52
2- Mykie - 0917 835 07 18
3- Dax S., the PRO

Types of Cameras:
1- Point & Shoot
2- Consumer
3- DSLR

I. Proper Camera Handling


II. Basic Camera Parts & Controls

III. ISO - the amount of light that the sensor sees.
decrease in number = less sensitive to light
increase in number = dark situations

Four point checklist
1- Light
2- Grain
3- Tripod
4- Moving Subject

ISO Range
100 - sunny (effect: less grainy)
200 - cloudy (effect: less grainy)
400 - overcast/indoor (effect: less grainy)
800 - indoor/night (effect: average grain)
1600 - indoor/night (effect: more grainy)
32000 - indoor/night (effect: more grainy)
64000 - indoor/night (effect: more grainy)

Increase ISO settings during
a. Indoor Sports
b. Concert
c. Art Galleries
d. Churches
e. Birthday Parties

IV. White Balance



V. Aperture - the size of a lens opening
f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8...f/22

Tip:
Ap priority uses the largest Ap possible.
Bokeh - is the blur, or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light."


VI. DoF or Depth of Field

a. Shallow DoF
- Big opening (f/2.8 to f/8)
- close to your subject (zoom in)
- macro lens

b. Deep DoF
- small opening (f/11 to f/32)
- wide angle lens

VII. Shutter Speed - the amount of time the shutter is open

To freeze motion - 1/2000 to 1/3000

To show motion - ?

Tip:
To lessen the camera shake, use 1/Focal Length e.g. 1/18 to 1/105
If with VR, use 3 stops.
For long exposures, use bulb settings



VIII. Metering
Review on Metering.

IX. Histogram
1- Heavy on right means overexposed.
2- Center means Average (ideal output)
3- Heavy on left means underexposed.


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Mandarin Lessons, Take Two

After 6 months in hiatus, I've started attending Mandarin (Chinese) lessons again. The lessons had to stop because of unexpected changes in my life. So unexpected that I'm still trying to cope up with the loss. I reckon I already paid 25% of the total enrollment fee amounting to P3,500 for 21 hours. The school is called Luke and Wendy's Language school located in Legaspi Village. It's about a 15 minute walk from our office in Salcedo Village. Better to walk than take the car becasue of the traffic, if you have the energy to do so.

LAO TZE
My new teacher is a Chinese native. The real one, probably born in mainland China. Not like me, a fake Chinese, with strong Chi physical features but don't speak a word of Chinese, that is before attending Mandarin class. Lao Tze's name is Iris. She gave me her Chinese name but it didn't register in my mind. I was surprised to attend her 3rd session because I was just warming up my seat when she already gave a seatwork!

YI-ER-SAN-ZI-WU (1-2-3-4-5)
We were supposed to study numbers yesterday but she was not around so classes had to be cancelled. I just wish they texted me so I didn't have to go to school. I saw a classmate, a white female who's name I learned was Natalie. I have 5 more classmates so this should be fun!

There are 7 more sessions to go and I'm hoping to learn more basic Mandarin words and phrases. The whole Mandarin course consists of 6 modules and I shall assess after the first module if I should proceed further. This is exciting. It's actually a breather for me as well as a for of networking.

Ilocano 101

Ti ayat ti masya nga baro

Ken balasang nataina

Uray man uray man uray man

Haan unay nga nadonya

The lyrics came from the Eraserheads hit song titled Toyang. One paragraph of the song is in Ilocano and not sure what it exactly means. Here are some of the Ilocano words that I learned:

Greetings

Naimbag nga malen - Good Morning

Naimbag na adlaw - Good Afternoon

Naimbag nga rabii - Good Evening

Courtesy

Agngina ak la unay - Maraming Salamat

Intayon mangan - Halika na kumain

Pasensya kayon apo - Pasensya na po

Basic Questions

Anya iti nagan mo? - What is your name?

Manu iti tawen mon? - How old are you?

Paggigyan nam? - Where do you live?

Directions

Idiay - Doon

Ditoy - Dito

Dita - Diyan

It would be good to learn a new dialect aside from Tagalog and Kapampangan. Learning Ilocano completes the three dialects that the province of Tarlac uses. This would be a good preparation for my ambition in life - to join Tarlac's political foray.

Ni Hao Mandarin

Yi. Er. San. Si. Wu! Countdown 10 days before my Mandarin classes start at Luke and Wendy’s Language School in Legaspi Village, Makati. Since Y2004 after my life changing thyroidectomy, I’ve wanted to learn to speak Chinese. I bought a Learn Chinese PC CD but I actually haven’t touched it yet so it’s just a waste of resource.

Life changing.
The thyroidectomy was life changing literally and figuratively. When I learned that after the surgery, I would be on medication for the rest of my life, I was extremely sad and in fact was very emotional. Imagine a person like me who hates taking meds and now I have to take it daily forever is a tough pill to swallow. The doctor who took care of me during the operation was Dr. Ang of St. Luke’s. Obviously he was Chinese, spoke to me in Chinese and said that I should learn to speak Chinese so here I am.

Awni Na.
I’ve been shopping around Makati for a good and reasonable school and I’ve learned of Berlitz which charges P7,500 and Speak and Write which charges P4,800. Finally, I saw an ad for Luke and Wendy’s Language school for P3,500 for 30 units. Classes is during Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:00 to 8:00PM and a 20 minute walk from our office. The class size is 6 students and one of the students is a fellow Kapampangan, good friend and officemate. That makes it more interesting as I get to practice the language with him. By the way, Awni Na is “here goes” in Kapampangan.

Three more words.
It’s Ni Hao (Hello) to Mandarin class on March 24, Zai-Jian (good bye) to this blog entry but not before I say Sheng-r Kuai le (Happy Birthday) to myself!

Imaging by Olen Lim

I love attending seminars. More than the organization that you work for, a seminar increases an individual’s self worth especially if you religiously apply what you learned years after the seminar was conducted. Like change, education is one thing that’s constant in the world that we live in. I’ve attended a number of company sponsored seminars this year and one of the best would be the Professional Image Management Seminar conducted by quintessential Olen Juarez – Lim. Apparently, Ms. O has mastered the art of balancing between driving a point and delivering it on a funny note without sounding too offensive. This blog entry would be insufficient to detail what I learned however I’d like to highlight some points which I will value eternally. This entry will also serve as my constant reminder:

I. Standards:
1. Competitive
2. Helpful
3. Respectful

For easier recall, I used the acronym C.H.R. for Commission on Human Rights or CHR 252, the plate number of my parent’s former ride. In the standards lingo set by Ms. O, C.H.R. for me means Competitive, Helpful and Respectful. She said that consistency is a standard below which you will never fall. I will or actually have started to live my life based on these standards especially Competitive and Respectful. The model region award 3-peat is a testament to my competitive spirit. On being respectful, I live by the golden rule and treat everybody just as how I’d like to be treated. I need to work on being helpful as I’m not foreseen by others as Helpful although this is one of the standards that I’d like to live by eternally. The Helpfulness factor will be an asset eventually when I join the crazy world of politics once I retire from the corporate life.

II. The Art of Conversation
Small talk reminds me of an article I read in a magazine written by Larry King which reads “How to talk to anyone anywhere” in which he gives tips on how to engage in a conversation at a snap of a finger. He says the key is having a common denominator or a connection. In Ms. O’s version, she sets some guidelines like what to discuss and what to avoid. It goes without saying that the topic should be an interesting one to keep the discussion continuous. I thought I was already a master of small talk, being a self assessed amicable person who believes can talk to anybody, if I’m in the mood.

I was able to practice what I learned immediately the evening succeeding the day 2 during our department’s Christmas party at Temple Bar Greenbelt. Our special guest was no less than the company president and our department’s big boss asked me to assist her in entertaining Sir NN. The PLxx – SMT prexy loves his mean machines and I learned that his new baby is a Porsche Carrera S and that he had sold his BMW Z4 via Buy and Sell magazine. Oh so he’s mortal after all and sells via everybody’s fave magazine. I was aching to ask how much he sold the Z4 and how much he got the 996 but I remember what Ms. O taught us.

III. The Business Meal

I’d like to believe that my dining etiquette is not set at zero and I have my parents to thank for that. When we were growing up, they though me basic dining etiquette like: elbows off the table, spoon and fork on four o’ clock after eating, bread should be eaten bit by bit, soup should be scooped away from you and how to how to undress a shrimp. I wish my father taught me how to undress other living things. I had to learn it the hard way. :)

Purely based on recall (as I forgot my notes in Makati), here’s what I learned during the seminar: BMW in dining ethics means Bread on the left, Meal on the center and Water on the right, how to hold wine or champagne glass, European or American style of dining, table napkin discipline, how to eat pasta and where to place your hands. Again my father missed this part. :)

When my children are in their teens and Ms. O is still doing what she does best, we will make sure to enroll them in her class. So Miss O (not Olim or Golen as one of my manager friends christened her), if you are reading this blog entry, words are not enough to express how grateful I am for the lessons that I learned in your class. My pledge of allegiance would be to practice what you taught us and act as a police to my classmates.