President' s SONA on HRM

Last July 28, 2008, President Gloria- Macapagal Arroyo gave off her State of the Nation Address (SONA). Her SONA was televised in every local channel in the country but honestly, I didn't got the chance to watch it live because I was at school. I also arrived home late and so I didn't had the chance to watch the news. Well, so much for excuses, right.? Well, I just read the President's SONA letter and watched it in the net so that I could answer to this topic. Jejeje

From what I read and heard, I picked out three comments that the president said that have a direct relation to Human Resource Management in the country.

In portion of her speech, she expressed gratitude to certain sectors like GSIS, Pag-Ibig, SSS and some employers. Why.? Because these institutions made changes or should I say developments to their programs and services that would benefit human resource.

According to the president, “employers have funded the two increases in SSS benefits since 2005”. She also said that, “GSIS pensions have been indexed to inflation and have increased every year since 2001. Its salary loan availments have increased from two months equivalent to 10 months, the highest of any system public or private—while repayments have been stretched out.”

“Dapat dagdagan ng GSIS at buksan muli ng SSS ang pautang sa pabahay. I ask Congress to pass a bill allowing SSS to do housing loans beyond the present 10% limitation. “, said President Arroyo.

With such things going on, and more benefits to be expected, we can expect that the human resource will be more eager to work and be more at ease in working, for now they have a chance to have easier loan availments for housing and increased benefits.

Another things that she said was that, “Our P 350 million training partnership with the private sector should qualify 60,000 for call centers, medical transcription, animation and software development, which have a projected demand of one million workers generating $13 billion by 2010. “. High number of work projection, we can expect that a lot of human resource now can have the chance to find and have a job especially in information technology or computer related jobs like those that she mentioned above.

The president also mentioned about certain training that the government sponsored for its human resource. She mentioned that the number of people who joined such trainings (for technical and vocational courses) doubled in number. From its 7.74 million trainees, it has now reached 14 million in number. With such vast number of human resource being trained,we can say that this will benefit not only those individual's but also the economy and the country, with this project having produced more experienced and competent human resource.

from Killeres to Rubicks Cuberz.!!

My mom always tell me that even though I am already in my college (supposedly grown-up) years I still act like a grade schooler. Well, ma, the people you see above are the people who are responsible for my childish ways. Joke.!! haha.

Well, even though my mom makes that comment sound like an insult, I always take it as a compliment because I am childish, and I love it, especially now that I have a group of friends whose "wavelength" in terms of having fun is the same as mine.

When I was in first year college, my friends and I can be always be seen carrying a rubik's cube. We learned of different patterns to solve it or do different designs from it. Later on, the cube mania faded away and a new breed of legos and puzzles were our past time games.

On our second year, we were playing the "anagram game". It’s a game where we twist some words and make the others guess what the correct original word is. Example: Oh.! Draconian devil. Output: Leonardo da Vinci (from the Da Vinci Code).

On our third year, most of us were already playing on line games. It was a bit sad because we weren't able to play as a group but it was fun when we compare what levels are we now or on what things we already bought in the game.

On our fourth year(sadly, its not our last year yet), we were playing the "Killer Game". We pick out a piece of paper where certain roles were written. Most of the time, I pick out the "mongoloid" role. hahaha.!! Anyways, if you pick the killer, you are supposed to wink at the other people without being caught by the police. If you picked out the police, you must not be winked by the killer or else your out of the game. You are also the one responsible for arresting the killer. If your the doctor, you must blow a flying kiss to the people who got winked/ killed by the killer. THe other roles are just the pawns, the ones who are going to get killed or healed. jejeje

We have other games like Otso-otso, marco polo, act-out, and IQ games kuno like the Music Room game, the 12345 game (of which we challenged 3 of our professors to solve it) and many more.

The past week, we played hide and seek at the ground floor of the Engineering building, and the other day we played "soccer (daw.!!)" using a ball made of styrofoam. It was all fun. Even though, we all got dirty, stinky and wet, at least we had fun.

Being in college really doesn't mean that we start being all grown-up and serious in life because if we do, we end up getting crazy. It doesn't mean that we always need to be this prim and proper people who always study because sometimes we just need to go out there and get dirty, play and forget about age and etiquette, only on some occasions though. jejeje.!!

Playing these silly games with my friends doesn't only make me smile but it also adds a lot of fun memories to my thoughts.

And now, we are back to where it all began, to the rubik's cube. We are playing it again, with new patterns to discover jejeje. I wonder what will be the next games to play.!! Love you guys. Melon.!

Internet Connection: Sooooo Slowwww

In my four (and still counting) years spent in this university, I noticed that some things haven't changed a bit. The problems that I encountered from the first time I used the “nodal” facilities until now, still exists.

If I am to be a consultant for the university, I would first address all the problems at hand, so that I could give an attention for looking its supposed solutions.

Upon using the computers, the first thing one would notice is that the Internet Connection is so slow. True, that they have just increased the bandwidth allocation so as to make the connection faster than before, but in reality, as Kate would describe it, the Internet connection is still turtle paced. The supposed improvements still can't b felt. As a colleague would describe it, imagine that the present bandwidth allocation is divided into six panels, with the increased bandwidth allocation, lets say that another 2 panels have been added. Yet, when the connection is used only two panels are used up(for unknown reasons). In other words, the only a portion of the connection was used up.

Second, is the faulty and old aged hardware. I think that the problem discussed above was a result from faulty hardware. Because of the faulty hardware, computer processes and the Internet connection are affected. Computer processing abilities are very slow.

Third, a vast number and kinds of viruses exists in the computers in the lab, mind you there are virus scanners installed in each computer, but sadly its not updated which leads to making the computer vulnerable to viruses. Viruses affect computer performance thus affecting internet connection.

Solution:

If on a strict budget:

Just be sure to update all the virus scanners and orient the students how to use it well. As for the Internet connection, we can use FOSS Internet speed boosters that can accelerate internet speed connection

If there is a proper budget:

Purchase new computers with higher processing and memory. Like a duo core computer. Having such computers can result to faster computer reaction. Also like in the solution above, we ca use internet boosters to optimize our internet connection. Internet Accelerator works to decrease page load times and optimize your Internet connection. It improves various configuration settings that directly affect your network and Internet connection speed.