Conquering Roles, Conquering Fears

It's still clear on my mind how I was preparing for two events at the same time.  I remembered how I adjust my sleeping patterns, my acads workload, and the meetings for each event just to meet my responsibilities in both organizing teams.

Both of the projects started the planning phase at the same time (some time around late May).  These two events are the AIESEC Philippines' Experience Conference (XPCon) and Ateneo MISA's First General Assembly (1st GA).  I was the OCVP for Public Relations for the XPCon and the Project Director of the 1st GA.

*WARNING*
This is a really long post due to photos attached. This post consists of my own thoughts about the topic.

I Don't Know What Title to Put Here

It's been a month since I posted an entry here. Not that I'm really busy but I can't think of something to post here.

So, today is Mother's Day!

Happy Mothers' Day, mom! 

On the other note, I really miss my students in Alay Ni Ignacio.  I only managed to teach for one week and I miss teaching already.  There are times when I go to their classes just to say hi to my students.  As their graduation goes near,

HAHAHA I'm so bored...

I was trying to do a "point the camera" pose...but my photographer took a shot already -_- Fail pose

So, for the remaining months, I'll be working as a part of the OC team for AIESEC PHes XPCon.  This is the first time I'll be working in the MC level and as a part of the OC of a conference (Yes...we love conferences!). I'm so excited about this.  Also, I am the project head of MISA First General Assembly and I have plans already in my head and I hope this went well. Wish me luck~

Comments? :D

Hmm..This is Kinda Weird

Hello everyone!

Today is the last day for us, running a position in the Executive Board in MISA, to campaign for ourselves (duh?!)

Next week will be MISA's Voting Period and also, it's the voting period for the Sanggunian as well. Goodluck to all the candidates! :D

Just this morning, my sleep was disturbed by a message beep from my phone.  I received a message from a friend telling that my campaign material is in the Crystal Eagle (and how he described the blog is that it is a hate blog that entertains him LOL).  Anyway, so here's the catch.  I have a post here about my conversation with Cate Sison, which was used as a source by this Crystal Eagle.  Am I even that reliable to be used as a source?  This blog is to share my personal opinions.  If Crystal Eagle concluded that Cate is a user through my post, I think there is something wrong with that.

I, in any way, is not related with Crystal Eagle.  Perhaps, her stalking skills are DAMN LEVEL ASIAN that she reached my little world (blog).  I have nothing against her posts, neither praises to her posts.  And to have my campaign material, which eventually turned to be my header for this blog, posted there has no reason at all. Not to have many hits, not to gain fame, and most especially, not to campaign for myself.

Well, I must have been paranoid when my friend told me about this. C'mon! Wouldn't you be paranoid if that's the first thing you meet in the morning? LOL

Anyway, the only positive thing I see here is that my hits went up (hurrah!).  However, I think they just went here because of Crystal Eagle's reference. :))

It seems that we have an Ateneo Gossip Girl here :))

P.S. I'm going to change my banner again tonight since we are not allowed to campaign anymore this week ;)

Comments? :D

My Niche

Hello everyone! What's up with you guys?

So yesterday (January 11) was really a hell day for me. I had appointments, including classes, from 10:30 AM up to 6PM.  Seriously, no breaks at all.

Thanks Den for having the individual consultation at caf! :D

So the title goes "My Niche." It describes my exploration for this week, discovering my real niche in my organization, MISA.

Executive board elections are coming and I'm planning to run for one of the vice presidents of the organization.  However, I really cannot find which position I should run.  I'll relay them here:

1.) Vice President for Finance & Marketing

Context: Basically, Finance & Marketing (F&M) cluster is the one manages all money inflows from sponsorships and fundraisers.  Currently, I am the Associate Vice President for Financial Development under this cluster. I oversee the fund raising activities of MISA.  As of this year, we have implemented three: MISA Shirts (Wave 1) during the COA Recruitment Week, MISA Raffle and Shirt Design Contest (MISA Shirt Wave 2) are currently ongoing.

Reason for choosing the position:  I know the internal operations of the cluster so I assure that I can manage the cluster.  It won't be difficult since I came from the cluster itself.  I also want to increase the fundraising state of the organization, since sponsorships have been good this year.  I also want to provide the members intensive training

Apprehensions on running: I know I can do the job, but I'm thinking that the other person running for the position is more capable than me.  He/She knows more on sponsorships and I think he/she won't do bad on overseeing the fundraisers since it's more on project management.  I don't want to stop the good trend our current vice president has started.

2.) Treasurer
Context: The Office of the Treasury, in contrast to the F&M Cluster, manages the money outflows to keep the organization's operations going.

Reason for choosing the position: Since summer, the Council of Organizations of the Ateneo has been giving trainings to organizations for the presidents, HR, Finance, and Projects.  Their training for finance is a mix of budgeting, risk management, meeting financial operations of the school, and fundraising.  I've been learning these stuff from trainings and even from other organizations.

Apprehensions on running: I really don't have intensive experience with managing money outflows.  I have one but it's not too serious.

3.) Vice President for Communications
Context: The Communications cluster takes care of the brand of MISA to internal and external stakeholders (except company partners) and manages the information dissemination within the organization.

Reason for choosing the position: I have been in the communications field in different organizations.  In AIESEC AdMU, I am under the Communications Department, which takes charge on brand management, information management, and public relations.  In my other organizations such as Alay Ni Ignacio and Sector Based Cluster Core Team, I do promotions that might fit in the event nature and target audience.  I have a wide network which I think would be very helpful in fulfilling this job.

Apprehensions on running: I have never been under Communications cluster of MISA, although I've learned common Communications processes from other organizations.  Also, I do not worry the thing that I do not have an idea of processes in the cluster since the current vice president won't be graduating yet so I have someone to consult to.

What do you think? Comments? :D