Last Saturday, September 29, 2007, twenty two Engineering students and two faculties went to 
Still in school...
This is how a cooking oil bottle looks like originally...
This is a machine where the cooking oil bottle is being formed.
A cooking oil bottle...
Souvenir...
Souvenir...
Souvenir...
Engkantadia as background... :DWe were all given the chance to encounter different kinds of teachers. There are the “biased” teachers who don’t grade you based on your intellectual capabilities. But rather, they base the grade on how they favor the student. And I hate those because effort is very useless if not well-compensated. There are also the “friend-friend” teachers who are friendly inside and outside the classroom. They are too friendly that they don’t teach efficiently anymore but all their students pass. There are the “professional-professional” teachers who don’t care who or what you are. They teach and record the exam results as is. They don’t bother to look at the percentage of their passing students. They are just in school to do their job as a teacher and let the students do their part and they maintain their status as teachers inside or outside the classroom. There are those teachers who are “professional-friend”. They are those who are very good in teaching and make sure their students really learn, but suddenly transforming into an ordinary person outside the classroom. They are the ones whom we can discuss our non-academically related things in life. Traits of the last kind should be developed among all teachers, because it is a way of making themselves a well-rounded individual.
This evening I went out with Gen. Our agenda: buy grocery, internet café, and dinner. We first went to Rustan’s because there is an internet café, grocery store, and we can eat dinner there. The internet café was full when we came so we decided to guy grocery first then come back later. When we came back after buying our stuff, there was still no available slot so we decided to go to Paseo instead. We went to Paseo with our heavy grocery. Gen suggested that we go to Neospot. After Neospot, we went to
My dessert... :)
The term is “step up voltage.” There us no definition in the dictionary about this term as a whole. But there is a definition of “step up” and “voltage” separately. Step up is a verb meaning to increase especially in stages. Voltage is an Electromotive force or potential difference usually expressed in volts. “Step up voltage” is used in the electrical field.
The step up voltage of an appliance is the voltage when it was switched on. An example is that air-conditioning units should not be turned off and on if the vacant time is less than two hours because there’s a step up voltage before the voltage is stabilized. It means that the step up voltage is different from the voltage of an appliance. All appliances have step up voltage and it consumes more current thus resulting to higher power consumption. It is advisable that appliances should not be frequently switched off and in to avoid step up voltage. This can also help us conserve energy.
Late this afternoon, some friends and I went to isawan at
We went to DLSU-M and CSB yesterday to have a meeting with their Student Council Presidents and Student Organizations Chairperson. We talked about their dress code, their policy on public display of physical intimacy, and other discipline-related things. We also talked about on how the SC and Student Organizations are separated. They said that they are two separate bodies which have different specific role in their respective school. They were very clear on how they are separated so as not to have overlapping. It is really a good opportunity that we went there because we were able to learn that SC and Student Organizations are two different councils which are under the Students’ Affairs Office.
How am I as a listener…? Some may say that it is just a simple question… But I cannot answer that easily. I’ve learned that there are certain kinds of listener. These are static, monotonous feedback giver, overly expressive, reader/writer, eye avoider, pre-occupied, waiting, and thought completing. Static seems like a no-reaction listener. I am not that kind. A monotonous feedback giver has same reactions to whatever he/she heard. I am also not that kind. An overly expressive is really expressive with his/her emotions that can sometimes be identified as exaggeration. I am sometimes like that especially when I am mad. I am really mad if I am mad. :) A reader/writer is a listener who writes everything. I don’t think that’s possible to write everything in full words not unless that person knew how to do short-hand writing. I don’t like to write so I am not that kind. An eye avoider is a person who avoids eye contact. I do practice eye contact with people but I am not good at it. Pre-occupied… Hmmmm… I don’t think I am a pre-occupied listener because if someone wanted to talk to me, I have to stop whatever I was doing to listen. If one sees me talking to somebody and I am doing another thing, I am not really listening. It just looks like it. One may think that I am actually listening but I am not. If I am doing both things at the same time, my focus is on what I am doing and not listening. :) Hehehehe…Waiting listeners are people who just wait for the cue that it’s their turn to speak. I am not like that because I don’t even like speaking especially in front of an audience.
Honestly, I am an attentive listener but I have low listening comprehension. Therefore I should think of ways on how to improve my listening comprehension.
