it’s over

my summer that is..

Goodbye to the lazy days and hello to notebooks, teachers, and messy schedules again. I’m not excited to go back to school. I don’t want to line up for enrollment and I don’t want to study yet. I’ll be on my Fourth Year now! Wow, I survived three years in IT. Not bad. Though I already have a stained record in my grades for flunking my first major subject, it’s okay.. I learned. [really?] Well anyway, this year is going to be tough. I witnessed how school life was for the people before our batch and I really feared this year to come. More project defenses, plus thesis, plus more defenses. More “overnights” which equates to more pimples and bigger eyebags. Noooooooooo! I don’t want to think about it yet!

To sum up my summer, saying that it was fun is an understatement. No beach and no Davao escapade this year but I enjoyed it. Everything was unplanned. From the company where I had my OJT, to the place I stayed in.

I had my OJT at Concentrix in Cagayan de Oro City. It’s a Call Center that supports Linksys products (routers, network adapters, etc). I was assigned in the Training Department – the somewhat academy where aspiring agents are, well, trained. Initially, there were only three of us OJTs assigned in our department, me, Leia (my classmate), and Rico (an IT student from Bukidnon) but a week later, we were joined by Rodel ( Rico’s classmate) who was transferred from the HR dept.

i realized we never had a picture with the 4 of us together.. this is our last pic on our last day. with sir weeb, our boss.

Our jobs? hmm.. pretty much IT-related like the reports and report updates, and of course troubleshooting computers, formatting and installing softwares. some “etc” duties are the endless photocopying of training handouts [with the very “jamming” photocopier of concentrix. haha.], setting up the things trainers need (devices, PCs, projectors) and in the afternoon, before we go home, fix them and put them back to their cabs. and who can forget the inventory of the almost 400+ devices of the laboratory!! dang! Give us a Linksys device and we can now tell the model number of that in seconds. hahaha!

But the most important part of our OJT was our mini-trainings thanks to our kind trainers. Our greatest advantage having our OJT in Concentrix was that we are exposed to a lot I mean A LOT of networking devices! Thus, in our free time, we can set up wired and wireless networks with the guidance of some trainers and being in the Training Dept, we are also like participating in their trainings.

our IDs for the Fun Day.. grabbed this photo from leia

Parokya ni Edgar. too bad hindi kami nakapapicture with them. again, i grabbed this pic from leia

We also got to attend the Family Fun Day of the company. There were contests, lots of free food, and a mini concert of the company’s bands and Parokya ni Edgar, yes Parokya ni Edgar. And everything was free! And speaking of parties, how lucky of us, many people in our department had their birthday’s on May and April. Almost everyweek we get together in the pantry with lots of food. haha.

the beautiful house where Leia and I stayed.. again, this is from leia. i never had a chance to take a picture of it. i always forget

The place where Leia and I stayed was in one of the most beautiful subdivisions in CDO. The houses there were big, grand, and just amazingly beautiful. Everytime we go hiking around the subdivision, we always get amazed by how nice it is to live there and we forget how tiring and stressful work is. Leia and I stayed at her cousin’s house who comes from a family of politicians. And again, our stay was free. hehe. Great thanks to Leia and her family and of course, the owner of the house, Ate Sana and her family.

i miss the beautiful sunset outside Concentrix after our long work days..

Sad to say, all things must come to an end. After a month and a week, we had to go home and bid our goodbyes to our OJT-mates, our bosses, and friends. On our last day, they prepared a little party for us. Even in the end, we still get lots of free food. haha! Despite the short period of time of OJT, i’m really thankful for the beautiful memories that I have of the whole OJT experience(good and bad). I will never forget this summer.

Were back in our normal lives now and tomorrow is June, which means we’ll be back in our school life. But the memories and the people we met will always be part of our lives. When I look back and think of this summer, I will definitely smile. Thanks for the whole OJT experience, esp. my travelmate, friend, officemate, and roommate, Leia, and of course, my financer, haha without whom I can’t go back and fort CDO and have my feeling-rich days, my dad!

Finally, Visual Studio has finished installing, now, I’ll get back to coding and preparing for a very late defense tomorrow. Back to reality and goodbye to my feeling-rich and fairy-tale-ish summer. 🙂 🙂

-darksphere

internship + school work + global recession

i have a lot of things in my mind right now. i am so worried about my internship. it’ll be february next week and that means i am running out of time in searching for companies to apply for OJT(on-the-job training)/internship. by march it should be finalized. i still need to go to Davao for our little vacation and of course to visit my grandma. i miss the Davao-life so much so i can’t miss that opportunity to visit before i start my OJT.

school’s boring me to death. i really hate my schedule. most of my classes are in the afternoon and it usually rains in the afternoon. so since i hate walking in the rain in the mud, sometimes i skip classes. fortunately, during my lazy days, our teachers don’t come to school also. haha. everything’s conspiring for my benefit eh? but what i hate more about my studies is that my teachers are not pressuring us. haha. i mean we still don’t have deadlines,  they are still not giving us hints that we’ll need to start sooner or else we’ll fail. ugh. i don’t understand them. i don’t want to panic when the end of the semester is nearing! is this some kind of a tactic against students? haha. i really need to start working on those requirements ASAP. as much as possible, i can’t let them win. haha

so Obama is now the 44th president of the United States. i honestly like him. he doesn’t only have the charisma that won him the presidency, but he has this vibe/feel that he really is someone very different from all the others. like anything he wants or orders, i won’t doubt if people will follow because majority knows it’s for the good of everybody. i really hope America will be able to counter this financial crisis so that the dependent economies will also recover. i am aware about this crisis since it started maybe but it was not THAT big of a deal to me before. i mean, i’m affected of the soaring high of prices but what i found out today really left me thinking deeply. then i started to panic. haha. i need to find a job. no i need to do better in my studies. ok i need at least a part-time job. but how about my scheduled overnights for our school requirements? hahaha. then.. silence.. i need to relax. haha things can sometimes go out of hand but God’s not gonna leave me. because of what i found out today, i realized that i need to set my priorities straight from now on. i think i discarded a lot of things that i should be mainly considering. maybe this is a way of reminding me what are practically more important.

-darksphere