News Broadcast : February 24

Nearly over : February 22

Sing a Song : February 19

Treats and Advice : February 17

Work work work work work : February 16

Loving IDC : February 15

TADA! Surprise : February 12

Paper works : February 10

News of the Day : February 9

                I came in a bit early today. I am happy that I was able to pass the road before the rush hour hit J  I started my day by doing my News of the day. This is a new task given to me by Sir Jubert last February 3. He instructed me to champion a newsletter-like report every day. Basically it was just a compilation of everyday news that I will gather from various news platform online. I already did a sample of this last Friday so I know what to do now.

                I searched for at least 15 news portals and filtered their news. I selected only those that are ICT related and also business related news that have relevance to IDC in some way.  After doing the newsletter I proceed to Ms.Angel and ask if she has something for me to do.

                Again the day went through just like that.

Happy Friday : February 5

It’s a long day for me because it’s Friday again. During Fridays I have to come in IDC at 11 am because I will be commuting from Ayala, where I had to be a call center first in the morning and proceed to my internship.

It’s Payday Friday for me so I decided to buy myself a Jollibee meal this lunch J This is my first time also to ride a BGC bus going to IDC so I had a hard time distinguishing which bus stop to drop off. Well, luckily the bus stop I’m looking was just across our building so when I saw our building I realized its time to go down haha.

The day went the usual. Andrea and Liza where too busy doing secondary research while I do some updating on the excels that Ms. Angel gave me. Honestly, I was not satisfied with the kind of job I am doing but it is what they have for me and as long as I’m doing it right I’m fine J

Adjustment : February 3

                Waking up this late is not usual for me. Well my earliest is always 3 am to 4 am because I still have to go to work as a call center agent. So it’s quite hard for me to adjust my body clock because I have to wake up a bit late like 6 am or 7 am because our time as interns starts at 9 am in the morning.

                However I still managed not to be late J My day always starts by walking down the Bonifacio High Streets. I love seeing colorful stuff like boutiques and stall in BGC. Good thing the building requires us to pass through this because we have no other way haha.

                The day went so well. I don’t really know what’s with IDC that the time here is so fast. I, We can barely notice the hours. As I finished my job I just watch videos in Youtube and that’s fine because I did my job already J

Walking down BGC : February 2, 2016

                I am finishing the task that Ms.Angel gave me yesterday. My job was to update the excel file about the things I notice upon browsing the analysts profile. I’ve got a long list of analysts to check but that fine. My job is much easier than my co-interns. Besides I’m loving excel files.

                We had lunch in the pantry and try to sit in the over-looking high chairs facing the see through mirror so basically we are staring at Bonifacio Global City from 18^th Floor. It was nice to eat there but the sun rays shine a bit towards us so it’s hot, just a mild one.

                I accomplished the job earlier than Ms.Angel expected so I am overwhelmed with her comments. However, that’s the only task she has for me this day so I survived the day by updating my journal in this internship.

Happy Day : February 1

Today is the first day of the love month and it’s a happy day for me J Me Liza and Andrea decided to meet in the jeepney terminal and we came in at exactly 9 am in the office. I was still sited away from them and that’s sad L Anyways Ms.Angel had some things for me to do so I just focused my attention on it.

After lunch time we went back to our work place and start working. They are staying in the huddle area where Ms. I can’t remember the name assigned them and me still here besides the graphic designer. I was too lucky this day because sir Nico, Liza’s Boss notice me in that small area. Whoo Yes!! Sir Nico finally realized my unfortunate life there so he instructed me to join Liza, Andrea and Hannah to the huddle area and get away with their boys. That was a relief for me.

Task to do : January 29

                Today is January 29 Friday. We have no shift yesterday in IDC because it’s our restday. Well actually for me it is not because I still have to go to work in Convergys by 6:00 am in the morning and attend my afternoon class with sir Angelito at 6:00 pm. That was a usual day for me.

                Well today I continued doing my first task for Ms.Angel. Yesterday as I remembered, she and Ms.Elkie, her boss spoke to me about the task they will ask me to do. They said that I will be doing more on the back office such as updating internal data base and power points for the team.

                So today what I did is browse the IDC data base and look upon the analysts profiles. I need critic their profile photos and autobiographies if it is correct and up to date. The analysts are quite many so it took me 2 days to finish it.The day went just fine as I accomplish my first task

First Day in IDC : January 27

This is our first day in International Data Corporation or simply IDC. Yesterday, January 26,2016 we are already briefed on what to expect and what to do. We have signed our contracts already and viewed our job descriptions. So this day, we are introduced to our boss’. The four of us, me, Hannah, Liza and Andrea were distributed to our assigned Bosses. Hannah, Andrea and Liza were assigned to assist the Research analyst of IDC and do some secondary researches for them. While I am assigned to assist the Product Marketing Manager named Angelica Beare.

In our First day I was instructed to sit beside the graphic designers of IDC. Well, I am not really comfortable sitting beside them knowing that they are boys. Haha Yes, I am aloof to boys especially when I don’t know them . It was a bad day for me actually but they hardly notice it's just that I am not comfortable. The problem is me and not them lol.

Good thing is when our Bosses invites us to eat lunch with them. Happily we joined them in one of the resto’s nearby. The place was not so cosy but the food is a real deal. We ate at Kuse in BGC and we are so happy because Sir Alon, Andrea’s boss paid for it. It was basically the highlight for the day.

Internship Diaries : Newsletter

July 16, 2015

                       Today was a busy day for me. Got a full pack schedule from my work to my OJT and straight to my evening classes. Everything was st not until my classmates texted me that our Thesis adviser called for a meeting this same day at 3:00 pm. That was unexpected because my internship ends at 4 pm so I have to ask permission first.

                        In the office, I continue my task which was to accomplish the Newsletter. Well, I can’t really complete the newsletter this day because there are some articles that was missing. Not literally but for example the upcoming Market Relevance Corporation’s First ever conference. The event needs to be incorporated to the newsletter so me and Jao needs to wait for the actual event to write about it.

            I focused on the layout of the Newsletter and come out with the final design. Next thing I did was to asked sir JM and Jao for any comments or suggestions. Afterwards, I  did a couple of write ups about the Christmas Parties of MRC. It includes the themes, venues and happening during the events. I also asked Jao to help me in this part and he then submitted me an article about Ms. Lourdes that is needed by the newsletter also.

                     The day in the office went light and well. They are too good to allow us go early and attend the meeting I mentioned Earlier.

Internship Diaries : MRC Hymn

July 13, 2015

Today my task was to create the and complete the music video of MRC's Hymn sung by Ate Weng or Rowena Gozum. She's the key person on data gathering and encoding. I really had a hard time doing the MTV because the clippings are limited. Ghad I blame myself because I'm the videographer too. I also didn’t video the whole song while it is being sung by Ate Weng because we did the recording on segments. Woo got really epic here.

I needed to wait for more images taken from their facebook accounts and photo albums that were kept. I face a lot of difficulties here specially I'm not a pro, not even an average one when it comes to video editing. Second was I am really used in using Windows Movie Maker but unfortunately that one doesn't read all video formats. I was left with no choice but to help myself in familiarizing Videopad, a software downloaded by Jao, another intern. He recommended it to me because it is downloadable and easy to use but the thing is he, himself knows how to use it and how about me? I'll tell you dear it’s not that easy, Swear! Upon trying really hard, I gave up and choose to download I think 2 to 3 other video editor but still it’s difficult and then I found myself using Videopad again and getting the job almost done.

After repeatedly rechecking and viewing it I asked Ms. Rhods to check and critic the video and as expected,  still it has glitches and some lapses. Photos are being repeated and the video was not exact to the song itself. Well, I really tried my best to make it perfect. Happily I accomplished the video within the day. 

Internship Diaries : The Conference

July 10, 2015

I went to the office of MRC today with a task to accomplish. Yesterday, Ms.Paz and Ms.Aileen assigned some paper works for us to do today but of course they taught us first what to do. Upon arriving, both of them, Ms.Paz and Ms.Aileen were absent so I proceeded doing my thing. I grab the questionnaire from Ms.Aileen's desk.These are the ones which I observed while the interviewer, Ate Cass, was conducting the survey. I evaluated the performance of Ate Cass through a standard measurement provided by the company.

I was about to continue doing my next set of work which is to backcheck the 40 questionnaires. Backchecking is the process where the key person verify the surveys through calling each of the respondents using their given contact number. When you called the respondents the screening questions should be asked then just throw random questions from the questionnaire and check the accuracy of his/her responses. Well the backchecking never happen. Instead Ms.Rhods briefed us about the upcoming MRC Conference which surprisingly will be organized by us three practicumers. The conceptualization, presentation and the the contents will be coming from us. I was assigned to make the music video of the company's theme song,remember I was the videographer during the recording. I will also write the company's Newsletter and research about ASEAN Integration. Wooo thats quite a huge and exciting responsibility thinking that the conference will be on the 21st of July and our deadline was next Friday. Let us call it a challenge!

We started a bit research about the assigned task for us but when Ate Weng, or the key person doing the encoding and data processing of the company arrived, we stopped doing our thing and proceed on the lessons. Ate Weng showed and taught us the data processing and let us experience the encoding of some questionnaire. Everything went smoothly until its 6 pm already.

Internship Diaries : The Observer

July 9, 2015

  We were assigned to gather data or conduct survey in Glorietta. I was adviced that today I and Jao won’t be conducting interviews instead we will do OB, or be the observer while the interviewers conduct the survey. We are briefed on what to point out, what should we watch for, basically the standard etiquette upon surveying. We meet two of MRC’s field interviewers. Jao, my internship buddy and I chose an interviewer to observe. It's quite awkward because I knew these two we're long time field interviewers already and I am just an intern who will technically supervise them. Challenging also because I have to me meticulous when it comes to quality and error for the validity of the survey.

   I chose Ate Cass, she was a fine interviewer. She was good overall though at the first two surveys she did I notice big mistakes from her. Like for example she forgot to use the show cards, these are guide answers for the respondents, and she did not emphasize all the options for the respondents. Sometimes she is leading the respondent so that show bias. Leading to an answer which is not really intended by the respondents.

    After each survey we are discussing does issues to avoid in the future. There is one time where Ate Cass finished a survey but unfortunately the respondent was not qualified when we label his social economic status so she needed to redo the survey to another respondents. It was relieving to accomplish the task fast. It’s just 2 pm when we finished the quota so Ms.Aileen and us, interns decided to just go and report to MRC's office. At the office we continue editing the questionnaires. Editing is the process of rechecking the papers if all questions are asked and skipping questions are skipped. Then Ms.Aileen and Ms.Paz taught us how to fill up the Evaluation sheet from the outcome of our observation. There is a form with guide standards for us to fill upon evaluating the interviewers. Afterwards they showed us how to do backchecking, Backchecking is hard I think because you need to call each respondents and verify the accuracy of the survey. Ms.Paz called one respondent to demonstrate for us. The respondents answered the phone but then drop it. He then sent a text message stating that he is busy and Yes, he was interviewed. We tried another respondent and the back checking went smooth.  

Internship Diaries : Upper Class

July 7, 2015

                  This day was my second day of being a field interviewer. I was placed under the supervision of Ms.Paz. My first impression to her was super strict and professional. I also thought she was snobbish but I was wrong. We met inside KFC, MRT Ayala at  9 am. I arrived exactly 9 but they came 1 hour after. Haha that’s fine, I managed to took my breakfast first thou I didn't like KFC that much.

         We discuss a bit about the project details then proceed to look for Glorietta’s administrative office. I met two field interviewers of MRC which was Ate Marina and Ate Yolly. They are both bubbly and industrious individuals. Upon checking the permit in the administrative office of Ayala, we found out that the permit for our project was effective tomorrow and not today so we have to proceed to Greenbelt instead. I was with Ms.Paz and we are to position in Greenbelt 2. Greenbelt, I thought was an up-class mall indeed. The Greenbelt 2 was pure restaurants so I had a hard time gaining interviews. There were no benches and it’s not your typical mall. Everyone has to go inside each restaurants and eat then go. They are all in a hurry so it’s a big delay for them and a challenge for me to conduct this ambush interview.

                        I approached everyone I thought might allow me to borrow some of their precious time but it’s really tough to find one who is willing to be surveyed. I got 10 refusals after I got my first completed interview with a female adult belonging to upper class. She first asked me about the validity of the survey and for the permit of the project. Off course I had a permit on-hand to show her and explained the purpose of the study. I buffer a bit while asking her because Ms.Paz was butting in. I understand why she did that but I’m still not confident.

             I was glad to have my second complete within an hour from my first one. This time I’m much confident and familiar with the questionnaire. It’s an awesome feeling to accomplished your task earlier than expected.