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Monday, May 21, 2007

 
 

A Blog to More Blogs

Posted By: Efren ES Ricalde @ 10:35 PM
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Last week, I finally reorganized my home blog MaSci to GSI to include those activities, issues and creative efforts I wish to share. Ryan, our Web designer, enhanced the home page and it is ready to go.

Dropping some of my interests such as carpentry, gift wrapping, frame making, etc, a final list was made:

1. TENNIS - Oh, without tennis my life as an entrepreneur would have been spent most of the time taking pills and resting in the hospital. Hitting a ball either cross-court forehand or inside out forehand is executed properly and consistently during practice. And it follows naturally during games.

There is something I wish to share with you - tennis sharpened my skill to make my competitor irrelevant and discipline to hit a winner!

2. PHOTOGRAPHY - Good photographs are made not taken. I am not referring to the use of image processing tools to create excellent shots nor making artists out of PhotoShop operators. Photography made by an artist needs creativity not software tools, imagination not experimentation and a great deal of abstraction not manipulation on PCs.

Visualization and photography assembles various components of a event effortlessly creating myriads of opportunities to arrive at a unique picture. It is similar to shooting a winning photo by capturing a fleeting moment.

3. POEMS. My users at Brunei Shell commented that I can paint a picture to describe a solution while my parents used to advice me to be more direct to explain something. That's how I learned to write poems - explaining in words to basic minimum. Hmm, that does not compute!

4. eGOVERNMENT - Developing several information technology solutions for the government gave me an opportunity to explain why the Philippines missed the boat unlike IT leaders such as India, Singapore and Vietnam who are now riding high.

Moving forward, let us have leaders and champions to act as conductors, enterprise architecture not information strategic systems plan to serve as music sheet, knowledge experts not bureaucrats to perform as musicians and we have a symphony called eGovernment.

If and only if (the usual Geometry iff) a harmonious, normalized, and focused egovernment team rides the boat (no lawyers, zero kibitzers and politicians), "this nation can be great again".

5. THE DISCIPLINE TO LEARN - Bad news - fewer people are reading, students are not performing well is aptitude exams. Good news - lesser TV viewing, more reading, minimize computer games and Nintendo, more creative efforts to make your own toys than plastic Toy Kingdom stuffs, engage in competitive sports, play a musical instruments are the ingredients for success as a student and entrepreneur.

The Discipline To Learn are for parents, brother and sisters, tutors, house helps, teachers, DepED, guardians, principals, out of school youth, school administrators, UPCAT reviewers, board examinees... and many more.

Eleonor Roosevelt said, "The world belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Dream that we will build a community of happy students and entrepreneurs.

Finally, we will say to each other, "Success belongs to those who are disciplined to learn."

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  • "MaSci to GSI" is a compendium of experiences from childhood to present. M2G shares my insights and knowledge on education, hard work, integrity, honesty, creativity, transparency, and aspiration of a Filipino. M2G maps my journeys and adventures as a boy, student, dreamer and entrepreneur.
 
 
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Efren, President/CEO of GSI, is an experienced public speaker and an avid tennis player, photographer, a beginner classical guitarist. He was the former Chairman of Philippine Geomatics Association (PhilGeo) and is an active member of other IT associations. He has a diploma in Strategic Business Economics from the University of Asia and the Pacific, units in MS Remote Sensing in UP Diliman, BS Geodetic Engineering at UP Diliman and an alumni of Manila Science High School.

 
 

 

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