The joy of teaching

It feels good to see that you have effectively shared your knowledge to other people specially if its someone from your team.

At Orange & Bronze, the Business Development and Creative Group advocate the use of Open-source Content Management Systems (CMS) in developing websites for Clients and internal portals. Some of the CMSs that I have lined up to explore are Drupal, Joomla and Wordpress.

Of all these platforms, I became most comfortable with Joomla, and that's actually the first CMS that I taught to my team mates when they first came to our office.

It's been great to see them absorb what you taught them, and even greater when you see them pass it on to other people. There's something about sharing skills that makes you feel good about it specially when it gets multiplied to others. Sometimes it's not easy to teach something especially when things get a bit technical. It's an effort to actually assist someone to learn a skill, and guide them with all their questions, but it pays off to see them share what they've known from you.

Caffeine on brain power

Drinking coffee has been part of my routine. I often found myself become very dependent on the power of caffeine to energize my brain and keep it going even after lunch. It has become my fuel, and I can't run my biological systems without first drinking coffee.

I was just thinking about how caffeine fires up mental alertness when I came across this article:

http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/spring05/dionisiod/psy3061/caffeine.htm

Cockroaches in my dream!

This post is not related to design, but I'm guessing there is no other place for this story.

I had a dream last night, kind of weird.

In my dream, I went to my bathroom to make wiwi (pee), then I saw cockroaches everywhere. I hate those insects!

Weird thing is, while in my dream, I know that Im in a state of dreaming. I even thought of waking up after peeing so I could write my dream and look for its meaning on the internet.

Normally in our dreams, it's when we've awaken that we realized we had a dream, in my case, its different. I know that Im dreaming! It's as if I'm awake and conscious while I was in my dream.

I searched the net for what does cockroach means. This is what www.dreammoods.com says:

"Cockroach

To see a cockroach in your dream, signifies your need for renewal, rejuvenation and self-cleansing of your psychological, emotional, or spiritual being. You need to reevaluate major aspects of your life."

This has been one of the issues I've been trying to address these past months!

Some things I don't understand about myself

There are just times when you cant seem to focus on your task. What's even harder is that you can't find an inspiration and drive to reach the deadline. There are just some things about myself that I don't understand. I can't seem to get it if its just that I cant find an inspiration or if there's really something wrong with my system.

It's frustrating when you know that you have the ability to produce what your work demands but sometimes have no control over how to finally put things together.

I feel that I have these 2 personalities inside me, one who is very capable and one who just lacks confidence, and I don't know how I can choose which personality I can make available in crucial times. There must be some explanations to this. I don't know.

Yahoo PingBox!

It's been a very long time since I visited this Blog! Anyway, i got something to share! I was browsing the net for some SEO insights when I got into a site that has a chat feature. It uses a Yahoo PingBox to get prompt inquiries from site visitors.

Interesting and very easy to install and use! Looking forward to more features and enhancement. :-)

Its Flash based so browsers should get the latest version of Flash to make this feature enabled.
I installed it on my sidebar, just below the Ads. Try it! :-)

Here's the link:
http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/pingbox/

Goodbye PC, Hello Mac.

Got my new Macbook after months and months of staring at the apple website. Now its in my hands, its very precious and beautiful. This is the best christmas gift i have ever given to myself. 

Now il be more energetic and inspired to do my creative works. Time to be mobile now, the idea of ugly and cluttered cords, big and spacious CPU and monitor is a thing of the past. I will just give my old PC to my nanay who needs a computer at work. One more thing, I think I need a bit of self-branding. I should look credible in designing and making things beautiful. Things that I have would remind people and potential clients about my taste.  Time to move on. Good bye PC, hello Mac. Hello new world. :-)