I was looking at my pictures and I got conscious about how I looked. I think I need to fix that torso-leg ratio thing when picking my clothes.. I've read somewhere that for females, the most attractive leg length is 1.4 times the length of the upper body, the average is slightly lower and for males, the most attractive length is equal legs and torso length, but the average is higher.. Hmmm.. better get a tape measure tonight.
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Monday, December 6, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
One Year Anniversary!
Time flies really fast, cliche but true. I can still remember how unprepared I was when I started working here at Sabre. After a rather unpleasant short 7-month stint with Safeway, then the unsuccessful attempt to work abroad, I landed on a 6-month contract job at Sabre, and now, I am a regular employee.
Personally for me, it was a blessing in disguise. Here, I had the pleasure of working with a lot of seniors who taught about Agile development, SVN, Maven, the proper way of developing with design patterns, and pair programming. It's not a perfect craft, but I must say, much better than other projects that I have worked with. I also had a chance to sing in the company events, i.e., Christmas party and office inauguration. So despite all the troubles in my personal life, there have been some progress in both my personal well-being and technical skills. I had been reprimanded several times for doing unsatisfactory work but hey, tao lang. The most important thing is that I am enjoying myself now. Less pressure, and better work habits.
I've said this before and yeah, I associate every good feeling I have right now with Sabre. I think God gave me this opportunity to get away from the old folks for a while, in order for me to find new friends, and experience new things. It's hard when you get used to the same people every day of your life, that they become a "benchmark" of how you should look, the way you act, what you should wear, what you should do with your life. This year had been such an emotional rollercoaster ride. In it, I found new friends, discovered who my true ones were, and who to trust and not to trust.
How real is the saying, time heals all wounds? and luckily, Sabre had been part of that healing process ;)
It's been 5 months now. BAD VIBES GONE.... FOR GOOD :D
Personally for me, it was a blessing in disguise. Here, I had the pleasure of working with a lot of seniors who taught about Agile development, SVN, Maven, the proper way of developing with design patterns, and pair programming. It's not a perfect craft, but I must say, much better than other projects that I have worked with. I also had a chance to sing in the company events, i.e., Christmas party and office inauguration. So despite all the troubles in my personal life, there have been some progress in both my personal well-being and technical skills. I had been reprimanded several times for doing unsatisfactory work but hey, tao lang. The most important thing is that I am enjoying myself now. Less pressure, and better work habits.
I've said this before and yeah, I associate every good feeling I have right now with Sabre. I think God gave me this opportunity to get away from the old folks for a while, in order for me to find new friends, and experience new things. It's hard when you get used to the same people every day of your life, that they become a "benchmark" of how you should look, the way you act, what you should wear, what you should do with your life. This year had been such an emotional rollercoaster ride. In it, I found new friends, discovered who my true ones were, and who to trust and not to trust.
How real is the saying, time heals all wounds? and luckily, Sabre had been part of that healing process ;)
It's been 5 months now. BAD VIBES GONE.... FOR GOOD :D
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Technical Books to Read
One thing I like about Sabre is its weekly group discussions to increase the technical knowhow of the employees. Wes, our Agile coach, sent us the following technical books to see which one we want to discuss together in the following weeks:
General Programming:
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (semi coding/semi process)
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (not a coding book)
• Head First Design Patterns
• Working Effectively With Legacy Code
Languages
• Agile Web Development with Rails
• Programming Ruby 1.9: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide
• Groovy in Action
• Programming Scala: Tackle Multi-Core Complexity on the Java Virtual MachineHAs
• Programming in Haskell
• Effective Java: Programming Language Guide
So far, people have been voting for Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software and Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. I voted for learning Ruby (wala nang kokontra, ako na ang bida..), but I bet DDD will win, some people here are campaigning for it, lolz.
General Programming:
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (semi coding/semi process)
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (not a coding book)
• Head First Design Patterns
• Working Effectively With Legacy Code
Languages
• Agile Web Development with Rails
• Programming Ruby 1.9: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide
• Groovy in Action
• Programming Scala: Tackle Multi-Core Complexity on the Java Virtual MachineHAs
• Programming in Haskell
• Effective Java: Programming Language Guide
So far, people have been voting for Domain Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software and Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. I voted for learning Ruby (wala nang kokontra, ako na ang bida..), but I bet DDD will win, some people here are campaigning for it, lolz.
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