Yehey! I have four days of training at Oracle this week. I'm already finished with the second day of the training...

The class is on Data Modelling... The topic itself is interesting, but I don't like the way that Oracle is offereing it. I like it better on how it was taught back in high school... I think the instructor has something to do with it also. The instructor at Oracle is too chatty, too much talk on her (yes, the instructor's a her)  experiences, but not much on hte concepts. To make matters worse she mixes things up when teaching to the point that she is jumping back and forth the lesson that I'm lost on what we already discussing on.

I'm starting to miss being a student again. The thrill of learning something totally new. Doing stuff just for sense of exploration. :)

I finally found the time to write here again. Its been quite a while since I last posted here, in fact its almost a year to my last post. I guess work really takes a lot from you, physically and mentally. At the end of the day, I was too tired to actually even think of looking around the community reading blogs. I think the last time I ready any blog from theSpoke was quite some time ago already also. Good thing that there's a bit of a lull here on the office, waiting for some things to finish. :) I'll try to be a better poster and share some of the stuff that I have learned here at the office, but knowing me, that would be a really challenge to pull off. Well, bye for now, I think the stuff that I'm waiting for is already finished.

PS. This reads too much like a "I'm still alive" type of post. Oh well.

Just want to drop a message to everybody that I'm still around. hehe. :)

Work's kinda starting to take its toll on me. I'm finding that I'm coming home a bit later these past few days... the good thing though is that I'm learning a whole lot at work. I'm realizing that there's a really big world out there and that there are a lot of things that I still don't know. But I'm slowly getting there. :)

At last, I found the time to actually place a message here in the new home of theSpoke. I'm still trying to look around and see whats new here. From what I have seen its not too bad. The UI's much better not that the old one's not good, it looks slicker and cleaner now. :) As for the new features, I haven't tried out everything, but it seems that there are still some parts that could be improved. For one thing, I have a problem with viewing my Who Bar here at home (I'm using a dial-up connection). The site seems to be slower than the old one, but maybe its just my being new to the site. :P

Rant: almost like everybody else, I'm disappointed about my blog list not being migrated. It would take a while for me to recompile the reading list that I had before. So, if anybody there is reading, please don't forget to subscribe to my blog so that I can find you more easily. :)

I was supposed to post the following yesterday, but a problem with my connection prevented me, so here it is now:

I got home a bit later than expected last Friday from the team-building activity at Island Cove. I was dead tired upon reaching the house so I kinda postponed blogging about it until now.

Overall the activity was quite fun. We had a batch of WNTG engineers along with us. We had a bit of lectures on things like personal Vision and Mission making, but they only took up around a third of our time. Most of the time was used in having group dynamics. I learned a lot from these activities. Not only did they bond us together, but they also imparted lessons that can be applied once we actually start working. The group dynamics actually reminded me a bit of the MIS games course that I once took up. :)

For me, the high part of the trip was the ride home. It was a riot, even though we were all tired from the two days, we still have fun, enjoying each other's company. :)

On a good note: I felt that that I was able to get a bit closer to my co-cadets. I'm still a bit apprehesive about some of them though.

That's all for now. Back to regular training tomorrow.