The Learner's Journey

 What is Social Awareness? How it can help and Improve an Individual and the Nation as a whole?  Social Awareness is an ability to know and understand the needs of other people - and do something about it. It is being sensitive and knowing what to do with it. If a person has a low social awareness, their attitude and behavior will appear to be selfish or self serving to the society in which they are involved. Getting the right response to the needs of other people improves social standing and success. It is a must attribute for a leader or manager. This is why, in a corporate world, the management puts an emphasis on their managers to be socially aware. This skill will bring a person a long way and of course their organization as well. It is needless to say that being socially aware is a de-facto core competency aside from the technical skills or managing skills. A harmonious society needs its people to be respectful towards its other, a pre-requisite of productive and pros

At the end of 2020, people are now hopeful that the incoming new year will be better. The economic outlook and the morale of citizens are positive as compare to previous months. We are now accustomed to the New Normal- wearing face mask, face shield in public and observing social distancing: in shops, grocery and in the churches. In the early months of the community restriction, several industries has been greatly affected. Today, this industries as seen to be soaring high - many have already recouped. This factors contributes to positive outlook and restimulate the economy back to its former strenght. The Government should aid in the reinvigoration of the economy while at the same time keeping balance in maintaining the COVID cases to a manageable level.

Im sure you are familiar with the phrase "OLD but GOLD". This phrase wants to emphasize that wisdom of the past never goes out of fashion. Modernization brought new ideas and technology. Now, we observed that generation gap is evident more than ever. But the foundation of our humanity remains unchanged. The kindness prevailing over selfishness and the unjust, the inquisitive mind - always curious and ready to challenge the norm - these traits never change. If you are a parent, an executive, a teacher, a leader or somebody looking for an entertainment but with lessons that you can apply on making an important decision then I suggest you watch the movie - 12 Angry Men (1957). Yes it was released in 1957, but its worth never fades. Recent remakes of this movie proves that this is something you shouldn't ignore. The story is socially relevant even today. It teaches critical thinking and not hastily handing out important decision just because majority said it. The 1957 version

If you are a neophyte in investing on stock market, you might be wondering what to do on how you are going to start. The first and foremost is to understand the platform you are using. Being familiar with the platform is primary thing that a newbie should do. Also be aware and consider the Macroeconomics. At this time of Global Crisis, that is brought by COVID-19, the market has become very volatile as compared to previous years. One wrong move and that might cost a lot of your investment. What to do after I have familiarized my trading platform? What are things that I need to consider on Active Trading in this time of pandemic? Here are 5 Tips on Active Stock Trading Create a Trading Plan Before anything else, have a plan. That means, knowing your entry points and exit points. Stick to it. Favor investing in short term and remain extra vigilant on the stock price movement. Be extra vigilant on the volatile stock price movements There is more benefit in trading in short term now, rathe

The Year 2020 is a really a bumpy ride, and it does throw many of us out of seats - our comfort zones. Many human lives has been lost and perished not only because of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic but because of its effect to the psyche and outlook of many people. The COVID-19 Pandemic has proven that the human society is a fragile fabric. It is evident to the performance of the Stock Market early this year. Many business are forced to closed or trimmed down their operations - forced to adapt and forced to lay-out many employees and workers. This has caused many sufferings. In some parts of the World, there are still domestic and inter-countries strife that has intensified and has been going since years before. The most recent is the Azerbaijan-Armenian conflict. There are also ravaging typhoons that happened in South East Asia, which destroyed livelihoods and homes of thousands of people - particularly in the Philippines. Leaders tried many things to address

Stressed or Pressured? Which is which? In a corporate world, you might hear some sayings that being stressed is bad and being pressured is better than the latter. Why is that? But what do you really feel? According to the dictionary, stressed is defined as "experiencing mental or emotional strain or tension". While, Pressured  is described as a "compelling or constraining influence, such as persuasion or negative attitudes, on the mind or will." But if you are familiar to the engineering definition of both words, then at least you will have an idea why being pressured is better than being stressed. This is the reason why usually you will hear that it is better to be pressured. Here are the definition of Stress and Pressure according to principle of Physics. Stress - It is the intensity of the INTERNAL resisting force, developing at a point. It can be acting  normal (90 degrees), parallel to the surface or both. Pressure - It is the intensity of the EXTERNAL resistin

In this age and digital era, we always wants to keep a part of memory. This is always true if you are a learner that strives to keep more knowledge and information. And there are many platforms that offers online storage - or the Cloud Storage. These are the following and most common cloud providers; Google Drive (by Google, Inc.) One Drive (by Microsoft Corporation) Smart Phone Sponsored Cloud Storage (capacity and quality varies on brand) Dropbox Cloud computing and cloud storage are now the trend for sharing large files and even Company applications are now using this. In this time of pandemic, the Cloud solution has provided many business an alternative and saving costs in its maintenance. Cloud computing has proven its worth more - it is really the future. It transform people in sharing files and how people collaborate together. But one cloud provider has captured attention of the many netizens and business companies. This is because, cloud computing is their flagship, and so, the

If you are working in a corporate environment, you probably always hear the S.O.W. (short for Scope of Work) on the conversation among your peers.  If you are in a Project Team, you are surely an active part of it. If you have not heard it, it doesn't mean you are/were not part of it. So, what really is the Scope of Work? What is its function? How important it is to have a clear SOW? These are the basic question that everyone in the team or stakeholders should know about  However, it is not enough that it is known but should also be understood and acknowledge - most of the time by affixing the signature on it. What is the Scope of Work? Scope of Work is a set of description of work to be done in the Project , with the defined responsibilities per party and the ultimate objective of the work - or Project being deliberated. Most of the time, it discusses how the proponent wants a specific task is done, the methodology and manner to do it. In a sense, it contains the work specificat

In every formal study and research, a presentation of Analysis is necessary. It is to give weight and justification on case that is being proposed and presented, without the analysis it cannot be properly called a study and will only classified as an article. In the same context, the data cleaning or how is the data presented and utilized must be discussed and defended in order to make the proposal, research or study be believable. There are many types of study and research, and most (if not all) of them requires data gathering, a survey or an experiment to a specimen. Commonly, data cleaning comes after the fact. Or after the data are gathered on subjects. This is the most common type or the Reactive Data Cleaning. There is another type of Data Cleaning and that is the Proactive Data Cleaning. The Proactive Data Cleaning involves planning of the Data Gathering, crafting a threshold, setting up conditional tests and properly defining the tests, questionnaires and forms. The keyword is