July 31, 2008
Schedule of the 3rd V-CHAIN EXAM
The third V-chain exam is on Aug 12. Coverage includes Chapter 9 of Handfield, Chaps 16, 17 and 18 of Chopra. Good luck!! :)
July 23, 2008
What's your opinion on the lectures on the Business Track
V-chain students. Please feel free to give/share your insights in this blog reg the recently concluded S&T Congress whether it's about supply chain or ICT as a change enabler. When you post your comment, indicate the title of the lecture, the name of the speaker and the time of the lecture. Give your reaction/insights in 1-2 paragraphs only. Then indicate your complete name and section. Thanks..
ICT FOR ALL--The theme of the 10th DLSU S&T Congress
Comm. Tim Angelo de Rivera talked about the Philippine ICT Strategic Roadmap and the current position of the Phils as far as e-governance is concerned. He brought and shared a lot fo good news both for the public and private sector. One of the directions mentioned too is the creation of the Dept of ICT. While US and other advanced countries do not have a dept like this, the Phil gov't has actually benchmarked with other Asian developing countries. I agree that it is high time and relevant the Phils create a unit such as the Dept of ICT. This is not to encourage bureaucracy but to empower the government to spearhead taking leverage on ICT to better serve the society.
What do you think of this??..
What do you think of this??..
July 22, 2008
The 10TH Science and Technology Congress
V-CHAIN & MOFTECH STUDENTS, 1st term SY 2008-09 are invited to attend the session in the 10th Science and Technology Congress on July 23, 2008 at the Yuchengco Seminar rooms.
V-Chain class is particularly interested in the ff sessions:
Special Invited Lecture
1:00-1:40 pm Mr. Dennis Beng Hui
Role of Technology in SME Development
Oral Paper Presentations
1:40 – 2:00 pm E.R. Sarreal
The Nexus of Value Chain and Work-Centered Analyses in Examining the Philippine Footwear Industry’s Problems and Potential Information Technology (IT) Enablers
2:00-2:20 pm M.A.A. Cortez, J.P.R. Rivera, T.S. Tullao, Jr.
Opportunities and Constraints in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) for Accounting and Share Financial Services in the Philippines
Moftech class is particularly interested in the ff sessions:
Special Invited Lecture
1:00-1:40 pm Dr. Celia Reyes
The Role of ICT in CBMS in Advancing Evidence-based Decision Making
Oral Paper Presentations
1:40 – 2:00 pm Atty. Christopher Cruz
Intellectual Property Rights and Information and Communication Technology: Balancing the Freedom and Protection of Knowledge Online
2:00 – 2:20pm I.J. R. Hecita
Civil Society and ICTs: Civil Society Efforts for e-Governance and e-Democracy in the Philippines
2:40 – 3:00 pm C.B. Berrey
PREJUDICIAL PUBLICITY: A Disregard of the Constitutional Principle of Right to Privacy in the Global Age of Information and Communication Technology
3:00-2:20 pm M.S. Correa, E. Mangaliman, K.A. Molera, J.L. Yco, D.C. Cheng
Multiplayer Mobile Game IDE
3:20– 3:40 pm L.C. Tan, R. de Dios Bulos
Host Parasite Cooperative Coevolution of Decentralized Controllers in EvoTanks
3:40 – 4:00 pm S.E. Ona
Avenues for Electoral Modernization in the Philippines
4:00 – 4:20 pm A.P. Azcarraga, A. Caw, L. Lim, M. Ngo
Designing a Digital Music Archive for the Visually Impaired
4:20 – 4:40 pm R. Roxas, M. Del Mundo, L.A, Go, S. Manalili
Windows Registry Infection Detection using Malware Source Code Analysis
4:40 – 5:00 pm J.V. A. Cabanes
Net Negotiations: How Filipino Families Domesticate the Internet
For those who are opting to attend the morning sessions, PLS EXERCISE EXTREME COURTESY in the seminar room and during the session presentations.
This is another opportunity for all DLSU learners to expand their horizon and realize we are not islands. There's a bountiful of knowledge still waiting to be uncovered and shared. Cheers peeps!!
V-Chain class is particularly interested in the ff sessions:
Special Invited Lecture
1:00-1:40 pm Mr. Dennis Beng Hui
Role of Technology in SME Development
Oral Paper Presentations
1:40 – 2:00 pm E.R. Sarreal
The Nexus of Value Chain and Work-Centered Analyses in Examining the Philippine Footwear Industry’s Problems and Potential Information Technology (IT) Enablers
2:00-2:20 pm M.A.A. Cortez, J.P.R. Rivera, T.S. Tullao, Jr.
Opportunities and Constraints in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) for Accounting and Share Financial Services in the Philippines
Moftech class is particularly interested in the ff sessions:
Special Invited Lecture
1:00-1:40 pm Dr. Celia Reyes
The Role of ICT in CBMS in Advancing Evidence-based Decision Making
Oral Paper Presentations
1:40 – 2:00 pm Atty. Christopher Cruz
Intellectual Property Rights and Information and Communication Technology: Balancing the Freedom and Protection of Knowledge Online
2:00 – 2:20pm I.J. R. Hecita
Civil Society and ICTs: Civil Society Efforts for e-Governance and e-Democracy in the Philippines
2:40 – 3:00 pm C.B. Berrey
PREJUDICIAL PUBLICITY: A Disregard of the Constitutional Principle of Right to Privacy in the Global Age of Information and Communication Technology
3:00-2:20 pm M.S. Correa, E. Mangaliman, K.A. Molera, J.L. Yco, D.C. Cheng
Multiplayer Mobile Game IDE
3:20– 3:40 pm L.C. Tan, R. de Dios Bulos
Host Parasite Cooperative Coevolution of Decentralized Controllers in EvoTanks
3:40 – 4:00 pm S.E. Ona
Avenues for Electoral Modernization in the Philippines
4:00 – 4:20 pm A.P. Azcarraga, A. Caw, L. Lim, M. Ngo
Designing a Digital Music Archive for the Visually Impaired
4:20 – 4:40 pm R. Roxas, M. Del Mundo, L.A, Go, S. Manalili
Windows Registry Infection Detection using Malware Source Code Analysis
4:40 – 5:00 pm J.V. A. Cabanes
Net Negotiations: How Filipino Families Domesticate the Internet
For those who are opting to attend the morning sessions, PLS EXERCISE EXTREME COURTESY in the seminar room and during the session presentations.
This is another opportunity for all DLSU learners to expand their horizon and realize we are not islands. There's a bountiful of knowledge still waiting to be uncovered and shared. Cheers peeps!!
July 17, 2008
Need to update
It has been over a year now since I posted in this blog. I have to rejuvenate my thoughts and senses and once again commune with solace offered by the web. Having a blog allows me to slowly track my ideas in the past or review what had made me preoccupied.
After two months of teaching this first term of SY 2008-09, I can feel the workload squeezing me. I have three sections of Mngmt of Technology, one section of Supply Chain course, a special class on e-Business and one class on Research Methods. My Methods class technically has 9 groups struggling to find, research, write and defend a decent thesis proposal with a lame one-hour meeting a week (which I commonly end after two hours). While my Methods students are in a fight or die situation like the gladiators during the Roman period, I couldn't help squeeze myself to impart all the ideas and experiences I learned in the proposal formulation.
I am also mentoring thesis groups (two IT groups+one ICTM group).
And the rumor is true--my Supply Chain class is the noisiest.
After two months of teaching this first term of SY 2008-09, I can feel the workload squeezing me. I have three sections of Mngmt of Technology, one section of Supply Chain course, a special class on e-Business and one class on Research Methods. My Methods class technically has 9 groups struggling to find, research, write and defend a decent thesis proposal with a lame one-hour meeting a week (which I commonly end after two hours). While my Methods students are in a fight or die situation like the gladiators during the Roman period, I couldn't help squeeze myself to impart all the ideas and experiences I learned in the proposal formulation.
I am also mentoring thesis groups (two IT groups+one ICTM group).
And the rumor is true--my Supply Chain class is the noisiest.
October 23, 2007
An old post from my favorite Mentor
‘Don we now our gay apparel’
By Isagani Cruz
Inquirer
Last updated 02:14am (Mla time) 08/12/2006
Published on Page A10 of the August 12, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
HOMOSEXUALS before were mocked and derided, but now they are regarded with new-found respect and, in many cases, even treated as celebrities. Only recently, the more impressionable among our people wildly welcomed a group of entertainers whose main proud advertisement was that they were “queer.” It seems that the present society has developed a new sense of values that have rejected our religious people’s traditional ideas of propriety and morality on the pretext of being “modern” and “broad-minded.”
The observations I will here make against homosexuals in general do not include the members of their group who have conducted themselves decorously, with proper regard not only for their own persons but also for the gay population in general. A number of our local couturiers, to take but one example, are less than manly but they have behaved in a reserved and discreet manner unlike the vulgar members of the gay community who have degraded and scandalized it. I offer abject apologies to those blameless people I may unintentionally include in my not inclusive criticisms. They have my admiration and respect.
The change in the popular attitude toward homosexuals is not particular to the Philippines. It has become an international trend even in the so-called sophisticated regions with more liberal concepts than in our comparatively conservative society. Gay marriages have been legally recognized in a number of European countries and in some parts of the United States. Queer people -- that’s the sarcastic term for them -- have come out of the closet where before they carefully concealed their condition. The permissive belief now is that homosexuals belong to a separate third sex with equal rights as male and female persons instead of just an illicit in-between gender that is neither here nor there.
When I was studying in the Legarda Elementary School in Manila during the last 1930s, the big student population had only one, just one, homosexual. His name was Jose but we all called him Josefa. He was a quiet and friendly boy whom everybody liked to josh but not offensively. In the whole district of Sampaloc where I lived, there was only one homosexual who roamed the streets peddling “kalamay” and “puto” and other treats for snacks. He provided diversion to his genial customers and did not mind their familiar amiable teasing. I think he actually enjoyed being a “binabae” [effeminate].
The change came, I think, when an association of homos dirtied the beautiful tradition of the Santa Cruz de Mayo by parading their kind as the “sagalas” instead of the comely young maidens who should have been chosen to grace the procession. Instead of being outraged by the blasphemy, the watchers were amused and, I suppose, indirectly encouraged the fairies to project themselves. It must have been then that they realized that they were what they were, whether they liked it or not, and that the time for hiding their condition was over.
Now homosexuals are everywhere, coming at first in timorous and eventually alarming and audacious number. Beauty salons now are served mostly by gay attendants including effeminate bearded hairdressers to whom male barbers have lost many of their macho customers. Local shows have their share of “siyoke” [gay men], including actors like the one rejected by a beautiful wife in favor of a more masculine if less handsome partner. And, of course, there are lady-like directors who are probably the reason why every movie and TV drama must have the off-color “bading” [gay] or two to cheapen the proceedings.
And the schools are now fertile ground for the gay invasion. Walking along the University belt one day, I passed by a group of boys chattering among themselves, with one of them exclaiming seriously, “Aalis na ako. Magpapasuso pa ako!” [“I’m leaving. I still have to breastfeed!”] That pansy would have been mauled in the school where my five sons (all machos) studied during the ’70s when all the students were certifiably masculine. Now many of its pupils are gay, and I don’t mean happy. I suppose they have been influenced by such shows as “Brokeback Mountain,” our own “Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros” (both of which won awards), “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” and that talk program of Ellen Degeneres, an admitted lesbian.
Is our population getting to be predominantly pansy? Must we allow homosexuality to march unobstructed until we are converted into a nation of sexless persons without the virility of males and the grace of females but only an insipid mix of these diluted virtues? Let us be warned against the gay population, which is per se a compromise between the strong and the weak and therefore only somewhat and not the absolute of either of the two qualities. Be alert lest the Philippine flag be made of delicate lace and adorned with embroidered frills.
from: http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=14837
By Isagani Cruz
Inquirer
Last updated 02:14am (Mla time) 08/12/2006
Published on Page A10 of the August 12, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
HOMOSEXUALS before were mocked and derided, but now they are regarded with new-found respect and, in many cases, even treated as celebrities. Only recently, the more impressionable among our people wildly welcomed a group of entertainers whose main proud advertisement was that they were “queer.” It seems that the present society has developed a new sense of values that have rejected our religious people’s traditional ideas of propriety and morality on the pretext of being “modern” and “broad-minded.”
The observations I will here make against homosexuals in general do not include the members of their group who have conducted themselves decorously, with proper regard not only for their own persons but also for the gay population in general. A number of our local couturiers, to take but one example, are less than manly but they have behaved in a reserved and discreet manner unlike the vulgar members of the gay community who have degraded and scandalized it. I offer abject apologies to those blameless people I may unintentionally include in my not inclusive criticisms. They have my admiration and respect.
The change in the popular attitude toward homosexuals is not particular to the Philippines. It has become an international trend even in the so-called sophisticated regions with more liberal concepts than in our comparatively conservative society. Gay marriages have been legally recognized in a number of European countries and in some parts of the United States. Queer people -- that’s the sarcastic term for them -- have come out of the closet where before they carefully concealed their condition. The permissive belief now is that homosexuals belong to a separate third sex with equal rights as male and female persons instead of just an illicit in-between gender that is neither here nor there.
When I was studying in the Legarda Elementary School in Manila during the last 1930s, the big student population had only one, just one, homosexual. His name was Jose but we all called him Josefa. He was a quiet and friendly boy whom everybody liked to josh but not offensively. In the whole district of Sampaloc where I lived, there was only one homosexual who roamed the streets peddling “kalamay” and “puto” and other treats for snacks. He provided diversion to his genial customers and did not mind their familiar amiable teasing. I think he actually enjoyed being a “binabae” [effeminate].
The change came, I think, when an association of homos dirtied the beautiful tradition of the Santa Cruz de Mayo by parading their kind as the “sagalas” instead of the comely young maidens who should have been chosen to grace the procession. Instead of being outraged by the blasphemy, the watchers were amused and, I suppose, indirectly encouraged the fairies to project themselves. It must have been then that they realized that they were what they were, whether they liked it or not, and that the time for hiding their condition was over.
Now homosexuals are everywhere, coming at first in timorous and eventually alarming and audacious number. Beauty salons now are served mostly by gay attendants including effeminate bearded hairdressers to whom male barbers have lost many of their macho customers. Local shows have their share of “siyoke” [gay men], including actors like the one rejected by a beautiful wife in favor of a more masculine if less handsome partner. And, of course, there are lady-like directors who are probably the reason why every movie and TV drama must have the off-color “bading” [gay] or two to cheapen the proceedings.
And the schools are now fertile ground for the gay invasion. Walking along the University belt one day, I passed by a group of boys chattering among themselves, with one of them exclaiming seriously, “Aalis na ako. Magpapasuso pa ako!” [“I’m leaving. I still have to breastfeed!”] That pansy would have been mauled in the school where my five sons (all machos) studied during the ’70s when all the students were certifiably masculine. Now many of its pupils are gay, and I don’t mean happy. I suppose they have been influenced by such shows as “Brokeback Mountain,” our own “Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros” (both of which won awards), “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” and that talk program of Ellen Degeneres, an admitted lesbian.
Is our population getting to be predominantly pansy? Must we allow homosexuality to march unobstructed until we are converted into a nation of sexless persons without the virility of males and the grace of females but only an insipid mix of these diluted virtues? Let us be warned against the gay population, which is per se a compromise between the strong and the weak and therefore only somewhat and not the absolute of either of the two qualities. Be alert lest the Philippine flag be made of delicate lace and adorned with embroidered frills.
from: http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=14837
August 09, 2007
The UPS Case
Taken from Information Systems Management in Practice 6th Edition Barbara McNurlin and Ralph Sprague Jr,Pearson Prentice-Hall. Copyright 2004.
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