Fine Arts field trip to Cagayan, Tuguegarao, and Aparri was real great. Pictures soon.
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Art Production for FA 30
Dula, an entirely new Story, Poem and Kuwento Revisions, and the Folio of Works for MP 115
Full-Length Film Screenplay for MP 179
Final Production and Scrapbook for BC 100
Online and Classroom Experiments and ENDLESS Papers for Psych 101
Final Exam and YET ANOTHER Final Paper for Comm 100
All these in less than two weeks.
Someone save me from the deadly INC from Psych and my two MP classes. Three INCOMPLETEs in the transcript is not pretty good.
And I haven't enlisted my subjects yet!
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Monday, September 04, 2006
One Taiwan Job
Today I celebrate one whole year of playing servant to the loaded citizens of Taiwan.
It all started exactly a year ago—September 4, 2005. A man e-mailed me and asked if I was interested in some extra cash. By extra, he meant “more than what you’re getting from whatever sidelines you have.”
The job: People from Taiwan send in their articles, theses, college application letters, dissertations, and even company memorandums for me to “fix” their faulty English grammar and sentence construction. By faulty, I mean unpleasant fourth-grade level English.
And it hasn’t been easy.
Aside from the occasionally piercing task of trying to find some sense in the works I read, the job entails an extreme amount of research. Every month, I’d receive at least six to seven pieces on topics I’m not familiar with at all. There was this paper on the Navier-Stokes equations used to solve the aerodynamic flow over an aircraft. And this college science project on the neurophysiology of visual perception, mammalian brain neuroanatomy and cell-level neurophysiology. And the most challenging so far, a university thesis presenting superconductivity as a macroscopic quantum state of "Cooper pairs."
But, it’s been very fulfilling. A Taiwanese lass sent a thank-you card after she passed Stanford, a lighting company gave me a small lamp and seven light bulbs of different sizes after I “sanitized” their company’s constitution and by-laws, a group of college kids scanned their 3rd prize science fair ribbon and gave me a copy. These small deeds permit me to overlook the pain of splurging hours reading about calculating Pi, environmental neurotoxic substances, or bioluminescence.
It all started exactly a year ago—September 4, 2005. A man e-mailed me and asked if I was interested in some extra cash. By extra, he meant “more than what you’re getting from whatever sidelines you have.”
The job: People from Taiwan send in their articles, theses, college application letters, dissertations, and even company memorandums for me to “fix” their faulty English grammar and sentence construction. By faulty, I mean unpleasant fourth-grade level English.
And it hasn’t been easy.
Aside from the occasionally piercing task of trying to find some sense in the works I read, the job entails an extreme amount of research. Every month, I’d receive at least six to seven pieces on topics I’m not familiar with at all. There was this paper on the Navier-Stokes equations used to solve the aerodynamic flow over an aircraft. And this college science project on the neurophysiology of visual perception, mammalian brain neuroanatomy and cell-level neurophysiology. And the most challenging so far, a university thesis presenting superconductivity as a macroscopic quantum state of "Cooper pairs."
But, it’s been very fulfilling. A Taiwanese lass sent a thank-you card after she passed Stanford, a lighting company gave me a small lamp and seven light bulbs of different sizes after I “sanitized” their company’s constitution and by-laws, a group of college kids scanned their 3rd prize science fair ribbon and gave me a copy. These small deeds permit me to overlook the pain of splurging hours reading about calculating Pi, environmental neurotoxic substances, or bioluminescence.
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