Month: June 2007

life love

My qualifications

By Ria

I posted na my qualifications for the guy I would want to date / have as a boyfriend. To be fair, I am posting my qualifications. Here's who I am... 1. 5'1", somewhere in the vicinity of 120 lbs, fair-skinned (daw), chinita (daw), don't let the photos fool you... I'm photogenic daw... 2. living and will always come back to Davao City 3. currently working as a Freelance Marketing and PR Consultant, Tutor, Professional Blogger, Events Organizer, and Team Manager (of cyber game teams) 4. IQ definitely above 110, but I'm not sure kung ano na ngayon... loves Math and Chemistry, and generally, anything that involves geekiness, I believe or have deluded myself into believing that I can speak and write in English well, in fact, I often correct other people's grammar and pronunciation 5. 25 years old, never been married, no children (haha!) 6. mahilig mag-text (mukulit sa text), mahilig mag-YM 7. spends more than enough time surfing the net, blogging, blog hopping, reading and posting in forums and other such things 8. loves TALKING, as in! bungangera ako... my friends say my secret weapon is that I'm a good conversationalist, a good listener when it comes to discussions…

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work

Consultant

By Ria

My student asked me... "Teacher, why different offices everyday?" I answered simply that I'm a consultant. But that only opened up an avenue for more questions. I realized that not a lot of people really understand or fully grasp what a consultant is. Not to be condescending, (ok, so I am a bit...) but here's how dictionary.com defines what a consultant is: a person who gives professional or expert advice and here's wikipedia's definition: A consultant (from the Latin consultare meaning "to discuss" from which we also derive words such as consul and counsel) is a professional who provides expert advice in a particular area of expertise such as accountancy, the environment, technology, the law, human resources, marketing, medicine, finance, public affairs, communication, engineering or waste management. The main difference between a consultant and a 'normal' expert is that the consultant is not himself employed with his client, but instead is in business for himself or for a consultancy firm, usually with multiple and changing clients. Thus, his clients have access to deeper levels of expertise than would be feasible for them to retain in-house, especially if the speciality is needed comparatively rarely. Basically, I tell others (people, professionals, proprietors,…

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