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How good things should be done May 18, 2010

Been too busy in the office lately. But amid the hectic sked and all the stuff that would crop up when they shouldn’t, I would find good things in all the heap of works and realize from them how real good things should be done or shouldn’t be done.

• My officemate Ria and I compiled together the progressive file of documents detailing the tedious editing work we’ve done for the upcoming institutional research journal that our Department is tasked to produce. What we’ve realized from the number of notations and post-it notes I would attach on every document (read: a work in progress) is the fact that this is how editing should be done:  meticulous, rigorous, and patient. Thus, the compilation would now be a sampler for future editors whom we will task to do similar editing of journal publications. How did we do the process (color-coded at that to represent a particular stage of the editing craft!) will be an interesting subject of a future blog entry.
• This afternoon, a group in my research class (graduate school) did an advance presentation of their research proposal. I asked two of our research staff in the Department to sit as panelist-observers during the course of the proposal defense. The study was too interesting it made us ask among ourselves: Have we considered ergonomics (meaning how our fixtures in the office are arranged, positioned, or cleaned up) as a factor in our productivity as employees? Because true enough, the more cluttered we are, as literatures pointed us, the less productive we tend to be. Basically, this, too, is the principle of feng shui. That is, we must de-clutter so we could let energy freely and positively flow. Interesting realization!
• On the way to work this morning, I was lucky enough to catch an airconditioned bus. But that wasn’t only the lucky thing. On the bus, I was able to watch an Indian version of “Super Man.” The movie’s premise is anchored on man and technology. Because there’s this gifted man who can read and project the future. He is being harnessed to work on a technology that can see the future and change its course, all in the name of being and becoming not like God, but that of becoming the God himself. I wasn’t lucky though to finish the movie since I must alight a few minutes later down my destination.