MCC Collection Dept Presentation

MCC Christmas Premiere
December 14,2012 at NBC Tent Taguig City

Another Superb Presentation from our very own Department (Collection Department).
We really did a great job from Performers,Costumes,Logistics & For the Creative Team, Once again we showed what we've got! KUDOS!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

The Work-Life Balance

STEP 1: Get a Life!

The first and most important step toward work-life balance is to get a life. Those who have nothing better to do with their time may find that spending more time in the office may not be such a bad idea. It’s certainly better than vegetating on the couch, or in bed, or at a half-empty food court at eleven o’clock on a Thursday night.

If you’re serious about finding balance in work and life, you first need to have meaningful activities outside work. There has to be something (or someone) calling for you as the clock hits six o’clock in the evening every day. One easy remedy is marriage. A loving (and/or demanding) spouse and family is a commitment to life outside of work par excellence. But it can be anything really: a gym appointment, Chinese classes, a weekly movie night with friends, or volunteer work at the home for the aged. Whatever it is make it fun, make it meaningful and, most important of all, make it stick!

STEP 2: Calibrate a Personal Definition of ‘Balance’

The right amount of work and life in work-life is a personal choice. There’s no ratio that works for everyone. A single employee only two years out of college may choose to devote 90% of his or her time to work and only 10% to life, while an employee who is married with four children may choose to go 50-50, for example.

Even people who are demographically similar (i.e., same age, sex, and marital status) can have different personal values that drive varied work-life ratio choices. While work may sometimes feel like a rat race, it isn’t. It’s a race for sure, but we aren’t all rats. Some of us are beavers in baby blue bathrobes or pit bulls with pink and purple ponytails. We all race in our own idiosyncratic ways.

STEP 3: Optimize Work

Once you have a life and have defined how much of time you will spend on it, only then is it time to turn to the work side of the equation. And there are many and more ways to do this than can be discussed in a one-page memo. Here are a few of the most useful: (1) Avoid meetings like the plague, (2) Please do do what’s on your to-do, (3) E-mail others as you want them to e-mail you, and (4) Don’t sit on problems as they may just blow up in your *something other than face.*

Avoid meetings like the plague. When there are too many people in a meeting, there’s bound to be a few of them who are wasting their time there. If there are too few people in a meeting, why even call it? Just walk up to them and talk.

Please do do what’s on your to-do. Too many people have to-do lists that never get completed. Respect your own time by putting only what’s truly important on your to-do list, then make sure you complete it. It also helps to refresh your to-do lists daily.

E-mail others as you want them to e-mail you. Lots of the e-mail we get are simply useless to us. We usually can’t contribute to what’s discussed or, worse, aren’t even involved in the first place. In this sense, e-mail can be a huge time-waster. So, follow the e-mail golden rule: E-mail others only as you want them to e-mail you, that is, with respect for time and bias towards action.

Don’t sit on problems as they might just blow up in your *something other than face.* Two truisms to remember: (a) Problems without solutions aren’t problems, and (b) Real problems don’t solve themselves.

Note that focusing too early on optimizing work can be counterproductive. You need to optimize work only as much as is needed to fit your workload into your predetermined work-life balance ratio. No ratio: no target for optimization. No target for optimization: either too little or too much optimization.

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GENERAL 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 2100

  HSDPA 850 / 1900 - for AT&T

SIM Mini-SIM

Announced 2011, September

Status Available. Released 2011, December

BODY Dimensions 122 x 61 x 11 mm (4.80 x 2.40 x 0.43 in)

Weight 140 g (4.94 oz)

  - Touch-sensitive controls

DISPLAY Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors

Size 480 x 854 pixels, 4.0 inches (~245 ppi pixel density)

Multitouch Yes

SOUND Alert types Vibration, MP3 ringtones

Loudspeaker Yes

3.5mm jack Yes

MEMORY Card slot microSD (TransFlash) up to 32GB

Internal 1 GB storage, 512 MB RAM, 4 GB ROM

DATA GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 - 48 kbps

EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps

Speed HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps

WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot

Bluetooth Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR

USB Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, check quality

Features Geo-tagging, HDR

Video Yes, 720p@30fps, check quality

Secondary Yes, VGA

FEATURES OS Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread), upgradable to v4.0

Chipset Qualcomm MSM8255T Snapdragon

CPU 1.4 GHz Scorpion

GPU Adreno 205

Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass

Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM

Browser HTML, Adobe Flash

Radio FM radio

GPS Yes, with A-GPS support

Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator

Colors Glossy Black, Textured Black, Elegant White, Vibrant Yellow, Cherry Blossom Pink, Burgundy

  - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic

- SNS integration

- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, Talk

- MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player

- MP4/H.263/H.264 player

- Organizer

- Document viewer

- Photo viewer/editor

- Voice memo/dial/commands

- Predictive text input

BATTERY   Standard battery, Li-Ion 1930 mAh

Stand-by Up to 380 h

Talk time Up to 6 h 40 min

MISC SAR US  0.39 W/kg (head)      

                         0.63 W/kg (body)    

SAR EU  0.38 W/kg (head)     

                 0.49 W/kg (body)    

Loudspeaker Voice 71dB / Noise 68dB / Ring 75dB

Camera Photo / Video

Price 13500php

UNDAS SA PINAS

         Sa Pilipinas, ang araw na ito ay inilalaan sa pagdalaw sa mga puntod ng yumaong mahal sa buhay kung saan sila ay nag-aalay ng dasal, bulaklak at kandila. Karaniwang parang isang masayang pagkikita ng magkakamag-anak. Sinasabi na ang araw na ito ay “isang pakakataon upang makapiling” ang mga mahal na yumao minsan isang taon. Bago dumating ang araw na ito ang mga puntod ay nililinis at pinipintahan. Dahil isa itong mahalagang araw upang makapiling ang mga yumaong kamag-anak, ang mga pamilya ay karaniwang naglalamay sa simenteryo at kung minsan magdamag o dalawang araw sa puntod ng mahal sa buhay. Upang magpalipas ng oras, may naglalaro ng baraha, may nagkakainan, nag-aawitan at nagsasayawan sa simenteryo. Isang mahalagang kapistahan ito ng maraming Pilipino (matapos sa Pasko at Semana Santa). Ang ika-1 ng Nobyembre ay isang pistang opisyal sa Pilipinas at kung minsan pati ang araw bago o pagkatos nang araw na ito.

Philippine mythology

Philippine folklore, unlike Greek or Roman mythologies, has not been organized into a formal pantheon, does not generally contain long epics, nor has it been relegated to history. To this day, Philippine myths still have an active role in the lives of rural Filipinos. The countless myths circulating throughout the Filipino countryside contain a large variety of mythical creatures. Although there is no scientific evidence for any of these creatures, there is also no shortage in the rural parts of the Philippines of people who believe firmly in their existence. This discrepancy is sometimes rationalized by the explanation that only pure and good mortals are able to see these creatures.

COSPLAY

Cosplay: The Beginning

It probably has never crossed your mind to wonder how cosplaying began.  For us, it always has been and always will be.  That’s enough.  But for those of you curious, here’s a little history on the invention of cosplay.

It began in a convention in 1939.  Yes, they had conventions in 1939, even though it does seem like the Dark Ages.  At the World Science Fiction Convention, a con-goer by the name of Forrest J. Ackerman decided that not only did he want to attend, but he wanted to dress up as a futuristic spaceman.  Google him – he’s got his own Wikipedia page.  (He ended up having a career in science fiction as well as an infamous passion for its memorabilia.)  His costume is rather laughable, and only vaguely space-esque, but it sparked the phenomenon that ties us to our sewing machines today.

The term “cosplay” wasn’t actually coined until 1984.  Nobuyuki Takahashi, president of Japan’s Studio Hard, was impressed by the various people dressed up at the Los Angeles Science Fiction Worldcon used the phrase.  It is a combination of the words “costume” and “play.”

Cosplaying as we think of it took off in the 1970s in Japan with the release of Gundam.  The frenzy found American in the 1980s, although most of you will probably want to block out any images from that (80s hairstyles were bad; the cosplaying was worse).  But, in their defense, it was less of an art form and more of a fun experience.  Today, with it so prominent in American anime culture, the talent involved in it as well as the criticism sometimes lashed out has risen significantly.

Since it has grown, various media outlets specifically for cosplay.  Particularly since the internet became widespread, more and more people have delved into the fandom and given it a chance, what with information so readily available to assist them.  With newer technologies, wider community acceptance, and more dedicated cosplayers, it is poised to grow even further in the coming years.

COSPLAY in the PHILIPPINES

        Cosplay is rapidly entering the mainstream in the Philippines, where cosplay events are often held within anime, manga, gaming, or sci-fi conventions. Guidelines made for events are seen to affect the character choices available to cosplayers. While Filipino cosplay rules generally allow fully commissioned costumes to participate in competitions, they also take into account the portrayal of the characters being cosplayed (the "play" aspect). This has led to some debate over what judges are looking for in cosplayers, with some participants complaining of a bias toward female cosplayers who dress up as scantily-clad characters, or a bias in picking some groups over others in terms of costume quality and accuracy in character portrayal.

A new phenomenon in the local scene is "costripping," a word formed from "cosplay-tripping." Cosplayers are said to be engaged in "costripping" whenever they show up in a convention or event where a cosplay contest is held in full costumed regalia, but without signing up to be a part of the said contest. Another way to be involved in "costripping" is to show up in full costume during meet-ups or EBs (eyeballs) where there are no cosplay contests being held.

Si Lala

From Fortu family:

Anu bang meron kay lala? si lala? sino ba cya? 

sa unting panahon ng ating pinagsamahan masasabi ko na kakaiba ka! 

Nakakatuwang nilalang, masayahin  at mabuting kaibigan na handang ipaglaban ang mga taong mahal nia... Sa totoo lang nde namin alam kung anu meron sau pero nahu-hooked kame sau. Masaya ako para sayo, sa pag alis mo naway gabay mo ang naging magandang samahan at pagmamahal na pinagsaluhan natin bilang magkakaibigan at isang pamilya.. Kagaya nga ng sabe ko sau wala kami pakialam kung anu man ang dati mo at kung anu estado mo sa buhay minahal ka namin dahil kung anu ka ngaun... hangad namin ang iyong TAGUMPAY!!! 

Loveyah much 

Shella Orevillo