About the Student, Web Designer and Filipino

I’m Edward Laurence Lazaro Palomo, residing at a small town called San Miguel in the northern most part of the province of Bulacan, just two (2) hours away from Manila. My parents both have teaching as their profession. My father is a school administrator in one of the elementary schools in our town while my mother is a teacher serving another elementary school near our house. I’m the only child of my parents but still, I was not raised in comfort. Rather, I lived a simple life in a home where love is above anything else.

I took kindergarten at Saint Paul College of San Miguel and went on up to Grade Six in the same school. Then I spent my four years in the secondary level at San Miguel National High School where I met most of my current and closest friends. I took Bachelor of Science in Information Systems at the University of Santo Tomas mainly because of my interest in computers and most of all, I have no choice. Living in a country where society calls for orthodox programs may be a bit hard at first. People will ask you what your course is. Then you’d say you’re taking up BSIS and hear as a reply, “what’s that?” Well currently, I really enjoy and love this course for its versatility to become technically oriented and shift to the management/ business side of things.

During the first year of the IS program, I took C programming then the following year, I acquired more advance Java programming skills. I’m also finished taking up programming using Assembly language along with basic management practices and principles. Also, I am finished learning the ins and outs of Human Resource Management as well as the different cycles comprising business processes with the knowledge of using the software SAP Business – One. But above all of these, I enjoyed learning Interface Design and Web Technologies which delved me into the vast world of cyberspace. Though much was self-study, I learned to use the different programs included in the Adobe Creative Suite and the theories behind Human-Computer Interaction. I learned how to make Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and put them to a bare bones HTML code. Besides that, with a little introduction to PHP side-server scripting and MySQL from the series of seminars that I attended just this summer, I now take on another journey into the field of CMS.

At the moment, I am capable of maneuvering the coolest blog platform (but some say it can be compared to a fully functional CMS and I attest to that), WordPress. With it’s easy to use template tags, I can make the design of my choice before moving on to hard coding. I am also capable of handling the Joomla CMS but I have so much to learn with it. I’m doing the best I could to learn these two most popular ways of managing content on the web.

About this blog

I made this blog for me to share my thoughts and some of my opinions on everyday life. Being a college student has brought me to new heights. I want to share my new experiences and skills that I learn so that it could benefit or at least entertain anyone who might read it. This is also a journal of the activities that I take part on like seminars, conferences, and symposium, or whatever. Another thing that made me blog is that I want to measure how I am growing as a person, a student and a professional. Nevertheless, this is my personal journey on becoming a productive citizen of my country.

I chose the title “The Learning Life of Edward Palomo” obviously because I’m currently studying. But more so, I chose the word ‘learning’ rather than ‘college’ or ‘studying’, because I really don’t believe in studying by the book and aiming for high grades. Seldom students think that way and for me that is wrong. What’s important is that in everything you do, in school or not, you must find time to see that you learn something out of it.