Finally, I’m feeling the pressure of school works this semester. First was a 6-day schedule from Monday to Saturday from 7 in the morning up to 1 in the afternoon. That might sound normal but it’s difficult for me to wake up that early coming from an evening schedule last semester. I was used to sleeping at around 3 a.m. then waking up at 10 when the sun is already up. Then another would be my research paper more often than not called thesis. But it doesn’t stop there, we have to make a customer relation management system (CRM) for a company which by now we still don’t know. I’m tasked to head this CRM project and I hope we can do this smoothly or else we’re dead.

After the orientation for our thesis, we are given these topics to work on for the information systems (IS) discipline; e-Commerce, e-Governance, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Supply Chain Management (SCM), IT Auditing, Customer Relations Management (CRM), Decision Support System (DSS) and Expert Systems (ES). We have until December 5, 2009 to work on a feasible topic. Read the rest of this entry…

The first two weeks of my second semester is going smoothly. Last week I got an advance Christmas gift from Smart and now, I have an ATM again. I’m a poor kid living in a third world country. Since I was child, I knew that I should be thrifty and with that I learned to prioritize. Needs before wants, that’s how my parents raised me. Though I’m the only child in the family, I was not raised in comfort. I don’t spend that much on clothes nor go to parties and such.

I had my ATM card back in my freshman days. It’s very useful especially when I can’t go back to our province to get my allowance. My mother transfers money from her savings account to mine. That went through until one day, out of stupidity, I spent the maintaining balance of my ATM card and my account closed. Since then, I haven’t opened it and when my parents ask me where it is, I simply reply, “I don’t know.” I had a hard time getting it back because I can’t save money because I was always short of money due to school projects and other things. I had to go home to the province weekly to get my allowance. Read the rest of this entry…