Happy New Year, everyone!
Before I can finally close the chapter of 2014, let me share with you some of the highlights that happened to me for this entire year. I couldn’t put this blog post to my personal website (https://abramlimpin.com/sites/sindikato/old) right now because I still have to renew my domain and apply for a web host subscription.
Anyways, here are the (incomplete) list of my recap:
Personal
- Started writing on a journal / Starbucks planner but ended last June
- Started living in Taft, Manila, for almost a year; Rented a condo unit (studio-type) at The Grand Towers.
- Maintained a short haircut
- Started drinking coffee regularly during the last quarter
- Started drinking red wine almost every week
- Bought me a Lumia phone (and I’ve never been disappointed)
- Retrieved my old Globe number but eventually lost my other phone
- Took care of a cactus (I named it Zelly) for almost a year (and still alive!)
- Spent most of the time talking with people under and over my age
- Managed daily and monthly expenses using a tracker from Excel.
- Finally got a business card.
- Received my first stock dividends/share from my company
Dev
- Maintained my Stack Overflow account with 2120 reputation points and 31 badges
- Started learning SignalR, AngularJS, ASP.NET MVC 4, and LINQ
- Deployed and published websites in Windows Azure
- Participated in Hack The Climate 2014 hackathon last June 6-7
- Participated in AngelHack Manila 2014 hackathon last July 26-27
- Participated in HERE Manila 2014 hackathon last December 6, with my 4 WB-DEV2 students; won 4th place out of 15 participating groups.
- Developed and maintained applications and/or websites for the following clients: Themes & Motifs, Robinsons Galleria, Robinsons Ermita, Mr. Choi Kitchen, Studio C Interior, FlyAce, CHARIS Foundation, Capital City Alliance Church, MORESCO-1, and Hearts & Bells.
Academe
- Marked my 3rd year of teaching in De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde last September
- Maintained outstanding STAR rating for the entire year; received Learning-Centered Teacher and Outstanding Teacher awards.
- Received an outstanding rating from PARF for the school year
- Transferred from Computer Applications (CA) program to Information Systems (IS) program starting the school year 2014-2015
- Had given the opportunity again to become a CAPROJ/ISPROJ adviser (almost 90% of the groups passed)
- Had given the opportunity to become a student adviser for the IS program during the first term of the school year
- Conducted special class (PROGLAN) during the first term of the school year
- Chosen as the adviser for our school’s organization (CBA)
- Update web development lesson plans and coding exercises – focused on Twitter Bootstrap as the design framework + ASP.NET as the programming language
- Attended Microsoft Ambassadors for Education’s Train the Trainers Program last May 8-10; awarded as the best presenter during the last day of the training
- Conducted MS Office 2013 training for teachers from Molino Elementary School last May 23
- Conducted mock authorship exam as final examinations for WB-DEV2 students for 2nd Term, SY14-15
- Attended DLS-CSB CIRC’s Curriculum Competency Seminar-Workshop in PHINMA Training Center Tagaytay and Punta De Fabian
Health
- Started the year by joining a nutrition club
- Lost weight from 75 to 70 kilos
- Quit eating potato chips since April
- Stopped eating rice last April – chose potatoes and pasta as alternatives for carbohydrates.
- Quit eating French fries since August
- Quit drinking sodas since October
- Donated blood at Philippine Heart Center last December 20
- Lessened water intake from 8 to 6 glasses (bad!)
- Spent a few sessions playing table tennis
Travel
- Went to Pampanga to visit our ancestor’s house
- Went to Tagaytay for our school’s annual retreat
- Went to Baguio for our school program’s annual faculty team building
- Went on an out-of-town trip to Cagayan de Oro for a client user acceptance testing and workshop training
- Traveled from Manila to the northern part of Quezon City (and vice-versa) using the LRT-1 for the first time
- Spent my Christmas vacation with my past students and friends at Matabungkay, Batangas, and Tagaytay
Events
- Attended and co-organized Benilde’s SMITensity last February 24 at SMX Convention Center
- Went to Sherwood for my first #HappyThursday last April
- Watched my cousins’ ballet performance in the Cultural Center of the Philippines last May 25
- Attended and co-organized (as a faculty) Hack The Climate 2014 in DLS-CSB’s Augusto-Rosario Gonzales Theater
- Attended one of my students’ debut last August 15
- Participated as an exhibitor from the last Wedding Expo Philippines, organized by Themes & Motifs
- Attended and participated in the first Student Business Analytics Conference last October 10, organized by Computer Business Association (CBA)
- Attended the Baccalaureate Mass and Commencement Exercises/graduation day last July 5 and October 18
- Participated in my first team building with students last October during CBA’s annual teambuilding
- Celebrated my grandmother’s 90th birthday at Mateo’s Restaurant Cafe last November 22, together with my family, relatives, and acquaintances
- Attended Computer Business Association’s CA Night at Exklusiv last November 22
Social Media
- Had 2100+ Facebook friends (Almost half of them were my students); 168 accounts following my Facebook stories.
- Posted 14.4k tweets and increased Twitter followers to 768
- Started using Instagram; Posted 200+ photos, with 300+ followers
- Had 2200+ Foursquare check-ins, along with 41 badges
- Connected to 716 LinkedIn accounts; received 40+ endorsements forASP.NET, C#, Web Development, and Microsoft SQL Server skills
- Received a Klout score of 56
Leisure / Entertainment
- Lessened watching movies in cinemas
- Started watching Parks and Recreation series
- Won the 2048 game and still playing the 2048+ series, with a current high score of 279276
- Completed watching How I Met Your Mother from season 1 to 9
- Finished the first season from NBA 2k14 My Career averaging 40 points, 9 assists, 8 steals, and 4 turnovers
(Will be updating this blog post from time to time. Please excuse any typos or brevity.)
Indeed, it was definitely a good year. Thanks for reading!
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