September 1 - 15, 2017
PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY
So much for experience
Life etc.
by Jun Cordero
Part of my job involves
ensuring that our staff always
have their curriculum vitae
(CV or resumé) current and
updated as these are required
when bidding for projects.
It’s always a challenge when I
come across CVs that are like
twenty or more pages long.
Who in the world is going to
read a CV that long without
falling asleep, I always ask
myself.
Guess it’s just normal for
people to be proud of their
accomplishments that they
lose sense of practicality.
Experts
always
suggest
keeping the CV no more than
two pages long when applying
for a job. In our case I always
insist that when bidding for
projects a one-page CV is
enough but most of our staff
S.E.L.F ...
who have abundant
technical experience always
get carried away describing
minute details of things they
designed that their CV is more
of a technical book than a
qualifications brief.
I was trying to remember
a passage from a poem of
some sort that derides what
we call “experience”. The
author suggests that man
is never satisfied but is so
obsessed on acquiring more
experience that by the time
we have enough we’re too
old to benefit from it. In his
words, “experience only finds
it in dead men”, which bring
me to my case in point.
Sometime ago I had an x-
ray done in the hospital and
the technician who attended
to me turned out to be a young
Filipino fellow, which, from his
perfect English pronunciation
transformation, is celebrating its 25th
anniversary this month with activities
that include seminars for local trainers
and international and local experts.
Its theme for the celebration is
“Rekindling Hope and Rebuilding
Lives” and leading the panel of
speakers is Dr. Gregory C. Bunt,
M.D. an expert in addiction medicine.
On Sept. 14, an international panel
of experts will discuss therapeutic
community approaches at the SMX
Aura Function room 1. Residents
and families of the SELF community,
medical practitioners, and students
will attend. (Wouldn’t it be nice if
PNP’s top brass can attend to find
other ways of dealing with addictions
to illegal drugs aside from having
and enunciation, I was pretty
sure is a typical locally born
or Canadian-grown kid of
immigrants like us.
The funny thing was when
he found out I was a Pinoy
he tried instructing me in his
funny Tagalog, on which he
obviously was really trying his
best. I kept on responding in
English to let him know that
I do speak and understand
English.
Then just a few days ago I
was in my Eye
specialist’s
clinic whose
new assistant
was a nice
young
girl
from
the
Philippines
who
spoke
really
good
English. But,
again, when
she saw I was a Pinoy she
started giving me instructions
in her funny Tagalog.
Coming home that day I
asked my wife what she sees
in me. What do you mean,
she was wondering what I
was up to. I meant, I said, do I
look dumb or like an idiot who
doesn’t know how to speak
and understand English?
Yes you do look like
an idiot, she was enjoying
them executed outright?)
SELF introduces the therapeutic
community approach here and it
has helped its clients over the years,
Martin told us. They combine clinical
intervention and the TC approach,
but all residents have individualized
programs, according to their
needs. On Sept. 14, there will be an
international round table of experts to
discuss the future of the TC Federation
of South Asia, and on the 16th, there
will be a grand show directed by Fritz
Ynfante at the SELF facility in Talisay.
Participants are all SELF residents.
Cheers to SELF! (mb. com)
HOPE Martin Infante at the Bulong Pulungan special forum with core group
members at the XO Heritage Bistro at S’Maison
WWW.PHILIPPINEASIANNEWSTODAY.COM
herself.
My point, exactly, I said.
Doesn’t matter how many
years of academia or work
experience I have, or how
many rockets and atom
bombs I designed, these
young people just see an
old stupid guy who can’t
even understand English.
And how right that author is
- experience only finds it in
dead men!