The AIM Blogger

This blog, like most things, is evolving. The AIM Blogger will be changing from a blog into a community site. From a blog with the perspective of one person to a website looking through the eyes of every student at the Asian Institute of Management . I guess it’s pretty apparent that my life outside of AIM after graduation has [...]

People say, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” But what if that person is a manager? Marketing Manager – “When life gives you lemons, get the juice, color it blue, and call it ’shlemonade’ because the 18-30 year old demographic likes the ’sh’ sound and all things blue.” Operations Manager – “When life gives you lemons, outsource [...]

The Philippine premiere of the film ” 10 Tactics ” will be held at the Asian Institute of Management tomorrow at 7pm. 10 Tactics is a documentary that shows how information can be translated into concrete action. While the film has open source leanings, I believe the contents of the film can give business folks an idea how to create [...]

I cannot deny the fact that the long weekend is over. While some of us went out of town and had their own adventures, I chose to stay at home and go out a bit during my long weekend. It was nice, but sadly, too short. Checking my emails’ inbox confirms it. The weekend is over, [...]

The article I mentioned a few months back is finally out! I contributed an article to the AIM Alumni Leadership Magazine (or AIM Leader) entitled “Confessions of an MBA Blogger” and it’s about The AIM Blogger . I wrote about this blog’s roots and directions in the future. I shared how this blog was able to help me cope during my [...]

The first day of another 3 day long weekend for MBA cohort 5 students has started! I for one am looking forward to it. DVDs at home, some more quality time with family, going out and not worrying too much about the time! Even hanging out at home without any readings to worry about! (Well, I [...]

One of the things I’ve been doing to get involved with AIM MBA cohorts is playing basketball with them regularly. Since the “easy” fourth and final term started, we played almost weekly. We usually play at the AFP Army Gymnasium and the Power Plant Basketball Court. Majority of players come from MBA Cohort 3, although there are folks [...]

1030 was the time that we ended our learning team meeting last night. Slowly but surely, we are getting into that pace wherein we now spend less time working with our assignments as a group. I’m not really sure if it is an improvement in time-efficiency, or some other productivity thing, but from what I can [...]

Great news! The AIM Blogger is chosen one of the 100 Best Blogs for International Business Students by Online Colleges.net . The list is a selection of blogs that  provide an excellent opportunity for students to find out first-hand about doing business in countries around the world, hear from other b-school students living and studying abroad, find out what [...]

Finished taking the Macroeconomics Midterms a few hours ago. After taking the test, I found a new found respect for economists and the training that they go through. While I’m quite sure none of us will be expecting a perfect score, I am sure that at least I got maybe 4 points right. It is true [...]

DO I SLEEP OR DO I NOT SLEEP? Just got home after meeting up with friends. After the hopefully going-to-be regular habit of jogging with some of my classmates (no group name yet), I proceeded to Glorietta on foot to meet up with them. We had dinner at HG Rockstar, the former Heaven and Eggs “breakfast [...]

There are many things to be afraid of, and for an MBA student, one of these fears is to be the lowest of the low in the batch, to be the outlier among outliers, to be the cream of the crap, and to fail when others have high probabilities to succeed. We all probably have this fear. Despite [...]

The Mozilla Philippines Community, Globe Telecom , and the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) will be hosting the Five Years of Firefox in Manila! event this coming November 21, 2009 (3pm-5pm) at the Fuller Hall of AIM in Makati City. This event is a get-together of Mozilla Firefox and web enthusiasts in the Philippines. This is the third web-related event held at [...]

The Asian Institute of Management recently launched a new look for its website! The design is quite special to me because I was  responsible for creating the design where the final template design was based. I was inspired by the “maximal” photos incorporated in nice sites today, like the website of MIT. The good thing about this design is [...]

If you’ve noticed that I haven’t been blogging here as much I used to, you’re spot on. But there’s a pretty good reason for that. I’m working on a free book project about my experiences in studying and teaching at the Asian Institute of Management ’s MBA program. The free book is called ” Did You Read The Case? – [...]