Journal

Conquered the famed Mt. Pulag this weekend! Now I understand why people go out of their way to hike 3 hours so early in a very cold morning (could go under 6°C) – the sunrise over the sea of clouds is breathtaking! From the 15 people in our group (not including myself), I only know Tristan who organized the trip and Jhonathan. I wouldn’t survive 2018 without these two! The rest were Tristan’s colleagues from Novare (yup, my company (Amihan)’s competitor. haha). Great opportunity to make new friends! Our vans left Manila at 11PM Thursday then arrived in Baguio at…

Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines – In this second rendition, DevCon Philippines is bringing back the Biggest Developer Conference in the Philippines to the flourishing city of Cagayan de Oro! DevCon Summit 2018: Cagayan de Oro Edition will take place on November 10, 2018 at Capitol University. The event aims to gather more than 600 developers and IT enthusiasts from all over Northern Mindanao. Themed “Transformation in Action”, this event hopes to follow its high success from last year by delivering a myriad of activities all jam-packed into 1 day. The conference will tackle topics ranging from emerging technologies of…

Over a year of organizing lead generation events for Amihan Global Strategies (B2B company), inviting new contacts has always been a challenge. We haven’t established relationships yet so we are likely to be ignored. However, there are few things I learned to increase my invite success rate. Assuming you already sent email invites to your new contacts, here are some tips I found effective in my follow-ups if you haven’t heard from them days after: Check via email if they received the invite. Sometimes they’ve read it but forgot to respond or your email got flooded down in their inbox. Following…

I’m an impulsive person. It wasn’t until 2 days before the event that I decided to run. Glad someone offered to sell me their racing kit. I would’ve gone 21KM but since I had no training I might get myself injured so I opted to go 10KM. It wasn’t my best 10KM but I sure felt accomplished crossing the finish line!  Next up, training for marathon!