its raining again

it's raining again. it seems that our weather here in our place is changing. usually during the ber months (months ending with ber, like october etc.) it is starting to get cold at night and it starts to dry you skin during the day. but unfortunately, it's not what's happening. it is raining every now and then.

what could be the possible reason for this change.

environmental conservation

during my younger years, in my early teens to be exact, i was a member of a conservation corps. we call ourselves the youth conservation corps. it is a community based group which its main thrust is to lessen the destruction of our planet earth. we are sent to other places to train on how to do basic recycling, waste management and garbage disposal. and then we conduct a re-echo seminar in our respective communities. as usual their reaction is that, "why do i have to bother myself in segregating my garbage if i can just throw it all at once in the garbage pit." that's their response every time we do the re-echo seminar. they don't listen to us because we are just teenagers. teenager who do no know anything.

but now, those people who are against us are the ones approaching us if we could conduct another seminar on that. they are alarmed that every time it rains, the flood waters are carrying waste materials which enters their homes. they feared they might caught some incommunicable diseases. and this is really alarming, just one day of rain the flood water is so high. if they only listened to us back then, maybe the effect today would be minimal.

language of dreams

i was reading a book written by david fontana, his language of dreams book. its a nice book, it helped me a lot in interpreting my dreams as well as the dreams of my family. his book is based on the theories of sigmund freud and carl jung. and after you have read the book, you will be encourage to make your own dream notebook.

and as of now i'm practicing to be a lucid dreamer. i am able to control, manipulate in a sense, my dreams now.

but its an advantage if you have a background of the theories of freud and jung.

idea for a novel

i have this idea, why write a novel about people going back from senescence to young age. the life of people will start from old age and people die when they are they become babies.;

re-chargeable radio

have you heard of a chargeable radio? well i got one. the sister-in-law of my former officemate is working as a sales executive in a big technology firm. they were promoting this new radio, chargeable one. as a treat, they sold it half the price. so there we were, that radio was selling like hot pancakes.

the radio has knob that you will use to re-charge it. inside it is a mini-generator which produce enough energy to keep the radio playing. for one minute of turning the knob the radio will be playing for almost five minutes. though it comes with FM and AM band only. it is also handy that you can put it inside your bag and bring it on a camping trip.

but problem is, that radio is out of stock. why? this is only my guess, maybe the battery companies bought all the units being sold commercially. if that radio will click in the market then definitely the battery companies will be affected. right? well that is just my guess. unverified guess.

noble job

we people have the tendency to see people doing the dirty jobs as low or inferior to us. we think that they don't have the education or the brains because they end up doing the dirty works for us. and oftentimes, they are also discriminated against.

i admire one of our utility man in school. he is a full-time utility man and part-time student. he goes to classroom to check the facilities at day while he goes to classroom at night to attend his classes. one time i saw him sitting in one of the benches with his eyes closed. i approached him and he was surprise at my presence. he related that he had not gotten enough sleep the other night because they were busy cleaning the classrooms. he was there sitting and taking a 20 minute nap that i interrupted.

now he is graduating, not on top of his class but still he manage to finish his studies despite the hard work. the dirty works that most of us are not willing to do. but i think that is the noblest job, his job.

group dynamics

during the leadership training seminar, i was tasked to discuss problem identification and social analysis. i was thinking of an activity that could lead me to my topic. while searching to my old notes, the internet and other books i stumbled upon a piece of paper, my name and my college classmate's name on it. it was entitled, "The Mystic River" and it reads:

"Imagine that all of you are lost in a jungle. All of you wandered around the forest in search of a way to get out safely. Then you came across a wide river with toxic substances. One false move and you’re dead. The rescue team is on the other side of the river. You can only cross the river without being harmed when you are holding a mystic bottle. Each person can use the bottle only once, the bottle cannot be tossed over the river. Each person has to personally give the bottle to the next person."

and i said this is my activity for the seminar. i changed the name from mystic river to mystic bottle. the participants enjoyed the game. though the game i was able to discuss how and what problem identification really is.

Group Dynamics

just thinking

its a nice thing to unwind once in a while. to go to places where you could relax and think about on anything. like visiting your parent's house, your province for that matter. its time for re-connecting old ties with people whom you have not talked to for a long time. and its nice to hear their stories, the changes that had taken place while you are away. and you will be surprise to know that the people who are at war before are the ones married at the present or they are partners in business. (sigh) sometimes you will just think that how you wish you were there when those things are transpiring.

or if you want you can just visit the beach. enjoy the sunrise or sunset or both. enjoy the breeze while walking or just standing still and feeling the waves underneath your feet. (sigh!)

how i wish i can do that now. i feel like drowning with these many things happening around me. its like i'm inside a jungle full of boa constrictor and hungry lions.

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lecture last aug 15

1. Endomorph
1. Individuals are classified to be temperamentally viseratonic
2. Persons love pleasure, greedy, sleep soundly and are comfort-seeking
3. Sociable and are greatly interested in seeking affection
2. Mesomorph
1. Individuals are healthy and muscular
2. Assertive and aggressive
3. Love adventure
3. Ectomorph
1. Idealistic, strict, sensitive and avoids social contacts

Attitudes or behavioral type

Carl Jung proposed 2 major attitudes or orientations of personality

1. Extroverts – men of action, outspoken and socially oriented
2. Introverts – loners, who look flexible and appear pre-occupied. Avoid social contact

- subdivided introversion and extroversion according to relative dominance of 4 psychological functions

1. Thinking
1. Psychological function w/c is ideal and intellectual and is concerned w/ facts
2. Human beings try to comprehend the nature of the world and themselves
2. feeling
1. evaluation function
2. it is the value of things, whether positive or negative w/ reference to the subject
3. it gives humans their subjective experiences of pleasure and pain, of anger, fear, sorrow and love
3. sensation
1. perceptual or reality function
4. intuition
1. perception by way of unconscious process
2. intuitive person goes beyond facts, feelings and ideas

Theory based on body chemistry

Hippocrates (400 BC) and Galen (167 AD) categorized individuals into different temperaments and humors (fluids) of the body

Temperaments Humors

Choleric person – (quick, strong) is easily angered, quick to react, yellow bile

He is serious, easily provoked and aggressive

when he fails

Sanguine – (quick, weak) person is pleasant, warm-hearted, has Blood

a prominence of blood. He looks alive and is

very optimistic

Melancholic – (slow, strong) person suffers from depression and black bile

sadness because of having too much black bile.

He is very pessimistic

Phlegmatic – (slow, weak) is listless and slow. He is unexcitable phlegm

and calm, attributed to the phlegm. He is cautious and

thinks twice before doing anything

ASAD TGC

Here's the copy of our lecture this morning

1. common traits – values are theoretical, economic, aesthetic, social, political and religious in nature

2. Personal disposition – Allport further said that there are kinds of personality traits: cardinal trait, central trait and secondary traits. Traits are not all equal. Some are more important and more likely to influence behavior than others.

a. Cardinal traits – are those around which an individual’s life will revolve. For example, if a person’s life is dominated by blind ambition and the desire for power, then the power would be the person’s cardinal trait.

b. Central traits – traits that play a major role in guiding a person’s behavior, but the person is not consumed by it.

c. Secondary traits – least influential characteristics. They involve specific situations or events. These traits may be considered as preferences or attitudes. Traits expressing isolated interests or modes of responding, like shaving the right side first.

Learning theory

Horney shows that a person wishes to find specific experiences in coping with life. She emphasizes on social forces rather than conflict with in the individual.

1. Anxiety theory – Horney believes that a child develops basic emotions from the feelings of being isolated and helpless. All kinds of parental behaviors – inconsistency, indifference, unkept promises and so on – leave the child feeling insecure. Out of this basic anxiety, the child develops ways of coping with his world. Some of these coping mechanisms become a way of life.
2. Superiority/ Compensatory theory – Adler’s theory evolved over a period of years. The foundation of the theory is that people develop as they strive to overcome or compensate for inferiorities. He said that people who have physical impairment devote much of their time in compensating for this defect. As a result, that weakness becomes strength. He added that the feelings of being inferior are a result of striving for power and perfection and failed to achieve it.

just a thought

It’s been three months since I assume the post of a counselor. It was hard at first, but as the days goes along I'm getting use to the work. Talking to students every now and then. Listening to their problems, probing and then guiding them.

I remember during my college days, my counselor always tells me that if I'm going to be a counselor someday. I'm not supposed to give advice to my counselee because it's a no in the field of counseling. At that time, it’s not that clear to me why he told me that.

Now that I’m a counselor, a young counselor to be exact, I have this tendency to lead my counselee to conclusion. A conclusion or solution which I think fits the situation. but at the end of the day, when I recall what I have done the whole day I came to realize that I will be so selfish if I insist on what I think is right for them. I also came to realize that these students have minds of their own. So all that I have to do is help them at arriving on solutions that best fit their own problems. It is based on their capabilities and weaknesses.

Counseling is more of empowerment of students, individuals with problems for that matter, to make or arrive at their own decision. Thus teaching them to be responsible for they are the one who choose that path or made that decision. The counselor's role is to show the door and they are the one who should walk through it. It’s like in the movie matrix. Morpheus showed Neo the door, and it is Neo who decided to walk through it.