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We finally launched the MTV Europe Music Awards Website today! Check it out at http://www.mtvema.com. This sucker launches with 25 regions. I’ve been working my butt off everyday, getting to work early and staying late (sometimes until 11pm!) ever since I’ve been on this project late July. I’ve been serving double duty as part of both the production team and tech team.
I finally got a taste of some freedom outside of work when we launched virtually bug free! It was a great accomplishment for MTV International. I was so happy that I could leave before 8pm today. I know it won’t last long though since tomorrow, we will immediately start working on Phase 3 launch. The EMAs is the biggest project my team produces every year and work continues until the show goes live November 5, 2009. The cool part of the job is that we do get to go to the event location to do live updates on the website. My team should be going to Berlin, Germany the week of the event. It’s always fun to throw myself into completely unfamiliar territory once in a while and soaking in the experience. The unfortunate part is that I will be busy for a while. |
Europe Music Awards 2009 Website Launches
August 25th, 2009Never Settle For Mediocrity, Strive For Success
August 24th, 2009Motivation is what drives me to succeed. It is the force which pushes me to circumstances that I was afraid to go into. I have started venturing into roads that I never would have thought I would taken before.
How did I get here? Looking to my past, I didn’t push myself at first. I used to be easily satisfied. I never questioned anything happening around me. I never thought of improving life. I was fine with maintaining status quo.
I didn’t see it before but a seed was planted in my mind. As a young child, oblivious about the workings of the world, all I learned from were examples before me. All I could learn from was really my family. My parents did teach me foundations – the difference between right and wrong. Besides them, I grew up learning from my sister, Ate.
As with most siblings, I always fought and bickered with her. I tried my best to run the opposite direction from her path in life. When she focused on her social life, I focused on my academic life. When she focused on beauty, I focused on the unimportance of it. As much as I treasured my unique identity, I couldn’t help but be influenced by her. After all, I did spend about 60% of my life with her.
I realized that as my sister learned and repeated things she wanted to remember out loud over and over, I learned alongside her. Pondering the source of my motivations, I realized that her motto that she used to repeat to herself had stuck to me as well – Never Settle For Mediocrity, Strive For Success. Maybe it was in the back of my head all this time as I grew up. Maybe this mentality pushed me to reaching for success in my academic life. Whether it was the motto or just a coincidence, we both ended up go-getters later in life.
I cannot deny the role Ate played in being a positive influence in my life. I witnessed her set her sights upon reaching great achievements. I know how much effort she puts into trying to attain the highest goals. I see how her efforts do not go to waste and I commend her for her motivation. I learned never to settle for mediocrity and strive for success.
Thank you, Ate, for being a good role model. I hope you will continue to reach for the stars.
Happy Birthday, Ate!
Portrait Of A Good Thinker
August 23rd, 2009From Thinking For A Change By John C. Maxwell:
Portrait Of A Good Thinker
- Seeing the Wisdom of Big-Picture Thinking
- Unleashing the Potential of Focused Thinking
- Discovering the Joy of Creative Thinking
- Recognizing the Importance of Realistic Thinking
- Releasing the Power of Strategic Thinking
- Feeling the Energy of Possibility Thinking
- Embracing the Lessons of Reflective Thinking
- QUestioning the Acceptance of Popular Thinking
- Encouraging the Participation of Shared Thinking
- Experiencing the Satisfaction of Unselfish Thinking
- Enjoying the Return of Bottom-Line Thinking
Working As A Team
August 23rd, 2009Techniques For High Performance
August 18, 2009 Workshop
By DDI – Development Dimensions International
http://www.ddiworld.com/
The Value of Teamwork
Working Together > Working Alone
Stages of Team Development
1. Getting Started – Getting to know members, learning about skills and expectations. Defining goals, tasks and roles.
2. Going in Circles – Not able to meet goals, not working together, blaming each other, not working towards getting tasks done.
3. Getting on Course – Progressing towards goals, moving forward with ideas, constructive feedback, setting ground rules.
4. Full Speed Ahead – Progressing with speed and efficiency, working together, utilizing feedback, finding ways to improve.
Team Success Factors
- Purpose - Something to strive for. Gives team members direction (confidence in decision making and knowledge of what is important) and identity (team’s needs ahead of own needs, single voice).
- Process - How to get things done. Identify problems, develop solutions, analyze data, reach agreement. Planning and organization. Problem solving. Setting ground rules.
- Communication – An exchange of ideas and feelings based on respect. Honest and sincere. Encouragement, cooperation, conflict resolution. Keeping everyone in the loop.
- Involvement – Encouragement of participation and contribution. Benefit from skills of all members.
- Commitment – Giving 100%. Member goals meet team goals so personal commitment supports team effort. Sense of ownership and identity.
- Trust - Ability to rely on others. Allows risk taking, trying new ideas and taking initiative.
ABW Lyrical Class #6 with Derek Mitchell
August 16th, 2009Today kicked my butt. My knee high socks (hand me down from Henry) were too big, too sticky on the marley, and didn’t show the pointing of my toes enough so I’m switching back to my adidas no-shows. My contacts dried up and were bothering me for half the class so I’m switching from Pure Vision back to Acuvue Oasis (<3 Oasis). I got a blister on my foot yesterday too so that didn’t help much. Overall, my turning was off. This was unfortunate because we ended up doing a lot of turns today.
Derek asked the class what we wanted to learn the most. We had only two classes left and he wanted to make sure we got what we wanted out of the class. Of course, our class said we wanted to really get our turning technique down. This was something I really wanted for myself. I need to get the push off, the spotting, the balance, the momentum and the form down. So far, I could do PK turns all the way from the left side of the room to the right but doing any sort of combination messes me up as I found out today.
Our across the floor exercise consisted of: Chaînés Turn, Coupé Turn, PK Turn, Compass Turn, then do the same turning the other direction.
We also learned how to do a Lyrical Pirouette. He noted that it was especially important to get the prep down for this to work. We prepped with a Tendu to second position, Demi Plie in fourth, then Passé. After getting this down, we replaced the Passé with the actual turn. Its pretty similar to what I had in a youtube video from my last posting on the Dance category. Execution was hard for me to do. It was most important to spot. Overally I think I can execute turns fine as long as I have good socks and I take my time. I can’t do it one after another very quickly though =/.
Our Routine: Beautiful Disaster (Live) By Kelly Clarkson
- Jeté leap towards the Right
- Coupé
- Chaînés Turn towards the Left
- Rond de jambe right foot towards back to prep.
- Floor Roll on butt towards Right.
- Passé left foot up
- Crouch down.
- Dance step right then left foot clockwise from back to front.
- Relevé left foot while right foot does a Développé forward.
- Compass turn counterclockwise back to front.
- Passé right foot up.
- Point right foot forward.
- Step backwards on right foot dragging left foot pointing forward.
- Step backwards on left foot dragging right foot pointing forward.
