07 Aug 2011 ♥ 7:13 am ♥ Comment

“Don’t do things half-heartedly.”; Personal,School,Thoughts

Apparently, my sole reason why I disappeared from the online world (when my blog updates came into halt) was because of my “work” in La Salle. Majors, living on your own, errands from my brother, and AdCreate Society? My only escape at that time would be reblogging at my tumblr. It was very disheartening for me to see “Rainbowholic” and my visions for it (create a big tutorial site + personal blog) fading away… But again, you have to sacrifice some things in life. Don’t get me wrong though, I have no regrets at all. : )

I don’t know if I have shared about this before in my blog, or even mentioned about it…. but I was rather an active officer in my course (Advertising Management)’s official organization, The AdCreate Society. I owe all what I am today to my org (rather, it should be called a “family”). I would have never experienced multi-tasking in the most extreme (redundancy is an emphasis) level if it were not for AdCreate. Let’s just say, it was like a military camp for me. The difference was, I was one of those generals who had to lead a team. A very inexperienced general during my first “mission”.

AdCreate before was entirely different from where it is grounded now. During my first term in the executive board as the Vice President (VP) for Creative, we have improved a few steps but it was not our best. Our Goal was to belong to the top 10 organizations in De La Salle University.  My “leadership” at that time was not my best output. I could still remember that EB meeting we had when our (then) president, Red Cajucom reminded us that the org had much more potential than what we were doing. I felt so much guilt because I was the leader of the org’s entire creative team, and indeed, I was not doing the best of what I could do to serve. The first term was such an experimental term because I got the position not because I ran for it, but because they don’t have any other choice to nominate me instead. Funny how I was the only one who didn’t write my own name during the voting. Sorry if it sounds like I’m bragging, but it was like that during that time. I had no self-confidence and I wanted to quit from my officership because I was not trained by my seniors at all. Thank you to my friends who pushed me to go for it at that time!

Fast forward on our second term, I remember consulting some ideas to Sir Anlex regarding the membership card. I could still remember that night after our ADPRINT class, when he confronted me about AdCreate’s creative work. During the start of the term, I was not good at monitoring the materials being shelled out by the organization and I was already “satisfied” with my officers’ output. I realized that as a leader, you also have to challenge and “train” your officers. He told me that as the only creative organization in La Salle, all our outputs must be creative / deviate from the norm like other orgs would have (publicity materials = design + details.. when it should be “creative materials” = design + concept/idea + details). I was so challenged with that… and for the rest of the year, I’ve had several sleepless nights and countless meetings (even during Saturdays).

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