To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.

- The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho

Someone told me year 2006 is a pivotal year for me.

A month ago, I wouldn’t have believed in it. But working with Pandora Squared, i’d say it indeed is.

So where the heck do I fit in with these bunch of passionate geeks who knows what they’re doing and what they know in life?

And how is Pandora Squared affecting my life? I am a single mom with three children. I was a high school scholar and got in in one of the toughest courses in the state university. Irresponsibility, however, and maybe a little of naivety as well, got me pregnant. And the usual thing happened, stopped going to school, got married, had children and got separated. I decided not to finish my studies anymore because I realized it really wasn’t my passion. Computers and internet were. But raising three small children didn’t provide me the luxury of choosing a job that I love. My career objectives were set aside and I lived my life one day at a time.

Then came web 2.0. As the internet evolved into a functional platform that everybody can use, web 2.0 and its applications also changed my life and rekindled my passion for the internet.

And meeting pandorasquared opened the box and presented the last thing that was left in the box.

HOPE.

And that hope gave me the will to decide to go where my heart is and follow my destiny.

One of my first assignment for the company was to organize a training. And that training was a milestone for me and for the company as well. Working together as a team has provided us a glimpse of our inner self and has shown us the path to our destiny.

I want to touch lives the way technology or web 2.0 did mine.

I want to touch lives the way Pandora Squared touched mine.

And this personal vision is the same vision that Pandora Squared believes in passionately.

ENABLING, EMPOWERING AND ENRICHING LIVES.

Enablement through technology – Prometheus Fire.

Empowerment through training and education.

Enriching lives through Humanity 2.0.

Guided through the sea of digital information by the Navigator.

If you are passionate about your work, you will be determined to succeed in it. Skills or the lack of it does not matter. Skills are enhanced by one’s passion. And this is a continuous learning process for me. Sometimes my passion makes me impulsive. And I get the flak. But as they say, you learn your lessons from your mistakes.

And as long as you never forget that to realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.