Blessed Teresa
Language and Education Consultancy Services
After 10 years (2000 - 2010) as an OFW in Taiwan and in Singapore, I have come home for good. In fact, I've been home for a year. My immediate plan was to organize a language and education consultancy while teaching part-time in a mainstream school.
I sent in an application to several schools which offered me part-time teaching stints. To my great surprise and delight, my former school, De La Salle University-Manila, offered me a one-year full-time teaching position at the Department of English and Applied Linguistics. It was too good to refuse.
Now that I'm 60 and 'retired' from the hustle-bustle of university life, I decided to go ahead with my plan of putting up my own language and education consultancy. The first step was to register a business name so that I can have a legal personality.
And so on Monday, February 20, 2012, I went to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) office in Trece Martires City, Cavite. The waiting and processing time took two hours. But the wait was worth it because when I left the DTI office, I already had with me my business name certificate!
And my business name is Blessed Teresa Language and Education Consultancy Services.
It was not my first choice. It was a name I made up while waiting for my turn. I thought my first choice was the best. But it was too popular and too many businesses already carry similar versions. So it was disapproved. My second choice was similarly too popular and was also disapproved.
Musing upon my new business name, it dawned on me that it has been inspired by the Holy Spirit. I had never thought of it at all while brainstorming all sorts of business names. And I had been brainstorming for years.
I still don't fully understand the implications of my business name. I do know that Blessed Teresa, known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta while she was alive, lived her life as a flickering flame in the wind. She kept the flame lighted so that those who were in the dark might feel the love of Christ.
Language and Education Consultancy Services
What's in a name? Specifically a business name?
After 10 years (2000 - 2010) as an OFW in Taiwan and in Singapore, I have come home for good. In fact, I've been home for a year. My immediate plan was to organize a language and education consultancy while teaching part-time in a mainstream school.
I sent in an application to several schools which offered me part-time teaching stints. To my great surprise and delight, my former school, De La Salle University-Manila, offered me a one-year full-time teaching position at the Department of English and Applied Linguistics. It was too good to refuse.
Now that I'm 60 and 'retired' from the hustle-bustle of university life, I decided to go ahead with my plan of putting up my own language and education consultancy. The first step was to register a business name so that I can have a legal personality.
And so on Monday, February 20, 2012, I went to the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) office in Trece Martires City, Cavite. The waiting and processing time took two hours. But the wait was worth it because when I left the DTI office, I already had with me my business name certificate!
And my business name is Blessed Teresa Language and Education Consultancy Services.
It was not my first choice. It was a name I made up while waiting for my turn. I thought my first choice was the best. But it was too popular and too many businesses already carry similar versions. So it was disapproved. My second choice was similarly too popular and was also disapproved.
Musing upon my new business name, it dawned on me that it has been inspired by the Holy Spirit. I had never thought of it at all while brainstorming all sorts of business names. And I had been brainstorming for years.
I still don't fully understand the implications of my business name. I do know that Blessed Teresa, known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta while she was alive, lived her life as a flickering flame in the wind. She kept the flame lighted so that those who were in the dark might feel the love of Christ.
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