Favourite Quote of the Week

"My dear, we are not coming here to catch butterflies...."

This is what my country manager said to a fellow colleague. As bitchy as it sounds, i had to control my laughter but i just thought it was so utterly funny.

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A week of dodging bullets and Barcamp!

Phew, what a week! So much work in so little time and it makes it even harder when unexpected problems occur along the way.

But overcoming these obstacles is what really matters. I fought long and hard and was rewarded by getting some important things done during the long, arduous days at work.

Now, recently I made a previous post about OnLive and my sister recently came back from the Game Developers Conference held in San Francisco where she actually got to try out the OnLive micro console.

After talking to her, she shared with me some problems about this new technology. First,if you have a unit at home and to enjoy an optimized gaming experience, you better hope that the data center is nearby.

Although data center was nearby to the venue, my sister was able to detect a slight lag during gameplay.

Also you would require a smooth and consistent broadband line of 2Mbps.

Hmmm, Malaysian internet lines do not have the word "smooth" and "consistent" as part of their context so altogether right now it looks like Epic Failure for OnLive to be ever implemented here AT THIS POINT OF TIME.

My sister also bought me a pretty thing from the land of Obama!

My first Coach!

Thankies big sista!

Now,moving onto what I did today.

I attended BarCamp KL in Inti Subang!


A great event where people from different industries (IT,marketing,advertising and so forth) come together to meet with each other to share ideas and build networks.

Some attendees checking out the schedule of sessions

I wanted to go there to have an enriching experience by attending some of the talks by other fellow participants of the event.

The sessions were interesting and varied from each other such as the future of social networking, dos and donts of advertising to how to hook up with a japanese chic. :P

How to make a social networking platform by Bernard Leong

And yes, i did attend the talk on how to hook up with a japanese chic just for fun and to find to no surprise that the room was filled to the brim with men. I was one of the 3 gals in the room. It was entertaining to see how enthusiastic the audience were and after the talk there was a raise of hands on questions to the speaker who happened to be a single Japanese lady. I couldn't help but laugh and roll my eyes every now and then. But the talk gave insight on not only how men should approach a Japanese girl but also to any girl of any nationality.

I also attended a talk on the 10 biggest sins in advertising by a young speaker named Jackson Teoh. You can check out his blog here.

I also attended a session where multiple speakers would give a talk on interesting subjects like their services, industry or ideas.

Here's a video of a speaker reciting his poem after giving a talk about the current poetry community, reaching out to poetry enthusiats and cultivating it here in this country.

After dinner, I came home feeling pretty exhausted.

Tomorrow I will be attending the second day of BarCamp to check out some of the other sessions by fellow BarCampers!

Anyone with an open mind and an innate curiosity to learn more should attend!