November Round up

For me November is really one of my busiest month for the year, both socially and in work. First and foremost is my birthday celebration with my family members, which I have already blogged about it.

This is a photo of us went to Tasek Lama for hiking.

A family carnival organized by La Vida

Jackson and his family came and visited us all the way from USA

Thanks to Betty for the invitation to attend the AIA seminar for Importance of Financial Planning, very informative and educating.

Then I have company lunch with the colleagues

A outdoor activity with the youth at Berakas Foresty

Then there are Smarter charity events and Let’s drive organized by Telbru and lot’s of other. It was a shame that I didn’t have the opportunity to go and participants. The other event I really missed is the BTclick photography meet up that I unable to attend due to commitment, hopefully I will be able to attend their next gathering.

Then this morning I attended an Open forum hosted by Asia Inc regarding IT security at ICC. A really short session, I wouldn’t said I learn a lot from there, but it is pretty interesting to know how much awareness the local field inregrading IT security.

I also watched “The Social Network”, real interesting drama that base on true story about Facebook founder. No special effect, no gun shooting, no action, just pure talk; yet the script is brilliantly scripted and acted. I can happily give it 8.5/10

Thanks to Gadong mall to make 3D cinema available in Brunei with a cheap price, I have rewatch Avatar 3D which came with extra footage. Even it is the 2nd time I watched Avatar, due to the 3D effect and great story, I was captivated through out the movie without boredom. Great stuffs! 9/10

I also watched Megamind 3D, great family cartoon with a interesting turn of event. 8/10

December I believe gonna be another busy month, especially need to plan and arrange for the Christmas event, activity and of coz GIFT!!! Yet gonna look forward to it. ^w^

ThinkBig Technology Forum 2010

Thanks to Tiger Lim for getting me a ticket to attend ThinkBig Technology Forum organized by Asia Inc & iCenter. I was pretty excited to attend this event in hoping to learn and get inspired by the speakers.

They invited people like:

• Dr Grahaeme Henderson (Managing Director of Brunei Shell Petroleum)
• Ken Wye Saw ( Vice president, Public Sector, (Asia) Microsoft)
• Brian Koh (Deputy Director, NUS Enterprise)
• Khoong Hock Yun  (Assistant Chief Executive Officer, Infrastructure and Services Development Group, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore)
• Kevin Walsh (Chief Technology Officer, Oracle Asia Research and Developments Centers)

The topic and discussion consist of:

• BSP Technical Innovation: The story of Champion
• Embracing The Future: Global Trends and Challenges
• e-Government: Connecting with the Citizens
• Globalization of Technology Innovation
• At the Heart of Innovation: “Delivering World Class Technology in Brunei”

The Indera Kayangan Ballroom This is mainly where all the session was hosted.

The Empire Threatre

This is where we have lunch and the luncheon session.

Kevin Walsh in action

How I find the whole event? I like the venue, the program layout, and the opportunity to hear peoples participant with asking questions, opinion and ideas. Some of the question that been raised up is top notch and bringing awareness of the issues.

However I feel that keynote that address by the speakers is too generalisations and constantly bringing China/ Singapore into the pictures and quite a lots of marketing talk. While I can understand it is their expertise and the venue they working at, instead of talking about 1 Data Center with over thousands server in one node, big server, big info structure, big network, big cooperation. I am more interested on how to think BIG!

But I can see that some of the ideas that’s been brought forward is new to some of the participants. Overall I can said the event is a success, it is just that I go with the wrong expectations.

So did I learn anything from here? Definitely YES, just not as much as I expect it to be >w<

Sunlit Blood Donation Campaign

Sunlit Advertising SDN BHD, one of the leading company in Brunei hosted a blood donation campaign and invited peoples to donate blood for the good cause. I actually went there to fix some IT related issues since they are one of the client I been supporting, only then I know about the blood donation campaign that they been running over the last few years.

Here are some of the Sunlit staffs participating the campaign.

And Eileen from Animal Shelter is here also.

 

Since I happen to be there, I decided to participant with the blood donation also. Not for self promotion, but I do believe that blood donation is for a good cause; yet so far in my life I only donated twice >w<

I also realized that a lot of peoples have a lot of misunderstanding or fears regarding blood donation. It happen that I got a free lunch pack after the blood donations and my colleagues know about it, while they don’t mind to have the free lunch and they think that it is too expensive for the trade. Not doubt, blood is precious; yet because it is so precious that’s why hospital been encourage peoples to give, since it can be a matter of life and dead for those peoples in need. I think it just a matter of perspective and attitude towards the circumstances. For me, I always believe that giving is important to personal life. Give some blood away (which actually can improve your health), help a life in need and received a free lunch, a win win situation, why not?

Here are some link regarding the benefit for blood donation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_donation

http://charity.lovetoknow.com/Blood_Donation_Benefits

http://healthmad.com/health/the-incredible-health-benefits-of-donating-blood/

http://benefitof.net/benefits-of-blood-donation/ Ladies will love this, help in weight loss!

So, will you willing to donate some blood for a good cause? ^w^