17.02.06 Imagine Cup Campaign, Universitas Indonesia
01:30 Finished presentation design on “Introducing Microsoft Expression“.
05:30 Woke up to go to class.
07:00 Went to campus (which means I missed my class)
07:30 Found out that the card reader does not work without AC adaptors. That means I cannot access my presentation resources.
08:30 Finally found a working card reader, copied the resources and went to print them.
09:00 Breakfast, finally!
10:00 On the road to MS Office, Jakarta.
12:15 On MS Office (ha! two hours and fifteen minutes)
12:30 Finished “look self-check”...
13:00 Lunch at name-easy-to-forget Chinese restaurant at JSXB. Two noodle-soups, one salty noodle, two lime juices, one honey-lime, one Diet Coke, one milk sode, five pieces of spring rolls, and six pieces of chicken dumplings.
14:00 Finally, off to Universitas Indonesia Depok...
15:00++ Arrived at Univeristas Indonesia, late. Setting up the stage for “Imagine Cup 2006 Campaign“. Zeddy talked first, then Umar, then...
16:35 Starting up my presentation.
17:05 An assassin-type guy questioned my presentation (luckily, I know this guy! Ha!)
17:15 Finished presenting, with the biggest applause I ever had! THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
17:30 On the way to Gambir.
19:00 Oops... No space left on trains going to Bandung. Rent a car? Fly by plane?
19:15 Nope, we're going home with my family.
20:00 Got off taxi, reloaded the stuff (these things are HEAVY and BULKY!) to the car taking us to Bandung.
20:30 Got some cozy-looking place to eat dinner.
21:00 Rain starts pouring down. 5 minutes later, it's no longer raining, TROPICAL RAINSTORM!
22:00 No sign of clear skies, yet.
22:15 Finally we're able to move on to drier ground.
22:30 Off to Bandung.
18.02.06 IT Within, Institut Teknologi Bandung
00:30 Arrived at Jayakarta. We have decided that Sheraton is a nicer place, with Internet.
01:00 Done taking a long bath. Sleeps.
03:00 Zed, wake up, create your presentation!
05:00 Zeddy was still in bed.
06:00 Zeddy finally moved up to his laptop.
06:30 Morning shower. Did I just bathed?
07:00 Breakfast; bread, croissant, butter, blueberry jam, raw toasts, tea, rice, strange-named veggies, chicken, sausages, sunny-side-up, tea, milk, (croquette) potatoes, fish fingers, sausages (again), tea, and finally orange.
08:00 Zeddy finally got his Speech to Text working. “Call 123456...” Sorry, calling a number works in PDA only, he used a smartphone.
09:15 Checked out, and can't find a good taxi.
09:30 Finally used the previously rejected taxi.
09:45 Dropping off the stuff to the expo booth. FYI, it's trial CDs from every Product Manager in MS Office... I think it was around 2K pieces of CD and DVDs.
10:00 Zeddy started his presentation about Windows Mobile 5.0 to the Windows Mobile 5.0 workshop audience.
11:00 Back to the expo booth. If other booths are filled with products, logos, discounts, and Sales Promotion Girls, Microsoft booth are filled with free CD/DVDs, Ready to Launch posters, Sales Promotion Guys, and, of course, audiences. We literally held the whole expo floor!
14:00 Finally I stopped explaining what Visual Studio, BizTalk Server, Infopath, OneNote, Publisher are and stopped giving them away because none left. Phew, what a talk. I must've said “Visual Studio - a development tool” like a hundred time?
14:30 Zeddy went to watch S.K. Chong speaking about hacking (with Perl).
15:30 Finally, off for a real lunch. But, no taxi.
15:45 Got a nice taxi. Drove to nearest Pizza Hut.
16:00 Starts ordering; American Favorite large with Cheesy Crust, Hawaiian Chicken large with Cheesy Crust, eight pieces of Garlic Breads with Mozzarella, ten pieces of Chicken Wings, a pitcher of Lipton, and a pitcher of Coke.
17:00 Zeddy off to the train station. I was trapped on one side of the road because of a small stream of water coming out of nowhere.
18:15 Home, at last.
21:00 Writing this...
To be written:
- Avalon vs. DirectX 10 vs. Windows Presentation Foundation
- Some good questions (and answers) from the Imagine Cup Campaign
- Upload my presentation slide, won't do much good without notes.