Yet Another Geek In The World
`The endless gratitude from other people pales in comparison with a simple pat in the back from your own ‘mates.`
Imagine how it would feel when these same people, not only fails to appreciate what you’ve done but at the same time, betrays you? Are you feeling the pain yet? Good.
September 26, 2009 — Despite my still recovering stomach and the windy (and rainy) weather, we set out to go to Adamson University for the 3-hour (gasp!) long seminar. We were able to arrive, just in time for the 8:30 start in the morning. We did not begin right away though. We waited for one of our companion speakers before we began. Turned out that he realized that he left his USB (read: his slides) when he was half-way to his way to Adamson. He then had to go back and get his slides, and then travel again back to Adamson. By the time he got in, it was already 9:30 (and I already got to eat my breakfast, yey!). We then started with our talks in our respective classrooms. We’re covering Zembly, JavaFX and Linux. Another speaker that we did not know will be discussing SAP.
There were 2 major celebrations for Software Freedom Day in the Philippines last September 19. One was in the NCC and the other was in UST. As much as I wanted to be in all of the venues, I had to pick one. Actually, I did not really have a choice. I needed to be at UST because I gave the routine FOSS talk. Oddly enough, I did not feel nervous giving the talk. In fact, I think I did okay. Audience rapport was good and I can tell they were listening.
Someone over at my timeline at Plurk said that our professors in DCS are becoming incompetent. Of course, that was not said straightforwardly, but that was the gist. It was hypocritical.
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