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I’m on semester break!

// January 21st, 2010 // 2 Comments » // life

I suddenly found this huge amount of time. I mean really HUGE. I have week nights and weekends free. Well maybe not to you, but it is that huge if you’re studying part time. I was so used to worry about assignments and studying every moment every day, now for the next 3 months I am free! So I’ve been this free only for a week, I got my room cleaned up – got it into much neater state (heh) by bringing in 3 new proper furnitures – a bed, a study table and a wardrobe. Now everything is in its place and happy.

I’m not going to take pictures of my room (sorry Kak Watiey heheh) – it’s such a sacred place for me. But they are very similar like these, except mine all in dark wood colour:

Ok that’s done and now last night I started looking at Django + PostgreSQL + Python in general. Was kinda slow, I have this habit of looking too far ahead (maybe it’s thinking too much) so I was worried that I would ruin my laptop in the future by blindly install everything inside. Typical woman? Being paranoid of nothing? Yea jumping in too early is not my thing, I’m scared if anything goes wrong. Laptop dies, application breaks, stuff happens yes I know but I don’t want it to be because I didn’t do my best to prevent it from happening.

Anyway, yea I’m embracing this temporary new found freedom – will put it to good use. Was so tempting to watch TV (I LOVE WATCHING TV – enough said) at nights but like my mom says “TV will be there forever waiting for you, go do something else better” so no worries there. Besides, I like programming. It’s like a drug. I remember Harish Pillay said during FOSS.my 2009, “How do you think an author wins an award for his/her book? He/She probably reads alot of other books to write it. So, how do you be good in programming? You read alot of codes.”

I love that man.

WHY YOU NEED TO BE AT MSC OPEN SOURCE CONFERENCE

// May 26th, 2009 // No Comments » // events, open source

MSC Open Source Conference 2009 will be held at Berjaya Times Square on the 31st May – 3rd June 2009. It will be the largest gathering of its kind in Malaysia and will attracts IT Executives, developers, coders, companies, multi-million companies and multi-billion companies from around the world to share, train, showcase and maybe hire the bright minds in the Malaysia Open Source Ecosystem.
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Open to Change

// April 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // events, open source

MSC OSCONF 2009

Visit official website
The microsite

Who should attend?

• Business executives from MSC Malaysia and Non-MSC Malaysia Status companies
• Open Source developers, communities, inventors, evangelist, researchers, strategist
• Government officers
• Students, general public

Why you should attend?

1. Provide exposure and knowledge on the importance of Open Source in enhancing competitiveness by giving freedom of choice in software usage with lower total cost of ownership, hence benefiting businesses and society at large. Over 30 session tracks are made available.
2. Share amongst the open source community on new directions and latest innovations by the subject matter experts, thought leaders and industry gurus.
3. Provide a platform for conference participants to actively interact, share and exchange views, ideas, and tools on the latest trends and issues of Open Source.
4. Networking, learning and having great fun!

FOSS.my 2008 was awesome!

// November 9th, 2008 // 5 Comments » // events, open source

Great event.

Now that’s an example of how an open source event should be – laidback, fun, ‘protocol-less’, various informative tech talks, responsive audience and most importantly everyone was there for one same reason: the love in open source and building a community, not because they had no choice ordered to go there by their bosses.

If you weren’t there, honestly speaking, you missed out on ALOT. Whether it was because of other commitments or just plain intimidated that you didn’t come that day, well, come to FOSS.my 2009 then (hopefully there’ll be one). You will surprised at how friendly and helpful these people are!

I can’t stress enough how awesome it was and how much you missed out if you weren’t there. Worth my weekend.

Full house at FOSS.my 2008

Q-ing for food

FOSSchix.my killing some free time

FOSSchix.my side session with Pia Waugh of Software Freedom International - there were actually more girls behind the camera

FOSSchix.my side session with Pamela Fox of Google - had to move to bigger room since audience was alot more than expected

And I AM SO PROUD OF FOSSCHIX.MY MEMBERS WHO WERE THERE. That’s a sign of true passion and I really appreciate it. May we become stronger together and you rock! I love you mwah mwah mwahhhh!!!

Moving

// August 25th, 2008 // No Comments » // personal

I am so happy I was not that desperate…hahah! Was on the verge of doing the same but I don’t do Pringles.