My Convocation

Saturday, 14th June 2008, was my convocation day, and what a day it was indeed!!

When me and my parents reached the College Hall at around 8am, I was greeted by my friends, which told me that I won the Perpetual Cup, which was:

The Perpetual Cup, donated by friends from Campbell University and Ulster University is awarded to the student who upon having completed the requirements for the award of the Degree of Bachelor of Science of Campbell University, is selected by the Head and Faculty as the most outstanding student of the Senior Class considering academic achievements, character, integrity and leadership potential.

(Quoted from Convocation Booklet)

To add to that, I also won the Prize for Information Systems, which was 2 awards out of 7 excellence awards! I was so soo happy! And I must say it took quite some effort to stop myself from jumping around like a crazy maniac.

Links page is up

I have just published the “Links” page, where I will be sharing the links to the RIA or Web technology related blogs and Web sites.

I believe this should be pretty helpful for those of you that are interested to get more up-to-date information on the world of RIA, and I’ve trimmed down the list to include only the links that I personally think are the best.

If you have any links you wish to share, please do not hesitate to drop me an email.

Positive thinking

 

When dealing with the ups and downs in life, it has always been all about how one thinks, sees things, whether from the brighter side, or not.

So all in all, when one is faced with troubles, that others couldn’t really help solve, the most usual advice would be “Don’t worry, everything will turn out alright”, or something similar to that. It does help to have someone to talk to, with advice to listen to, but there are times when one should really calm down, and think that even if you get all the advice from everyone around the world, and if you still feel down and do not know how to solve your problem, know that thinking positively may very well be the first step in solving almost anything.

Whether a lot, or just a little, it helps, just to think positively. Think from the brighter side of things. When being let down, think about the lesson learnt from being let down, and start off again from there. Yes it may be hard, especially when one has high hopes, as the “saying” goes, the higher the hopes, the greater the fall. Thus, try to be calm, and collected in handling everything. Whether you got it or not, whether you lost or not, etc, always think positively. When being let down, never give up, think positively, and work harder instead.

To wrap things up, this is a pretty nice and meaningful quote:

“When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always be worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.”

(Quote taken from Thinkexist.com)

PS: Even so, I myself ain’t that positive either! HAHA! What about you?

Work

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing” - Theodore Roosevelt quotes

(Quote taken from Thinkexist.com)

The best job may not be the job with the highest pay, the job with the highest status, or the most challenging job, but very likely, a job worth doing. I’m currently still undergoing my industrial training, working as a “multi-tasker” (combination of design, development, and EVEN planning business models), and after going through these few months, I’ve finally got to know (a lil’ bit) of what working life is all about.

The Alpha

Once upon a time, in the galaxy far far away……

there was more of the galaxy! (highlight me)

Forget about that, but well, this is the first post of my first blog, so I would like to first congradulate myself for finally getting myself a blog, and in the same time, say thanks to everyone and everything that “forced” me to start a blog

I’ve named this blog… with my name (because I really can’t think of any more suitable name =.=), and here, I’ll be posting about my experiences in life, design, and development.

I took some time to design a header for my blog, designed 100% using Expression Design, a new graphics authoring tool by Microsoft included as part of the expression studio. The overall layout is something i came up by sketching curves and stuff, and slowly piecing them together, thinking of what to draw along the way, and finally I came up with this mix of pictures. Every element of the header image has a symbolism, and its up to you guys to figure that out!

Welcome to my blog!