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Thanks for all your eyeballs, friendship and memories all these time and I look forward to see you on my new blog url!

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Congratulations to Frank Arrigo, whose blog which just celebrated it's 3rd anniversary, a quick on my blog revealed that I started my blog on the same day as Frank's.

Over the years, my blog roll changed a bit based on my interests but Frank's blog has always remained firm. This is simply because Frank's blog is honest, informative and personal.

Honest - What you read on Frank's blog is pretty much how he is in real life. Passionate about technology, our company, his direct reports and his family.

Informative - Whenever any competitive technology updates or strategic information need to be evaluated, Frank's daily update is like scanning the current IT headlines.

Personal - Frank loves technology and his family and it shows in his blog. Nothing like an honest blogger, true to his roots. Your blog is a public service to the IT community!

Happy 3rd Year Franky! Keep evolving your blog to greater readership and relevancy.

Finally, some cheers for Tech graduates, we can finally look forward to better paying jobs!

Strong job growth reported in Internet + multimedia and software developement sectors.

Source: Tech grads grinners (The Australian IT)

Can't wait for my turn :)

'Team Monash' hits the streets in Singapore Marathon

Bugger! I'm in Australia but there ain't no alumni event I can attend here in Sydney, instead there was an alumni event back home in Singapore.

This year's jersey looks much better than last year's.

The Imagine Cup winners (1st and 3rd placed teams) were at Tech.Ed 2006 Barcelona recently. Charles from Channel 9 caught up with them to find out how things have changed since their India victories.

A little bird flew by my windows and whispered "Chip! Chip! Chip! Tell people that Microsoft is conducting a technical hire recruitment exercise in Jan 2007. Interested candidates should check out the url!"

What a minute! Robert Green, that name's familiar. When I was a VB MVP, Robert Green was the Visual Basic Community Lead. Never did I expect to meet him in person, here in Sydney .NET User Group. Robert was in Sydney to present on "Developing office 2007 Solution with VS Tools for Office Second Edition" (scroll right down). Click on the link for the slides and demos.

Welcome to Sydney, Rob. Hope your wife and you will have a ball here.

Cross post http://bernardoh.wordpress.com/2006/12/01/robert-green-presenting-in-sydney-net-user-group/

Today marks the last month of 2006.

This has been a remarkable year. I moved from Singapore, back to Australia and along the way got an internship with the DPE Team in Microsoft Australia.

Some dreams do come true after a long route. This internship is nothing sort of an amazing experience, I lead the Microsoft Student Partners program, ran Imagine Cups, handled media personnel, organised Tech.Ed- Student Day, made numerous new professional connections, relationships and friends, and even travelled overseas.

Soon this episode will come to an end, this weekend, I plan to take some time off and to prepare for my new episode in life. First I will kick it off by attending mass on this Sat. Where life will bring me? I'm not sure but I will make every effort to achieve the best outcome for me and hope with divine providence, something good will come along the way.

"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
- Jeremiah 29:11

Enjoy the rest of 2006, everyone!

My mate, Mr Half-S (another Microsoft employee, sometimes I wonder how many non-MSFT related friends I have) forwarded me this picture.

I wonder what is he implying?

Cross post - http://bernardoh.wordpress.com/2006/12/01/bloggers-300ad/

I flew with Singapore Airlines throughout my college years in Melbourne, chose to stay in Krisflyer partner hotels and recently to India too but still I don't fly enough points to exchange for a practicable return tix home or move up from basic tier. Instead I'm losing miles every quarter because I don't redeem them fast enough.

I think I want to call it quits and drop my loyalty with SQ and just go for the next cheapest ticket. I reckon its pretty futile to be chasing FF miles. What are some of the experiences you have with your frequent flyer program? Do they have any real value for regular joe like me? Currently I'm enrolled with just Krisflyer (SQ), Asian Miles (CX) and Velocity (DJ) and Dynasty Flyer (CI).

This evening, the new Australia Imagine Cup 2007 blog was launched! I think a blog is the best mechanism to let everyone get up to the minute news about the Imagine Cup.

Check out the first entry where I give a sneak preview of the local competition look and feel.

From the Hotmail Team Blog, now all Hotmail accounts are 1GB! It's awesome! Next item on the list, increased spam detection and elimination.

Games developer enthusiasts readers based in Brissy, good news!

The Queensland MSDN User Group Nov meeting draws the focus on games developement and they have 3 exciting speakers to present on 28 Nov (Tue).

Speaker 1: Dr Ross Brown (QUT) - The State of the Games Industry

   The state of the games industry/market in Australia/Queensland

   What skills will a developer need to participate?

Speaker 2: Zsolt Mathe (Microsoft Game Technology Group) - Introduction to XNA

   What is XNA?

   What is XNA Studio Express?

   How can enthusiasts use XNA Express to experiment with game development?

   Demos

Speaker 3: Jason Strayer (Microsoft Game Technology Group) - Xbox Live Arcade

   What is Xbox Live Arcade?

   Xbox Live Arcade versus Xbox 360 stand alone titles?

   How can enthusiasts get involved?

Last evening, I took some pictures of the Sydney Opera House from Circular Quay. You are most welcome to check it out.