Microsoft Singapore Event - Walk the Success Lane

Today is Saturday. It is a bit unusual since we didn't play basketball today. However, there is a much better event. Kelvin and I were going to a Microsoft Event - Walk the Success Lane. It was at Microsoft Singapore headquarter at One Marina Boulevard.

As we arrived at the 21st floor, Microsoft Auditorium, my first impression is "awesome"! After we re-registered, we had our lunch (Well, one of the main point we were there! Hahaha). As we had predicted, it's a wonderful lunch. After lunch, we had a series of talks. The first one is to introduce us an event called "Imagine Cup", a yearly event.
-For more information, visit: www.imaginecup.com

Next, we had a talk that introduce us about the new Windows development application, which is called Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It's a very cool software which can build a nice application with 3D objects! (I actually want to post a video showing how it works, but somehow I didn't find any interesting one in Youtube)

Lastly, we had a kind of motivational talk. In my opinion, this is the best one! Well, since he was going to talk about "Be a Web 2.0 Leader", he initiated a short survey. Everyone under 35 was supposed to join the survey. The question is kinda easy. First, all of them were asked to stand up. He was then going to say a Web 2.0 term and saw how vast our knowledge about it. If you don't know what it is, you can then sit down. The survey will end after all of us sit down. (He looked so sure that we will all sit down. Hahaha!)

Well, let's try with you all. For warming up, firstly we had.... "Friendster". And, as you all can predict, noone is taking a seat. Next level, "Blogger". And still, everyone is standing up, as we can expect from computing students! (All of you should know until here. Watch out for the next one!). And... here comes a trickier one, "Twitter". For this one about half of us took a seat. FYI, I knew this! Wakaka. (For readers, if you know about this, we are in the same level!). He then came with a more difficult one, "LinkedIn". Suprisingly, there was only one person left! (I took a seat, by the way). This person was quite tough. He ended up sitting after two or three more some term I cannot catch.

Anyhow, he then continued to his talk. First, he asked us: "Why would people want to be a leader?". Only one answer from the list I would like to share, which is one of my friend's favourite, "Money, money, and money". He then had another slide which contained a "better" answer. However, it is a little contradict from the first one, which is "Money must not be self-motivation!". Kelvin and I then laughed out loudly! Kelvin intended to take a photo from this slide, but it somehow failed.

Okay, let be a little serious. This talk is quite motivating. I would like to share with you all.
First, of course, why we should we become the leader.
1. We can learn to grow faster.
2. We also help others to grow.
3. We can share and apply our opinion easier.
(I think there's some more, but I forgot! I didn't have a chance to write it down.)
He continued with 5 Tips for a good leadership:
1. Deliver the goods
- Do all your jobs and do it the best as you can
- Always hit your deadline (be on time)
- Always try to produce high quality results from your assignments/projects
2. Build the network
- Always get involved in events
- Volunteer yourself in non-commercial events
- Always be initiative introduce yourself to others
- Go lunch with others if you can (Don't eat by yourself)
3. Become visible
- Let others know your talents
- Look for and take on highly visible assigments
4. Looks count
- Always wear appropriate attire
- Don't be the most casual
5. Learn to communicate
- Learn how to do good presentation
- Learn how to convince other people
Bonus: Be who you are!
- Always have fun in your tasks
- Always be honest, do what you want to do!
- Don't compromise your value

Well, hope this inspire all of you. If you need any elaboration from the points above, feel free to catch me with either email or MSN or the shoutbox there.