it's been a while.. ugggh this week was horrible.. i've been messing up the whole week! maybe it's because a lot of academic responsibilities had deadlines this week. But i'v been definitely an embarassment to my boss and colleagues. i was late for a big event and i messed up on a lot of my small responsibilities. I WAS LATE FOR A BIG EVENT! My first big event and i messed up. uggghhh.. this entire week is just not for me. and this month is about to end and i'm far from achieving the commitments i made for this month.. i hope that i do better next month though, especially since i'll be on board full time now. gotta get my act together..

No work tomorrow and that saddens me. I’m really having a lot of fun with my work. Even if I got so much to do, I’m having the time of my life! There’s so much potential with the MSDN Connection and I can’t wait to go fulltime on this. (Yes, right now I still have 12 days of school to finish before I come in for full deployment)

We have a student event next week. It’s going to be about ASP .NET 2.0. I’m wondering whether people will come though, considering that it’s the end of March and the last thing students would want to do, I would imagine, would be to learn something right? we’ll see I guess.

I’m experimenting on a ‘bring a friend’ thing to get more members. I have yet to think of an incentive though. Anyway, I gotta go study for my exam tomorrow.

By the way, I saw this really cool new thing check it out at http://preview.local.live.com

I’ve been a member of the MSDN Connection since last year, but yesterday was my FIRST ever MSDN Event. I didn’t know how much I’ve been missing. I’ve just been put in charge and I am ashamed to say, prior to getting this job, all I knew about the MSDN Connection was that it was a pre-requisite to joining Dev Days 2005.

Yesterday’s session was just awesome. They gave out a LOT of freebies, made me wish I was a regular member all over again. I honestly did not know they had events such as these that gave out freebies (not to mention free food!:p) They were talking on developing applications for vista, on vista or something. my head was hurting from the heat of the room so i wasn’t able to pay much attention. But what did catch my eye was the 3d graphics programming that Stanley demonstrated, all with less than 5 lines of code. FREAK! I thought about how my 4 of my classmates were slaving away over the one animation using directx and after seeing that, i was like, “whoa.. i’m glad i didn’t take that subject!” else i’d be frustrated to know that what the future has in terms of graphics programming is THAT EASY! i wish i’d get the time to study that though. I’ve always wanted touch a bit on graphics. The only 3d animation software i’ve tried is 3d studio max. not something all too impressive but just basic stuff..

anyway after the talks we played a game, one of those noon time games we have here. one thing missing yesterday though: a camera. I wasn’t able to take pictures of the “almost stampede” that we had during the game. (what people would do for a 1000 peso pre-loaded MPass Card) heheh

why did i create this blog? i seem to have no outlet for my experiences here.. i’d like to post at the forums but they’d only accuse me of shameless plugging.

After a week of working at this job, there’s one thing that stands: publicity is the major issue that’s hindering the growth of the msdn connection. My task is to find a way to reach out to all the developers out there. There’s just so much their missing!