READY.Worldwide.Launched

The READY Worldwide Launch at KLCC Convention Centre on Tuesday was quite an exciting event for me. Although it was pretty tiring, I'm glad I was there to catch-up with my ex-colleagues and people from the developer community. Most of all, it was a pleasure to meet my CEO, Steve Ballmer. (I was told that not very often, a CEO from my company lands in Malaysia. I guessed it was my lucky day!)

He was at the launch delivering his speech for the opening keynote and as usual, he is himself with his energetic style. I'm also glad that he decided to spend some time with us (local employees) after the event but was a little disappointed for not having a photo session.

Coming back to the event, I'm happy to hear that some developers from the community applaud us for establishing on-line and off-line communities to help them learn more about .NET, Visual Studio and SQL Server. I will definitely feed this back to my colleagues in DPE so that they can continue to improve the community programs.

Speaking of community programs, we had a booth there to launch a 'refresh version' of MSDN Connection. We have a new program manager looking after the program now and I hope all the membership problems will be solved. If you have problems with your membership, do catch him on the next event. He usually lingers around the MSDN Connection Booth.

At the booth I also spotted one of our Malaysian Idol contestant - Andrew. It took me a while to figure out who he was. I was planning to ask him to autograph my MSDN stress-ball, but I didn't. *Pai-seh* He is now one of the Student Ambassadors - I heard.

I chatted with more people this time as compared to the previous MEDC event. I guessed I needed sometime to adjust myself since my role is different now. I do feel happy to mix around with the developer community and the MVPs. I know I may missed out a few people in events like these and I really apologize for that. If you see me next time in events like these, just come and say 'Hi' -don't be shy ;)

Well, it was a fun day but I came home with a slight migraine. Went straight to bed after shower and that's why I didn't blog this on that day itself.