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Doesn’t the title of this post sound like the title of a Scrubs episode? If my degree was featured on a Scrubs episode, this is what I would say in a “J. D. voiceover”…

As I sat in convocation hall reflecting how a stage in my life has come to an end, it was the exact same feeling I felt when I convocated a year ago for my bachelor’s degree – feeling a great sense of accomplishment, not necessarily regretting what I have done but if I had to choose again today I probably wouldn’t have done the same thing. And what’s more, I look around and wondered how my life crossed path with some of these people, and whether they will ever cross again. I see my classmate, who is currently working at MS, but came back for his g/f’s convocation (the g/f is going to work for MS too) – probably someone I’ll be socializing with a lot more than I had when we were in the same class; and I see a girl in SyDe whom I worked closely with for a year as directors of the badminton club – someone whom I worked with and trusted but may never meet again. How relationships change… such are the mysteries of life. And I think about how OUR relationships will change – how I’ll be missing all the action, all the new toys we buy, all the funny and happy things we experience, and the struggles we go through…

On a lighter note, here’s an odd thing that happened during convocation… I ended up getting hooded by Mike Lazaradis (co-founder of RIM, chancellor of loo) again… last year he asked me, “So what are your future plans?” and I said, “I’ll be staying here to finish my Masters”, and he replied, “Good choice, good for you.” This year he asked me the same question… and I said, “I’ll be going to work for Microsoft.” and he said, “Why would you want to do that?” and I had nothing to say 😐

Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday it has developed a color-filter technology that at least doubles the sensitivity to light of the image sensor in every digital camera, enabling shutterbugs to take better pictures in poor light.

…Chris McNiffe, general manager of the photography company’s image sensor business: “We’re talking about a 2-to-4-times improvement in (light) sensitivity.”

Sounds impressive – but they’re pushing this out to P&S and cameraphones first :S

Winner of TPX’s Summer 2007 Buy (not that it is a contest) goes to… t.ha‘s 70-200 f/2.8L IS lens!

Didn’t want to steal his “thunder” by making a post first but seeing it has been a week, may as well post some pictures =p.

I have added a new “Why Buy?” page up top. Feel free to add to the list of buying justifications =p. Next time you need to buy something just go and read that page and find a reason that suits you well. If there isn’t one, then add one to the page =p.

Not to advertise for the company I’ll soon be working for… but this is indeed pretty cool stuff. If the costs can be lowered significantly it may just make it big.

Microsoft Surface – multi-touch, multi-user interface, object recognition and gestural interaction
(Watch the middle “The Power” video if you’re only going to watch one, I think that’s the coolest)

and apparently its not all big dreams… limited 2007 rollouts in T-Mobile stores, Starwood hotels, and Harrah’s in Vegas. Runs on a 1G stock Vista box =p.

The coolest part about all this is…. I actually saw Bill Gates demo this at the 30th Anniversary Company Meeting when I was interning there 😐 that was….. 1.5 years ago….. I think he did some cool stuff like OCRing business card and populating the info onto a PDA wirelessly (bluetooth or sth? not sure). Showed some stuff with photos too. Never thought it would actually be released as a MS product though =p.