Brought my camera with me today, so had a field day taking photos at Expo, at the conference, at MRT station, at Paya Lebar while walking to the bus stop to take bus 70 home. I think the best way is to take 70 from my house to Paya Lebar MRT then take MRT to Expo. I fell asleep on the bus ride home, and it was quite a long ride, seemed to be about an hour.
There was lots of food at the conference, I fell asleep during one of the first talks, wasn't much fun until lunch and after lunch. Lunch was good because there was quite good food. And we had lunch in one of the Exhibition Halls, in a small part of it; the other part of it is huge! It would be so shiok to play soccer or something in there.
The talks before lunch were in very general, "theoretical" terms about quality control and productivity and that kind of thing; after lunch there were "concurrent sessions" in adjoining rooms. In each room there's one group talking about their particular success with innovation and quality control. It was interesting because there were presenters from various Asian countries. Most of them had very distorted accents, the Thais add a melodic twang to English, the Indians speak at the speed of sound.
Seagate had a presentation about outgassing affecting hard disk heads and platters. Organic compounds that vaporize at high temperature, and cause problems in drive assemblies. It was very technical, without much time for the jargon to be explained, so it was just cool to listen and pretend to understand. Some of the presentations quite funny, especially the one by the team from India. Their powerpoint slides were filled with animated graphics, like that of a pointing finger, which is hilarious. The finger curls and unfurls continually.
Eugene is going to ORD really soon. He'll be going to NIE, and getting a much more decent income. It'll be more than a year before that happens to me...
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