Just got home last night from Indonesia via Singapore to attend the Asia Source II camp.

I had a great time there, but got homesick by the last two days of the event. I was kinda sad towards the end, as I hate saying goodbye especially those who became my friends.

It was an enlightening event for me, as I’ve figured out more clearly what I want to do for the next few years. Also, I realized more my strengths, weaknesses, and my interests as well.

While I was there, Yolynne and I were able to give a talk on Firefox extensions. She invited me to join with her, and it was great to know that she wants me to get exposed to these kind of things. It’s nothing much, but I realize that I like teaching people how to do technology. I love doing presentation slides, but I know I still have a long way to develop my skills. I’m very willing to learn, though.

I was thinking of giving a talk on “Eclipse Tips and Tricks”, but my laptop adapter crashed for the last half of the camp (which miraculously worked about 2-3 days before the last day), and my two harddisks crashed while I was there.

Fortunately, I was able to retrieve the data from my internal harddisk, but the USB harddisk was beyond repair. I brought the said harddisk to the vendor this afternoon for replacement. Sadly, most of my files were there in that disk, especially my JDramas and my MP3s! And school files as well.

Oh, and I also met a lot of bigatin people who are well-accomplished, especially in the open-source arena. It was a humbling experience for me as I was amazed at how simple they look, and yet they blended well with mortals like me. I also got inspired to be the best, and have more exposure to software engineering, research, and open-source stuff.

The flight back home was smooth, and it was a good thing that I was able to sleep well on the flight. Bad thing is, I missed some parts of the meals that was served. Oh, and I also got myself some electronic/geeky goodies in Singapore. I finally bought a digital camera, and a Nintendo DS. I was dreaming of buying them for the past few months, and it was great that I’ve finally had the resources to do so.

As soon as I arrived home, I checked my mails, sent a “just got home” email to the participants, and slept.

As soon as I woke up, I sorted my things, which took me 3 hours. After lunch, I got busy downloading school files, and reading some slides for review. I went to school at about 4:30 PM, and waited for 30 minutes before realizing that there were no classes! I then went to the library to read some stuff again, and went to Cubao to just hang out.

Anyway, back to reality. Even if I had a great time in Indonesia, I’m excited to go to school, and work! I’ll be extremely busy this February, because I still have to finish a lot of stuff in school! Classes were fast while I was away, so I need to do a lot of reading.

I’m looking forward to finally finish my studies, and work full time after March. Woohoo!

PS: Some of the photos from Asia Source II are in my Flickr. Feel free to click on the photos on the right.

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