Family guy with 3 Daughters, Digital Guy, Wine Community Leader, Runner in Singapore.
I finally decided to load up some of my slides on Slideshare. I shared this set of slides during a company trip back in 2007 with the sole purpose to encourage my colleagues to develop their capabilities further. Also, I just completed Heroes Season 1, so that explains the style.
I shared this again at BarcampJB2. You can find my other slides at www.slideshare.com/nickpan
Caught The Social Network preview earlier this week thanks to @SonyPicturesSG and Qais Consulting. Its already a huge hit and looking at all the local reviews at www.thesocialnetwork.com.sg, its pretty clear its gonna be a huge hit when its in cinemas on this coming Thursday 28 Oct in Singapore. You can see the trailers in my previous post.
The movie is super fast paced. It starts with brilliant scriptwriting and darts around several parallel story lines.
The movie gives a good feel of how it was like back in the dorm days when Zuckerberg was coding the very first Facebook website. He coded like mad and school was like an obligation. When a cool idea would spark off in his mind or when he hears someone saying something that would be brilliant to add to the mix of the Facebook soup of features, he would dart off only to code more to make Facebook more like Facebook. I will not go into the whole law suit who was right and wrong thing, there are enough debate of it online already.
I think what the movie did really well was that there were so many parts that tech people can relate to. The whole I-need-to-fix-this-bug-and-lost-track-of-time thing, the whole I-only-feel-physically-tired-when-my-mind-have-achieved-its-focused-goal. The whole time, the movie was groggy.
Gage: Mr. Zuckerberg, do I have your full attention?
Mark Zuckerberg: [stares out the window] No.
Gage: Do you think I deserve it?
Mark Zuckerberg: [looks at the lawyer] What?
Gage: Do you think I deserve your full attention?
Mark Zuckerberg: I had to swear an oath before we began this deposition, and I don’t want to perjure myself, so I have a legal obligation to say no.
Gage: Okay – no. You don’t think I deserve your attention.
Mark Zuckerberg: I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try – but there’s no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention – you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the offices of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, are intellectually or creatively capable of doing.
[pauses]
Mark Zuckerberg: Did I adequately answer your condescending question?from IMDB
The official site have loads of nice stuff, so do check out the global site and also the local Singapore site for official trailers and goodies.
After watching the show, I naturally went to do some research and reading up. The few links below were the main ones I read up on. So if you’ve not seen the movie, bookmark this post, go watch the movie, then come back and check out the links below.
Back in 2006, I told a friend that Facebook should be the final Social Networking site and so far I’m still correct. However, plagued with many privacy issues and like the movies tag line “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies”, there are people who hate Facebook. But is there enough hate to bring facebook down or support something else that might take over facebook?
The 2 projects that I know of that are contending with Facebook are:
If Mark Zuckerberg is worth US$6.9 billion and if you are just 1% as brilliant as him, you would still be worth US$6.9 million. Wah… the movie really make you want to go something…
It seems like just yesterday that we found out Pearl was pregnant with #3, how time flies, Clara is now one month old.
To celebrate, we held a big BBQ for the family on 10 Oct 2010. I think there were about 80 of us at the BBQ.
That sunday was also the first day Cleo got off her training wheels.
Clara have been sleeping alot (like all babies do), been getting breast fed alot, pooping ALOT and interestingly GRUNTING alot especially at night when she is asleep. She keeps on stretching herself as if like she is suppose to transform or something. Really don’t understand as Clié and Cleo both did not make such strange noises.
When she is awake, she is quite passive and stares at things alot. You can really tell that she can’t focus yet and don’t know what is in front of her. She is constantly in a daze.
When she sleeps, sometimes she pouts her lips and its super cute. She does it very often, so not too difficult to catch it on camera. Maybe she is dreaming of being breast fed.
Her hands are oh so tiny.
So are her feet.
Sometimes she sleeps in this position and she can be gone for several hours. It really looks super comfortable. It reminds me of the time when Clié was found sleeping in our walk-in cupboard.
But most of the time, Clara is in a daze. She is high on mommy’s goodness every 2 hours or so.
I wonder what will Clara be like when she grows up. As parents we really don’t know what to expect, only time will tell. All we can do is to provide her the best environment we can.
Do you have any of OCD? I have lots.
My kids always need me to cut up their Pancakes for them and this happens alot. Sometimes there are semicircles. DOes this happen to you too?
Maybe Strictly Pancakes should run a contest or something, or maybe even a gallery of pancakes being cut up by parents for kids.
Not too sure why, but Cleo have been very interested with Dinosaurs this week.
She passed me lots of cardboard taken from boxes from Clara’s presents and asked me to draw dinosaurs on them. I really can’t recall how dinosaurs looked like, so roughly did a few and she did a few. She complained she did not have any books about dinosaurs and hence we need to get her some dinosaurs.
She then started cutting them up and playing with them. We had some more thicker cardboard so I cut a few slits into the cardboard and stood the dinosaurs up.
The out come was actually quite nice. This reminded me of the last time we did slippers from cardboard.
Pearl’s confinement period just ended and she needed to get some stuff from Tangs, so we were at Orchard today. Cleo saw a dinosaur and keep nagging “I want dinosaur, I want the pink dinosaur”. OMG… She kept saying it all the way till dinner. I don’t mind her liking dinosaurs, but a $16.90 pink plastic T-Rex that does nothing? Did I mention it was PINK!
During dinner she still kept nagging in my ear “I want dinosaur, I want dinosaur…”. My mom never nagged me so I’m seriously not used to nagging. Ok so after dinner, we dropped by Borders to look for a book about dinosaurs and we did find a nice one with pop-ups.
Now Cleo is one happy kid.
Being a parent is not easy especially when your kid throw tantrums in public, cry, makes faces. *sigh* but these are also stories that we will tell them when they grow up. When they have their own kids, they will have their own experiences. I was told I threw tantrums too when I was a kid. So I know where she got it from. *sigh*.