Cisco Telepresence

I joined a proposal pitch to a client from somewhere in Europe which was conducted through Cisco's Telepresence technology....

Man! That is one cool techno stuff! Have you heard of that stuff? Well, it's like common video conferencing technology, but a lot lot cooler. The images of the people you're talking to are fed into a 3-panel 42+inch LCD screen monitor. and you can actually see their whole room! And that room would look exactly just like the room you're in. And the table they're seated to looks exactly just like yours. It would come out like you're just sitting around the same table with them. Totally awesome!

No lag. No delay. Their mouth is in-sync with the words you're hearing. When you plug your laptop into the projector, the same image on your PC is fed to the network and their own projector would show the same image. Amazing!

Totally enjoyed the meeting. No idea what was discussed.. just had a good time with the telepresence thingamajig!

Supervision

I'm getting a lasik procedure done on me and be getting 20/20 supervision in a couple of days. Hopefully procedure goes smoothly.

Finally, I got to save enough to pay for this procedure. My vision is not that bad. I think I have around 300 - 400 "grades" or whatever you call that measure for vision impairment. I can still see objects even without my glasses. The eye center is also giving out discounts. So, I just decided that this could be the right time to do it.

Excited! My friend and my sister keep on telling me that this is a good investment. Oh well, I at least won't be burdened by bringing along my contact lens, contact lens solution, and those stuffs when travelling. I won't again forget about putting on my contact lens for a basketball game. No more going to the mall just to buy those contact lens solutions.

Wish me luck! This could just change my luck! hahahaha!

In a funk

I'm currently in a funk. Everything that I get into goes into a funk.

I'm cheering for the LA Lakers. However, The LA Lakers are facing elimination and has to do a seemingly impossible task of winning the next 2 games after winning Game 5 just to win their 2nd game in this best of 7 NBA championship series. We're in a funk.

My work is not doing so well either. We have come to a plateau in terms of our work for this project. We have finished our development and are now just supporting the test and deployment stages. Nothing happening there. Just one boring day after another. Furthermore, the client hasn't yet committed to letting us handle the support work for when the system we developed has been fully deployed and is in production. I can't afford to stagnate this way. My career is also in a funk.

And personally, not much is happening. I tried to catch the play Avenue Q with some friends one day. I have previously planned to watch this particular play in Broadway last November 2007 only for the show to be cancelled because the stage people went on strike. It was gonna be staged here in Manila and I was suppose to catch it. Tickets bought already. Unfortunately, 1 hour from show time, when I was about to leave the office for the show, my car won't start! Grrr!! How's that for luck!?!?

Gotta get out of this funk soon.... Looking forward to a vacation on July!