Summary:
Where:
1. Southwinds Hotel, Capt. V, Roa Ext., Cagayan de Oro City
2. Grand Caprice Hotel and Restaurant, Limketkai Area, Cagayan de Oro City
When: November 6-8, 2007
Why: Conduct Windows Vista Technical Overview
Highlights: Mortem moments outline
Home -> Airport Centennial 2 -> Cagayan de Oro Airport
- Arrived 3 minutes late for boarding time, missed the first flight to Cagayan de Oro City
- 8F seat in PR1 196 ETD 1:25 PM
- Hard rain around 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM, we thought 1:25 flight will be canceled.
People met:
John Bucas – PAL supervisor who gave me complimentary tickets for next flight
Mr. Mabait – Going to Cagayan for a business trip
JP – BS International Studies student from Ateneo de Cagayan, back to Cagayan de Oro from Ateneo Japanese culture exchange program in Hokkaido, Japan.
Joseph - Mass Comm student from Ateneo de Davao, same story as JP. He is Camille’s Ateneo high school classmate. Whoa! Small world cams!
Cagayan de Oro airport –> Stickymedia Office, Cagayan de Oro
- Arrived around 3:15 PM, thought of using public transportation so I took the Jeep from Airport to Carmen
- From Carmen, I tried to look for public transport to Stickymedia office located in Tiano-Gomez Area. I end up taking a cab because I was lost. hehe
- I only spent P67.00 , P16 (Airport-Carmen Area) and P51(Carmen Area-Stickymedia)
People met:
Funny jeep conductor (forgot the name)
Stickymedia Office -> Resto -> Stickymedia Office -> Southwinds Hotel
- Arrived around 3:45 in the office and met PHIWUG colleagues Chester, Jay and Adrian.
- Introduced to the Gear up organizers from Stickymedia Solutions
- Did review of presentation and configuration of Demo machine
- Met Microsoft APAC Tech Evangelist Maria Green
- Phiwug and friends ate in this resto in Limketkai area, forgot the name but did not forget Chicken in a basket meal.
- Maria Green ate sisig!
- Back to Stickymedia for more testing and preparation
- Supposed to play DOTA with Tabby but we had priorities… Tabby-GF, Keen-Review
- Arrived in Southwinds at 12:43 AM.
- Room mate was Adrian Rodriguez, MVP Windows Games
- Washed my face and slept, I was sooo exhausted
People met: (First impression)
Tin Buyan – Smiles often
Jhellai Sevilla – Loves to talk and very accommodating
Tabby – Very friendly at mukhang chickboy
Mark – Tahimik at misteryoso
Weng - quiet
Southwinds Hotel -> Grand Caprice (Event)
- Woke up 6:43, Enjoyed a good breakfast in Southwinds. Talked about SPARTANS! hahaha
- Arrived around 7:46 at Grand Caprice.
- Met with Anne Manalo and Jeo Barrios. Anne and I discussed some presentation points for our Windows Vista, The new revolution talk.
- Gear up photos
- Anne(PHIWUG) and Maria(Microsoft) liked the puzzle I gave them (the toothpick trick) :).
Grand Caprice -> Southwinds Hotel -> Sisig/Bulalo/Ostrich meat diner
- Ate Cagayan’s local beef bulalo + sisig and the famouse ostrich meat.
- Waiters have neon glow in the dark uniforms just like that of MMDA
Sisig/Bulalo/Ostrich meat diner -> Karaoke Bar -> DOTA (sa wakas)!
- went to this Karaoke bar in Carmen area
- At first stickymedia people were singing in one portion of the room and PHIWUG folks were watching Kennedy Assassination in Discovery Channel on another!nerd!haha
- Eventually, each one had the time to sing their songs.
- It was Rain’s night, ang galling niyang kumanta! Pang doble kara pa nga!
- Danced and sang to the tune of ….. “Nakaka” by Masculados.
- Chester and aids are having a great time, waiving their hands and enjoying the celebration.
Karaoke bar -> DOTA
- DOTA speaks the universal language of friendship.
- We first parked Tabby’s wheels in Stickymedia office and meet Rex. We then went around the city to search for a vacant shop hoping we could challenge other players.
- With Tabby and Paulo, we told them we have to play DOTA outside. I wanted to play with the local players caused I’ve heard Cagayan de Oro breeds fine players in the south. It was a good fight. Outcome - 2-0.
Team 1 Team 2 Winner
Game 1 Keen+Pau (Bane+Magna) Tabby+Rex (Holy K+Traxis) Team 1
Game 2 Keen+Tabby(Razor+Tide) Rex+Pau (Juggernaut + Troll) Team 1
Summary: CDO likes to use strength types
Very patient
Goes to Roshan after level 12
People met:
Rex – DOTA player from Stickymedia solutions.
DOTA -> Southwinds- Arrived around 2:18 AM. Slept.
- Last stroll around Cagayan de Oro
Airport -> Jollibee -> Robinsons Summit
- Bought pasalubong for officemates (Pastel + Cashew fruit)
- Arrived in Manila 1:44 PM
- Cab travel to 6750 with Anne and Jay
- Walked to Jollibee to change clothes and shorts
- Did Trick or Treat Marshal for HP Trick or Treat
- Did my EMEA SAP Basis Support task until 12AM.
Reference: http://www.cdokay.com/gearup/
