WENT friends who lurk here (you know who you are) will be pleased to know that Shinta; brave CEO, patron saint of Indonesian Web designers, and intrepid e-commerce trainer is blogging at >>> www.beingshinta.comThere's much more to Shinta than being CEO of Bubu Internet, founder of Indonedia's only web annd graphics design competition, and WENT ( Read more... )

Yes, I feel like I've just come back from a long weekend in another dimension. Bali is otherworldly. Its eco-system is so much like the town where I grew up in, same flora and fauna, and similar jungle tropical climate. But the comparison is superficial. While people in my hometown worshipped life-sized icons of dead Caucasian-looking saints, the ( Read more... )

I'm leaving for Bali, Indonesia in 24 hours for the WENT After-5 Meeting, which starts on the 19th and ends on the 22nd. I had mixed feeling about this meeting while it was being planned last year. I felt the money could be better spent funding a local training. Still, it'll be interesting to see what comes out of the meeting. The meeting agenda ( Read more... )

I had a day 17 (October 23 in Seoul) LJ entry but I accidentally cancelled it. Hitting cancel though was not the worst thing that happened to me in the last days of my recent trip to Korea. On day 22, I plugged the CD writer's power source directly into my laptop's SVideo port. So yeah, my laptop monitor's fried. It was close to 3:00 am, I was ( Read more... )

The WENT caravan is taking a pit stop today for activities to commemorate the workshop's fifth year anniversary. I'm sitting here inside this small auditorium, listening to symposium speakers discuss about women, power and technology.

As headbint of the training team I was wrangled to deliver the opening remarks for the symposium.

( Here be 710 words duct taped together at the 11th hour. )

It's the eve of women's networking boot camp this side of the Internet and the Pacific, though since I've been here in Seoul since Monday evening, my internal system's already primed for the next nine days of punishing, but bound to be exhilarating, routine. The routine being 8 hours a day of training sessions, 1.5 hours a day of working with ( Read more... )

I arrived in Seoul evening of the 6th, so I count last Monday as day zero. Nothing much to tell about that day. I left my house around 10am, the plane took off a little after 1 pm and landed in Seoul some four hours later. Halfway between my house and the airport I realised I left my Palm Pilot sync cradle and my coupler on my desk (the coupler is ( Read more... )

Four days to go before I head out to Seoul, and I still have tons of work to shelve and domestic errands to run. The last two weeks before WENT are always hellish. I've been doing this training every year since 1999, and every year I make a resolution that the next one will find me composed and cool as a cucumber. Still, each year I end up ( Read more... )

I've decided to make Five Years in the Oasis for my friends' eyes only, for now. Those in my list of usual suspects who want to read it and future installments, will need to log-in to LJ to do so. Sorry, for this. I'm feeling a bit exposed right now. I will eventually shift Five Years in the Oasis back to public access, once i stop being paranoid ( Read more... )