something about IEM....

phew~~ feel so tired today, yet is another interesting day for my short term period as an engineer... perhaps i should say ... as an professional engineer though. ahah nvm..
Attended another seminar, this time i din learn much of the technical stuffs, coz the seminar was about entreprenuership as an engineer instead. Before i go into detail in that, there is something i would like to share... is about how to spoof into a IEM building and listen to seminar for free(coz if u are not a PE, u are require to pay 20bucks for that).

Step 1

walk into the entrance calmly

step 2

smile at the security guard

step 3

if the guard is looking at u, then u have to do extra step... that is, point ur finger upward, and say the magic word "talk".. then u are thru...

step 4

when u reach the entrance of the conference room, u will see a registration desk... ok... this part is a bit complicated, but dun worry... here's the solution

4.1 if u have a form with u(like me)... just simply submit it and smile at the clerk.. again.. u are thru..

4.2 if u have nothing with u, no form and no nothing... then u must... ignore the registration desk and just go into the conference room, grab a nice seat.

5. Sit down and listen to the seminar while trying to make urself invisible....

yeap.. as simple as ABC.. can u belive it? try it if u dun.. haha!! and for section 4.2... where u dun have any registration form with u.. please dun act smart and go ask for a permission to attend the course... even if u are willing to pay 20 bucks... coz one of the uncle did this when i was submitting my form...

Uncle:"good afternoon, is the seminar still open for registration?"
clerk :"sorry, it's already fulled... u have to wait for some other day"

and off u go.. so the moral of the incident would be Never simply ask a qs even when u are in doubt or have the right to do so.

okie.. let's talk about the seminar..

Basically, the seminar is about how engineers should make use of the high end resources(internet, software or multimedia infrastuctures) to make money. The speaker emphasized a lot on the so called key to success "innovation" . He did mention about how wide the market it is in the internet.... that allows Google to beat HP in the market within 7 years..

He oso mentioned about how an engineer is similar to an entrepreneur, and what kind of businesss we can do with our technical background, ya... guess this is what im lacking.

The talk only lasted for 1 + hours, actually the speacker didn't really talk much about the detail in entreprenuership, he just wanna encourage the engineers in our country to involve in business, with high creativity.. or according to him.. innovation.

when it came the Q&A section, many ppls already started to leave the hall, haha, may be they have the "never ask a qs" mindset deep in their heart. but anyway... the Q&A section was rather wasting time, coz .. instead of asking the speaker the appropriate qs -like how are we gonna get financial support, what is the basic requirement to start a business....etc, ppls were asking about...

qs1---- How come google is so rich ah?

qs2---- China and taiwan relationship is pretty ugly now... but why the still have strong bond in business?

qs3---- if ur son wanna take engineering course in U, you would advise him to study which major?

well... i have to say that i really impressed by those qs... honestly...

The 3rd qs led the speaker to throw one qs back to the crowd, when he ask

Speaker: Who has a child who is also an engineer, or studying engineering in U?

and nobody raised their hand... out of 60+ professional engineer, non of them send their children to study engineering in U... or i can say, non of them inpsired their children to choose engineering as a profession.... need i to say more?