5 June 2008

12 hours after the price hike and the general population mood is still angry,angry, angry. People on the streets are angry, people in the kampongs are mad and Badawi-bashing is the favourite topic in the blogosphere today. My friends Safuan and Bujal also have something to say to Mr. Badawi but I can't write it here. Let me give you a hint though, it starts with 'b' and ends with 'i'. Go figure.

Today the three of us went to a ProCurve Networking training in PJ. Their hardware is not as expensive as Cisco's but also less reliable and more complicated to deploy. We've been selling primarily Cisco products to our customers but lately we also recommend ProCurve products as a cheaper alternative. The workshop is targeted at System Engineers who are familiar with switch configurations (i.e Safuan). Still Bujal and I gained some valuable inputs from today's training.
Like I said, lunch was superb. It's common for training, workshop and seminar organizers like them to take a really good care of the participants by providing breakfast or lunch and the obligatory goodies. Although we have some reservation about who cooked that lunch for us, the goody bag handed out later on kinda make up for it. Safuan bragged that he got better treatment and gifts from all his Cisco training. The presenter even initially declined to share his slides with us but after Safuan threatened to buy Cisco products instead, he relented. Whatever it is, I don't mind going to these trainings and workshops really. Just count me in.