I Came, I Saw . . . and I’m Going Back Tomorrow!

I pushed through with my plans of attending The Social Networking and eBusiness Conference at the Hotel Intercontinental today even if I was feeling sluggish after sleeping past 1 A.M. again and waking up with less than my minimum required 6 hours of sleep.

I’m glad that I did. Even if I was about 30 minutes late and the first speaker (David Jones from Friendster) had already started with his presentation.

So far, hands down, I think Janette Toral was the best speaker. I walked up to her after the day’s session and introduced myself, hoping she’d recall my name as I sometimes see her dropping by my blog (just not sure which particular one she looks at or if she reads anything). I had a picture taken with her, too so that I could post something here. But it’s not a very good one since it’s only with my cellphone camera. I might bring a digicam there tomorrow to get a better shot. (Hehe.)

I suppose the highlight of my day was meeting up with an old friend and college blockmate — all the way back from ages ago — from my long gone UP Diliman days. I’ve lost track of all of my UP friends. I haven’t even found a single one of them in Friendster. I did find one on the cover of Manila Bulletin’s Sunday magazine — she’s working for the UN now, UN Habitat to be exact as its Country Programme Coordinator. Or at least that’s what it said in the magazine then — I think it was last year or the year before that that I saw that.

It was pretty cool meeting up with friend after all these years.  She finished her AB Political Science degree from UP Diliman, one of the few from our block I think who didn’t shift to another course or who didn’t transfer to another school. She’s married now and works for Smart Communications.

I have a terrible headache now. I think the pain is once again caused by my eyes. So, I’m typing with my eyes closed, occassionally peeking to check for typos.

I guess I better end this at this, rest my eyes a bit and then head out again to meet up with another friend from Lipa City who’s Manila also attending a two-day seminar. It’s pretty neat that their venue is just a few hundred meters away from our place so I’ll just walk over there later on to hang out with her a bit and catch up on what’s been going on with her life since we’ve last met.

M.E. with Janette Toral:

A terrible shot. I hope to get a more decent one tomorrow. That’s M.E. looking wasted after several nights of not getting enough sleep.