[from Minneapolis] ICT & Empowerment

After Los Angeles, I had another conference trip. This time it was Minneapolis conference on Media and Human Right. Honestly, being drugged all the time didn’t help much in preparing me for the presentation. And for this presentation, I couldn’t recycle from my old powerpoint files. I hadn’t presented this one before.

But anyway, between sleepy and drowsy (biggest chunk of my time in LA and Minnesota was spent for sleeping!) I managed to finish my powerpoint before my turn. In order to hinder me from rambling too much, I decided not to take the painkiller before my panel. So I was kinda in pain. The result was I became a different person. This time my presentation was serious. No usual jokes. I was fast. And perhaps furious :p. Pain kept me awake too. And perhaps it’s good to be ‘different’, since I only had 10 minutes ++ to tell all! (more…)

Free Burma! — Cat got ASEAN tongue


Free Burma!

Today is the day where bloggers all over the world are urged to post one blog entry for Burma. The day is almost over and I am still puzzled on how to write my thoughts down. Not that I don’t have anything to write. I have some issues to write, but am really confused on where to begin and how to write everything down. Mostly, because I don’t know whether I would contribute anything to the current discourse. But anyway, here I am trying to write something.
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