Substance - What am I Made of?
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
It’s been so long since I’ve blogged, so I don’t even know how to summarize my thoughts this past weeks.
First off, went over to Microsoft’s auditorium for a, uh.. something like a get-together cum briefing. As usual, Vico (aka Santa Claus) had some freebies to give out, like a keychain he got us from his trip to Bali.
We also finally got our MSP bag and a t-shirt. Looking at the previous batch of MSP’s bag, I can’t help but feel disappointed with mine..
More importantly, 4 of the previous MSPs passed lengthy interviews and are now working in Microsoft as interns!! What really struck me that night, was what Harvin, one of the interns said: “at Microsoft, it’s all about substance. People judge you for what you are. It’s about what you’re made of”. Steven even told me during dinner “you see all those leng lui under Sales, driving BMW.. all very ‘geng’ wan, very strong..”, and I guess he’s trying to say they’re not “shallow” at all.
So what am I made of? Am I passionate enough?
I seem to have varied passions. I have always had interest in programming. I’m also kind of “in-to” web design and development, usability and that sorta thing. Looking at my feed reader, I don’t subscribe to any pure programming/development kinda blog, and I mostly ignore posts from alistapart and 456bereastreet. To make things worst, I’m developing more and more passion for photography, and especially flash photography. I subscribe to Digital Photography School and am reading the Strobist blog, though the “Flash Photography 101″ is itself quite technical. The rest of my feeds are mostly news blogs - technology/business news.
Heck, I think I’m going a little off topic here. I talking bout interests rather than substance. But hey, I still wanna pick something out and focus solely on it. I only have 24 hours in a day and hence there’s only so much I can do.
So what will I be made of? Answers soon..
