You guys made it to the top 16, the best of the best in Singapore. So that is a pretty pretty big thing to accomplish. - Pratibha Kumar, Academic Developer Evangelist

It was the Imagine Cup 2009 Awards Ceremony, held at Microsoft; Orchard Boulevard. I met both Shirley and Serene at the lobby. As usual their way of dressing is way out of imaginary. They need to know their colours well. Serene wore like a Christmas Tree, with some ironed-on stuffs on it. While Shirley wore her forever purple cardigan. I do wonder her whole house is painted purple. A lot of non-participants was also there.

We arrived quite early, I guess. I had 30 minutes for me to sleep. Everyone was taking their photos of the scenic view of the sea facing Integrated Resort (The 3 Pillars). The pantry is packed with Coca Cola, Cola Light, Cola Zero, Lemon Barley, JusTea Lemon, Red Bull. Were they to empty out the pantry canned drinks or there to support their mates? Most likely both of them, and yes it did. When it was time to go into the auditorium. The refrigerator was rather emptied out, leaving only 3 cans of Cola Light. Imagine 5 racks of 2 cartons inside, leaving only 3 cans.

The overall event was great, especially the Australian guy who demostrated 10 key features for the upcoming Windows 7. He is a funny guy. At the beginning the host had a hard time to actually gather the response from the audience. He asked "Anyone had played XBOX 360 games?" No one responded. Then he asked "So, what games do you play instead? 60% of the audience said "We play Playstation 3!" The host got rather fainted away, no one support Microsoft but rather Sony. Sometimes if there is no response, he would use Singlish to communicate with us also. ;D

The presentation of the top 4 teams was rather similar with us. Most of them uses technology for just a monitoring system to tackle global issues. I knew that the team with NUS students will win. They already had their site for gadgets that they created themselves and even for sale. Smartly they uses cost-saving techniques with just the use of earthworms, replacing the need for fertilisers. So as to create organic healthy plants.

The event ended with everyone singing the song, Imagine by John Lennon. Surprisely was not much people knew about this song. Perhaps it was rather old for those them, or I am the old one instead? Imagine by John Lennon, was sung in 1971. It was meant to be a world peace song. After that was high tea for everyone. I emptied out the curry puffs and spring rolls. It was nice! Besides the certificates that I recieved, I had couple of books and Windows 7 RC installation disc. Save me the trouble to download the image file. Click on the video to view an overview story for this year Imagine Cup 2009! Xingming and Serene is also inside! Next year's Imagine Cup 2010 Finals will be held at Poland. ;D
Imagine Cup 09 Awards Ceremony Photo Gallery
Posted by Purity And Simplicity at 23:59