(Source: www.Apple.com)
I recently had the honour of giving a short presentation to MBA students on any system used at work. A real life experience sharing session with fresh grads I decided to choose a basic yet most value-adding & time saving in my work life. I literally spent the entire night & morning pimping up my training slides. I have to say it's one of my best work yet, given I only worked on it for a few hours.
But 15 minutes into my presentation, my band new less than 6-months old 13-inch Macbook Air's screen went blank. I start to panic. Inwardly I was a wreck waiting to explode, outwardly I was calm, collected and a with a dash of wacky.
I calmly ask assistance from one of the student to plug in the power supply but the screen was still blank. I calmly push any and all buttons on the keyboard to rejuvenate the laptop with no success. After several failed attempts, I gave up trying & left the laptop to charge. An hour later my Macbook still wont turn on. In my near hysterics, my Baby-Boomer friend calmly peeled back the keyboard protector sheet & pushed the On button. The Macbook sprang to life. She turned to me & said "Its not rocket science, babe"...
It was a rare
'Blonde Moment' for me... To this day, I still cant get those haunting words out of my mind..
The lesson learnt today was:
1 - Jangan Riak, Takbur dan Bongkak.. Kan da tak dapat show-off slideshow yang terbang-merbang
2 - Keep my laptop fully charged during presentations
3 - Always know where to find the laptop On/Off button
But since i already worked hard on this slideshow, I'm gonna share my
ESS Presentation here and while go crawl under a rock for a few days...