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Deloitte Summer Vacation Placement

Saturday, December 20th, 2008

I’m nearly at the end of my summer vacation placement at Deloitte that I was offered back in August. It’s been great! I’m in Consulting (Technology Integration), working with the E2E Solution Integration team at Telstra. Yes, I’m working on that massive Teslstra IT transformation project! It’s pretty exciting – it’s the biggest IT project [...]

Twitter

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

I have known about Twitter for a long time but since I already tracked my friends on Facebook, LiveJournal and other blogs, I didn’t really want to add yet another website to add to my “check regularly” list. Besides, I didn’t know anyone who Twittered, besides a few high-profile celebrities. But now my list of [...]

2008 Google AU & NZ Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Retreat

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Wow. What a fantastic trip! I usually hate going to Sydney for any reason (I’m cursed – every time I go there, something bad happens!) but this retreat was so relaxing, interesting and fun! I felt thoroughly spoiled! The only thing that went wrong was that I ran out of money – but seriously, buying [...]

More good news…

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Wow, good news seems to come in pairs! Earlier this week I found out about being a Finalist in Google’s Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship and now I’ve received another exciting phone call – this time offering me a summer vacation position at Deloitte! I’ll be an analyst in the Consulting division for four weeks in [...]

I’m an Anita Borg Scholarship Finalist!

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

I feel so honoured to be awarded Finalist in the Google Australia & New Zealand 2008 Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. Anita Borg was a pioneer computer scientist who worked hard to make IT and technology-based careers accessible for women. Google have created a scholarship in her memory for high-achieving female students in information technology, who [...]

RADIO TOKYO

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

Hajimemashite! RADIO TOKYO is starting soon! I’ve joined the student radio station at Swinburne – 3SSR. I’m planning to start a radio show that I actually tried to do at Monash, but unfortunately their radio broadcasting facilities were non-existent at the time. So I’m starting RADIO TOKYO at Swinburne! I plan to do a weekly [...]