My virgin WWDC

YES, its my first, Ad's 4th I think....

alright, here's my journey today.....

yes, must take pic of the banner hee... since so many place already filled with the pictures of the buildings, its no fun anymore to keep showing them, but what the hack, here's how it looked on the outside.... hee....



Keynote speech was held on level 3 and the crowd was already building up at 6am! (nope, i was still soundly asleep when that happened, but there were a few geeks who woke up early and joined many others in the queue, if this happened in Singapore, people will be looking out for the Hello Kitty hee...). The main halls were FILLEd with huge huge banners and they were mostly covered...... The sense of suspense is high, on everyone's mind, its... what's going to be announced??? so cool.... so secret....



On the OUTSIDE, look what we found!!


yes, Ad worked on his latest "artwork" late last night on his volunteer/volunteered head together with C and hee.... its quite nice leh, we discussed the different possibilities during the two days before the "shave" but when it finally happened, he din get his side-panels of mirror-images, he din get to put out WWDC2006 on it, he din get eye-liners on his head neither did he get shaving cream hee..... yes, we talked about how and what for 48hrs before it actually happened. He had quite a few photo request.... poor fella, no one wants to take pictures with his face anymore just his skull ha ha ha....

Yeah, Ad and ME heh.... decided to add a little color today since its such an important day. :)


some interesting banners....


they had quite a bit on cat-talk hee....

guess what??? we were channelled to a long corridor on level 2 and as we turned a corner, we saw an endless queue of people..... and after one corner turn.... another long corridor of people, sitting on the floor, sitting on round tables with power points, another corner appears, MORE people..... my my....



good thing is that there's lots of walking spaces along the corridor even though there's a queue... with no barriers, if it happens in Singapore, either people will fill up the entire space width-wise or lots of poles with slings would be used. Here lots of spaces are available for everyone to just sit around. So cool, because you know that the little bit of time you enter the venue abit later would not make much difference. In fact, sometimes those at the back gets to go into the front rows as the VIPs have not arrive. Ha ha ha....

more people....


still lots more people after the turn....


finally found some buddies and we all sat down the old fashion way....


the best part of being in this geeky conference is.... its 90% male attendees, so the female toilets are usually empty and no queue!!! what a pleasent change from the usual hee...


another best part of the conference is the FOOD! yes, its free flow all around, breakfast is muffins, crossants, baegles, cheese, milk, coffee, tea, hot water, juices..... *slurp*


alright... just to show you how many pple are IN the conference.... here's lots of photos...







Yes its that many people... over 4200+ the highest turnout so far for WWDC....... cool eh? many first timers like me I guess... blur like squid hee...

finally we filed into the presso hall.... woah.... so many chairs, its free seating, u can see many of us dashing to the nearest nearest front row that we can hee...


we are on the 6th row from the front!

heh me and the vain ME hee..... Ad sian of his collection of photos from WWDC Keynote liao since NOTHING will beat his sit infront of the stage experience he had in his first WWDC2000....

more photos from the very packed conference hall....


finally the big guy is HERE!

music was timed nicely, the there he is...

he told us a few things about WWDC2006:

4200+ attendees


from many many countries, can u spot our flag? hee...

Some new stuff....
new Mac Pro

Leopard, the much anticipated new Mac OS has tonnes of new features, exciting ones, but Steve told us that they'll be keeping some as TOP SECRET ha ha ha.... interesting ...


for the complete Leopard list that was announced, you can read it at TUAW's report

wanna hear the real thing? go here.

here's AD showing how close we are to the front hee...


this is what steve and other presentors used to see what's behind them.... i kept thinking that they were so good ah... no need to turn their heads around hee.... silly me


here's how awesome it looked from the back, where there are giant screens by the sides for those back-benchers


here's the unveild posters.... cool.....








here's some of the labs....






the makan place... where the FOOD is free flow, drinks are free flow and the table is huge so that u can eat and use your Mac at the same time....


that's all for today folks!

cheers from WWDC2006

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