Missing Melbourne (soon..) / 10-20-30 rule of PowerPoint

Been hibernating at home over the past four days. Lessened contact with everyone and just stayed home to ponder over my circumstances. I've accepted the offer, mailed it and will prob be starting work on 6th Nov. Booked my flight back on midnight 28th Oct, right after graduation on 26th.

I'm going back!

Erm.. I wish I sounded as enthusiastic as others did when I broke the news to them. Reality is, I'm going to miss alot of things.

voluntary work and YAA.
the photography club.
good coffee anywhere I want.
the parks/gardens.
the air.
even the Internet..

I just hope I don't regret. For privacy purposes, alotof people seldom divulge their workplace details. I guess I'll do the same then and not say too much, other than I'll be working for an international bank in Malaysia (not many of them around, so go figure). Note: not an investment bank.

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Something interesting I read today - "Ten Things to Learn This School Year" on Guy Kawasaki's blog. One point there 'How to use PowerPoint" is a good read which led me to his 10/20/30 rule of PowerPoint:

"It's quite simple: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points."

It does sound simple eh. How many times in lectures have we students been bombarded with 60 slides or more, or with slides which are just a repeat of textbooks.

Click here for more, and here (The Kawasaki method, also includes links to other simple and effective methods). So now can we say goodbye to dodgy animations and lousy smallish font?