What a great honor for me to be able to present my journey on Hive during Hivefest10 and talk about curation and community. This was my very first time going back on stage presenting in front of people after many years hiatus. I was so nervous about it that I even went to the venue very early. I tried to memorize all the scripts I had from my notes but alas, nothing went quite the way I expected it to be.
Before the presentation, I was already hanging out at the venue as they have awesome specialty coffee. I even met some two girls who work part time as the catering of the event and I talked to them about hive and gave this scannable card.
I really have to thank 
Hive account@acidyo for giving me a space to help curate around and grow on hive.This has been such a great 8 years journey and I am forever grateful for it.
And to my surprise, my ppt messed up haha. It should look like something here below but it ended up being all over the place. I should have checked twice again.
Someone told me if I were to get a rate, that would only be C 😂you know, at least they are honest that I got a C. I was expecting more but it is what it is. Will I stop trying to present? Honestly, I’ll actually try again. It was really fun and I enjoyed presenting and somehow talked about my cats. Which 
Hive account@sagarkothari88 was asking about. At the same time, 
Hive account@roelandp was doing such an awesome job to make me feel a lot less nervous. So, I am very thankful for that!
Later, I got great feedback from 
Hive account@arcange about how to improve my presentation and from 
Hive account@akumagai too, the big uncle who knows how to take pictures quite well!
Since I was presenting, I didn’t really take too many pictures but shout out to 
Hive account@phattaragon who took this awesome shot of me and I am sure there are my pictures everywhere. After I got down from the stage, I went around the venue looking for ways to shake my nervousness. I talked to way too many people that it would be so full of names here to tag all of them but I gotta say thanks to 
Hive account@aswita, 
Hive account@viviehardika 
Hive account@m31 and 
Hive account@chocolatescropi for making my first day quite memorable.
I can tell you as much, the coffee in the place was great. I had the ice coffee and it was pretty okay. I’d still approve of that one.
That was when I had the courage to approach Hive account@akumagai. He’s one of the few that I haven't talked to yet and I said Hi. I mean what’s worse could happen? Haha. He turned out to be such a cool Om-om (uncle) and we went to check out the bookstore above and took a great picture of me, one of my favorites during the event haha
" it's all about angle" that's what he said :D
Later, hearing a lot more presentations, I came across 
Hive account@sorin.cristescu about off chain and that one really captured my attention. At the moment I have a hub that can be used to bridge the hive and offline world. So, I have to talk to him about him and see ways to expand that hub.
Here I look pretty tired but I finally talked to 
Hive account@stoodkev! We knew each other from a project called 
Hive account@gnc almost 8 years ago and it was so great talking to him. It’s like meeting an old friend and being reconnected again. I also find 
Hive account@cryptospa funny with his questions and 
Hive account@walterjay( that I thought was a grandpa living in thailand) 😂 of course, there was 
Hive account@archange too who was giving me such great and helpful feedback of my presentation. This was such a memorable moment for me and I am taking notes of the things he said and more about stage control.
Later, I went back to my place and it had this massage chair, pretty interesting and that’s how I ended the night during the entire hivefest. This is the cool feature of the place I was staying at.
This presentation was such a great opportunity for me and I am happy to have gone through it. I learned a lot from it and that helped me improve. I got so many ideas right now to grow and expand especially when I talked to @@
Hive account@starkerz about some problems with onboarding and distriator. I am looking forward to exploring those things and seeing where it leads. But I am going to take my time to settle down a bit and with this experience 😂. Everyone has written the closing one but I am not even done yet hahaha. So, bear with me everyone with my stories and experiences when I was there.
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