Now to the gist: the clock just hit 12:00 AM! Drum rolls…I’m officially 22 years old! But whoa, the memory of my 20th birthday is still very fresh in my mind. Time flies, huh? It does.

Speaking of which, this year’s birthday is probably one the simplest natal day that I ever have. I don’t have plans of what to do today: don’t have any money to go/hang out or start a celebration and I’m clueless if my parents are going to do something special because they just spent a good amount of money recently from their modest income to send my two brothers in college this year – one of them is a senior college student and the other one a freshman. Anyway, who knows? I might get a surprise! However, it’s a thing I’d less expect. Life goes on.

However, despite the drought of celebration (I’m thinking about eating  my favorite chicken curry with lots of potatoes, fruit salad, etc), I’m happy because I got plenty of greetings and blessings from my online friends. Brad of Tech Webcast, for instance, sponsored a condenser microphone to help improve my tech news show, Tech Conclave. Hopefully when it arrives, I’ll be able to use it for the upcoming episodes.

I’m taking Tech Conclave (and all the other shows that I participate or co-host with) seriously because I believe that it brings a lot hope in realizing my dreams, helping my family, finding new friends, and reaching places that I can only think about for now – as well as meeting that special person dearest to my heart and rather one of the reasons why the show exists and I put so much effort into it. I’m also thinking of recording my karaoke songs and hopefully they’ll sound good enough for me to be able to share to the world. lol

My wish this year is that I hope my family’s health will remain stable and good, that all the relationships and things I’m involved with will improve, and I wish that the global recession will end so that I’ll not be choked anymore with all the bills and I will have more freedom. I don’t want to stuck here forever and I’m looking forward to reaching new places.

To myself: happy 22nd birthday! Thanks for being so productive, objective, dutiful, and persevering and hopefully one day you’ll find what you’re looking for. Everything that you do is a legacy that will remain in me.

My plan has finally materialized by the launch of Tech Conclave’s first episode. Tech Conclave as what I wanted it to be is a tech news show that welcomes people from all walks of life who want to be up-to-date with the developments of information and communications technologies,
those who want to express their passion on this field, and participate tech events with computer geeks and enthusiasts.

Tech Conclave reignites journalism history

Everything started with my involvement to podcasting with Brad from Melbourne in our tech program called Tech Webcast, which I explicitly mentioned in my previous post. Tech Webcast exposed me to some of popular tech geeks online and brought back my interest with journalism. Due to my affinity with computers and technology, and great inspiration with existing and fully-developed tech news shows on the Internet, I came up an idea of creating my own style and that led to the creation of Tech Conclave.

Back in my high school years, I was very active with campus journalism with I got acquainted with journalism code of ethics and philosophies. My team championed in a Division Secondary Schools Press Conference (DSSPC) for a radio broadcasting event. I also used to be our school paper’s editorial cartoonist, sports editor, copyreader and headline writer, and I founded Alternative Newsmagazine (ANM), an independent newsletter in our school, where I served as Editor in Chief. Due to such involvements, I was given a Service Award in Journalism during my high school graduation day.

What’s ahead of Tech Conclave?

Besides discussion of sensible technology news and current events, I want Tech Conclave to touch the life of every geek that I know of and who wants to be connected with me, on the Internet. Starting Episode 2, I will feature one geek per episode and take a glimpse of a geek’s lifestyle, tech expertise, and computer engine (or control center), with their permission.

My geek friends, some of them became significant in my life in 2008, are working with me in developing Tech Conclave. New things will come along the way as I shape the program based on my ideas and audience demands.

What about Tech Webcast?

I just want to make it clear that I will still be hosting with Brad with Tech Webcast. Though its lousy format needs changes, we are planning to reformat the program in such a way that it will parallel the quality of its video counterpart, Tech Conclave, and interoperate with it. Tech Webcast provides us more freedom to discuss technology issues, trends and affairs that is not possible with the linear format of Tech Conclave.

You can watch the first episode of Tech Conclave by following this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0RQveWmtoM

Please subscribe leave a comment, rate the video and make it as a favorite if you like it. It will help boost my motivation to better episodes in the future and you’ll be happy to be part of it.

So, here’s what we did it: Brad called me out of the blue in an afternoon on Skype and said we’re going to do a podcast for Tech Webcast’s Episode 8 – and so I decided to go for it as I wasn’t so busy during that time. The problem was that we had no solid outline of topics to discuss. So what we did is that we just picked randomly the things what we have in mind and elaborate them. Good thing that I recently went to a mall’s arcade center so I had something to share. Plus, I remembered trying VMware Workstation software and played Linux Ubuntu and Windows XP Service Pack 3 Professional with it so I already got good things to discuss about. Have a listen below:

As you’ve heard, episode 8 turned out to be a funny podcast! I was laughing at myself when I heard this recording for the first time especially on several portions where Brad tried to stop me from talking a lot. Honestly, I was not able to clearly hear him saying “stop” from my side and I just kept talking like crazy. The most hilarious part on the podcast is the part where Brad said that we didn’t get “too many emails” on our official podcast email – and then I replied innocently and seriously “That’s good, that’s good” and Brad laughed and said, “Not really.”  The quality of our podcast is not that great as we have done our podcast through Skype.

I invite you to listen to all other episodes that we have.

If you want to know how I met Brad, well it happened last year when I was broadcasting at Justin dot Com and he stumbled on my video channel. You can read a brief story of how we met in my previous post where he ranked #8 as one of the top people of my life last year.

Being a tech enthusiast who honestly doesn’t know much yet about more technical things as I do, he aspires to become a figure similar to Chris Pirillo, Zane Savage and all other geeks-for-show personalities on the Web – of course, with his own style. Why not when, since last year, he has been gradually acquiring a lot of gadgets and computer things that made me drool so much. He started with a single laptop when I first knew him; now he owns several gadgets and equipped with dual-screened LCD monitors and stuffs that could expose him into greater learning through actual experience than me.

That being said, he is planning to start a podcast program every week and guess what? He wants me to host with him! LOL That’s quite a cool combination right there.

We’ve jointly setup Twitter and other social network accounts in preparation for this. He’s pretty good on marketing side and he was able to allure people to follow this podcast’s official Twitter account. The start of our Podcast appears to be rough this week as I am drowned with a lot of priority work to survive. We call our program Tech Webcast and hopefully it will be in good path soon. I will be talking about hosting stuffs and programming if I can so please participate check it out if you have time.