About Us
Keith
I’ve always liked new gadgets and technology. When I was young, I envisioned myself growing up as a real tech-savvy professional until I learned that using the technology is a totally different story to knowing how they work. Although I have set my life’s mission, while I was a kid, to go down the path of becoming a technical specialist (well, at least I tried to), after working in various areas and jobs of the IT world, I have come to realise that this just is not really the thing for me – especially after meeting Daniel.
I met Daniel in early 2007, he was the technical lead and I found him very scary and hard to approach. He is one of the most technical persons I know, anything from hardware to software to networking to infrastructure/architecture – anything technical, and he is on top of it. Why was I scared… that’s because he loves to quiz people and pop questions out of nowhere and he always catches people out – especially those who are not listening or paying attention. So therefore, for the first year working with him, I avoided him as much as I could. Luckily he had to travel a lot for that first year while working with him, which was the most relaxing and when I felt most safe.
It was not till after that year when I really got to know him. Since, we have been working very closely together with various projects and I came to realise that he is one of the easiest-going persons I know when off work. Therefore, from then on, we have been very good friends and we share many common interests.
Most Memorable Times: All the Mocha’s during our coffee catch-up/meetings at Niche café
Most Memorable Conversation: Scenario – 1:30AM at the data-centre, rebuilding a server. Daniel was reinstalling a base platform which he had not done before (which I did not know) and was clicking away on the “next” button really fast, not even reading the instructions/commands. I was watching him do the installation while thinking “what time I could go home…”
Daniel: Hey Keith… I don’t know what I’m doing here…
Me: Yeah, whatever, as if you don’t…
Daniel: Seriously, I don’t…
Me: Yeah yeah…
I pay attention and watch closely as to what Daniel is doing and start to realise that he is not clicking to move to the next screen, but clicking back to previous screens.
Me: Are you serious?
Daniel: …… yeah……
Me: (In my mind) Oh shit! How long do we need to be here for then…
Daniel
Lazy – that would probably sum myself up very well; if I can afford to complete something in the least amount of steps with the least amount of work, I would aim for that… So, this is where computers, software, and a love thereof comes from… I started where most geeks start out: playing games… Then, I found out how to hack games so that I could “win” faster (which, at the age of 9, was the ultimate “win” when I discovered I could start a strip poker game, downloaded off some BBS, with the… erhem… “complete” picture simply by renaming the .bmp files)…
<REMINISCING>Ah… The days of 9.6K dial-ups, V.n standards, zmodem and call waiting killing your link…</REMINISCING>
So, moving along, I somehow find myself still mucking around in IT years later, and I got to lead an incredible team, both on and off work…
Most Memorable Times: Working with an incredible team, of which Keith and some others are now fast friends, having each others’ backs both at work (back then), and off work…
