Categories General Travel

Is it worth bringing your kid to tech conferences?

I am back at school after attending the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle for the 3rd year, that means I am almost a veteran šŸ˜‰. There were a few major differences to the conference this year, the number 1 from a kids point of view being the new ā€œStudent Zoneā€. As well that, there were […]

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Categories China Cooking General

Food in China is wildly different

Now that I have returned home to Australia from living in Hangzhou for 2 months, I can reflect on a range of beautiful intricacies of Chinese life.Ā  After my last post about home and school life in China, Iā€™d like to explore other differences which I noticed about life in China. Letā€™s talk about the […]

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Categories General

Reducing plastic, one step at a time

It started with her lunchbox. Then the plastic bags at the shops. Now I see everything that she sees ā€“ covered in a silent poison which surrounds our lives. Let me take you back to the beginning of her story. seven years ago, my older sister, Eve, came to my mum and said ā€œMum, why […]

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Categories General

Microsoft Build 2018 ā€“ An overview by a 14 year old

I have just come back from a very exciting trip overseas to Seattle, USA where I attended Microsoft Build 2018 conference. Last week I blogged about meeting Satya, again. Since then, Satya even tweeted our meeting! It was fantastic to meet the youngest #MSBuild attendees this week, 14-year-old Ruby Cogan and sisters Disa and Anna […]

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Categories General

My Time at Microsoft Build 2017

As you know from my last blog, I’ve just attended Microsoft Build 2017. My dad has been attending this conference for my whole life and I assumed it was a boring “adult” conference. I was surprised by how much fun this tech conference was! Most of the conference was just attending sessions and walking around […]

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Categories General

I asked the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, a question

Yesterday I was lucky enough to ask one of the world’s top CEO’s, Satya Nadella from Microsoft, a question about AI (artificial intelligence). Before I tell you about his answer, let me give you some background. Today I was at Microsoft Build Conference 2017 in Seattle. This year Microsoft invited 100 students who sat in […]

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Categories General

Living in the City

I live in a house and Iā€™ve always lived in a house. We live on the coast of Sydney, in a not particularly busy and populated part of Coogee. Iā€™ve often looked at the tall buildings in streets of Sydney and said to myself ā€œI wonder what it would be like to live in a […]

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Categories General

My Experience with the Microsoft Hololens

Recently my Grandma passed away, andĀ my sister and I posted about her and the speeches we made for her. Soon after my Grandma’s brother passed away and my mum and our whole extended family have been very sad. So last weekend at the wake, I took the Hololens toĀ brighten the mood. Everyone tried it and […]

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