It’s 5:15 a.m....Do You Know Where Your Notes Are?

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Hong Kong

Cheung Man-Fung (Fung for short), the Assistant Manager of Marketing for the TDC and my contact the past couple of weeks regarding the presentation, told me late yesterday afternoon that there were able to drop the PDFs I supplied of my Keynote segment directly into the PowerPoint slides—no need to bring my laptop as originally planned.

That was all well and good until, at 5:15 a.m., my brain yanked me out of a deep slumber with the screaming realization that no laptop meant no notes. None. Nada. They were embedded in my presenter’s copy on my Mac.

There’s nothing quite like the sunrise in Hong Kong when your head is buried in a keyboard, frantically recreating your talking points.