Kaspersky Asia Pacific and MEA Cup Day 3 + Disneyland

Yay Day 3 update! This is me being productive and all that. Hehe. So Day 3 was really nerve-wracking because it was announcement day. Before the announcement of winners, there was a talk about malwares. Not sure if it was really about malwares, I wasn’t really listening because good lord cheesus h cries I was really nervous about the announcement. Anyway, long story short, we bagged the first and second place. It was really a surreal moment. I mean, come on, when we submitted our paper we were just joking about getting accepted, going to HK then to Europe. We didn’t take everything seriously. But holy macaroni, we just won and we are all going to Netherlands in May. Shit just got real.

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Kaspersky Asia Pacific and MEA Cup Day 2

Took me a week to post this. I’ve been busy with ‘work’ and fangirling life. I’m really tired right now. I just came back yesterday from Keeshia’s 2-day birthday party at Discovery Suites. Anyway, I’m here to tell you about the second day! Basically it was the contest proper. We left Excelsior at around 8:30 for the 9AM contest. Josh’s group was on at 11AM, our group at around 2:30PM. After the contest, there were talks about safety on cloud and cyber crime.

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Kaspersky Asia Pacific and MEA Cup Day 1

Last week, my friends and I went to Hong Kong to represent the Philippines for the Kaspersky Asia Pacific and MEA (Middle East, Africa) Cup. Our thesis and our lab mate’s thesis were one of the fourteen finalists. We flew to HK last Wednesday. It’s actually my first time to ride an airplane. Wooo, too much information haha.

We arrived in HK at around 11am, went straight to our hotel to check-in, and looked for a place to eat since we were really hungry. We were literally like tourists when we arrived in HK. We actually didn’t know where to eat! We ended up eating at McDonalds (btw their Mcdo > ours) since we were afraid of getting sick if we eat at some unknown restaurant. HAHAHAHA. Also, can I point out that it’s really cold in Hong Kong!

At around 4pm, we went to Excelsior for the workshop. During the workshop, we were introduced to the other finalists who are from Malaysia, Iran, Hong Kong, and India. We were also given some tips on how to defend our papers properly etc etc. Read More »

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