User:Izzy

Hello everyone.

For some reason people generally find it hard to pronounce my name, so everyone calls me izzy.

Presently I am a student in the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University of Buea, in Cameroon. I just went through my third year. A few weeks before my second semester exams I attended a seminar organized by Dr. Stanley Mungwe at the Landmark University College, Buea (Cameroon). During his talk he said many things that caught my attension and I wrote him an application. At the interview he introduced me to Redhuan D. Oon. Only a few minutes with him heightened my passion for Technology as a whole. I downloaded one of his books and read it and this opened the narrow door into the world of FOSS.

I attended another conference on Monday, August 04 2014 held by Redhuan himsel. It was an orientation for me and I was really happy because he proved to be one of the few people who have the kind of vision that inspires me.

Next day (Tuesday, 05) I attended another meeting which was like an introductory workshop. Redhuan kept stressing on following my passion. Looking back I thought "hey! all my life this is what I have actually wanted to do" even though I kept falling out with many people who thought they could force me accomplish their own dreams instead of following mine.

When I was a kid my dad wanted me to be a priest, my sister and brothers wanted me to be a medical doctor. Of them all, my mom just wanted me to be happy and I trusted her the most. Thinking through, it dawned unto me that though I was into many things (listening to music, dancing, singing, soccer, watching movies etc) there was none I loved more than 'playing with computers.' I would prefer to sit in front of that screen for the whole day rather than going to school, but it was all a dream because I had only seen a Computer on TV. Only in secondary school that I actually touched a computer for the first time.