Tonight I went to the semi-annual dinner of APEGBC Vancouver branch to receive the framed certification for my Professional Engineer designation.\u00a0 All new certified professional engineers from different fields show up in the meeting.\u00a0 Actually there were over 50 people receiving their P.Eng title in Vancouver in the past 6 months.\u00a0 The event started off with a standard cocktail session, the so called networking opportunities.\u00a0 I talked to quite a few engineers from other fields, learned something interesting such as forensic engineering and environmental regulations, but didn’t really make any useful connection.\u00a0 There was a presentation from the APEGBC chairman following the dinner.\u00a0\u00a0 The chairman belongs to the Al Gore’s climate change work force.\u00a0 He is one of the selected thousand individuals who received training in presenting Al Gore’s slides.\u00a0 Yeap, you name it, the presentation tonight is a live version of “The Inconvenient Truth”.\u00a0 I have already watched the movie, so I have seen all those slides.\u00a0 I must admit Al Gore has done a much better job in giving that presentation.\u00a0 As a result I dozed off almost half of the presentation.\u00a0 After the boring talk, at last all the new P.Eng are lined up to receive their certificate.\u00a0 Just like your university convocation, you get about 5 seconds of stage time, just enough to shake hands with the chairman and take a picture.\u00a0 And that concludes tonight’s event.\u00a0 What a waste of time.\u00a0 To make me feel like even more stupid, I actually got the certificate in mail.\u00a0 I have to bring the certificate to the dinner, have the chairman present it to me and then bring it home.\u00a0 I could have save all those trouble by forgoing that stupid picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"