Freeze!!!

Hell yeah again, this time of the year triggers my resolution mode. There's no winter here in this dear tropical island for sure, the freeze is somewhere else, some lands I wish one day I would set my feet on. Or...it is here right in this office, yes there's will be two months of operation freeze for peak season. I consider it the best perk of being an occasional weekend-slave for the payment giant, worth it.

So, I will have two months free to do whatever I want here and as an almost mature human, I choose to dedicate it for self-improvement which totally aligns with my boss's expectation for an intelligent highly-motivated diligent employee. See, a win win. Set my goal for Linux+ and hopefully that will broaden the door to openstack for me, yes I'm totally into openstack at this moment, like I was into the dream of making myself a CCIE, a wet dream.

Ok, done for the serious shit, now comes the feel train. I am happy I could play again in a not bad manner thanks to significant weight loss recently, scored a dumb goal, yes a dumb one. But that meant a lot, football is one among very few things I can be sure of, never failed me. 

Start from the root!

Beautiful Sunday, it's just as nice as a person who really hates hard sunshine like me always dream of. A cool breezy day that makes the scene of Pinoys gathering outside Paya Lebar MRT seem fashionable. I am not racist, I just can't stand the idea of hanging out on the floor in a humid heat of Singapore's afternoons. Today is fine, though.

Another  quiet day at work, it would be really precious few weeks ago, when I was swimming toward my CCIE exam that was pushed back to end of May later. What a coward move. Work was really tight then when I needed time the most, tragically now I am free and spending my time on this note, likely a useless killingtime one, I am not sure. But I certainly fucked up my study plan, that can be confirmed.

I've stopped reading for months, having my self an excuse of focusing on my technical stuff. The study itself ended up nowhere near what it was planned for, but what I gained from this process is invaluable: The ability to categorize, analyze and memorize things. What can be better in this world of enormous channels of data? Still I may need to improve myself a lot to really make use of it, but at least I fill fortunate to start appreciating and recognizing data processing as a vital skill from early stage of my life. Welcome to the world of information!

I have spent nearly 30 mins reading through my previous posts, they are a mess, spontaneous useless productions of nah-Iamjustkillingmytime me. Time to make differences I guess. Starting from now on I will put all my reviews for books I read here, such a big stones to kill the herd of many birds, sharpening my writing and reading skills at the same time, hell yeah! Reading without reviewing seriously doesn't give you much, carving the ideas into your brain cells would take much more effort (I remember me reading books that I thought it was the first time for me but surprisingly later found my notes there, now I believe "Memento" is real and I will be an excellent choice for the main role, living my whole life without coming up with a method to memorize things). I really need to work on this. Is there any other better way to start than reading a book on mind mapping? Lets see what I got in my next post (I will put a date here for the next post (May 1st). Because microresolution works!)

The most serious post ever!

April trip, a good one back home

I am not workaholic, one doing 9to5 doesn't deserve to be called so, but on scale from me 2 years ago to me at the highest level of hardworking that you can imagine of, I think I am kind of now. I was so lazy then, the fact it is. I am not bad at taking load now, many of my coworkers can commend on this. Anyways it is good time for me in my life to try hard, though it is never to late to do so there is still a more preferred stage.
Let's put my surprising turning point a side and focus on my trip back to hanoi this time, not a conventional time for my goingback. Indeed a friend's wedding it was that pulled me home just 2 months away from Tet. There are people whose special moments in lives I always tell myself to never miss out. Congratz my friends, I know there always concerns here and there but that's how life is, and she's the one you're in good hands now.
It was a good break for me too. Met the old good friends, knew some of them half way through turning their new chapters in life. Met the new friends, opened my eyes to the world that I missed out by staying oversea to earn hard capitalism's money. Sassy smart funny people are everywhere, and they all taste interesting differently. On a side achievement, my niece started playing with me for the first time, it made my day, and made this note, ok it should really be considered a big achievement.
Another good news, my parents seemed to calm down over my marriage plan, since I frightened them with the story of me wandering to a Christian community in desperation for a date which is true.  Not a bad idea, I just never thought it worked.
Moron of the trip: never skip a friend's wedding, it surely bring good things. Period. Wait...there are plenty of fishes in the sea, calm your rod. Wait...it feels good playing with kids, it requires skills though.