My RoadMap in year 2009

For the year 2009, I have many plan to do - hence my roadmap below :

• Taking Cisco exams using my own money

Many will ask why bother taking competitor's certification. Well, the answer is really easy: it is far more easy to defeat the enemy if you know their strength and weakness. And anyway, I'm not a sales guy or presales guy. I'm a pure engineer therefore I really love to learn new things, whatever the brand, price or company the products come from.

• Taking Juniper exams which have been already expired or haven't been tried

I have started this very well, retake my JNCIS-M successfully. And I have planned to tried another exams. Some because I didn't have opportunity to learn them more thoroughly in the past eventhough I have participated in the appropriate projects, some because I will encounter these beasts in my forthcoming projects.

• Do as many networking projects as possible and rest from OSS world for a while
  

This year will be a good year to switch from OSS world to networking world. More than two years ago, I was recruited by my current company in order to fulfill network engineer, not OSS engineer. And since at that time there are no engineers who were willing or dare to enter OSS world, so my boss pointed me to do it. I think I have done as much as I could. So much that I feel really bore and need to take a break for a while.

• Keep my figure fit
  

A few months ago, I was struggling against my back pain. Too much sit, lack of sports activities, aggravated by car accident are the master culprit. I don't want to endure that kind of incident again. So this year, I will workout more than previous year. I hope I can do that routinely, but let's see then...

• Open myself to opportunity of having relationship with someone.
  

There are times when I felt really hurt by someone and need to escape to my shell for a while. But I think my emotion has been recovered very well. And I can say now that I'm ready for new relationship. I hope this will end good and last forever :).

I think that's all for now. Gotta back for my homework or I will sleepless tonight :P

Things happened.....

First of all, I would like to say "Happy Earth Ox year!". I know it has been too late to say it, but well, in the recent days, I was to lazy to update my blogs anyway :P.

Like the subject of this blogs, many things happened to me. A couple days before Chinese New Year, I was really glad because I was able to finish Indosat project. The Migration of Indosat' Internet Gateway in Hongkong was finally over and success ^_^. This is the first project that I took great responsibility as leader after leaving networking world and concentrating for OSS two years ago.

That day, I was really happy. Indosat guys can testity easily because when I was finally able to configure load balancing feature which they need so bad, I was smiling and smiling. This is like the blessing in the end of Rat year and I hope this is a sign of good beginning in Ox year. I will undergo this Ox year with very cautios since my Chinese horoscope - Goat - is the opposite sign of Ox.

It is being said that in this year, I will lose my temper easily and get failure in everything if I recklessly do without full preparation. That's why I didn't go against my boss decision of suspending my JNCIP-M request. He is wise enough to let me do many projects before taking the exam. This can raise my spirit and my confidence. Anyway, certification will mean nothing if you cannot do anything in the field which you are certified.

And exactly two days before Chinese, I met an old school friends. We have not met for so long, almost 20 years. But even I still remember her name correctly, it's like meeting a new friend to me. Well, I think it's normal anyway considering how long we have gone to separate ways. Live experience can make someone really difference from what you imagine.

I was happy meeting her again. Maybe this is a beginning of new story in my life? Who knows? Life is full of mystery. Sometimes we are longing for someone that never come and give her/his heart to us, instead we are ended with someone we never expect her/him be with in our life journey...