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