2009 Reflections..

It's been a while since my last entry. It's already near the end of 2009.

In less than 4 weeks to be precise. Reflecting back what have I achieve and lost throughout the year:

1. Got a new job at the end of 2008. Brilliant at first. asphyxiated in the later stages. It's not because of the management. It's the projects. I could say I have only interest in one. The other 2 (including the one I'm working on

right now is totally out of my preference list. Felt a bit cheated because during the interview, the questions are about web and enterprise technology.

But what I'm working on most of the time is coding desktop apps which is totally boring to me. Yeah it's Java but I'm more the business logic kind of guy that processes the data and interacts with the DB. Not the GUI designing kind of person. I prefer to work with things that matters which is the information itself, not the way it is represented. I guess I'm in the wrong place. My teammates are not that fun kind of people. I could say that they are nerds. always too serious about the work. (I know some people view me as a nerd too. But I view myself the contrary, I am a geek. although geeks have about the same traits as nerds do but we have a life and we know how to have fun ). And oh, the 'Ching Chong Ching Chong' speak too. Could you please show some respect and speak language that I can understand when I am around especially when I can hear my name mentioned in that 'Ching Chong Ching Chong' speak of yours? that is the main reason why I rather hang out with people on other teams than of my own. Seriously demotivated. If not for my understanding boss and encouragement from my dear, I would have left.

2. I decided to improve myself on the technical skills. Found myself to be quite outdated. well, currently Im looking forward to learn and study Design Patterns. Don't want to stay a 'duct tape programmer' or 'cowboy coder' forever. Need to learn 1337 developers knowledge. And oh, I've been studying Scala, Python and Ruby too. Ruby on Rails is packed with pure awesomeness I would say. If only I have some friends whom I could share with. But sadly, most of them are not into programming. too hard, boring, blablabla are the common excuse. If only they know that actually, it's not that hard. Well, for me, it's more like playing with puzzles except that you can devise your own solution to it. There is always more than one way to solve the whole problem. But then, I guess they're just aren't interested in intellectual challenging puzzles.

3. Well, I don't know if it is too early to say. But I guess I found my soulmate. A true one. Been with her for nearly 7 months. We had arguments but none falls into the serious category and I can say that I am really happy with her. It must be true of what people said that 'we met the worng partners in order for us to improve our weakness before we meet the right person'. Looking back on myself, I was the uptight kind of guy and easily angered. But all I do now is just take the matter as it is if there is nothing I can do about it. We already planned to get together next year. Hope that everything will work out fine.

There's a lot more that I would like to store here. Maybe next time.