Time feels a little short for me recently now that I am starting to prepare for my certification exams, the first of three to come. I have been wanting to start on the exams last month. But with all the festivities and lessons that needs to be completed, I never really have been able to sit down and concentrate on revising for it. But now that I have gotten most of my lessons out of the way, I can say that I am making more progress on my preparations. Hopefully I will be able to get over with the exams in a couple of weeks and I will be able to free up these studying times for...
Three weeks of 2011 has gone just so quickly. Normally this is the time where I will have a clear idea of the resolutions I want to make for the year. But resolutions can be a little too specific and many things can easily not fit a resolution. So for this year I am going to go for a change and make goals instead for 2011. And along the way I shall do things that will map to the goals that I have set. So these are the 3 main goals that I have for 2011.
35000 Feet Goal 1 - Have Greater Financial Security: Yes I have a stable job now and I am getting a regular salary and I am living within my means so I am not in any financial difficulties. But at the same time, I should be starting to consider about future financial commitments which at this point in time looks like many. So I have to now up my game and start looking to increase my earning capacity. This would mean studying more conscientiously and working hard or working smart but most likely both.
35000 Feet Goal 2 - Be a Good Boyfriend: I have only just started out on this relationship, yet there have already been times where I find myself slipping into complacency when communicating with my special other or trying to understand her thoughts. Which to me is just not acceptable! What I want to do is to pay more attention to her and her thoughts and then pay even more attention. And also to make sure that my actions will continue to make her feel that she matters a lot to me.
35000 Feet Goal 3 - Be a Better Son: Looking back at the past year, I found that I have been showing and vocalising my displeasure more frequently and obviously at things that they say which are not wrong but just that it rubs my pride in the wrong way. But now when I think back at it, I do feel a little guilty for behaving so because it is only because they cared thats why they said those things. So this year, I want to strive to be more tolerant, or more correctly, to reign in this misbehaviour of mine and be more receptive to what they say even if they might rub me the wrong way a bit.
When I re-start blogging again, there was a dilemma that I was facing. That is whether I should be blogging about personal matters or professional issues. Why did I have this dilemma?
Well I am a database administrator by profession, and from time to time I do scour the net for information on how to best administer the databases. Much of these information comes from blog posts and there is a very active community of bloggers who contribute very high quality posts on database administering. Furthermore, many of them do encourge people to contribute back to this community by way of blogging and I am being swayed by this calling.
So why am I not doing it?
The number 1 reason why is because I am an absolute newbie in this field. For me, there is still lots and lots of things about this technology that falls in the category of "don't know what I don't know". And because of this, there is this fear that I cannot get over. That is I may write something that is inaccurate, albeit unknowningly, and that somebody might just take it for real and cause some real harm to their production environment.
So for now, I think I shall just stick to personal blogging. But it is definitely an aim of mine to one day start a professional blog of my own.
As December comes to an end and I welcome the new year, it is time for me to shake off the lethargy from the festive month and start doing things that has been put off because of my procastination.
Top of the list is to get back my momentum to study. December has not been kind to me in terms of putting me into the mood to study because of the many festive revelries. But now that the festivities are over, I should start making up for some of the lost time.
Next up is to restart my exercise/running regime. Ever since I started going for classes, I have not been exercising as regularly as before and my tummy is bearing the consequences. While I have come to adapt to working, studying and exercising, the festivities has made exercising irregular. So with festivities out of the way, its time to exercise regularly again.
So thats the "to do" brought forward to the new year while I contemplate what I want to achieve for the 2011.