Life Lessons

April 27, 2005, 4:01 pm

Reading this, and this, and should be lot of others in this very interesting blog (I still have to learn a lot to live this life ). Wish I could emulate their affection to their children, wish that I can raise my children the way they raise theirs, hmm..

Lastly, from this:
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Don’t look back with regrets
Don’t look forward with greed
Don’t stop cause you are in confuse
Don’t you walk with no intention
Don’t you stop to find who and what you are

Your past and your future are related each other
they are closer than you can imagine

Look at your past and learn from it,
Look at your future and apply what you had learned
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PS. According to this, he has a brother who is currently doing his PhD in Tokodai. Who??

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Dream Jobs

April 23, 2005, 6:41 pm

Interesting, nice and inspiring articles from the February 2005 issue of IEEE Spectrum Magazine: Dream Jobs.

Some excerpts:

Bill Woodcock circles the world several times a year, building Internet exchanges in exotic locales; he’s the engineering adventurer he dreamed about being ever since he was a teen.

With 1.2 gigabits per second coming into his house, Woodcock has more bandwidth than most universities.
Z: While the whole Indonesian domestic bandwidth use by the end of last year is 2 GB/sec .

Z: But the most important thing that can be learned from this article is at its very end. Very nice.
But while Woodcock loves the travel, that isn’t the biggest satisfaction. “It sounds trite,” he says, “but the fact that I’m helping people, that the work I’m doing is making somebody’s life better somewhere, that’s the big thing.”

Others featured persons are Ian Caven (who works at home, doesn’t miss a chance to have lunch and dinner with his wife and 1 year old son, and at the same time still have to read piles of IEEE Journal, like me :-p), Dale Gardener (who travels in luxurious cruise ships around the world), or Ossi Oikarinen (one of about only 30 car engineers in the F1 circuit).

Can I also get my own (dream) job?
* while even the definition over what I would consider as the “dream job” is not very clear *
* note: “dream” above is parenthesized because getting a job is hard enough, let alone it be one that you are dreaming of *