I'm back!

Whew! So many things happened after May... :)

1. I was assigned to my very first project in June and then pulled out in the middle (around September 17).

2. I was assigned to a regional project in Vietnam (left on September 18, my first time to leave the country) and we finished the whole project in record time! My first time to finish a full-cycle implementation.

3. I got terribly homesick, but thankfully I was with my officemates who were like family when we were in Vietnam.

4. I enrolled in a gym but ended up gaining more pounds! T_T

5. I bought my very first camera, my Canon S95. I also asked my brother to buy me an iPod Touch 4th Gen (whee! happiness comes in 32GB).

6. Our high school friends got hitched! Finally! After 10 years... I wanted to be with them on that joyous occasion but I left before October 2. :(

7. I'm finally debt free (from buying my laptop earlier last May).

8. I went home by Christmas time (December 21) and experienced my first delayed flight. But I was feeling overjoyed just to go home that I didn't mind it at all. Haha!

9. I lost a dear friend, Christopher Michael. I wasn't even able to see him on his last days. I cried so much, because it hurts a lot. ;_;

10. I fell in love with Eric, my first boyfriend. *heart*

So many firsts! 2010 was a year with a lot of firsts, great times, and saddest moments.

Here's to having more happy and great moments for 2011! :)

Tips.

If you want to be the best in this business, stick with the master and not the student.

I learned that the hard way. Since I'm a newbie I didn't know who to go with at first. I kept listening to one person thinking that she knows a lot. Turns out she was the student. =_=

Although she is friendly, I don't like her work ethics. She doesn't submit her work on-time and advises me to do the same (and I hate submitting work after the deadline). She doesn't have the proper timing when asking questions. There's so much work to do but she's just there and playing Plants vs Zombies. She keeps on babysitting me when I really don't need that, I just want her to tell me what to do and help me along the way when I'm having a hard time figuring it out. And she goes home even if there is a lot to do. Even a newbie like me has to stay after work just to finish it but she doesn't.

It is infuriating. >_<

Thankfully I know better now.

I'm sticking with the REAL master.

But the master is leaving soon. I only had a few days with her this week. Its not enough because there's so much to learn. Best advice she could give me? Practice and READ A LOT. She studied on her own, so she advises me to do the same.

I'm scared and excited at the same time. Scared because they have high expectations for me. Excited because its such a challenge to meet those expectations.

I'm going to miss my guru. She's inspirational.

I want to surpass my guru, to be the best in this business.

So please pray for my success. :)