I turned 28 last Thursday. I thought that I was turning 29 (tells you how bad I am at maths). I am wondering whether now it’s a good time to have my mid-life crisis.. My dad passed away at the age of 59 of heart attack, my grand father passed away even sooner on his 40’s I think, also because of heart attack. Looking at this history, there is a chance that I might not make it beyond 60, if so then this is a proper time to have that crisis, isn’t it..

Oh birthday, another reminder that you have one year less before you meet your maker. I think people should stop enjoying birthday after a certain age, I mean you are reminded that you are closer to death than ever before..

In terms of life goals, at the moment there is nothing clearer than seeing my mom, auntie, grandma and Jet receive Jesus as their Lord and Saviour as well as presenting Lina holy and blameless before the Lord. It’s funny that after my father’s death, financial freedom is not really that interesting anymore.. You can be financially free, but you’ll never free from death, so what’s the point.. You can also just live life to the fullest, but there is a God and you have to be accountable with what you’ve done.. then you’re screwed..

Anyone interested in buying books from Amazon.com before the end of financial year? We can combine the shipping and save the postage. I’ll order before 30th June of course.

Had a pretty busy schedule today:
– Woke up @ 9.15am
– Did some minor cleaning for about an hour before heading out to West Pymble at 2.00pm.
– The commissioning service + chit chatting took about 2.5 hours-ish.
– Got back home @ 6.00pm.
– Looked after Jet as Lina needed to do other things, did some household chores like washing dishes and packing summer clothes.
– Started to prepare bible study @ 8.30pm.

Still lots of house cleaning tasks that hasn’t been done, looks like I will miss Men In Training for tomorrow. I felt really busy and tired today, however I know for sure that I wasn’t the busiest person in the house today, my wife is.

I really take my hat off to wives with kid(s) out there, I don’t know how they can cope with such a workload. At this point of time, I am glad being a man, sure my programming job is busy, but it only requires mostly my brain, it doesn’t require much physically or emotionally. Looking after the house and child(ren) however take a lot of physical energy and emotion.

On the note of being busy, I think I miss some things that I would really want to be part of:
– FOCUS team
– SUS Indonesia
– Training events like MIT
– PTC

I hope next year, when my master is finished, I can use one of my nights to do some of the things above.

From: http://www.doolwind.com/index.php?page=11
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You’re a Planner.
You may be slow, but you’ll usually find the best solution. If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right.

You like coding at a High level.
The world is made up of objects and components, you should create your programs in the same way.

You work best in a Solo situation.
The best way to program is by yourself. There’s no communication problems, you know every part of the code allowing you to write the best programs possible.

You are a Conservative programmer.
The less code you write, the less chance there is of it containing a bug. You write short and to the point code that gets the job done efficiently.