Happy New Year 2012!
Haven’t updated this blog for the longest time with actual text. So I thought that it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to start this year with a blog post (and may be a regular post as a new year’s resolution?). Looking back, there are a couple of bold beats that happened in my life, which I want to thankful for:
Graduation
Big deal right? I’m the first person who gets into college and graduated with a master’s degree in my family. That makes me the 3rd person in the bigger family (from my mom and dad’s side), who earned a master’s degree. Quite cool. The other two person are my aunt and uncle from my mom’s family. But it’s kind of embarrassing too because my dad, doesn’t even earn any degree (paid my tuition).
Zynga
I think it’s one of the best decision I’ve ever made to join this company. I love what I do. I learned a lot. Had taken a lot of responsibility. An awesome team. Awesome manager. Awesome perks. And last but not least, awesome location. I work at the Los Angeles office upon my own request, as a new college graduate (I never thought that it would worked out!).
Friends
Memories of good friends shall never perish. Good times. Bad times. Formed a distinct mark that sticks as part of life history. This year I made all kinds of friends: new friends, old friends, special friends, cool friends, awesome friends, and last but not least, ass holes too (I’m jk). The plan is to increase the rate of new friends for the upcoming year.
Faith
I watched Stephen Hawking’s documentaries about the universe. The whole theory about the big bang and how the universe is created from nothing, makes me even wonder, even if the theory was proven as true, be something greater that would even started the nothingness. The theory itself is obviously has a lot of flaws. At the same time, I also watched documentaries about the Gnostic gospel such as the Gospel of Judas, which opens the other perspective about Judas and the gospel. Last but not least, a cool church.
Startup
Worked on a startup at the final year of college, and launched it at the DEMO Conference 2011. Our startup won the DEMO god award, and went to several publications on the web. Raised some money. And still working on it. Awesome team. Learned a lot of things. Super fast iteration. Lead the a mobile and a front-end developer. Let’s see what’s next.
Family
There’s nothing greater than to have a happy family that’s always supportive.
Those are the bold beats last year. Lots of things I learned from each of those bold beats. And I have a lot of plans that I want to do this year. There are some sets of goal that I wanted to achieve this year. While some of them are carrying over the bold beats from last year, others are something new. May be skydiving this year? Need to gather some people!
Happy New Year 2012!