Happy New Year and Happy Three Kings!

Whew, I am a bit late to greet you guys’ happy new year but its batter to be late than never. New year means new beginning, a fresher way to start our life again and learn from our mistakes. Before I’ll post what should I change to myself this 2008 (well I hope I can change them), I am going to list what have a learned last year.

1. Love your work. – I am lucky enough to find work that is not that hard yet it gives me a good salary. There is no easy work/task that will be given to you. Challenges were part of it. The harder the task that is assigned to you, the more you gain. Why? Because you will be learning new things. I can say that if only I love my work no matter what happen and no matter how hard that obstacles may come unto me, I can still stand and solve it. After all there is no task that has no solution. After all, programmer’s motto is just like with Globe’s motto before its: Making great things possible.

2. Concentrate on your craft. – I can honestly say that for the past 1 year on my work I am not that productive. The programs that I have created have a lot of bugs that makes me look and feel like a lousy programmer. I have done a soul searching with regards to my work and I have found out that it is because I am not concentrating on my work and I am depending too much to my colleagues. Slowly I have change my old habit of not concentrating to my work, I have slowly reduced my Internet surfing habit instead I find time to study some codes and apply then to my programs. Slowly I have tried to depend on myself trying to figure out what is wrong with my codes, and have a keen test on my program. I should ensure that as much as possible bugs were 100% absent to my work. At least I have seen the fruit of my changes. No matter how hard your workload if you only concentrate on that task, you can do it.

3. Be frank and always tell what is true. You can’t please everybody. Let’s face it that’s the truth. There are some people who are narrow minded and they only wanted to be understood and not understand others. You are only good to them if you please them and you’re nothing but a trash if they were not pleased. If people judge you because you have told them what is the truth then it is not your fault. It may hurt you but it is better to be hurt emotionally rather than by your conscience. You know what is the truth and even though you’re the only one who is kept on telling it just stand with it for time will come the truth will set you free.

4. The word Friendship is SACRED. It is difficult to know who are real people. It maybe in cyber world or in our day-to-day life. Nowadays, people tend to be practical, they go with those people whom they think can understand them and yet when they do not need those people they just throw them like a trash. The word friendship becomes rare. I am happy that I found it to those people around me. In our office I know that I have them not only as friend but also as my second family. They are with me through thick and thin, they protect me whenever I am in need. I know in my heart that we may be apart someday but were still here for each other. I had a hard time to find who are the real people behind those names in cyber world. I can say to everybody that I have found few people who are real. They do not look at me as a member but they treat me like their sister. They respect my opinion even it is opposite of what they have. They listen to my explanation and they do give their sides about a certain topic. I have learned so much from exchanging of views with this people. Lastly, friendship does not mean the one who is tolerating you in what you are doing but the one who corrects you when you have mistakes. They are not hypocrite when it comes to your fault. They say straight to your face your mistakes. You might get hurt but you also learn from there. As you have seen your mistakes, you will realize that you have to work hard to correct your mistakes.

5. Trust when lost is difficult to give again. Truth is always there but hidden. There are times that truth is very difficult to find. There are many reasons why you can’t find them. All you have to do is dissect everything, those little bits that you think is not important where the one’s that leads you to truth. The trust that you have given when they make fool of you suddenly broke and I must admit that it is very difficult to give it back again. Even that person plays an important role in you life.

6. Blood is thicker than water. When my granddad has his mistress I really got mad to him. Until now, though he took care of me when I was young, my sympathy goes to my grandma who is my real relative. I really hate to see him and it is easy for me to ignore him if his there. Maybe it is because of the hatred I feel for him. I really don’t care about him and it is difficult to bring back the old days. I really had a hard time going to their house again because I really don’t know what can I do if I’ll gonna see him face to face. It does not affect me anymore if he says that I am ungrateful and prodigal granddaughter. I have seen this scene when I was a kid; he kept on saying those words to my Ate. I got used to it and got my emotions prepared so now that time has come that he says those words to me, I just told him “Who is ungrateful between the two of us? Me because I am ignoring you even though you took care of me when I was young or you who was sheltered, take cared, and loved by my grandma and yet you still look for another woman? Don’t you dare say those words to me when in fact it is you all along”. My grandma almost slaps me but she can’t do it because she knows that I am saying the truth. No matter how he takes care of me when I was young it gave him no credits when he hurt my granny.

7. Love comes unexpectedly. You really don’t know when love will come knocking in front of you. It is better to wait for that one person rather than rush to be in a relationship.