Chaosplay

2009 was great!

• made some great friends
• read a lot
• road trips
• quit smoking
• started running
• worked with a startup
• got laid off and discovered what i really want to do
• and found co-founder for my startup

I think, in 2009 I found a balance.

2010 hasn’t been so great so far…

• haven’t been running
• started smoking again (stress is a bitch)
• reading is down

but the most important thing, the startup project is done. Now we just need to figure out legal issues & the name.

Well only 6.5% of 2010 is gone so far. Still enough time to make it happen.

Most people drive like as if they are invincible but spend like like as if they will die tomorrow.

Those long lines of slow moving cars on are usually funeral processions. The right Southern etiquette is to stop and get out of your car when you see one.

Sometimes, it is hard to tell if cars are just moving slow or if they are part of procession, be respectful & take the other street.

I love late night random internet quizes. INTJ from Wikipedia:

INTJs are strong individualists who seek new angles or novel ways of looking at things. They enjoy coming to new understandings. They tend to be insightful and mentally quick; however, this mental quickness may not always be outwardly apparent to others since they keep a great deal to themselves. They are very determined people who trust their vision of the possibilities, regardless of what others think. They may even be considered the most independent of all of the sixteen personality types. INTJs are at their best in quietly and firmly developing their ideas, theories, and principles.

It seems true!

In modern society, everyone is in such hurry, especially on the roads and highways. Why cannot we just roll down our window, light a cigrette, feel the cold air in our face, turn up the music and enjoy the ride? We will get there, when we get there.

First, I cannot believe that every year we hear but people getting trampled during Black Friday but no one do anything about it.

This year 3 people died. I think they should go back check the security videos and charge every person who stepped on these people for murder.

Anyways I was going to buy a laptop but my 5 years old laptop is still usable, so I talked myself out of it. My brother on other hand has 2 better than mine laptops but still he bought a new latop. Why do you have to buy something just for a good deal when you don’t really need.

Today in one of our meetings, senior leader said that technology should not be driving the business instead it should only come into play after business need is defined. At some level, I always knew technology is just a tool for a solution but not a solution. But I never really put that into practice. I guess thats why so many of my previous ventures failed cause every time I learn about something new, i want to go out and build a business around it. I wasn’t sure how I can build a business on Facebook but I just wanted to do it. Perhaps I just wanted to learn technology. I just bought G1, not because I wanted a new cool phone but because I wanted to write applications for it.

I guess now I need to find out what I really want to do, perhaps, it is not even related technology.

I was,
And I am.
So shall I be, to the end of time,
For I am without end.

I have cleft the vast spaces of the infinite, and
taken flight in the world of fantasy, and drawn nigh
to the circle of light on high.
Yet behold me a captive of matter.
I have hearkened to the teachings of Confucius,
and listened to the wisdom of Brahma, and sat
beside the Buddha beneath the tree of knowledge.
Behold me now contending with ignorance and
unbelieving.

I was upon Sinai when the Lord showed Himself
to Moses. By the Jordan I beheld the Nazarene’s
miracles. In Medina I heard the words of the
Apostle of Arabia.

Behold me now a prisoner of doubt.
I have seen Babylon’s strength and Egypt’s glory
and the greatness of Greece. My eyes cease not
upon the smallness and poverty of their works.
I have sat with the witch of Endor and the priests
of Assyria and the prophets of Palestine, and I cease
not to chant the truth.

I have learned the wisdom that descended on
India, and gained mastery over poetry that welled
from the Arabian’s heart, and hearkened to the
music of people from the West.
Yet am I blind and see not; my ears are stopped
and I do not hear.

I have borne the harshness of unsatiable
conquerors, and felt the oppression of tyrants and the
bondage of the powerful.
Yet am I strong to do battle with the days.
All this have I heard and seen, and I am yet a
child. In truth shall I hear and see the deeds of
youth, and grow old and attain perfection and
return to God.

I was,
And I am.
So shall I be, to the end of time,
For I am without end.

• sky diving
• bungee jumping
• run marathon
• tubing