I think I wrote similar title in my past blogs and seems like I am now in that situation again.

In the past, I have been facing many cross roads before. Some of the path that I take give me enjoyment, while other path had given me doubt or regret. However, no matter what the result is, I always look forward to get better and better every single day.

Flash back to around two years ago, I had a strong urge to move forward in my life. Forward as in the sense of improving everything around me: friends, family, financials, fun (hey, all started with f, what a coincidence!). Thus, I decided to look for opportunities beyond what I had at that time. At first, I felt the 'greed' as, somehow, financial kicks in above everything. Yep, I regretted that decision, but hey, if I didn't take that path, I wouldn't have known the result!

Then I take friends and family into first consideration, lucky enough I have no kids to take care of for now. So, my wife and I can still move around a bit while leaving what we have in a good care of someone we trusted (both friends and family had helped us take care of what we have back in Australia).

In the middle of that two years until now, a couple of things happened. Lately, I am kept in the loop of thingking: there must be something that I (or we) could do in preparing the result after the economic slump is over, but what is it?

True to many sayings: focus on the how to, not on the why. Both of us has been constantly thinking of the how to. Bang! Tons of ideas has been pouring into our heads, now we have a challenge: which one to do first? and how to do it?

As another saying mentioned: a shorter pencil can memorize longer than your brain, both of us write it down in our notes. The next step was: choosing which one to do first. At the moment, we are still adjusting that, because we still have no clue what will be the outcome after we do it. The good side is: we now that we still have plenty of choices to make.

That's it: making choices. Which is better than no choices or just once choice right?

So, for the time being, I will be focussing on regaining my long lost CCIE study and ensure I can ace it this time around.As for her, you ask her yourself

Some of you reader might say: there you go, Dwi is doing the CCIE again. After so many times, he is still not given up?

If you have been interacting with me daily, some of you might notice that I watch/ read Naruto series (ha!). (The following statement might be a controversy to some of you). The thing is: I found many good philosophy of life and also the positive attitude out of cartoon movies / comics. It is just happen that now I am following Naruto as it is still running.

I found a lot of meaningful message in Naruto's ninja spirit (or as he keep saying: my way of ninja. Which for me translate into: my way of life). I am not Naruto nor ninja, I can't even be the best example to many people, but I know that I have enlighten and inspire people in the past, and I will keep doing that as my way of life.

Doing CCIE has been my decision, it hurts knowing a couple of my failed attempts before (and also my wallet!), but I belive one day, one fine day, I will get out of the exam room feeling relieved because I know that I will have my CCIE number. Once I got the number, it will be not just 'number' as in sequence, but the number that people are after, because they know who I am, how I do my work and how I can bring a team of top notch into their upmost potential.

Time to go back to my study.