The past several weeks have been absolutely great. So many projects that were on my plate have been completed in the past weeks, and my “to do” list in Outlook is getting shorter and shorter, and I love the feeling of checkmarking things off that list. It all started with the completion of the two-year freelance project a few weeks ago. Then, I finally created the new VMWBO/VietACT slideshow that father Hung has requested almost seven months ago (unfortunately the slideshow was not shown at the human trafficking conference in Washington, DC this weekend because they didn’t have a projector/screen--what’s up with that?!). The VietACT Relay Against Trafficking campaign ended this past weekend with successful events along the California coast, so that’s off my chest now too. To top it off, this past week I even hit zero-bugs at my current project at work, so I am very excited to move on to the next project.
This is sooo cool. Contrary to popular belief, I actually have a lot of time for myself lately. I started jogging with my co-workers every Tuesday and Thursday for an hour along beautiful Shoreline Park and playing volleyball every Friday at work. I’ve been reading a lot of books lately and love spending time at Barnes and Nobles by myself. This past weekend, I even flew down to Little Saigon for a spontaneous surprise visit with my family and friends, and I am looking forward to fly up to Seattle this weekend to visit old friends and attend an Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 training at the Microsoft headquarters.
So, overall, life’s swell coz Minh’s well. :)
What’s next? Well, it’s time to shift my attention. When I joined the VietACT band wagon after DH4, I already told Tammy and the gang that I’ll be on this only temporarily, until VietACT has a new website, and the support to grow by itself, and at this point, VietACT has received a lot of press/media and is growing faster than we can actually handle.
At the beginning of the year, I’ve set out two goals for 2006. Now, with my part for VietACT considered completed, it’s time to shift my attention to the Lenduong innovation project. The Fifth International Vietnamese Youth Conference is literally around the corner, and we have very high ambition to completely revamp Lenduong’s image from the ground up until then and break grounds on a lot of things with DH5. So, until then, let’s have fun at Phu and Yen Khanh’s wedding and the uNAVSA-3 conference (do I hear poker chips at my place?), while starting the work on DH5.
Let the games begin.