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I Was At The Hilton Hotel for DevCon

What a dream!

I arrived at the hotel — Hilton San Diego Bayfront it should be — and was so excited to meet a few FileMaker developers that I used to communicate with. The whole incident was full of excitement that it always used to be, I think. I had had only been there once in 2009.

Somehow, at one point, what most vividly clear was I had to talk to Shin because there seemed something I had to discuss with her. About? Yeah, strange enough, the air ticket. Because the last time I was talking to her and Koji, they told me that Northwest had the best deal and with the equipment to connect to the pc. So, where was my air ticket then, I recalled at the hotel, which I had had no memory that I bought it nor anyone contributed to sponsor me. Then, doubts started to flood into my mind, like the Inception in the movie that, this might not be "real." The next thing It *worried* me gradually was, I had to get back to my world of no-air-ticket!

That moment it actually told me that it was so real that I could be in dream. How strangely *real* it was. Should I be in San Diego in August this year? Deadline to register is June 17, if I want to save $300 US.

http://www.filemaker.com/developers/devcon/

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iPhone 161/365 - Beef Braise in Japanese Pepper, Sansho

There are many recipe books out there. It's very tempting to have them all piled in the house. In reality, it's too much though. I hardly have the time to read nowadays nor have I space to accumulate all of them.

I am sure there are people who buys all of them. I have a friend who bought so many knitting books from Japanese to English. She is planning to open a library to rent out her books some where. She is a Japanese but mentally quite American in way.

I was asked to build the system with FileMaker. May be we should think about it soon.

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Review: My To-Do List of 2009

I should have done this end of last year, but anyway. I am not a good planner. But, a look back, it shows how much things you "see" through this little to-do list. I am so looking forward to doing this yearly. OK, will add that onto the list: Do a review end of the year
Travel
  • Make a trip to overseas with my family; either California where my niece lives, or New York/Washington to see When Harry Met Sally, or The Catcher in the Rye, or Woody Allen Made it to California of San Francisco and Sacramento last August! Myself only, though. 
  • I would love to make more travel back to Malaysia and Singapore. I want to have more time with the local, to find out more business chances that I can do besides my main job. I can't imagine having business with other regions if I can't start anything from where I know of. Made it to Malaysia twice, and Hong Kong once. Wow! 
  • I don't think I can make this, it would be great if I can attend FileMaker Developer Conference. I am not a developer, just for your information. I made it to my first FileMaker DevCon! 
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Personal Projects
  1. Writing (projects): Try to start write my book that I wanted so desperately in Japanese. I have been imagining to write a book but haven't started it yet. I would like to get it done within 5 years time and get it published in print. I can't count this as FAIL, as I still am doing it. Might need to achieve some goal in a shorter time frame, may be.  
  2. Blog more in English. Read more English books before my English got rotten. Can't seem to write more as I wanted, but I did. And did read more in English, but not in book form. 
  3. Read again all my old books that I bought. I will have to get rid of my books as they have been sitting on my shelf for ages without being read. #FAIL
  4. Pick up some courses; financial business, journalism, or something that keep me motivated. I did. Critical thinking course. Wow, I actually have the mind to get things done, huh? 
  5. Organise my personal writing with Tindebox, so I have to upgrade my skills of Tindebox, and make full use of it. Keep track of my stories. #FAIL. Though I just started to get back to Tinderbox again. Uh. 

Restaurant (for the future)
    • Reorganize all the recipe books that I bought. Index them and do a review on each of them. There must be something that makes me buy them. #FAIL
    • Learn about colour of combination, coordination, and psychological point as well, if I have the time #FAIL. No time. 
    • Learn about interior design. Collect samples, data of good design, heart-touching one #halfdone
    • Keep my wife's cooking and photoshoot them, make compliments to remind her she is a good cook. She thinks I am the only one who says nice words to her cooking, which it's not. #FAIL. She doesn't cook that much for any photo taking. 
    • I can't run business, so I will do my way from the idea contribution, from food to taste, and interests of targets. #FAIL. But, this is an interesting comment that I did. In fact, I started a restaurant inventory solution with FileMaker for a new client. 

Financial
  • Learn about tax, investment #FAIL
  • do my personal accounting wisely #FAIL
  • use my money wisely (do I sound like an idiot?) #FAIL
That's all, I think it is enough to keep me busy for the whole year, if I can keep it.