Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Quarterly Performance Review

Everyday I try to be a better person than yesterday. I'm trying to be more discipline and enthusiast in my life. But somehow I find it's difficult to improve myself. If I look back and see myself now, I understand that there is a degradation of discipline in my everyday life or even something that still not improved from the past until now.
Evidences:
1. Past: In April 2006, I could wake up at 5 am in the morning despite of late sleep at night. I always arrived in the office before 7 am.
Present: I wake up at 7 am, or sometimes 7.15 am although I sleep at 9 pm! I believe my sleep time is more than sufficient for a person in my age, but it's like..it doesn't enough for me. I arrived 7.30 am in the office.

Analysis: I'm sure I can be better than this, I believe I can only sleep 6 hours a day.

2. Past: As I still had strong will to continue my study, everyday I studied GRE especially verbal section, I finished one word list, one exercise in one day.
Present: It's hard for me to read that big-scary book again, it's like the word list never ends.
Even memorizing ten difficult words it's not an easy task again.

Analysis: I should make a clear target, when will I take the GRE test so that I have a constraint that I should finish the word list in a particular time.

3. Past: I practiced programming very often, solved many ACM, Top Coder problems, learned new algorithm etc.
Present: There is nothing activity related to programming at all!
Analysis: My work now is not coding and it's difficult to find spare time to improve my programming skill, so no surprise. But I think I should read algorithm books so that my brain could refresh the knowledge that I got in the past. It's important, moreover if I still want to pursue graduate study in Computer Science.

4. Seldom to shampoo my hair. Fenny told me that I shoud shampoo my hair once a day, oh come on Fen, with my short and simple hairstyle once in 2 weeks is enough :D
5. Too lazy to put clothes in the wardrobe.
6. I'm too lazy to mention the rest.

Success is built everyday. If I want to be a successful person I should start improving my activities from now on. Discipline!