Another year goes by and here come the new year. There was a lot of thing happen to me and my family in 2007. I joined the company that I work for now. My wife and I decided to buy a new car (family car, replacing the our old city car). Emma, our first daughter, went to school for the first time (well pre-school). My MVP award was renewed for 3 years in a row now. We moved to new apartment, same size not bigger but we get good view and also balcony. I got a new boss at the office. I represented my company to receive an award from Microsoft Indonesia for The Most Innovative Company in IT Technology. One of the reason for this award is the implementation of Visual Studio Team System in the company's application development group, which happen to be led by me :). Last but not least that happen to me this year was going to USA for some business trip.
For me going to US is really not a big thing. But since not everybody in the company get this opportunity, I take this assignment as an honor. Especially I come here to consolidate the implementation of VSTS corporate wide and also the future of our Enterprise Framework.
Anyway, there are several things that I want to do in my personal and family life and also in my professional life. Not much of a list but here it is, things that I want to do in this new year.
- Be a better daddy for Emma and Daisy. Sometimes I feel that I haven't given enough time for them. I seldom take them to go somewhere. This need to change starting this year.
- Redecorate our new apartment. Right now is kind a messy because of the moving and stuff, but after seeing my colleague's home here in Arizona, I got some idea on how to make the apartment comfortable as a place that we call home.
- Be a better leader in the office. I'm always learning how to be the best one and there is always something here and there that I can really improve on. Especially taking on responsibility of something that may not be my task.
- Improve the Enterprise Framework and VSTS operation. My biggest dream in the company that I work for now is to have Enterprise Framework that can really make everybody life easier, not only Developer and Architect but also Business Analyst and Project Manager. And VSTS should be the tool to make it happen.
- Finish the dream project that my good friend and I always dream about. This is kind a hard, because we have talked about this in the last two year and never come up with something. We had this big dream and idea (and sometime new too), but always hard to find time to make it happen. Hopefully in 2008 we will get something.
I write this while I'm in Tempe, Arizona now. Hopefully when I get back to Indonesia, I can start accomplishing everything that I've written above. Amen